Articles by Luca Greco
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Developing cross-browser extensions with web-ext 3.2.0
The web-ext tool was created at Mozilla to help you build browser extensions faster and more easily. Although our first launch focused on support for the desktop Firefox browser, followed by Firefox for Android, our vision was always to support cross-platform development once we shipped Firefox support. With the 3.2.0 release, you can finally use
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How to make a browser app for Firefox OS
Firefox OS is an operating system built on top of the Firefox web browser engine, which is called Gecko. A browser app on Firefox OS provides a user interface written with HTML5 technology and manages web page browsing using the Browser API. It also manages tabbing, browsing history, bookmarks, and so on depending on the […]
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Ember Inspector on a Firefox near you
… or Cross-Browser Add-ons for Fun or Profit Browser add-ons are clearly an important web browser feature, at least on the desktop platform, and for a long time Firefox was the browser add-on authors’ preferred target. When Google launched Chrome, this trend on the desktop browsers domain was pretty clear, so their browser provides an […]
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Announcing the prototype Firefox OS Simulator
Firefox OS (and the Boot2Gecko (B2G) project on which it is based) has been written about extensively on Hacks already, but the brief summary is that Mozilla is building a mobile phone operating system where the whole user interface is built on web technology (HTML, CSS and JavaScript). Part of the magic in making that […]
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Hacking Firefox OS
This blog post is written by Luca Greco, a Mozilla community member who loves to hack, especially on JavaScript and other web-related technologies. A lot of developers are already creating mobile applications using Web technologies (powered by containers like Phonegap/Cordova as an example), usually to develop cross platform applications or leverage their current code and/or […]