Articles by Paul Rouget
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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 […]
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Firefox 4: HTTP Strict Transport Security (force HTTPS)
This article is about a new HTTPS header: Strict-Transport-Security, which force a website to be fetched through HTTPS. This feature will be part of Firefox 4. How do you type URLs? Do you prefix them with http:// or https:// systematically? Or do you just type example.com and let your browser add http://, like most of […]
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Firefox 4: Drawing arbitrary elements as backgrounds with -moz-element
This is a guest post by Markus Stange. Markus usually works on the Firefox Mac theme implementation, but this time he went on a small side trip through the Gecko layout engine in order to implement -moz-element. In Firefox Beta 4 we’re introducing a new extension to the CSS background-image property: the ability to draw […]
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Firefox 4 Beta: Latest Update is Here – what's in for web developers?
The latest Firefox 4 Beta has just been released (get it here). This beta comes with hundreds of bug fixes, Firefox Sync and Firefox Panorama. Here is a quick overview of the new features for web developers. Firefox now supports the HTML5 video “buffered” property; HTML5 video “autobuffer” has been replaced with “preload”; An experimental […]
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HTML5 Video preload attribute supported in Firefox 4, autobuffer attribute removed
This is a re-post from Chris Pearce’s blog. To comply with the HTML5 specification, we replaced the autobuffer attribute with the tri-state preload attribute. We encourage you to update your code. See the documention on MDC. Late last week I landed support on Firefox trunk for the HTML5 video ‘preload’ attribute. This replaces the ‘autobuffer’ […]
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Help us to make Firefox 4 better: How to open a bug
If you run Firefox Beta or Firefox nightlies, you will probably run into some issues. Reporting these bugs and crashes will help us to make sure the user experience is better for all Firefox 4 users. Marcia Knous is part of the Firefox QA team. Because reporting a good bug is not that easy but […]
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More efficient Javascript animations with mozRequestAnimationFrame
This is a re-post from Robert O’Callahan’s blog. <b>mozRequestAnimationFrame</b> is an experimental API to make Javascript animations more efficient. We do not guarantee to support it forever, and I wouldn’t evangelize sites to depend on it. We’ve implemented it so that people can experiment with it and we can collect feedback. At the same time […]
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Firefox 4 Beta: Latest Update is Here – Experimenting With Multi-touch
The latest Firefox 4 Beta has just been released (get it here). This beta comes with hundreds of bug fixes, improvements and multi-touch support for Windows 7 (see the release notes here). This article is about multi-touch support. Felipe Gomes is working on bringing multi-touch support to web content. In this latest beta, we are […]
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Firefox 4 Beta 2 is here – Welcome CSS3 transitions
As we have explained before, Mozilla is now making more frequent updates to our beta program. So here it is, Firefox Beta 2 has just been released, 3 weeks after Beta 1. Firefox 4 Beta 1 already brought a large amount of new features (see the Beta 1 feature list). So what’s new for web […]