Posted
about 16 hours
ago
by
missmobile
The Mozlla mobile team has released Firefox for Maemo beta 5. This release is available for the Maemo OS2008 and Maemo 5 software platforms running on the Nokia N810 and N900 Internet Tablets. If you’re viewing this on an N810 or N900, install
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Firefox for Maemo beta 5.
This release brings noticeable improvements to the user experience and UI of the browser. Specifically you’ll see:
Firefox official branding, with Firefox name and logo
Support for multiple locales, currently including Spanish, German, French, Italian, Dutch, and Russian
Enabled plugins
Viewport meta tag support
New form assistant to make filling forms easier
Improved panning and zooming performance and behavior
Numerous other bugs and polish issues addressedThis improvements build upon the features set of previous releases.You can find more information by reading the Firefox for Maemo beta 5 Release Notes. Be sure to check out the new Firefox for mobile page that includes ways to stay connected to the Project, information for developers, and a video discussing the user interface, features and vision of Firefox for mobile.
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Posted
about 17 hours
ago
by
Robert
Has it been 5 years already? The landscape has certainly changed since 2004.
I think it’s finally accepted that something can fight back against Microsoft. Size doesn’t guarantee market share on the Internet. In the pre-www world
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you had to convince a few managers to buy your product and you can be installed on 10k systems. Home users typically used what they knew from work. In 2009 even offices are becoming more accustomed to letting employees use what they feel works best (though not all there yet, easier system re-imaging is helping here). Home users put whatever they want on their computer. The focus is clearly shifting more and more towards the user and making their experience better.
Where will things be in another 5 years? [Less]
Posted
about 18 hours
ago
by
gerv
Version 0.2 of the Bugzilla REST API has been released. New in this version:
Read/write support for flags, groups, custom fields and comment privacy
Access to all aspects of Bugzilla's configuration with a new /configuration
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call
Even more high-quality and comprehensive documentation
Better logging so I can debug problems
Note that these new capabilities will not be available on the copy of the API pointed at bugzilla.mozilla.org until the upgrade :-( But in the mean time, you can test them on the staging server. Although that seems very slow at the moment.
I consider this the first version of the API with which you should be able to write a capable Bugzilla client of some sort. Let me know if you find stuff missing which would be required for this usage.
Lastly, there is now a Bugzilla component for you to file bugs in :-) [Less]
Posted
about 18 hours
ago
by
Ken Kovash
At the very same moment in time that Firefox celebrates its 5th birthday, Firefox has also surpassed 25% worldwide market share for the very first time. This news comes from Net Applications’ report for the week of November 1st (their weekly
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data requires a subscription).
Congrats everyone!
For those interested in “before and after” pictures, below is one way to visualize the browser market share landscape (based on Net Applications’ data). [Less]
Posted
about 19 hours
ago
by
Mary Colvig
Happy 5th Birthday Firefox! Over the last few days I’ve been struggling to distill what this awesome milestone means to me into a single post (Mitchell Baker and Chris Blizzard have some great thoughts). I started working on a top 10 list, but
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last night as I started to see early pictures come in from Rome it was completely clear. The community that has sprung around Mozilla and Firefox is hands down the most meaningful and absolutely incredible aspect of this anniversary.
One of my favorite Firefox Flicks “The Briefcase Syndicate” and the new Firefox video really illustrate the amazing power of our community. We’re all part of a global network, connected by a shared passion and working together to better everyone’s Web experience. It makes me a little weepy-eyed when I think about what we’ve been able to accomplish together and frankly, have fun while we’re doing it. Chris Hofmann says it best: I LOVE this community!
I won’t get all maudlin on you. I’ll just close with a snapshot of the wonderfulness that has gone on in less than 24 hours…here’s to “Lighting the World with Firefox!”:
Happy B-day Firefox by lucerosama, The Phillipines
Firefox on the Roman Colesium - need I say more?
Gorjan Jovanovski blankets Skopje, Macedonia with billboards
Firefox + Traffic lights in Zulia, Venezuela courtesy of Alexander Salas
Abhinav Kishore's laptop in India...how did he do this??
Firefox Cake in Sofia, Bulgaria designed by Bogo Shopov
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Posted
about 21 hours
ago
by
John
On this date in 2004, Firefox was released to an online world that was extremely different from the one we know today. There was no YouTube, no Twitter, no Facebook (at least not in its current form)…it was all very Web 1.0. Things like pop-ups and
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viruses were accepted facts of life, and the notion of expecting a new browser to challenge the monopolistic IE was the definition of absurd.
We’re all familiar with what happened next, of course, but that doesn’t make it any less incredible or inspirational. It’s a truly amazing story, and I am beyond honored to be even a small part of it.
At the heart of all this – even when you strip away the amazing technological advancements and features that really have changed the way people use the web – is a social movement comprised of people from around the world with the common interest of making things better. That’s a pretty powerful force, and makes me very optimistic about what we’ll accomplish together over the next five years.
With all that in mind, we created a short video to sum up what Firefox really is and why it matters. Check it out (and share it with your friends!), then head over to our Five Years of Firefox microsite to see all the other community festivities. Happy birthday!
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Posted
about 22 hours
ago
by
Fred
This photo is not photoshopped:
The Mozilla Italia team projected a Firefox wordmark onto Rome’s most famous landmark — and on many other places all over the city. Make sure to check out the picture in its full glory over on flickr.
