Featured Demos
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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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BrowserQuest – a massively multiplayer HTML5 (WebSocket + Canvas) game experiment
It’s time for some gaming action with a new HTML5 game demo: BrowserQuest, a massively multiplayer adventure game created by Little Workshop (@glecollinet & @whatthefranck) and Mozilla. Play the game: browserquest.mozilla.org BrowserQuest is a tribute to classic video-games with a multiplayer twist. You play as a young warrior driven by the thrill of adventure. No […]
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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 […]
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after Firefox 3.6 – new font control features for designers
Note: the discussion below applies to work in progress that might show up in Firefox 3.7. It does not describe features in Firefox 3.6. This post is from Jonathan Kew and John Daggett. He’s supplied a 5 minute video that shows some of the features on the fly. If you’re a total font nerd and […]
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new device API for Firefox 3.6: orientation
One new feature that we’re including as part of Firefox 3.6 is support for web pages to access machine orientation information if it’s available. As you can see from the demo above you can use it to figure out if the machine is moving and what direction it’s facing. Using the API is very simple. […]
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an HTML5 offline image editor and uploader application
Many web applications use image uploaders: image hosting websites, blog publishing applications, social networks, among many others. Such uploaders have limitations: you can’t upload more than one file at a time and you can’t edit the image before sending it. A plugin is the usual workaround for uploading more than one image, and image modifications […]
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CSS 3D transformations in Firefox Nightly
When the first 3D transformations in CSS got support on Webkit browsers people got incredibly excited about them. Now that they have matured we also support 3D CSS in Firefox. To see it for yourself, check out one of the latest nightly builds. You can see them in action in this demo of a rotating […]
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Firefox 4 Beta: Latest Update is Here, with WebGL
The new Firefox 4 Beta is here, and comes with WebGL activated by default. You can download this new beta here: http://firefox.com/beta. Flight of the Navigator is a WebGL + Audio API demo developed by a team of Mozilla volunteers. You can see the demo online here (you need a WebGL compatible browser). More information […]
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offline web applications
The network is a key component of any web application, whether it is used to download JavaScript, CSS, and HTML source files and accompanying resources (images, videos, …) or to reach web services (XMLHttpRequest and <forms>). Yet having offline support for web applications can be very useful to users. Imagine, for example, a webmail application […]
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pointer-events for HTML in Firefox 3.6
The pointer-events CSS property has long been available as part of SVG as a way to control if a mouse event should be sent to the element directly underneath the mouse or passed through to an element underneath it. In Firefox 3.6 we’ve extended the property to allow it to apply to normal HTML content […]