Asa Dotzler: A Simple Google News Search
I keep an eye on Google News results for "firefox". Today I noticed that the URL for that search was crazy long....
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Robert O'Callahan: A Case For Non-Fatal Assertions
Jeff Walden is doing awesome work on the foundations of Gecko to unify the lowest-level infrastructure used by JS and the rest of Gecko and to rebase it on modern C/C++ standards. But there is a...
View ArticleAsa Dotzler: What's Next for Windows Phone
After a leaked Windows Phone roadmap, there are a few blogs speculating about what a Windows "Superphone" means and whether or not it's necessary. Here's my take. I think Microsoft wants to unify their...
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Robert O'Callahan: Risk Tolerance
Wise words:John McGlashan principal Michael Corkery said: "He was doing what every kid should be doing, playing with his friends in a river."Everybody had done everything right, but Dion still died."It...
View ArticleAsa Dotzler: Where are the Firefox Channels Today?
Firefox releases keep on coming. We just shipped Firefox 9 with the killer-fast JavaScript Type Inference work and Firefox 10, with add-ons defaulting to compatible is just around the corner. June 21,...
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Robert O'Callahan: "Cut The Rope" and HTML5 Audio
Microsoft released an HTML5 version of Cut The Rope which is pretty cool. Unfortunately they use Flash audio by default for Firefox users because, they say, "some Firefox users could have run into an...
View ArticleAsa Dotzler: User Sovereignty
Mitchell Baker has just posted about a very important issue, user sovereignty over our data. Please go give her post a read. User Sovereignty for our Data
View ArticleAsa Dotzler: Microsoft Still Has a Monopoly with Windows
In his most recent column, Ed Bott said something, mostly unrelated to the rest of the rant, that got me thinking. He said, "In the general-purpose PC segment, where small vestiges of Microsoft's...
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Robert O'Callahan: MediaStreams Processing Demos
I'm at linux.conf.au at the moment (until Wednesday) and yesterday I attended the browsers miniconf. It went well, better than I expected. I had a slot to talk about the MediaStreams Processing API...
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Robert O'Callahan: You Know You're In Australia When...
... you take a short walk after dinner and encounter a tribe of kangaroos.
View ArticleAsa Dotzler: Protesting PIPA and SOPA
Today, Mozilla will be taking part in a protest the U.S. SOPA and PIPA legislation. You can read more about this from: Mozilla's Chairman, Mitchell Baker Mozilla's CEO, Gary Kovacs Mozilla's Privacy...
View ArticleAsa Dotzler: Are You Building Add-ons That Include C++?
Are you an add-on author that uses C++ in your add-on(s)? If so, can you take a look over this discussion and comment there if you think it would help you maintain your add-on(s)? We're trying to...
View ArticleAsa Dotzler: Join Us
Tim Taubert recently posted on how he got involved with Mozilla. I intend to post about my experience at some point in the not too distant future but for now I wanted to highlight something from Tim's...
View ArticleAsa Dotzler: Personal Data is the Currency
Personal data is the currency of today's digital market, and like any currency, it needs stability and trust. Only if consumers can 'trust' that their data is well protected, will they continue to...
View ArticleAsa Dotzler: Firefox in 2012
The first public version of the browser called "Firefox" -- a 0.8 release, came out 8 years ago. With that release and the 1.0 release later that same year, we showed the world that browsers mattered....
View ArticleAsa Dotzler: End of Firefox Support for Windows 2000
For a number of years we've held off on updating our Windows toolchain to a newer version of Visual Studio, and in so doing preserved support for Windows 2000 and Windows XP RTM and SP1. Firefox...
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Robert O'Callahan: Mozilla Tree Adventures
Last week we had a few overseas Mozillians stop by the office on their way back from linux.conf.au. We took the opportunity to hold our annual Mozilla Auckland outdoors event, which for only the second...
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Postbox Team: WiseStamp Add-On for Postbox
We’re excited to announce a new Add-On for Postbox: WiseStamp. WiseStamp transforms email signatures into powerful self-expression and promotional tools. You can choose from a variety of productive and...
View ArticleAsa Dotzler: Surprisingly Candid
From Danny Sullivan at Marketing Land comes news of a surprisingly candid Microsoft explanation of why services on the Web give you things for free.Google is in the process of making some unpopular...
View ArticleAsa Dotzler: Windows Phone 8
Hot on the heels of rumors of a Windows Phone NDK comes this nugget from The VergeSynergy between the phone and the PC / tablet is going to be a big one. Not only will Windows Phone 8 share the same...
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