Category Archives: Firefox

bringing the first 3D HTML5 video to the web with Firefox, NVIDIA and Youtube

Starting with Firefox 4, WebM videos encoded with 3D data will be displayed in high-quality stereoscopic 3D using NVIDIA 3D Vision hardware. 3D hardware has moved from movie theaters and into people’s homes through TVs, laptop and desktop machines. 3D … Continue reading

Posted in Firefox, Mozilla, NVIDIA, Open Web, Video, Youtube | 48 Comments

disabling websockets for firefox 4

We’ve decided to disable support for WebSockets in Firefox 4, starting with beta 8 due to a protocol-level security issue. Beta 7 included support for the -76 version of the protocol, the same version that’s included with Chrome and Safari. … Continue reading

Posted in Firefox, Standards, WebSockets | 41 Comments

innovation in browsers

Today, Joe Hewitt’s twitter stream is filled with things like this: How it should go: browsers innovate differently, users pick the best one, later W3C standardizes what users chose, losing browsers conform. Joe hasn’t been part of the web for … Continue reading

Posted in Firefox, Mozilla, Web Standards | 2 Comments

a beautiful expression of frustration

Posted in Firefox, IE, Music, Standards, Video | 3 Comments

getting faster at getting faster

Two things of note: 1. The update offer of Firefox 3.6 to users of Firefox 3 and Firefox 3.5 is the first time we’ve ever done an offer to a .0 release to our user base. We’ve always waited until … Continue reading

Posted in Firefox, Metrics | 1 Comment

“skid mark”

A new phrase that I learned yesterday. Probably something that’s been around computers for a long time, but it was my first exposure to it. Basically a “skid mark” is something you leave in code as a signature so that … Continue reading

Posted in Firefox, Programming | 6 Comments

two cool open video notes

Today at the Mozilla all hands I saw two cool things: 1. A decent sized (600×400 or so) Theora video playing on a Nokia N900, decoding on the DSP with the main CPU kept at around 50%. (Pulseaudio is about … Continue reading

Posted in Firefox, OGG, Video | 10 Comments

coherency vs. incrementalism

This really wonderful post by Anil Dash echos a lot of what I’ve been talking about in the context of the larger web. I had a discussion with Ben Galbraith recently about this topic during a Mozilla lunch. He and … Continue reading

Posted in Evangelism, Firefox, Open Web, Standards, Web Standards | 11 Comments

multi-process firefox

Chris Jones has put together a demo video of a super-early stage Gecko-driven browser that’s multi-process.  It’s super-duper early and realizing that we’re only in Phase I of the roadmap is important but it’s great to see such speedy progress. … Continue reading

Posted in Firefox, Gecko | 17 Comments

dailymotion and open video

Today Dailymotion, one of the world’s largest video sites, announced support for open video. They’ve put out a press release, a blog post on the new openvideo site as well as a demo site where you can see some of … Continue reading

Posted in Daily Motion, Firefox, Freedom, OGG, Open Web, Video | 33 Comments