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John Battelle: What Commons Do We Wish For
4 Feb 2012John Battelle has a very thoughtful and thought provoking article on the future of the Web that outlines a plan for ensuring that the Internet continues to be a commons and that it not devolve into a collection of walled gardens. At Mozilla, we're working to build that "open" and "independent" Web ... continues
via [Asa Dotzler: Firefox and more]
Bing and WebM
4 Feb 2012I know this isn't news, but it makes me happy every time I see it (Yes, I'm a web geek.) Those of you who use Bing or have looked at it more than once know that they put beautiful background images on their search page. Those images have little highlighted nodes with information and trivia about the... continues
via [Asa Dotzler: Firefox and more]
Windows Phone 8
2 Feb 2012Hot on the heels of rumors of a Windows Phone NDK comes this nugget from The VergeSynergy between the phone and the PC / tablet is going to be a big one. Not only will Windows Phone 8 share the same Metro style user interface as Windows 8 for tablets and PCs, but developers can reuse the same code f... continues
via [Asa Dotzler: Firefox and more]
CSS3 3D Transforms in IE10
2 Feb 2012by ieblog
CSS3 features make it easier to build rich and immersive Web experiences. A recent post described how Web developers add personality to their sites with CSS3 Transitions and Animations. CSS3 3D Transforms add another dimension (literally) for developers to enhance their sites. ... continues
via [IEBlog]
Surprisingly Candid
1 Feb 2012From Danny Sullivan at Marketing Land comes news of a surprisingly candid Microsoft explanation of why services on the Web give you things for free.Google is in the process of making some unpopular changes to some of their most popular products. Those changes, cloaked in language like "transparency,... continues
via [Asa Dotzler: Firefox and more]
Web Sites and a Plug-in Free Web
31 Jan 2012by ieblog
The transition to a plug-in free Web is happening today. Any site that uses plug-ins needs to understand what their customers experience when browsing plug-in free. Lots of Web browsing today happens on devices that simply don’t support plug-ins. Even browsers that do support plug-ins ... continues
via [IEBlog]
End of Firefox Support for Windows 2000
27 Jan 2012For a number of years we've held off on updating our Windows toolchain to a newer version of Visual Studio, and in so doing preserved support for Windows 2000 and Windows XP RTM and SP1. Firefox developers and the 99.6% of our Windows users have paid a price for this support, though. Our developers ... continues
via [Asa Dotzler: Firefox and more]
Creating Files through BlobBuilder
27 Jan 2012by ieblog
As Web sites transition more and more into Web applications, working with files in meaningful ways is becoming increasingly important. Starting with Platform Preview 2, IE10 includes support for the File API, enabling developers to read and slice files on the client. Platform Preview 4 adds suppor... continues
via [IEBlog]
Debugging IndexedDB Applications
25 Jan 2012by ieblog
IndexedDB is a W3C Working Draft that enables JavaScript developers to store, search, and retrieve data on the user's local client, even when Internet connectivity is disabled. This blog post describes IDBExplorer, a tool we use internally to debug IndexedDB applications. IDBExplorer lets you... continues
via [IEBlog]
This Week in Privacy
24 Jan 2012by ieblog
In the last ten years Microsoft has invested heavily in user privacy. Just like security, privacy considerations are baked into every Microsoft product. It is almost a year since the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an international community that develops open standards to ensure th... continues
via [IEBlog]
Bytebeat composer
23 Jan 2012
nelson : Bytebeat composer - Simple tool for making bytebeat in your browser Tags : music generative bytebeat via:metafiltervia [HotLinks]
Firefox in 2012
23 Jan 2012The first public version of the browser called "Firefox" -- a 0.8 release, came out 8 years ago. With that release and the 1.0 release later that same year, we showed the world that browsers mattered. Innovative new features like tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, spell-checking, integrated search,... continues
via [Asa Dotzler: Firefox and more]
Apache 408 errors
23 Jan 2012
nelson : Apache 408 errors - New apache log lines; empty requests, seem to be a result of browser prediction Tags : apache http 408 logsvia [HotLinks]
Personal Data is the Currency
23 Jan 2012Personal data is the currency of today's digital market, and like any currency, it needs stability and trust. Only if consumers can 'trust' that their data is well protected, will they continue to entrust businesses and authorities with it, buy online, and accept new services. That's from EU Commis... continues
via [Asa Dotzler: Firefox and more]
IE10 Compat Inspector
20 Jan 2012by ieblog
Compat Inspector is now available for IE10. Use Compat Inspector to quickly identify if Internet Explorer platform changes affect your site. Whether you're preparing for IE10 or still updating for IE9, run Compat Inspector on any page experiencing problems. Then watch for messages explai... continues
via [IEBlog]
Join Us
19 Jan 2012Tim Taubert recently posted on how he got involved with Mozilla. I intend to post about my experience at some point in the not too distant future but for now I wanted to highlight something from Tim's post: I loved this feature but noticed that it was in an early stage and needed some fixes. I set ... continues
via [Asa Dotzler: Firefox and more]
Are You Building Add-ons That Include C++?
