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start-up penalty reports at amo
11 Mar 2010I just read Taras' great blog post Extensions & Startup and it got me thinking that we should just automate this and advertise it with extension listings at addons.mozilla.org. All you'd need to do is have some automation that gets triggered when an AMO editor approves an extension that measure... continues
via [Asa Dotzler: Firefox and more]
HTML5 video and audio
11 Mar 2010
nelson : HTML5 video and audio - Opera does a great job explaining how to serve HTML5 multimedia Tags : html5 video opera browser javascript webvia [HotLinks]
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Update your feedreader: this feed has now moved to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:1/cat:all/sort:updated/format:rssvia [DEAD FEED]
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10 Mar 2010
joshua : {{ mustache }} - logic-less templates Tags : web dev pythonvia [HotLinks]
Working with the HTML5 Community
9 Mar 2010by ieblog
We’re always excited to engage with members of the W3C including the developers of other browsers as well as the broader web development community to help shape the direction of emerging Web standards, particularly HTML5. This includes participating in events like TPAC, which we wrote about ... continues
via [IEBlog]
Blank It
9 Mar 2010
Rod Begbie : Blank It - Thoroughly enjoyable and engrossing web-comic. Start here, and keep on clicking. Tags : blankit comics webcomicsvia [HotLinks]
Sleep Is Death, Jason Rohrer's new conversational two-player game
8 Mar 2010
Andy Baio : Sleep Is Death, Jason Rohrer's new conversational two-player game - watch the slideshow for details; I just wish it was on the web insteadvia [HotLinks]
IE8 SmartScreen Filter - Protecting Users at Internet Scale
5 Mar 2010by ieblog
The RSA 2010 Security Conference is just finishing up here in San Francisco, and I’m struck by how many of the conference sessions and keynotes have warned about the threat that socially engineered malware poses to the security of the Internet. Malware has become the scourge of the Internet, and i... continues
via [IEBlog]
early european browser choice results
5 Mar 2010While I don't think Microsoft has fully opened the valve, we are starting to see some downloads from the European browser choice program. Unlike one of the other browser vendors on the ballot, we're not seeing a tripling of downloads. Then again, I wouldn't expect that given our baseline of 2M dow... continues
via [Asa Dotzler: Firefox and more]
W3C HTML Working Group Publishes New Drafts
5 Mar 2010by ieblog
Last week, the W3C HTML Working Group reached a decision to publish several new working drafts and these are now available. The discussion about what to publish and how to structure the HTML5 specification has taken several months. In November, at the TPAC meeting, a request was made for the Microda... continues
via [IEBlog]
Tab Isolation
4 Mar 2010by ieblog
Tab isolation has recently become a more popular topic. This post is a quick survey of what tab isolation is, how it works, and what it provides. What is it? Tab isolation is a way to improve a browser’s reliability by containing the impact of a crash. Depending on how it’s implemented, tab is... continues
via [IEBlog]
Lat/Lon to Elevation
4 Mar 2010
nelson : Lat/Lon to Elevation - Web service for accessing a digital elevation model Tags : geography maps dem ned elevation altitudevia [HotLinks]
CSS Crunch: new IE Extension for developers
3 Mar 2010by ieblog
There are many tools in the market that allow you to customize your pages' cascading style sheets (CSS), but there are actually a very few that do the opposite—scan for all the CSS rules in the document and remove those that are not used. Cleaning out the CSS will not only reduce the bandwidth imp... continues
via [IEBlog]
opera 10.5 joins the open video party
2 Mar 2010I'm thrilled to be able to report that the new release of Opera, 10.5 (Windows only for now) has pretty decent Open Video support. I did run into several problems, like scrubbing back and forth being prone to video errors and not handling application/ogg, but overall I'm very pleased to see anothe... continues
via [Asa Dotzler: Firefox and more]
How IE8 Determines Document Mode
2 Mar 2010by ieblog
This post describes how IE8 determines what Document Mode such as Quirks or Standards Modes to use for rendering websites. This topic is important for site developers and consumers. It’s related to the Compatibility View List that we recently updated. This list is down by over 1000 websites,... continues
via [IEBlog]
Chrome auto-translations
2 Mar 2010
nelson : Chrome auto-translations - New feature in Google's browser: automatically translate web page text in the frame Tags : language translation google chrome browsersvia [HotLinks]
Some People Can't Read URLs
2 Mar 2010
Simon Willison : Some People Can't Read URLs - Some People Can’t Read URLs. Commentary on the recent “facebook login” incident from Jono at Mozilla Labs. I’d guess that most people can’t read URLs, and it worries me more than any other aspect of today’s web. If you want to stay safe ... continuesvia [HotLinks]
ChatRoulette : Web Ecology Project
1 Mar 2010
Rod Begbie : ChatRoulette : Web Ecology Project - Great paper covering the make-up of the users of ChatRoulette. Tags : chatroulette webecologyprojectvia [HotLinks]
Retrode - Home of the world's first USB reader for classic console games.
