Feature Articles
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Experimenting with local alt text generation in Firefox Nightly
Firefox 130 will introduce an experimental new capability to automatically generate alt-text for images using a fully private on-device AI model. The feature will be available as part of Firefox’s built-in PDF editor, and our end goal is to make it available in general browsing for users with screen readers.
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NFC in Firefox OS
Firefox OS is being developed in an open collaboration with Mozilla’s partners and community. In that spirit, and over the course of over a year, Mozilla and Deutsche Telekom (DT) teams worked closely together to develop a platform-level support for NFC within Firefox OS. During that time, both teams had regular product and engineering meet-ups […]
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New on MDN: Sign in with Github!
MDN now gives users more options for signing in! Signing in to MDN previously required a Mozilla Persona account. Getting a Persona account is free and easy, but MDN analytics showed a steep drop-off at the “Sign in with Persona” interface. For example, almost 90% of signed-out users who clicked “Edit” never signed in, which […]
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1st ever MDN Hack Day in NYC
So what’s an MDN Hack Day, you ask? The intention is to host a day of talks, hacks and demos that first introduces the participants to Mozilla and our various open web projects, then invite attendees to shift into participant mode and start hacking. Another way I like to think of it is that we […]
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Announcing Firefox Aurora 10
We’re happy to announce the availability of Aurora 10. (Download and Test Aurora 10) In additional to the normal improvements that you’ve come to expect like performance, security and bug fixes, Aurora 10 focuses in HTML5 enhancements. New additions HTML5 Visibility API createProcessingInstruction WebGL antialiasing 3D Transforms Visibility API Document.mozFullScreenEnabled Developer Tools Code Editor CSS […]
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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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Ben Adida on BrowserID and identity
This is the second installment of Mission:Mozilla, a series of interviews that link Mozillians, the technology they produce and the Mozilla mission. Today Ben Adida is in the hot seat to discuss BrowserID, Mozilla’s identity initiative. Tristan Nitot – Hi Ben, can you briefly introduce yourself? Ben Adida – I’ve been hacking since high school […]
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Introducing Aurora 9
We have just released Aurora 9 (download and test Aurora 9), which is planned to be the upcoming Firefox 9. In it, we have a number of new things that we hope will get you excited!
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Lights, Camera, Action! July Dev Derby is all about HTML5 Video!
Show off your coolest video hack in July’s Mozilla Dev Derby! Moving pictures have always fascinated people. From the first zoetropes to the multi million dollar blockbusters of today – seeing things move grabs our attention as humans much better than any clever copy or imagery could. Video was alien to the web for a […]
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Firefox 4 Demos: Awesome CSS3 Planetarium
O hai pixel lovers! Check out this gorgeous CSS3 demo: Planetarium, by the LittleWorkshop team (@glecollinet & @whatthefranck). Screencast: Youtube link. Gorgeous Animations The principal feature show-cased in this demo is CSS3 Transitions. The animation between the welcome-screen and the planet-screen, and the animation between the different planets are powered by transitions. But there are […]
