Articles for September 2010
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Firefox 4: recent changes in Firefox
I’ve been really busy these days, and I didn’t have a chance to keep you updated, and a lot happened: Javascript Release of Jägermonkey, Firefox new Javascript engine Release of Kraken, a new browser benchmark SpiderMonkey JSON change: trailing commas no longer accepted New ES5 strict mode support, see the restrictions Hardware acceleration, how to […]
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Are you a web developer or designer?
If you are a web developer or designer, we can use your input. After gaining some great insights from our previous survey on Firefox 3.6 and Firebug 1.5, we have decided to go broader and get a better industry-wide snapshot of web developers. We have created a new survey in our continued effort to better […]
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Final User Agent String for Firefox 4
With a title like that, you just know this is going to be fun. (No, seriously.) The user agent string is one of those wonderfully eclectic things, a balance of modernity and antiquity. Except mostly skewed toward antiquity. It’s grown, piece by piece, over the years; because everyone has their own special way of parsing […]
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Firefox 4: hardware acceleration
Editor’s note: If you’ve arrived here via the Mozilla Support site because you are exploring advanced settings or having frequent crashes at startup, this probably isn’t the right solution. It’s been a few years since Firefox 4 was released and this post was written. You might want to visit this Troubleshooting page instead. What is […]
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Firefox 4 Beta: Latest update is here — what’s in it for web developers?
The latest Firefox 4 Beta has just been released. Here is a quick overview of the new features for web developers. Hardware acceleration for Windows Vista/7 (via Direct2D) has been activated. Demo and explanations are in a previous post (see screencast below). The Audio Data API is now available. See David’s blog post (see screencast […]
