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Mozilla Marketplace Opening for App Submissions Soon22 February 2012, 4:53 pm
The Mozilla Labs Apps project aims to establish a people-centric Apps ecosystem that provides freedom, choice and opportunity for users and developers. We are doing this by adding key capabilities to the Web platform in the form of new Mozilla-proposed APIs and by establishing the Mozilla Marketplace as the the first operating system- and device-independent… Read more...
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ACTA is a Bad Way to Develop Internet Policy10 February 2012, 5:57 pm
Editor’s note: Today, Mitchell Baker posted her thoughts on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement proposal. Below is an excerpt from her blog: ACTA (“Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement”) is a proposed new international law establishing international enforcement standards against counterfeit goods and pirated intellectual property items. ACTA was negotiated as a “trade agreement” which means that it was… Read more...
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Firefox Adds Powerful New Developer Tools31 January 2012, 5:49 pm
Firefox for Windows, Mac and Linux adds powerful built-in developer tools and delivers smoother updates by making add-ons compatible by default. Firefox adds a number of new built-in developer tools that let developers change the look and feel of websites in real-time. With Page Inspector, developers can peek into a page’s structure and layout without… Read more...
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Crowdsourcing the State of the Union23 January 2012, 4:31 pm
Mozilla partners with public media to empower citizen engagement in U.S. election coverage Tuesday’s State of the Union Address from U.S. President Barack Obama will include something special: crowdsourced captions and subtitles provided by everyday citizens around the world. Using new web tools from the Participatory Culture Foundation, supported by Mozilla, participants will transcribe… Read more...
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Firefox Users Engage Congress: SOPA Strike Stats19 January 2012, 10:22 pm
Yesterday, we blacked out the default start page in Firefox and redirected visitors to the Mozilla sites to a special action page. We also sent direct messages to members of the Mozilla community through multiple online channels. All these steps were aimed at informing and mobilizing millions of people on the poorly drafted anti-piracy legislation… Read more...
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Mozilla to Join Tomorrow’s Virtual Protests of PIPA/SOPA18 January 2012, 5:02 am
Starting at 8:00 am Eastern tomorrow, Mozilla will join with other sites in a virtual strike to protest the Protect IP Act (PIPA) and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). These bills protect content at all costs, creating the opportunity for abuse and damaging the Web for all of us. We will be blacking out the… Read more...
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More Than Half-a-Million Dollars Raised for Charity in the Mozilla Firefox Challenge12 January 2012, 8:38 pm
Celebrity team lead by Sophia Bush is the winner of $25,000 prize for F Cancer Mozilla is pleased to announce that the Mozilla Firefox Challenge, powered by CrowdRise, wrapped up last night and raised more than $680,000 by thousands of people around the world for social and humanitarian causes, turning individual action into global impact.… Read more...
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Delivering a Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release10 January 2012, 4:40 pm
We are pleased to announce that the proposal for an Extended Support Release (ESR) of Firefox is now a plan of action. The ESR version of Firefox is for use by enterprises, public institutions, universities and other organizations that centrally manage their Firefox deployments. Releases of the ESR will occur once a year, providing these… Read more...
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Mozilla seeks designers to supercharge learning in digital badges competition6 January 2012, 7:08 pm
Design digital badges for NASA, Intel, Disney-Pixar, the U.S. Department of Education and other leading organizations in the “Badges for Learning” competition. Deadline for entries is January 17. Help the world level up with NASA, the MacArthur Foundation and Mozilla. Mozilla is seeking designers and developers to participate in the $2 million “Badges for… Read more...
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Firefox: 201121 December 2011, 4:26 pm
Firefox helped make the Web more awesome in 2011. We released Firefox 4 with Sync to hundreds of millions of people worldwide; we launched Firefox for Android; added the new Firefox Aurora development channel; adopted a faster release cycle; and introduced Do Not Track to the industry. Now we’re excited to share some of the… Read more...
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Google Bypassing User Privacy Settings20 February 2012, 6:31 pm
When the IE team heard that Google had bypassed user privacy settings on Safari, we asked ourselves a simple question: is Google circumventing the privacy preferences of Internet Explorer users too? We’ve discovered the answer is yes: Google is employing similar methods to get around the default privacy protections in IE and track IE users with cookies. Below we spell out in more detail what we’ve discovered, as well as recommendations to IE users on how to protect their privacy...
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Sub-pixel Rendering and the CSS Object Model17 February 2012, 8:22 pm
With Windows 8, you have an unprecedented choice of devices for browsing the Web, from large desktop screens to small slates. In order to accommodate this range of devices, the browser must be able to scale and layout the Web at many different screen sizes and dimensions. We've previously blogged about some of the features in IE that support these scenarios. Sub-pixel positioning (of text and layout) is one of the core platform technologies which enable Web pages to look beautiful and consis...
