Levi Weintraub is a WebKit Reviewer
Levi Weintraub has been with webkit.org a long time. He’s known for various projects including his bidi work and most recently our subpixel layout support. Please join me in congratulating our latest reviewer!
Congratulations 2012 Firefox Flicks Winners!
We are excited to announce from the Cannes Film Festival that we have selected the global winners of our 2012 Firefox Flicks competition. After calling on creatives, filmmakers and students to help us tell the story of Mozilla Firefox, we received more than 400 submissions from thousands of filmmakers worldwide. Please see the video reel… Read more
Do Not Track Gains More Support around the Web
Editor’s Note: Mozilla today announced updated user and industry adoption of Do Not Track. Check out the blog post from Alex Fowler, Mozilla Global Privacy and Policy Lead. Excerpt below. Mozilla introduced the Do Not Track header last year to give users more control over online tracking by third parties. Since launching Do Not Track,… Read more
New Opera 12 snapshot
Here's yet another Opera 12 snapshot with a number of fixes, including several common crashes. It contains Out Of Process Plugin fixes, Hardware Acceleration fixes and Skin fixes.For Hardware Acceleration fans we have font bugs fixed and new Renderer preference which the user can set to 1 to prefer the DirectX back-end, or 0 to chose OpenGL. Make s [...]
New Opera 12 snapshot
Here's another Opera 12 snapshot with a number of fixes, including several common crashes.WARNING: This is a development snapshot: It contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes, and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all.DownloadWindows 32-bit / Windows 64-bitMac (Universal Binary 32/64-bit) [...]
Keeping tabs on your tabs
Say you’ve found an awesome recipe on your work computer while... ahem... working hard at the office. But when you get back home, you can’t quite remember if it was two teaspoons of baking soda or two teaspoons of baking powder. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could pull up the same recipe on your home computer with one click? With today’s Stab [...]
Sharing Links from IE10 on Windows 8
Sharing a link to a Web page is a common activity on the PC, and it gets better with IE10 on Windows 8. One of the new features on Windows 8 is the Share charm, which allows you to seamlessly send content between apps on your PC. Previously, if you wanted to share an interesting article with your friend, or post a funny picture on your blog, you’ [...]
Last week in WebKit: Tab sizing and strings for IndexedDB
A total of 650 commits landed in WebKit’s repositories last week, ending with revision 116915. Web Inspector’s search box supports CSS selectors again, JavaScriptCore timers will now show up on the timeline and a context menu has been added for tabs. Text decorations, such as underlines, will now be rendered for text in :first-line selectors. Implementation of [...]
Diagnosing JavaScript Errors Faster with Error.stack
IE10 in Windows 8 Consumer Preview includes support for Error.stack, which enables Web developers to diagnose and correct bugs faster, especially those that are difficult to reproduce. Developers can build amazing apps with the capabilities of Web platforms that power today’s modern browsers. In Windows 8, we expose that power through both Intern [...]
Beta stabilisation and Mac clean-up
In the run up to the Opera 12 final, we have been busy working hard on improving stability, and fixing bugs! Our HTML5 Drag and drop support has major improvements in this snapshot, along with all the other fixes.On Mac we are endeavoring to become better by making Opera faster, easier and smarter. To achieve this we are with this snapshot adding m [...]
Opera 11.64 released
HeyWe have today released a new security and stability update of Opera 11.6xIf you wonder why your Opera suddenly upgrade from 11.62 to 11.64 skipping 11.63 it´s because you are not on mac where we had to throw out a 11.63 release a short while back.11.64 does not contain many bug fixes, but it is a recommended security update and it does fix some [...]
Windows on ARM Users Need Browser Choice Too
For the past eight years, users and developers have enjoyed a Windows platform environment that offered users a choice of browsers to navigate their digital lives. It wasn’t always that way. Prior to the launch of Firefox in 2004, there was really only one browser for Windows – Internet Explorer. Only IE and Firefox had… Read more
From CTIA Wireless 2012: The Web Will Connect our Future
Editor’s Note: Gary Kovacs, Mozilla CEO, posted on his blog about his keynote speech at CTIA. This is reposted below: Today I have the honor of delivering the opening keynote at CTIA Wireless 2012 with a presentation titled “The Web Will Connect our Future.” Alongside speakers that range from the CEOs of the top US… Read more
Last weeks in WebKit: sub-pixel layout and seamless iframes
Since there wasn’t an update last week, this one briefly covers changes between revisions 114867 and 116271. Web Inspector now offers the ability to disable all JavaScript execution on a page, and also allows Web Socket frames to be inspected. The shortcut overlay has received some UI polish and the Timeline Frame Mode has been taken out of [...]
TED-U Talk: Gary Kovacs: Tracking the trackers
On February 28 at TED University, Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs presented “Tracking the trackers.” As part of that, he provided the crowd with a demo of Collusion, a tool that visualizes the entities that track our behavior on the Web. TED is a nonprofit devoted to “Ideas Worth Spreading” from the technology, entertainment and design… Read more
Alexis Menard is a WebKit Reviewer!