28 Feb 2010
deusx : Retrode - Home of the world's first USB reader for classic console games. - "This web site is dedicated to my USB reader for 16-bit games, the Retrode (was: snega2usb). Feed your SNES or Mega Drive / Genesis emulator with games from your original cartridges! The project started as a li... continuesvia [HotLinks]
Node.js, redis, and resque
28 Feb 2010
Simon Willison : Node.js, redis, and resque - Node.js, redis, and resque. Paul Gross has been experimenting with Node.js proxies for allowing web applications to be upgraded without missing any requests. Here he places all incoming HTTP requests in a redis queue, then has his backend Rails serve... continuesvia [HotLinks]
hardware accelerated graphics and text in firefox!
27 Feb 2010With all the excitement around those two great articles on JagerMonkey yesterday, I forgot to blog about another amazing development, the DirectWrite & Direct2D landing in the nightly builds (though pref'd off.) DirectWrite and Direct2D are Windows Vista and Windows 7 APIs for text and 2-D grap... continues
via [Asa Dotzler: Firefox and more]
what's coming for mozilla javascript performance
27 Feb 2010Here are two really good blog posts on what's coming for Mozilla's JavaScript engine: JaegerMonkey – Fast JavaScript, Always! -- David Anderson gives a nice overview of how we currently work and what's coming up. Starting JägerMonkey -- David Mandelin also offers up some good high level informa... continues
via [Asa Dotzler: Firefox and more]
mobile firefox on android
26 Feb 2010Madhava Enros, from the Mozilla Mobile team, has just posted a nice new photo of Mobile Firefox (code named Fennec) running on a Nexus One.
Firefox Mobile, already shipping for Maemo devices like the N900 (available in the Ovi Store) has become my primary mobile browser but I can't wait for the A... continuesvia [Asa Dotzler: Firefox and more]
Documenting Standards in IE
24 Feb 2010by ieblog
This post discusses some of the work we’re doing on the IE team to fulfill our commitment to document our support of web standards. A good starting point is Microsoft’s interoperability principles, something we’ve written about here on this blog before, and a principle that’s easy to see in ... continues
via [IEBlog]
congratulations to opera
23 Feb 2010Congratulations to Opera on the release of their new JavaScript engine.
Looks like we've got one more browser in the JS speed race and off to a pretty amazing start as well. So how close will JS get to native code speeds? If you could take the fastest parts of each vendor's implementation and ... continuesvia [Asa Dotzler: Firefox and more]
MIX - Microsoft, W3C and SVG
22 Feb 2010by ieblog
In addition to our engagement in the SVG Working Group, Doug Schepers, W3C Team Contact for the SVG Working Group, and I are going to be presenting SVG: The Past, Present and Future of Vector Graphics for the Web, at MIX 2010 in Las Vegas this coming March to share help developers understand where S... continues
via [IEBlog]
making informed technology decisions
22 Feb 2010Mozilla’s non-profit mission is focused on self-determination and individual empowerment. We believe that people should have the opportunity to participate in the Web on their terms and that they should have the information they need and the technology choices available to them to ensure that thei... continues
via [Asa Dotzler: Firefox and more]
european browser ballot
19 Feb 2010Microsoft has posted a draft of the ballot that will appear via Windows Update for IE users in the EU. The first screen of the ballot features 5 browsers (four rendering engines) randomly ordered and the scrolled off screen section features 7 browsers (three rendering engines) also, but separately... continues
via [Asa Dotzler: Firefox and more]
really? really!?
