Java is back
We're still working hard on getting a beta version of Opera 10.50 ready for Windows. Here is the latest snapshot with some nice bug fixes. This includes the return of Java. Opera is now using the Java Plug-in instead of native Java. If you encounter reproducible crashers, please report a bug: https://bugs.opera.com/wizard/ Please remember to ent [...]
Approaching 10.50 beta for Windows
We're not there quite yet, but we are close to releasing the official beta version of Opera 10.50 for Windows. Please focus mostly on potential showstoppers. If there are any bugs that you believe are important enough to block a beta release, let us know. Take a look at the list of known issues first, though. There likely will be Mac and Unix sna [...]
Weave Sync: New APIs and Resources for Developers
Editor’s note: On Feb 5, Mozilla Labs released new Weave Sync APIs and resources for developers. For more details, check out Ragavan Srinivasan’s blog announcement, reposted below. Last week we announced that the Weave Sync add-on for Firefox is now generally available to seamlessly bridge your desktop and mobile Firefox experiences. Using [...]
Skin fixes, Unite, and then some
After staffing up and accelerating the development process, we are now approaching the beta stage on Windows. This build has a number of skin fixes and improvements, a large number of bugfixes, and Opera Unite should be working again. We also have a new feature for you. WARNING: This is a development snapshot: it contains the latest changes, but [...]
Mozilla Sponsors GNOME Accessibility Efforts
Editor’s note: Today, the GNOME Foundation announced a $10,000 grant from Mozilla to advance accessibility. See the full press release for full details. Included below is an excerpt from the release: The GNOME Foundation and Mozilla are committed to open source, open standards, and open formats. Both organizations and their contributors contribute to [...]
W3C SVG Working Group Update for January 2010
In this post, I want to share some examples of the progress going on in the SVG Working Group. Microsoft recently joined the SVG Working Group, and other members (Mozilla, Apple and Opera among others) welcomed us warmly. I'm hopeful about the ways that SVG (both its current direction and future potential) could make the web better. We want the spe [...]
Nate Chapin is now a WebKit reviewer!
Nate got his start in WebKit with helping to upstream Javascript bindings for the Chromium port into WebKit. During that work, he learned much about WebKit style as well as getting to know the bindings quite well. Since then, he continued to do a prodigious amount with the bindings and improved them in many ways. [...]
New snapshot
Hey As you have noticed we are fixing tons of bugs, so now a new build for you guys to test. One new thing to notice is the new zoom control (only on win yet, but will come on other platforms soon) :) Don't forget to report bugs in the bug wizard.. Look out for regressions since 10.1 those are highest priority! HighlightsFacebook is working again [...]
Accelerated process
This spring we are doing everything a bit different. Firstly we have staffed up our desktop engineering team with a large number of great engineers. This means we are moving faster than ever before. Secondly, as you know, we are undertaking some massive changes to the platform integration that will give significant improvements for all three deskto [...]
Firefox for Mobile Now Available on Nokia’s Maemo Platform!
We’re pleased to announce that Firefox is now available for Nokia’s Maemo platform. Starting today, Nokia N900 owners can enjoy many of the same Firefox features they know and love on the desktop on their mobile device. Bringing Firefox to mobile devices is the next step toward fulfilling Mozilla’s mission of providing one Web that everyone [...]
Mozilla Labs Releases Weave 1.0
Editor’s note: On Jan 28, Mozilla Labs released Weave 1.0. For more details, check out Ragavan Srinivasan’s blog announcement, reposted below. We’re pleased to announce that the Weave Sync add-on for Firefox is now generally available to seamlessly bridge your desktop and mobile Firefox experiences. Using this free browser add-on from [...]
Firefox 3.6 Release Day: Behind the Scenes
It’s been a week since Firefox 3.6 release day and after more than 21 million downloads we are still going strong! We spent some time last Thursday capturing the magic of the release and have put together a behind the scenes video. Enjoy!
What will you do this summer…make Firefox?
Editor’s note: Cross-posted from Julie Deroche’s Blog. Over the years, Mozilla went from hiring only a handful of interns to now having over 30 students during the summer. They come from different academic backgrounds and different countries, with the shared objective of improving the web. At Mozilla, our goal is to expose the [...]
Firefox for Maemo RC3 Available Now
Editor’s note: Today, Mozilla released the third Firefox for Maemo Release Candidate. Check out Director of Mobile, Stuart Parmenter’s blog post reposted below. We’re excited to bring you the third release candidate of Firefox for Maemo. Since RC2, we fixed several usability bugs that were found, as well as addressed a number of performance [...]
