Articles by Robert Nyman [Editor emeritus]
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PlayCanvas Goes Open Source
This is a guest post by Will Eastcott of the PlayCanvas engine. As outlined in What Mozilla Hacks is, we constantly cover interesting information about open source and the Open Web, both from external as well as Mozilla authors, so feel free to share with us! On March 22nd 2011, Mozilla released Firefox 4.0 which […]
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Introducing webcompat.com
For the past few months a small group of contributors inside and outside of Mozilla have been working on webcompat.com. We just recently celebrated moving past the “too broken to share” milestone to the “functional-under-construction.gif” milestone of the project and are eager to share what we’ve been up to. There’s a more elaborate description of […]
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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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Developer Tools feedback channels, one week in
Editor’s Note: Thanks to everyone who took the time to share constructive feedback and ideas for Firefox Devtools via our UserVoice channel. This forum is no longer available. We’ve decided to move the conversation over to the mozilla.dev.developer-tools Google group, where the conversation is lively, and Firefox DevTools team members are available to answer questions […]
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Introducing TranslationTester and localization support for Open Web Apps
When building Open Web Apps, one important factor is to make your content available to as many possible, and one way to do that is to make it available in more than one language. Therefore we want to make it as easy as possible for you, both with a complete code repository to get started […]
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How fast is PDF.js?
Hi, my name is Thorben and I work at Opera Software in Oslo, not at Mozilla. So, how did I end up writing for Mozilla Hacks? Maybe you know that there is no default PDF viewer in the Opera Browser, something we would like to change. But how to include one? Buy it from Adobe […]
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Editable box model, multiple selection, Sublime Text keys + much more – Firefox Developer Tools Episode 31
A new set of the Firefox Developer Tools features has just been uplifted to the Aurora channel. These features are available right now in Aurora, and will be in the Firefox 31 release in July. This release brings new tools, editor improvements, console and inspector features: Editable box model The Box Model tab in the […]
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Launching feedback channels – let us know your ideas for Firefox Developer Tools
Editor’s Note: Thanks to everyone who took the time to share constructive feedback and ideas for Firefox Devtools via our UserVoice channel. This forum is no longer available. We’ve decided to move the conversation over to the mozilla.dev.developer-tools Google group, where the conversation is lively, and Firefox DevTools team members are available to answer questions […]
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asm.js performance improvements in the latest version of Firefox make games fly!
The latest version of Firefox which launched last week includes a major update to the user interface as well as to features like Sync. Another area in which this release brings significant improvements is in asm.js performance, which as we will see below is very important for things like games. To put that aspect of […]
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Mozilla hits one million bugs – thanks for making the Web better with us
We passed a significant milestone on Wednesday. Mozilla’s installation of the Bugzilla bug-tracking software reached the landmark of bug number 1,000,000. Our Bugzilla installation has been running since Mozilla started in 1998, and tracked bugs, issues, enhancement requests, work projects and almost any other kind of task, across the whole breadth of Mozilla. There are […]