January 2012
7 posts
Mer Project →
The project is back with vengeance!
No UAC dialog in Firefox 12
Big step forward - no more UAC!
firefoxnightly:
Every time Firefox updates, you get this dialog:
In Firefox 12 (nightly right now), we killed it! No more UAC dialog anymore :) This is a huge step in our way to full silent update.
December 2011
3 posts
The Obligatory End of Year Post...
Thought I might as well do a post since I haven’t been blogging for a while. 2011 has been big, we’ve seen the explosion of mobile devices and the open web set to take the mobile platform by storm for 2012.
A lot has changed since 2008; we’ve seen Firefox take on the mobile platform - first in 2008 on the Nokia Maemo N800 platform, then later with Firefox for mobile on the N900...
November 2011
32 posts
Set the page top to where you need it →
You’re reading an article but you need to see as much of it as possible at a time, perhaps for copying or comparing some text to another window.
Instead of manually scrolling the page to find the…
Firefox to get more powerful web development tools →
Aurora, Firefox alpha development branch, has just got some important additions to its web development tool set.
Among these, perhaps the highlighter is the single most important feature of the…
Restore Firefox’s original blank icon →
It may be only me, but I think the new blank icon in Firefox is just hideous. I’m talking about the tab icon you get when a web page lacks a favicon. It is as hollow as it can be and just breaks all…
Flash support added to native Firefox for Android →
Despite Adobe’s announcement a few days ago that it is dropping Flash development on mobile platforms, Mozilla has announced that Flash is now a supported plugin in forthcoming native Firefox for…
InstantFox Quick Search :: Add-ons for Firefox →
Featured Firefox add-on InstantFox scraps Google, IMDb etc.. for results in real time. Available from AMO.
Firefox 8 arrives today to leave unwanted add-ons... →
Mozilla is releasing a major update for Firefox (Firefox 8) today, so let’s give a look at what we are getting in this release cycle.
Some releases ago, Firefox introduced a feature so that when…
Forward button to become optional in Firefox →
Do you need the forward button? Most likely yes, but it is rarely used compared to the back button, which is the single most used widget in any browser user interface. So it doesn’t make sense to…
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Tilt 3D, Mozilla’s 3D approach to web design →
From gaming and TV, 3D is now making the jump to web development and design, thanks to Tilt 3D, a new Firefox extension by Mozilla’s Rob Campbell and Victor Porof.
Tilt 3D adds a new menu item to…
October 2011
29 posts
Space Marine 'Exterminatus' co-op DLC is out now -... →
The new Space Marine ‘Exterminatus’ DLC now available.