Articles by Jason Weathersby
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Reintroducing the Firefox Developer Tools, part 1: the Web Console and the JavaScript Debugger
This is part one, out of 5, focusing on the built-in Developer Tools in Firefox, their features and where we are now with them. The intention is to show you all the possibilities available, the progress and what we are aiming for. Firefox 4 saw the launch of the Web Console, the first of the […]
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Firefox Developer Edition 38: 64-bits and more
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Firefox, we unveiled Firefox Developer Edition, the first browser created specifically for developers. At that time, we also announced plans to ship a 64-bit version of Firefox. Today we’re happy to announce the next phase of that plan: 64-bit builds for Firefox Developer Edition are now available on […]
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Updating and Tweaking your Firefox OS Developer Preview phone/Geeksphone
Developer Preview editions of the Firefox OS phone are now becoming widely available to the community, mainly through Geeksphone. Since these are for developers, naturally we want to encourage you to tinker and play with them as much as possible! In this post we will cover some basic tips on how to keep your phone […]
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Reintroducing the Firefox Developer Tools, part 2: the Scratchpad and the Style Editor
This is part two, out of five, focusing on the built-in Developer Tools in Firefox, their features and where we are now with them. The intention is to show you all the possibilities available, the progress and what we are aiming for. In the first post in the series we discussed the Web Console and […]
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New Performance Tools in Firefox Developer Edition 40
Today Mozilla is pleased to announce the availability of Firefox Developer Edition 40 (DE 40) featuring all-new performance tools! In this post we will cover some of DE 40’s new developer tools, fixes, and improvements made to existing tools. In addition, a couple of videos showcase some of these features. Note: Many of the new […]
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Introducing the Firefox OS App Manager
The Firefox OS App Manager is a new developer tool available in Firefox 26 that greatly improves the process of building and debugging Firefox OS apps, either in the Simulator or on a connected device. Based on the the Firefox OS Simulator add-on, it bridges the gap between existing Firefox Developer tools and the Firefox […]
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Pointer Events now in Firefox Nightly
[Important Update: After this article was published, Pointer Events were disabled in Firefox Nightly because of a stability bug. They will be re-enabled after this bug is fixed. You can still test Pointer Events in Firefox by setting dom.w3c_pointer_events.enabled to “true” in about:config.] This past February Pointer Events became a W3C Recommendation. In the intervening […]
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Pushing a Firefox OS Web App to ZTE Open phone
ZTE recently announced release of the ZTE Open Firefox OS phone, a device aimed at developers and early adopters. In this post we cover the basic details of connecting and configuring your desktop environment to push Apps to the ZTE Open from the Firefox OS Simulator. Setting Up the ZTE Open Before pushing or debugging […]
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Creating a Multiplayer Game with TogetherJS and CreateJS
Bubble Hell Duel is a multiplayer HTML5 dogfighting game. The object of the game is to dodge bubbles launched from your opponent while returning fire. This game was written mainly as a prototype for learning and the source code is available on GitHub. You can try the game out in single or multiplayer here. Currently […]
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Building Cordova apps for Firefox OS
Update: In addition to the Cordova integration described below, Firefox OS is now supported in the 3.5 release of Adobe PhoneGap. If you’re already building apps with PhoneGap, you can quickly and easily port your existing apps to Firefox OS. We think this is so cool that we’ve launched a Phones for PhoneGap Apps program, […]