Articles by Robert Nyman [Editor emeritus]
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New Features in Firefox Developer Tools: Episode 24
Releases have recently rolled, and there are a slew of new features coming to the developer tools in Firefox 24. Firefox 24 is currently in our alpha channel Firefox Aurora, and will hit the main release channel on September 17th, 2013. A little alitteration leads to lots of cool features coming this release. I’m only […]
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Network Monitor, now in Firefox Beta
The Firefox Developer Tools team is particularly proud announce that Firefox 23 (in Firefox Beta, to be released today) ships with an initial but very functional Network Monitor tool that not only provides similar functionality to other tool sets, but in many improves on them. This important step is the result of lots of hard […]
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My first patch for Gaia, the UI in Firefox OS
There are many ways of contributing to the Firefox OS project and most of these ways do not involve writing code. However, if you are a developer, there is nothing as sweet and satisfying as getting your clean patch pulled into the project. With all the excitement and energy around the Firefox OS platform, I […]
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WebRTC comes to Firefox
As we mentioned in the Hacks blog back in April , WebRTC will be on by default in Firefox 22. getUserMedia (gUM) has been on by default since Firefox 20. PeerConnection and DataChannel, which enable video/audio calling and peer-to-peer data sharing, are what’s new in Firefox 22 (due to be released today). WebRTC brings real-time […]
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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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Compete in the "Amp Your Firefox" Add-ons Contest
People love their add-ons—85% of Firefox users have them installed, and there have been over 3 billion downloads since they revolutionized browsing in 2004. There are add-ons for almost everything under the sun: fun, productivity, personalization, even for making tea. Between June 13 – July 18, 2013, we challenge you to delight these fans by […]
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The Proximity API
Something that’s very nice with bringing the web to the mobile platform with Firefox OS and WebAPIs is the ability to connect more into the physical world. One part there is the Proximity API, which is also a W3C Working Draft – Proximity Events. What it is The API is about detecting how close the […]
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Building a Todo app for Firefox OS, part 1
This is the first part out of two in a tutorial series where we will build a Todo app for Firefox OS from scratch. I assume you have some understanding of HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery/Zepto, and Backbone.js. In this part we will handcraft a properly structured and semantic UI of a Todo app using best […]
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Optimizing your JavaScript game for Firefox OS
When developing on a quad core processor with 16 gigabytes of RAM you can easily forget to consider how it will perform on a mobile device. This article will detail some best practices and things to consider for moving a game to Firefox OS or any similar hardware target. Making the best of 256 Mb […]
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Content Security Policy 1.0 lands in Firefox Aurora
The information in this article is based on work together with Ian Melven, Kailas Patil and Tanvi Vyas. We have just landed support for the Content Security Policy (CSP) 1.0 specification in Firefox Aurora (Firefox 23), available as of tomorrow (May 30th). CSP is a security mechanism that aims to protect a website against content […]
