Mark Banner: Birthday field now in Address Book (1)
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It appears I forgot to blog about this when it landed a couple of weeks ago, probably mainly because we were getting ready for the Shredder Alpha 3 string and code freezes. With thanks to Josh (aka pi, who I mentored during the Google Summer of Code) we now have a birthday field in the address book: This has been a long-awaited enhancement, and it is finally here (and it will be in Shredder Alpha ...
Stuck on Songbird (1)
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I've tried the Mozilla-based open-source music player Songbird twice before, and each time I reluctantly retreated to iTunes for a variety of reasons: Songbird wouldn't play my DRM-encumbered iTunes Store tracks, it was cumbersome to use, it kept crashing or wouldn't start, etc. But in August I stripped the DRM from my 50 encumbered songs by burning them to four CDs and then ripping them back. And then I heard that the latest version of ...
Ehsan Akhgari: Experimental builds with the latest ACID3 patches (2)
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Today I finally made a try server build which includes patches to some bugs, each of which fixing a problem that the ACID3 test is checking for. The build gives us 97/100 points on the ACID3 test, which is impressive. Here is the list of the fixes that this build includes: Fix to Bug 174351 - Encoding Errors aren't treated as fatal XML errors Fix to Bug 178258 - HTML parser ships <script> to implicit ...
Simon Paquet: Thunderbird 3 will be released later (no definitive date yet) (1)
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Three days ago, I informed you that Thunderbird 3 beta1 had been renamed to Shredder alpha3. So yesterday we had a Thunderbird drivers meeting to discuss what this all means for the next pre-release (beta1) and the overall release planning.The outcome of that discussion was, that the earlier plan of releasing a first TB3 release candidate into the wild at the end of January or early February can no longer be kept. There are basically ...
Private Browsing progress (1)
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My work on the Private Browsing patch is soon going to enter a new stage. Four of the modules that the patch is touching already have unit tests. The only part of the patch which is not correctly implemented yet according to the recent changes in the functional spec is the download manager module, which needed a back-end change to support in-memory databases. I've implemented that in another bug I filed to track it, and ...
Jonathan DiCarlo: バビルの塔 (4)
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Back in July, I was at the Mozilla summit in British Columbia, meeting with Mozillanoids from all over the world. The first question is always, “So what are you working on?”. When I explained the idea of Ubiquity to people, the most common reaction was “That’s cool, but it’s so… English-centric. How are you going to localize it?” These people are right to think that localizing a linguistic UI is harder than localizing a graphical ...
madhava.com/egotism/: Fennec at M8 - now with more UI! (4)
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As Mark Finkle posted over on his blog, milestone 8 (M8) of Fennec is out. This is an exciting time from a user-experience perspective because, along with functionality and stability improvements, this milestone brings with it the beginnings of Fennec's look and feel. In a sense, we have some UI worth playing with, evaluating, and improving. Screenshots The following are actual screenshots from an N810 running M8 rather than wireframes or pixel-perfect mockups. A Fennec ...
David Rolnitzky: Spread Firefox Affiliates Program version 2.0 (1)
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I’m excited to announce that we’ve launched a number of improvements to the Spread Firefox Affiliates program. Some of the improvements are user-facing and some of them are back-end improvements which, while not immediately obvious, will be of great benefit to the program. You can find the initial details for this improvement plan here. Not too long ago, we conducted a survey to our Affiliates. One of the big (if unsurprising) things we learned was ...
Mozilla Marketing Contest - Coming Soon! (2)
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As mentioned a couple months back, we’ve been hard at work preparing for an upcoming marketing contest. The contest has since been given an official name - Impact Mozilla - and we’re now just a day or two from releasing it into the wild. We’re excited to provide one more open avenue for participation in our marketing efforts and decision making. Likewise, we’re hoping that many community members and student groups will be excited to ...
Aza’s Thoughts » Will Chrome Kill Innovation? (4)
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A reporter recently asked me the following questions: “Many people think that Google Chrome could kill the innovation into the browser field. Does it mean game over? How is the internet user experience is going to change? Will there will be another browser war?” As I get asked questions like this frequently, here’s my answer: Mozilla’s mission—to ensue that the Internet is a global public resource that remains open and accessible—is enhanced by the release ...
jQuery, Microsoft, and Nokia (1)
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We have two pieces of fantastic, albeit serendipitous, news today: Both Microsoft and Nokia are taking the major step of adopting jQuery as part of their official application development platform. Not only will they be using it for their corporate de...
John Slater: Introducing the New & Improved Firefox Logo Style Guide (2)
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The Firefox logo is obviously an extremely important element of the Mozilla universe and, like pretty much everything else we do, we try to make it as open and available as possible to the community. Of course, like a wise philosopher once said, with great power comes great responsibility, so today we launched a new and improved Firefox style guide to make sure the logo is always used consistently and correctly. The goal of this ...
Shawn Wilsher: DOM Inspector 2.0.1 (1)
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I’ve just released DOM Inspector 2.0.1. This contains a number of stability and UI fixes. This is available on AMO, but you should automatically receive the update.
MAOW 08 Slides Published (1)
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Meme(me) (1)
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Take a picture of yourself right now. Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair…just take a picture. Post that picture with NO editing. Post these instructions with your picture.
Death To SquirrelFish, Long Live SquirrelFish Extreme (SFX) (1)
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Looks like SquirrelFish is already “dead”. There’s now SquirrelFish Extreme (SFX). You can see some benchmark comparisons here. In the past few months, TraceMonkey, V8 and SquirrelFish. I suspect the next place is going to be improving DOM performance. At some point JS performance (in feel) is going to be limited by the ability to display what’s been processed. Part of that will be DOM speed. There’s also gfx speed, which Mozilla has already done ...
HTML 5 video tag, pirate edition (1)
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Ahoy mateys of the open source seas! Here’s another thing coming in Firefox 3.1: open source HTML 5 video support! This is going to bring some cool new functionality to developers, such as being able to access video elements through the DOM, intersperse video with other web content, and manipulate playback with JavaScript - all without the need for lubber bilge monkey plugins (see blizzard’s post). A project I took over from the comely wench ...
The Economist on “Non-Profit Capitalism”: What It Implies for Mozilla (1)
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Wending my way through this week’s Economist, I came across an article about “non-profit capitalism”. (Get it while it’s hot, it’ll probably end up behind a pay wall soon enough.) Specifically, the article describes the recent IPO filing of a non-profit organization called Do Something: This imitation of the for-profit IPO process may seem gimmicky, but in fact it is part of a new trend to improve how non-profits are financed, so that they can ...
Top Ten Add-ons II (2)
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One year ago today I made a blog post listing the “top 10″ add-ons according to three different sources of data. The point of that post was to show the differences in the methods and highlight how a single add-on might be outstanding in one area (for example, downloads), but not in another (for example, user retention/active users). I wanted to show these lists for 2008 and take a look at how much those lists ...
Firefox EULA in Linux Distributions (1)
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We’ve been working for a while to fix some objections to both the presentation of a EULA and the content of the EULA in certain Linux distributions. The issue came to light because of a change in settings in the 3.0 builds, that turned on the EULA display at installation, similar to the Windows environment. This caused two big problems. One, it put a EULA in front of a set of end-users who are not ...
