1. Introducing Aurora 9

    • by Robert Nyman and Christopher Blizzard • Aurora, CSS, DOM, Feature, Featured Article, Firefox 9, HTML5, XMLHttpRequest • 29 comments

    We have just released Aurora 9 (download and test Aurora 9), which is planned to be the upcoming Firefox 9. In it, we have a number of new things that we hope will get you Read more…

  2. MDN vs. MSDN: Mozilla FTW

    • by Eric Shepherd • Docs, MDN • 3 comments

    MindTouch, the developer of the software that powers the Mozilla Developer Network‘s documentation center, spent this week sponsoring a competitive battle, pitting MDN up against the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) site in the areas of user experience, social features, engagement, and findability. They offered their Read more…

  3. Congrats to our August Dev Derby winners!

    • by Jay Patel • Demo Studio, Dev Derby, Featured Article, History API, HTML5 • 1 comment

    For our August Dev Derby, we decided to see what developers could do with the History API. We had 11 demos submitted and it was interesting to see how the History API creates new ways to interact with Web content. After all the votes were Read more…

  4. Mozilla Hacks Weekly, September 29th 2011

    • by Robert Nyman • HTML5, Mozilla Hacks Weekly • No comments yet

    Good Thursday, dear Mozilla Hacks readers! The Mozilla Developer Engagement Team has a new fresh list of reading suggestions for Read more…

  5. What’s new for Web Developers in Firefox 7

    • by Christopher Blizzard • Featured Article, Firefox, Firefox 7 • 23 comments

    Today we’re releasing Firefox Update 7. This update contains work that’s been stabilizing over the last 3 months and there are quite a few interesting things to talk about. To be clear, this is not the canonical list of changes, just highlights. As always, we’ve Read more…

  6. Firefox 7: Telemetry

    • by Mozilla Hacks and Taras Glek • Firefox, Firefox 7 • 7 comments

    Based on a blog post originally posted here by Taras Glek, Firefox Developer. Firefox 7 marks a turning point in how we measure Firefox performance. Traditionally we measured Firefox performance on individual developer machines and our build & release infrastructure. However it turns out synthetic Read more…

  7. Direct2D Azure hits Firefox 7

    • by Mozilla Hacks and Bas Schouten • Canvas, Firefox, Firefox 7 • No comments yet

    Based on a blog post originally posted here by Bas Schouten, Firefox Developer. Hrm, Azure, what’s that again? You can find out all about Azure other blog posts, there’s an introduction from Joe Drew and there’s several more in detailed posts discussing the Direct2D Azure Read more…

  8. Firefox 7 is lean and fast

    • by Mozilla Hacks and Nicholas Nethercote • Firefox, Firefox 7, Performance • 40 comments

    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 Read more…

  9. Mozilla Hacks Weekly, September 22nd

    • by Robert Nyman • HTML5, Identity, Mozilla Hacks Weekly, Uncategorized • No comments yet

    It’s Thursday, and time for reading suggestions from the Mozilla Developer Engagement Read more…

  10. Wiki Wednesday: September 21, 2011

    • by Eric Shepherd • Docs, Wiki Wednesday • No comments yet

    Here are today’s Wiki Wednesday articles! If you know about these topics, please try to find a few minutes to look over these articles that are marked as needing technical intervention and see if you can fix them up. You can do so either by Read more…