19 Jan 2012Are you an add-on author that uses C++ in your add-on(s)? If so, can you take a look over this discussion and comment there if you think it would help you maintain your add-on(s)? We're trying to balance moving as quickly as we can to improve Firefox and Gecko with maintaining add-on and Web compat... continues
via [Asa Dotzler: Firefox and more]
Under the Covers: Let It Snow…
18 Jan 2012by ieblog
With one of those rare Seattle snowstorms underway today, I feel this is a great time to publish this description of our Holiday 2011 Test Drive demo “Let It Snow.” —Editor When a browser effectively uses the underlying hardware, the possibilities are limitless. Over the holidays we released a... continues
via [IEBlog]
Protesting PIPA and SOPA
18 Jan 2012Today, Mozilla will be taking part in a protest the U.S. SOPA and PIPA legislation. You can read more about this from: Mozilla's Chairman, Mitchell Baker
Mozilla's CEO, Gary Kovacs
Mozilla's Privacy and Public Policy Lead, Alex Fowler Our sites will go black and offer information and links to hel... continues
via [Asa Dotzler: Firefox and more]
Staying Safe Online in the New Year
17 Jan 2012by ieblog
The bad guys didn’t take a holiday vacation: Internet Explorer’s SmartScreen service blocked nearly 2 million malware downloads per day on average from mid-December through New Year’s. December 25 saw a 30% spike in malware blocks— successfully preventing users from being tricked into giving... continues
via [IEBlog]
Introducing Seven More IEBlogs
16 Jan 2012by ieblog
Today we introduce seven new language versions of IEBlog—French, German, Portuguese (Brazil), Korean, Japanese, Chinese (PRC), and Russian. Links to these appear in the new “Languages” block at the top of the right column. We plan to publish translated versions five to ten days after their app... continues
via [IEBlog]
Controlling Selection with CSS user-select
11 Jan 2012by ieblog
IE10 Platform Preview 4 includes support for a new CSS property, -ms-user-select, which makes it easier for Web developers to control exactly what text can be selected on their Web sites. If you were to watch me all day at my workstation, you would notice that as I read on the compu... continues
via [IEBlog]
gdalwarp-js
12 Dec 2011
nelson : gdalwarp-js - Javascript code for reprojecting map images Tags : maps javascript gis projectionsvia [HotLinks]
Once Upon
11 Dec 2011
nelson : Once Upon - 1997 Web experience applied to modern sites Tags : facebook google funny browser web technologyvia [HotLinks]
Chrome NaCl games
9 Dec 2011
nelson : Chrome NaCl games - Google's native code experiment is running real software Tags : games bastion chrome browser nacl nativeclient security sandboxvia [HotLinks]
gooverbatim
1 Dec 2011
nelson : gooverbatim - Browser addon script to add a "yes, really" button to Google searches Tags : google ui web userscript javascript addon extension chromevia [HotLinks]
Ghostery
29 Nov 2011
nelson : Ghostery - Browser plug-in showing you the tracking beacons, bugs, cookies, etc on the web Tags : privacy web browser plugin cookie http beacon bugvia [HotLinks]
Misscrolling
28 Nov 2011
nelson : Misscrolling - Drives me crazy too: browsers need a page of whitespace at the bottom Tags : scrolling whitespace design web browservia [HotLinks]
Adobe ends development of mobile Flash player, refocuses on HTML5
9 Nov 2011
Andy Baio : Adobe ends development of mobile Flash player, refocuses on HTML5 - a good time to re-read Steve Jobs' thoughts on Flashvia [HotLinks]
Fluidinfo Explorer
23 Oct 2011
nelson : Fluidinfo Explorer - another browser into FluidDB Tags : fluidinfo fluiddb databasevia [HotLinks]
Here's the new feed URL!
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]
LANA TURNER HAS COLLAPSED!
via [DEAD FEED]Re: PISS ON MY FACE LIKE I'M A GAY FIRE RAGING OUT OF THE CLOSET
via [DEAD FEED]SERIOUSLY: WHO FILLED MY BONG WITH BIRD SEED AND HUNG IT FROM A TREE
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via [DEAD FEED]IF I COULD REARRANGE THE ALPHABET I'D PUT U AND I TOGETHER!!! THEN I'D DUMP U
via [DEAD FEED]SELF-ESTEEM WORKSHOP AT MY PLACE???? PLEASE BRING HUGE BAGS OF WEED
via [DEAD FEED]Parallel JavaScript
19 Sep 2011by
Intel Labs has a new project out Parallel Extensions for JavaScript, code named River Trail. River Trail brings the processing power of Intels multi-core CPUs and their vector extensions to web applications. With River Trail it will finally be possible to stay in the browser even for more compute ... continues
via [Gemal's Psyched Blog: Mozilla]
Contributor Best Practices
27 May 2011by loucypher
Cross-posted from David Boswell's blog. We had a great conversation at yesterday’s Contribute Group meeting where around 20 people from across Mozilla shared ideas and experiences about bringing new people into the project. I’ve pulled those notes together into a contributor best pr... continues
via [Spread Firefox blogs]
Summary of Firefox 4 Launch Parties in India.
20 May 2011by vineel reddy p
Hey all, I am happy to share with you that community members from various cities participated and hosted the Firefox 4 launch parties in India.
here are a few that reported untill now: read more
via [Spread Firefox blogs]
Join the mozilla.status.net groups ...
28 May 2010by paulbooker
Hello Folks,
If your posting about the firefox browser or the marketing of firefox on OStatus federated networks like identi.ca , status.net ,.. then please join the mozilla.status.net groups ...
http://mozilla.status.net/group/spreadfirefox
http://mozilla.status.net/group/fire... continues
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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]
Womoz presentation at FOSDEM 2012
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FOSDEM 2012 under the snow!
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Mozilla booth @ FOSDEM 2012
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FOSDEM 2012
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Before the keynote @ FOSDEM 2012
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vertical instructional overlay
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Overlay/ slider that can help guide learners through writing html/ css
progress bar
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Monique's awesome Firefox cake! Thanks to @ygjb for schlepping it! 020320124430
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toggler/ slider mock up
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First stab at figuring out what a slider instruction panel for the webpagemaker/ lovebomb/ webmaking 101 for journalists could look like.
Some initial feeback: play around with progression bar- Copy- H1 might include the language as opposed to "Step 1" -... continues
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