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High performance Theora codec for Firefox on OMAP3 previewed
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| On his blog, Matthew Gregan reports that
| there has been some success in shifting the
| major part of the processing load caused by
| decoding Theora videos into the DSP
| (Digital Signal Processor) core of Texas
| Instruments' OMAP 3 processor. This family
| of processors is used in the Motorola
| Droid, Nokia N900 and Palm Pre smartphones
| as well as the Beagle Board. Gregan is
| employed by Mozilla and is currently
| working on improving video and audio
| support in Firefox. It is not currently
| known when the development work previewed
| will be incorporated into a future release
| of Mozilla's mobile browser.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/High-performance-Theora-codec-for-Firefox-on-OMAP3-previewed-980720.html
A look at the future of Firefox add-ons
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| Recently we came across some information
| that Firefox would be getting restart-less
| add-ons sooner than we expected, and it
| prompted us to take a look at the future of
| Firefox add-ons.
|
| [...]
|
| Jetpack started off as a Mozilla labs
| experiment for the future of Firefox
| extensions. It was meant to be a simple new
| way to get started writing extensions for
| Firefox using web standard technologies
| such as HTML, Javascript and CSS. The
| Jetpack system was supposed to eventually
| become an alternate -- perhaps a
| replacement -- for the current way of
| writing extensions for Firefox.
|
| Jetpacks were restart-less extensions for
| default which used the Jetpack APIs to do
| all the work. This meant that Firefox could
| make as many changes as they wanted between
| two versions of Firefox, and as long as
| they ensured that the Jetpack API doQuotees
| not change no add-on functionality will
| break.
|
| After 8 iterations, the Jetpack project
| came to an end, as the original project had
| lost clarity in its goal. However from its
| ashes the Jetpack SDK has arisen, which
| takes into account some of the lessons
| learnt while creating Jetpack.
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http://www.thinkdigit.com/Internet/A-look-at-the-future-of-Firefox_4483.html
10 MORE outstanding Firefox extensions
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| Itâs been a while since we last took a look
| at worthwhile Firefox extensions. Well,
| itâs time again. But now, Firefox has added
| collections to the mix. Extension
| collections are exactly what they sound
| like â collections of related extensions.
| In this list, we have a few worthwhile
| collections (since theyâre new, there
| arenât many) as well as some stand-alone
| extensions.
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http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=1476
Firefox Add-on of the Week: GoogleSharing
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/web_exclusive/firefox_addon_week_googlesharing
Mozilla Balkans 2010
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| After a lot of talk about a possible event
| somewhere in South-Eastern Europe, we
| finally did it. We are now organizing a
| whole new and somewhat experimental event
| in the Rocky Balkans. Leaders of local
| Mozilla communities from the Balkans have
| joined their efforts to organize this
| event, the first of this type in the
| Balkans.
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http://blogs.mozilla-europe.org/?post/2010/04/23/Mozilla-Balkans-2010
Related:
Mozilla reveals the Firefox of the future?
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| Mozilla has unveiled a spectacular new concept browser, dubbed Aurora.
|
| The bleeding-edge browser is part of a new Mozilla Labs initiative, in which
| the open-source foundation is encouraging people to contribute ideas and
| designs for the browser of the future.
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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/216897/mozilla-reveals-the-firefox-of-the-future.html
Mozilla Looks to Grass Roots for Next Wave of Browser Innovation
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| The Mozilla Labs Concept Series is a program for gathering from the public
| ideas on developing new software projects. The program kicked off with three
| new concept applications: the Aurora browser, a mobile version of Firefox and
| a new way to visualize bookmarks. The purpose is to let any user join the
| conversation, not just those with programming skills.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/64073.html
Q&A: Mozilla's Tristan Nitot
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| Having a pay cheque definitely is a change! In 2003 there were eight to 10
| employees. Now we have 160. We now have market share, [meaning] the ability
| to influence the market and force Redmond to wake up and improve the
| product...while the product is interesting, whatâs really important is the
| health of the web.
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http://www.itpro.co.uk/605028/q-a-mozillas-tristan-nitot
Days ago:
Firefox market share exceeds 20%, Internet Explorer dips below 70%
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| It has been six weeks since Firefox 3 has been released and if we believe
| market share numbers provided by an ongoing survey of NetApplications, then
| it appears that Mozilla has had a successful launch with market share gains,
| especially at the expense of Microsoftâs Internet Explorer.
