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Category: Beta

screencast #2 of open web video in firefox 3.1

In my last post I put up a pretty long video that contained a couple of really neat demos. Yesterday Paul made another demo, one that’s short and sweet and is self-explanatory. Pretty neat what you can do in a small amount of JS, Canvas and Open Video. (Once again it’s available [...]

Fennec Alpha 1

Fennec, which is the code name we’re using for the lead-up to a mobile version of Firefox, has reached an important milestone: Alpha 1.  Mark has details up on his blog, including some good feeedback from people trying it out.
We’ve got builds for the Maemo platform.  We also have builds for Linux Desktop, Mac and [...]

clearing up a little confusion about geolocation in Firefox 3.1

There has been some confusion around the Geolocation functionality that we’re including in Firefox 3.1 Beta 1.  I thought I might make a short post to try and clear some of it up.
1. Out of the box, Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 doesn’t include any back-end providers of location information.
This is technical-sounding, and it is, but [...]

Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 is available

Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 is available for downloading and testing. I’ve been using it now for a few days with TraceMonkey enabled and it seems pretty stable for me (aside from the lack of extensions.)

I also wrote up a big post that goes over some of the new web developer features in this beta [...]