Articles for 2011
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Firefox 5 is here
Today, three months after the release of Firefox 4, we release Firefox 5, thanks to our new development cycle. Developers will be able to create richer animations using CSS3 Animations. This release comes with various improvements, performance optimization and bug fixes. CSS3 Animations CSS Animations (check out the documentation) are a new way to create […]
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Introducing WebAPI
Mozilla would like to introduce WebAPI with the goal to provide a basic HTML5 phone experience within 3 to 6 months.
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Firefox 4 Beta 9 – a huge pile of awesome
Hello, and welcome to the post for Firefox 4 beta 9. If you’re reading this then you’re interested in what we’ve got coming down the pipe for the latest beta for the wonderful browser known as Firefox 4. We’re starting to reach the end of our development cycle for the next release of Firefox and […]
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Tilt: Visualize your Web page in 3D
Tilt is a Firefox extension that lets you visualize any web page DOM tree in 3D. It is being developed by Victor Porof (3D developer responsible with the Firefox extension itself), along with Cedric Vivier (creating a WebGL optimized equivalent to the privileged canvas.drawWindow, see #653656) and Rob Campbell (who first thought about creating a […]
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Developer Tools in Firefox Aurora 10
The Preview You Can Use Now Mozilla is building a collection of stable, fast and usable developer tools that ship with the browser. I’d like to introduce a collection of improvements that are scheduled to be released in final form on January 31, 2012. But, you can get them now by downloading the Firefox Aurora […]
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Firefox 6 is here
What’s new in Firefox 6? The most notable addition to this new release are the <progress> element, touch events, Server-Sent Events as well as the return of WebSockets. The <progress> element This element can be used to give a visual cue of something in progress in the page. System progress bars are being used, which […]
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Firefox – tons of tools for web developers!
One of the goals of Firefox have always been to make the lives of web developers as easy and productive as possible, by providing tools and a very extensible web browser to enable people to create amazing things. The idea here is to list a lot of the tools and options available to you as […]
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Introducing Aurora 11 with tons of new features and improvements
We have now released Aurora 11, soon to become Firefox 11, and wanted to cover all the the things we have improved in this version!
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Firefox 7 is lean and fast
Based on a blog post originally posted here by Nicholas Nethercote, Firefox Developer. tl;dr Firefox 7 now uses much less memory than previous versions: often 20% to 30% less, and sometimes as much as 50% less. This means that Firefox and the websites you use will be snappier, more responsive, and suffer fewer pauses. It […]
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How to develop a HTML5 Image Uploader
HTML5 comes with a set of really awesome APIs. If you combine these APIs with the <canvas> element, you could create a super/modern/awesome Image Uploader. This article shows you how. All these tips work well in Firefox 4. I also describe some alternative ways to make sure it works on Webkit-based browsers. Most of these […]