Alexis (aka darktears on IRC) has been an unstoppable WebKit coder in the last couple of years working at INdT/Nokia Brazil. Among his contributions would be the Qt multimedia backends with GStreamer/QTKit, improvements to getComputedStyle, and countless other contributions in various parts of WebKit. We’re happy to finally remove the word “unofficial” from his reviews. Welcome [...]
Building cross-browser plugin-free experiences
We've talked about how the transition to a plug-in free Web is happening today. Lots of Web browsing happens on devices that simply don’t support plug-ins. Web sites that use plug-ins need to understand what their customers experience when browsing plug-in free. In case you missed it, check out Rey Bango’s blog post where he lays out clear guid [...]
Opera 12 beta
Opera 12 beta has been released today.Check out the new features in Opera 12 betaThanks everyone for testing and reporting issues. The upcoming weeks Opera 12 development will focus on stabilization and fixing of regressions. Stay tuned for new snapshots with loads of bugfixes.If you have hardware acceleration turned on and are experiencing renderi [...]
Last week in WebKit: The Contributors Meeting and datalists
A total of 652 changes landed last week in various branches of WebKit’s repository. This update covers changes up to revision 114894. Last Thursday and Friday, Apple kindly hosted the 2012 WebKit Contributors Meeting in Cupertino. With contributors from many different vendors around, a large number of subjects were covered in presentations and discussions. Transcripts [...]
Abhishek Arya is now a WebKit reviewer!
Abhishek, better known to the community as inferno, joined the WebKit community in March 2010, and he has been fixing security bugs in CSS, DOM, editing, rendering, and various other components in WebKit. Abhishek has contributed more than 260 patches, many of which are fixes to severe security bugs. Please join me in welcoming Abhishek [...]
Release Candidate for Opera 12 Beta
This is a release candidate for the Opera 12 Beta.Since this will be a launch of a beta version, you can of course expect more problems than a final version. Still, if you find any new issues that seem to be too serious even for a beta, let us know.Known issuesNo FreeBSD builds (yet)Problems with dragging on Google Maps64-bit Windows build crashes [...]
Firefox Introduces a Simpler Update Process and More Than 85 Improvements to Developer Tools
Firefox for Windows, Mac and Linux makes updating the browser easier and includes more than 85 improvements to built-in developer tools. We put a lot of work into making the Firefox update experience easier. Firefox simplifies the update process for Windows users by removing the user account control dialog (UAC) pop-up while maintaining the security… Read more
Increased focus on Opera extensions and ending support for Unite applications, Widgets and Voice
Today we are announcing the beginning of the end for two of our current Add-on platforms. Starting with the upcoming Opera 12 release, Opera Unite and Opera Widgets will be turned off by default for new users. The two Add-on platforms will be completely removed in a later release expected before the end of this year.Read more on the Add-ons blog ab [...]
Mirror, mirror on the wall, which browser is the fairest of them all?
A long, long time ago, Opera started supporting right-to-left (RTL) and bi-directional (BiDi) content in web pages. You know what they say, Content is King. But a king cannot rule alone, which is why for several months it has been mine and a few of my colleagues' task to bring RTL support in the UI up to speed with web pages. To be honest, ther [...]
New Opera 12 snapshot
Here's a quick Opera 12 update.This snapshot mainly contains crash fixes, but we've also tweaked the Opera icon a bit:Icon update: Old to the left, new to the rightDownloadWindows 32-bit / Windows 64-bitMac (Universal Binary 32/64-bit)Linux/FreeBSDChangelogUpdated Opera iconCORE-45892 Opera crashes when closing page while it is scrollingCORE-45842 [...]
Guidelines for Building Touch-friendly Sites
In Windows 8 Consumer Preview, IE10 enables fast and fluid multi-touch experiences on the Web. Most sites work fine with touch in IE10 with no changes to the site. This post provides four simple guidelines to ensure your customers who use touch can most effectively use your site. We’ve written before about how new input devices and touch scre [...]
Update on hardware acceleration in Opera 12
Here at Opera HQ, we're buckling down for the final push before the beta launch of Opera 12. Right now, Wahoo is getting more complete, with even more fun things to come as we get closer to launch. We have one of those fun things today, in fact. This new snapshot includes the first look at the DirectX backend. Most users on Vista and Windows 7 will [...]
Delivering Cloud Printing to More Places
Have you ever needed to print something out in a pinch? Well, so have we, which is why we’ve been working hard to bring Google Cloud Print to even more places, making it easier to print when and where you need it the most.Starting today, you can print to any FedEx Office® location in the US through Google Cloud Print. Simply choose “Print to F [...]
Opera 11.63 Released for the Mac App Store
A small number of users who downloaded Opera through Apple's Mac App Store, and who have recently upgraded their version of Opera have risked losing their customizations, such as bookmarks, Speed Dials, etc. People who run versions of OS X older than 10.7 or have installed Opera through opera.com have not been impacted by this problem. While this o [...]
Chrome for Android Update
Since we launched Chrome for Android Beta in February, we’ve been listening closely to all of your feedback (thank you!). It’s great to hear how so many of you love having the Chrome experience on your Android 4.0 phone or tablet.With today’s update, Chrome for Android Beta is now available in 31 more languages and in all countries where Goog [...]