Picture CC by-sa licensed by nois3lab on flickr.
Posted
about 23 hours
ago
by
pa...@zpao.com (Paul O’Shannessy)
Not much exciting happened this past week. We had some out-of-towners (beltzner, johnath, and dietrich) down in the Mountain View office. It’s good to see the boss face-to-face every once in a while. Otherwise it was business as
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usual.
What I got done last week:
Bug 522545: Third time’s the charm. I finally found an acceptable approach to solving the problem. The problem of… ZOMBIE TABS. Interestingly, this bug is fallout from a different bug I worked on. Read the bug for full details.
Bug 525635 & Bug 521233: Both of these are needed to get Per Tab Network Prioritization into Firefox 3.6. Bug 525635 was about the test that was randomly timing out on Linux. It’s using the test framework added in bug 521233 (waitforFocus in browser-chrome tests), which obviously is not quite right. Dão is continuing to try to find the right fix, but until then, I’ve worked around the issue in a better way than I was. This should make it OK to land everything needed on branch.
What’s happening this week:
Finish bug 522545. Blockers come first. I already have a large portion of the work done & have a good start on tests, so this shouldn’t be too much work.
Land Per Tab Network Prioritization on branch. Not too much involved here, but it has to happen.
Work on bug 526545 (Crash reporter still can send wrong URL when crashing during pageload). This is another blocker. The partial solution should be pretty easy and actually dovetails nicely with the work I’m doing for bug 522545. The full solution might be a bit harder, and might not be worth it. [Less]
Posted
about 23 hours
ago
by
mitchell
Five years ago a small-ish group of exhausted, wound-up but excited people began the final preparations for the launch of the Mozilla Firefox web browser. We gathered in many places; with a core of us in Mozilla’s Mountain View office. This
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was a small, funky room hidden away in the far corner of an office complex, leased to us by friends of the Mozilla project. Our website folks gathered 4000 miles away. Thousands of people joined us virtually. We knew this because we could see the number of pings to the download site going wild in the hours before the release, as people kept checking.
We knew we had something big in the works — bigger at least than anyone had expected from Mozilla in a long time. We knew we were coming out of the dark days of “failure” of the Mozilla project. We knew this because some 3 million people were already using the 0.9 version of Firefox, and the number of people paying attention to us in the 6 months before the release had been skyrocketing. We knew we were coming out of dark into a place with light. We had no idea just how bright it would be. Here’s a detailed description of the events of Nov. 9 2004, which I wrote shortly afterward.
I can still feel the knotted, sick-to-my-stomach feeling that was a constant part of life in the weeks leading up to the Firefox 1.0 launch. Today, Nov. 9 was no different. Most things were done, but critical pieces still remained. My personal last minute items were finishing our discussions with Yahoo and Google, which were on track but nerve-wracking in the extreme nevertheless.
The general stress went beyond the specific tasks, and beyond getting a product out the door. The period leading up to Firefox 1.0 was a time in which we had redefined ourselves, becoming a true consumer-facing organization for the first time. This was a big change. It was absolutely necessary, it was hard, and it was immensely stressful.
Today the world is different. Firefox has 25% world-wide market share, 330 million users, and a significant impact on the shape of the internet experience. The idea that a non-profit, public- benefit organization like Mozilla can have such an impact on keeping the Internet open, participatory, and innovation still surprises people, but it’s not longer seen as naive and impossible.
Our core approach has not changed though. Now, as then, each individual person remains critical. Each person who contributes to Mozilla, each person who demands that Mozilla represent our hopes for the Internet, each person who helps others find the benefits of Firefox and understand the goals of Mozilla — each one of us is what makes the Mozilla mission successful.
Five years is a great marker. And equally important, the future calls. There is great potential for making Firefox and the Internet as a whole even better at empowering people. There are also many threats to the openness of the Internet.
Mozilla has a unique voice. We have a unique opportunity to build an Internet where the people using it — us — are safe, secure, in control of our experience, and excited by new possibilities.
That’s cause for celebration indeed. [Less]
Posted
1 day
ago
by
afranq
Two weeks ago we announced the launch of the Mozilla Developer Network. We also asked for your help through this short survey for Web developers. The questions were meant to understand who you are, what you’re interested in, and what resources
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would be most useful to you on MDN. We’re happy to report that we have received over 3,600 responses so far, so thank you!
Here’s a Sneak Peek at the Data:
HTML/CSS/Javascript are the winning combination, PHP is a close 4th. After that, technology choices are quite fragmented.
The most popular tools for development are a collection of Firefox add-ons, including Firebug and Web developer, and… text editors! Each developer has a favorite, from vi or emacs to TextMate or Notepad++.
Either Web developers live mostly in the US and in France, or this is where the most active Mozilla developer outreach is happening. We think it’s the latter, for France we call it the “Paul and Tristan effect”!
What Are We Missing?
Please help us get more responses from around the world so we can understand the needs of Web developers everywhere.
We would also love to get more participants who are working in corporate environments, especially on intranets. And we’d like to hear more from those of you who are working (willingly or not) with proprietary technologies.
How Can You Help?
We’d like to get 5,000 responses before we close the survey, so help us spread the word to other Web developers: tweet about it and send the survey link to your friends!
Once we have enough responses, we’ll publish the results on this blog. You can also follow the latest Mozilla Developer Network updates on Twitter at @mozhacks. [Less]