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http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/38653/113/
Firefox Beta release date announced
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| Interestingly and more importantly, Firefox 3.1 now includes Ogg Vorbis audio
| and Ogg Theora video codec support. The implementation of natively supported
| and open source audio and video formats in Firefox has been underway for more
| than a year and is driven by the developers' intent that Firefox 3.1 support
| the next World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) hypertext markup language
| specification HTML5, which includes the new "<audio>" and "<video>" tags.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/05/firefox-beta-due-august-19
First look: Ars reviews Firefox 3.1 alpha 1
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| Mozilla took a big step toward Firefox 3.1 yesterday with the release of the
| first alpha. It includes important improvements to both the user interface
| and to Firefox's underlying Gecko rendering engine.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080730-first-look-ars-reviews-firefox-3-1-alpha-1.html
http://tinyurl.com/6ewn69
Firefox 3.1 Alpha 1 now available for download
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| The first developer milestone of the next release of Firefox - code named
| Shiretoko Alpha 1 - is now available for download. Shiretoko is built on
| pre-release version of the Gecko 1.9.1 platform, which forms the core of rich
| internet applications such as Firefox. Please note that this release is
| intended for developers and testers only.
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http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2008/07/28/firefox-31-alpha-1-now-available-for-download/
http://tinyurl.com/5hcmg2
New tab switching added for Firefox 3.1
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| Press Ctrl + Tab (or Shift + Ctrl + Tab) and you are presented with tab
| thumbnails and titles with the most recently visited ones first so you can
| more easily determine which tab you want to go, have the one you most
| probably want to go closer, and as a result get to it faster. Hold Ctrl
| pressed and keep pressing Tab to see the thumbnails smoothly scroll to the
| left while the status bar displays the tab web address.
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http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/07/new-tab-switching-added-for-firefox-31/
Firefox is King
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| Mozilla Firefox is now the king of all browsers. --At least based on the web
| traffic data gathered from junauza.com and from a popular tech blog by known
| Windows Vista fanboy user Jeff Atwood. Firefox tops all other web browsers
| and most importantly kicked its archrival Internet Explorer out of the
| highest position.
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http://www.junauza.com/2008/07/firefox-is-king.html
Firefox 3.1 alpha 1 code freeze is next Monday
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| Firefox 3 has only recently shipped but the first public milestone for its
| successor is fast approaching. The Mozilla team is expecting that the code
| freeeze for alpha 1 of Firefox 3.1, code named Shiretoko, will be next Monday
| and that alpha 1 be available for early adopter testing on July 25.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2656
Mozilla pitches Firefox 3.1 alpha for July release
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| Just a week after Mozilla shipped Firefox 3.0, the open-source developer has
| proposed ship dates for the next version that, if approved, would produce an
| alpha release next month and a final no later than early 2009.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/062608-mozilla-pitches-firefox-31-alpha.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
Firefox 3.1 (Shiretoko) planned features draft
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| A very early draft of planned features reveals that as expected, this release
| will be mainly about landing stuff that didnât make it on time for the
| Firefox 3, along with the usual performance, stability and security bug
| fixes.
|
| Visual tab switching and tab searching/filtering were both tried for Firefox
| 3, abandoned for other more critical features, and are being considered for
| 3.1. Ctrl+Tab, a extension developed by Dao Gottwald implements both of them
| displaying a thumbnail of the opened tabs when pressing Ctrl + Tab to switch
| tabs.
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http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/06/firefox-31-shiretoko-planned-features-draft/
Mozilla targets Firefox 3.1 release for later this year
,----[ Quote ]
| Although Mozilla hasn't even released the final version of Firefox 3.0, its
| developers are already hammering out plans for the next edition, which may
| come as soon as late 2008, according to posts written by company executives.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1822550569&rid=-50
Developers: Firefox 3.1 Update Should Be "Easy"
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| The release of Firefox 3.0 has been a resounding success, but for some the
| upgrade path has been less than painless. The latest version of the open
| source browser differed enough from previous versions that many add-ons had
| to be substantially rewritten before they would work with the new release.
| And just when the dust appeared to be clearing, Firefox 3.1 is on the
| horizon.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/blogs/mcallister_on_software/148287/developers_firefox_31_update_should_be_easy.html
http://tinyurl.com/6k3mn8
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