Articles by Robert Nyman [Editor emeritus]
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Pre-orders start today for Flame, the Firefox OS developer phone
Update 2014-07-15: The pre-order period has ended and the Flame is now available as a standard order, with shipping in 7-10 days. The Firefox OS Flame reference device that we announced at end of February is now available for pre-order at everbuying.com for $170 including free shipping. Pre-order now. To standardize the design, development, and […]
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Firefox in 2011 – Firefox plans for 2012
A lot of people are interested in Firefox, the progress that is being made and what we plan to do. Therefore, I’d like to outline the things we accomplished with Firefox in 2011, and what we have already done, and plan to do, in 2012.
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Hello Chrome, it's Firefox calling!
Mozilla is excited to announce that we’ve achieved a major milestone in WebRTC development: WebRTC RTCPeerConnection interoperability between Firefox and Chrome. This effort was made possible because of the close collaboration between the open Web community and engineers from both Mozilla and Google. RTCPeerConnection (also known simply as PeerConnection or PC) interoperability means that developers […]
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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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Mozilla's Boot to Gecko – The Web is the Platform
Mozilla’s Boot to Gecko (B2G) is about building a complete, standalone operating system for the open web. It aims at making web technologies the number one choice for applications on desktop and mobile, and we believe it can displace proprietary, single-vendor stacks for application development. And we have made some exciting progress that we want […]
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Using the Fullscreen API in web browsers
One thing which has been very important when it comes to creating special end user experiences have been the ability to show something fullscreen, effectively hiding all the other content etc.
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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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WebIDE Lands in Nightly
Editor’s note: if you want to help test it on a recent nightly you can toggle the devtools.webide.enabled preference in about:config. The WebIDE is available today under Tools>Web Developer>App Manager and will be renamed in tomorrow’s Nightly into WebIDE. If you’ve been following our Developer Tools series on the Mozilla Hacks blog, you’ve seen the […]
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Firefox Developer Tools and Firebug
If you haven’t tried the Firefox Developer Tools in the last 6 months, you owe it to yourself to take another look. Grab the latest Aurora browser, and start up the tools from the Web Developer menu (a submenu of Tools on some platforms). The tools have improved a lot lately: black-boxing lets you treat […]
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Firefox OS devices officially released!
Almost two years ago, we announced Boot to Gecko (B2G) here on Mozilla Hacks. We discussed the aims of the project and the work we were planning to do. Today, all that work has paid off and we now have official Firefox OS devices in store! Last week the first Firefox OS phones went out […]