18 Feb 2010"There was a lot of confusion when it came out on Tuesday, and people thought that somehow we were publishing their email addresses and private information, which was not true." It's my fault? I was confused? My addressbook isn't private? Really? Really!?
via [Asa Dotzler: Firefox and more]
Search Providers: Best Practices on Setting the Default
17 Feb 2010by ieblog
This post describes a set of best practices for setting the default search provider. Our goal continues to be keeping users in control of their browser, following our published Guidelines and Requirements for add-on development. If you write software that modifies Internet Explorer’s search settin... continues
via [IEBlog]
Adobe Flash Now Supports InPrivate Browsing
11 Feb 2010by ieblog
As a web browser, Internet Explorer is a platform for many kinds of add-ons (here are some great examples). IE users generally don’t distinguish between add-ons and Internet Explorer when it comes to performance, reliability, or privacy. They just use IE and expect it to work. That’s why the bes... continues
via [IEBlog]
Addon development is back
11 Feb 2010by
For a long time I simply just didn't have the time to do development on my addons. I've created 6 addons and some are fairly popular. Linky which is the most popular one just passed 620.000 downloads and has more than 35.000 active daily users. Linky enables you to quickly open multiple links. You... continues
via [Gemal's Psyched Blog: Mozilla]
Firefox on Playstation 3?
19 Nov 2009by
There's a rumor out that Sony is looking into bringing Firefox to the PS3 platform:
"We recently received a tip from a source very close to Sony who says that they have been in talks with Mozilla lately about possibly porting firefox over to the PS3. That said, our source made sure to point out th... continues
via [Gemal's Psyched Blog: Mozilla]
about:memory landed
4 Oct 2009by
I'm here at EU MozCamp 2009 in wonderful Prague, and just saw that the about:memory feature landed on trunk. I had the chance to talk to Vladimir Vukicevic, how implemented the infrastructure for it, and he told him that this is just an initial landing. The about:memory is not yet finished and it c... continues
via [Gemal's Psyched Blog: Mozilla]
Can this be done? Links in same tab, links from external apps in new tab
18 Sep 2009by
I'm trying to figure out a way to achieve this: 1) I want links to open in the same tab. So if I click on a link that has target=_blank or target=_new in my Mozilla Firefox I want them to open in the same tab. Popups I want to open in a new window. 2) I want links from external applications to ope... continues
via [Gemal's Psyched Blog: Mozilla]
Thunderbird can now auto config your account
28 Apr 2009by
A couple of days ago the first big part of the auto detection of mail accounts landed in Thunderbird. I've blogged about the feature before. This means that you no longer have to enter all of the technical information to add an account. Just enter your name, email and password and Thunderbird will ... continues
via [Gemal's Psyched Blog: Mozilla]
Open Source software in the public sector
24 Mar 2009by
Last Thursday the "Videnscenter for Software" held a conference on "Open Source software in the public sector." And Mozilla was represented at the conference. I've heard about the conference and learned that you could ask for a free pass for the conference. Instead of only getting the free pass, I ... continues
via [Gemal's Psyched Blog: Mozilla]
IE8 Released
19 Mar 2009by DMassy
Congrats to my old team on shipping IE8. Although my IE focused days are behind me it's great to see the team has put out such a great version. The security improvements and commitment to web standards stand out as major achievements along with performance, reliability, dev tools etc. There's a... continues
via [Dave Massy's Blog : Internet Explorer]
JPEG decoding will be 15% faster on x86_64
28 Jan 2009by
Just a quick note about a cool improvement that is gonna hit x86_64 builds of Mozilla Firefox soon: "Currently, JPEG SSE2 code is only Windows x86. I will add it for x86_64 platform. After adding it, JPEG decoding is 15% faster." More information in bug 475225
via [Gemal's Psyched Blog: Mozilla]
Introducing the Design Challenge
27 Jan 2009by graphicsguru
Introducing the Design Challenge
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7 untold secrets about me
16 Jan 2009by
The seven, perhaps unknown, things about Henrik Gemal. I was tagged by Fabien Cazenave who started to learn XUL by tweaking my Launchy extension. Cool! So here are the rules to this:1. Link to your original tagger(s) and list these rules in your post.
2. Share seven facts about yourself in the po... continues
via [Gemal's Psyched Blog: Mozilla]
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According to Browser Market Share data from Net Applications for February 2010, Google Chrome saw 0.41% gain with 5.61% market share. Microsoft Internet Explorer continues to lead the category with 61.58%, while Firefox commands 24.23% share. Compared to January 2010, IE, Firefox and Safari lost mar... continuesWelcome - Times Of India ePaper
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The sources for NCSA Mosaic v2.7 -- one the first graphical web browsers (1993) and certainly the one that led to the World Wide Web as we know it -- can now be found on GitHub. You can even run it on a modern Linux. Here's what the GitHub homepage looks like: 