The Mozilla Store Needs Your Help!
We want to make sure that Firefox t-shirts (and other Mozilla swag) are always readily available to community members around the world who want them. So, as we think about the future of the Mozilla Store it’s really important that we get ideas and input from as many people as possible. If you have a [...]
Tip: Managing tabs
When you're using the same browser window to check your email and calendar, write a report, do some research, and watch a few YouTube videos, the tabstrip can become pretty crowded. With Google Chrome, we tried to make it easy to keep your tabs organized.You can use the mouse to grab a tab and drag it around in the tabstrip, to keep related tabs cl [...]
Mitchell Baker Honored with Aenne Burda Award at DLD-Conference in Munich, Germany
Mitchell Baker, chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation, was awarded the Aenne Burda Award at the international Digital Life Design Conference in Munich, Germany. Mitchell is the fifth recipient of the award that honors successful, creative female entrepreneurs that are visionaries of the digital world. She received the award for alternative and transparent developments in software. To quote [...]
Jeremy Orlow is now a WebKit reviewer!
Jeremy has done a lot of work on local storage and session storage within WebKit. Much of this brought it up to date with spec changes, but he also improved it by adding quota support and fixing many bugs. As part of the Chromium port, he also worked on its WebKit api and JavaScript bindings. Please join [...]
Over 1,500 new features for Google Chrome
We're excited to usher in the new year with a bundle of browser goodness for the stable version of Google Chrome. With today's new stable release, all Google Chrome users on PCs can access over 1,500 new features, through our new extension system.Extensions are little programs, created by developers, which add useful functionality to the browser an [...]
Continued stabilization
With a third snapshot this week, you might have figured that we're very busy stabilizing and improving 10.5. Also this snapshot includes a major update of Presto with over a hundred of bug fixes and improvements. And to make it even better we expect to release more new milestones next week that will fix most of the regressions in 10.5. Who knows, t [...]
IE Cumulative Security Update Now Available
Today we released a Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer. We’ve released this Cumulative Security Update earlier than originally scheduled based on malicious activities reported on the web. The update is available via Windows Update and Microsoft Update. Most users configure their machines to update automatically; you can find m [...]
Personas: So what’s your style?
Are you a Personas fan or want to change the look of your Firefox? Firefox 3.6 makes it possible for you to change the appearance of your browser by selecting new themes called Personas in a single click and without a restart! There are over 30,000 designs to choose from thanks to our wonderful [...]
Ruby Rendering in WebKit
Introduction From the W3C spec: The name “ruby” originated from the name of the 5.5 point font size in British printing, which is about half the 10 point font size commonly used for normal text. A ruby annotation is a short piece of text in smaller font, written directly above or below or – with vertical text – [...]
The Return of Hot Chocolate
The Mac team has made a lot of progress with the Cocoa migration, and here is the snapshot release (and a screenshot) to prove it! It should be a much smoother ride nowâ¦. ... [...]
Preparing for takeoff
Now that the New Year has really started and the Opera employees are flooding back to the office (not to escape their families I might add, but rather because Opera is so much fun!), the hard work begins on making Evenes more functional, and ... umm ... less buggy! ;) ... [...]
Add-on Guidelines in Action – Crawler Toolbar
A new version of the Crawler Toolbar has recently been released and comes with many improvements to the user experience similar to the changes we described in a previous post about the AVG Security Toolbar. It’s another great example of the Guidelines for add-on developers in action. Here are some high-level examples of the changes they’ve made [...]
Shinichiro Hamaji is now a WebKit reviewer!
In addition to various rendering and canvas bug fixes, Shinichiro has been a driving force in a large number of tool improvements. In particular, he started the WebKit style checker, which has helps identify many the basic style issues in patches which makes reviewers go smoother overall. Please join me in congratulating Shinichiro on his reviewer [...]
Tip: More omnibox power tools
We've already seen a few things you can do with the omnibox, but it turns out there are even more capabilities you might not have known about.First, you can create a desktop shortcut for the page you're on by simply highlighting the text in the omnibox, and then dragging that text onto your desktop.If this is too fussy for you, you can drag the Sta [...]
Microsoft Joins W3C SVG Working Group
As a part of Microsoft’s continued commitment to interoperability and standards support, yesterday we submitted our request to join the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Working Group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). We’re excited to take part in ensuring future versions of the SVG spec will meet the needs of developers and end users. As st [...]
Welcome 2010!
Happy Nw Year! [...]