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HTML5 Love is in the Air!14 February 2012, 4:57 pm
To help celebrate Valentine’s Day, we’re pleased to offer another new HTML5 experience that makes the most of your PC hardware and touch on Windows 8. Check out Love is in the Air and feel the warm embrace of hardware accelerated HTML5.
This experience brings together hardware-accelerated HTML5 canvas, SVG, CSS transforms & transitions, WOFF, audio, and more. On Windows Developer Preview with support for multi-touch in IE10, you can reach out and swipe to reveal a special message of lov...
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IE 9.0.5 Available via Windows Update14 February 2012, 4:00 pm
The February 2012 Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer is now available via Windows Update. This security update resolves 5 privately reported vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The most severe vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user visits a specially crafted Web page using Internet Explorer. An attacker who successfully exploited any of these vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the local user. Users whose accounts are configured to have f...
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CORS for XHR in IE1010 February 2012, 12:08 am
The fourth platform of IE10 simplifies building cross-site scenarios that work consistently across browsers by supporting Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) for XMLHttpRequest (XHR). CORS for XHR makes sharing data across sites simple and flexible. In the most basic scenario CORS enables creating data sources accessible from any site, and with a few small tweaks you can choose to constrain allowed sites, support data modification, and even allow authentication. Most importantly CORS keeps exis...
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High performance HTML5 content in Metro-style Apps7 February 2012, 10:33 pm
Metro style apps in Windows 8 have all the performance benefits of IE10 when showing Web content. In Metro style apps, Web content is always JIT compiled and hardware-accelerated. Other platforms do not provide the same level of performance in apps. For example, Cocoa apps on iOS offer significantly worse JavaScript performance (via the UIWebView control) than the same content running in Safari. These Cocoa apps do not enjoy JIT compilation, and these apps cannot show and use Web content the sam...
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CSS3 3D Transforms in IE102 February 2012, 6:07 pm
CSS3 features make it easier to build rich and immersive Web experiences. A
recent post described how Web developers add personality to their sites with
CSS3 Transitions and Animations.
CSS3 3D Transforms add another dimension (literally) for developers to enhance
their sites. For example, the Windows 8 Metro style Start page uses subtle 3D transforms
to highlight pressed tiles, as shown below.
Internet Explorer 10 tile shown not pressed (left) and pressed (ri...
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Web Sites and a Plug-in Free Web31 January 2012, 5:12 pm
The transition to a plug-in free Web is happening today. Any site that uses plug-ins
needs to understand what their customers experience when browsing plug-in free.
Lots of Web browsing today happens on devices that simply don’t support plug-ins.
Even browsers that do support plug-ins offer many ways to run plug-in free.
Metro style IE runs plug-in free to improve battery life as well as security, reliability,
and privacy for consumers.
Previously, we wrote about how ...
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Creating Files through BlobBuilder27 January 2012, 9:38 pm
As Web sites transition more and more into Web applications, working with files in meaningful ways is becoming increasingly
important. Starting with Platform Preview 2, IE10 includes support for the File API,
enabling developers to read and slice files on the client. Platform Preview 4 adds support for
BlobBuilder, a way for developers to create new files. IE10 also has two new methods that allow the user to save
blobs to their computer, enabling great end-to-end experiences when working w...
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Debugging IndexedDB Applications26 January 2012, 12:51 am
IndexedDB is a
W3C Working Draft that enables JavaScript developers to store, search, and retrieve data on the user's local client,
even when
Internet connectivity is disabled. This blog post describes IDBExplorer, a tool we use internally to debug IndexedDB applications. IDBExplorer lets you view
database schemas, object store content, and index details.
Exploring the tool with an example IndexedDB App
To illustrate, I created an application that tracks my New
Year’s resolutions usi...
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Snazzier graphics for more users9 February 2012, 5:00 pm
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Faster browsing, safer downloading8 February 2012, 2:00 pm
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Introducing Chrome for Android7 February 2012, 2:38 pm
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German Federal Office of Information Security recommends Chrome3 February 2012, 11:15 am
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Bringing Chromebooks to every classroom25 January 2012, 1:40 pm
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Speed and Security5 January 2012, 5:00 pm
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Let the games begin!20 December 2011, 2:30 pm
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Google Cloud Print picks up steam14 December 2011, 6:08 pm
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New ways to discover apps in the Chrome Web Store13 December 2011, 8:32 pm
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Get your personal Chrome experience on all your devices13 December 2011, 1:30 pm
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