Pretty neat to see someone ported over flashblock to run on MicroB on the N810. I haven’t looked at the code to see how they do it, but I’ll bet it was a rough ride since that’s written in C and C++, not in XUL. (I also assume that Antonio did this work?)
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Ari Jaaksi talks about Linux on Phones and what’s going on at Nokia.
He mentions that he’s working with us at Mozilla – very true. And good fodder for another post on another day.
He also touches on an important topic for me, which is the difference between between being “open” and being “good.” Being [...]
Over the last few months some of our contributors have been hacking away on trying to get Mozilla running on directfb systems on top of gtk. You can see Niranjan’s latest post on the topic here as well as the DirectFB Porting Page in our wiki. Sounds like they have things mostly up [...]
Mike Shaver put up an excellent piece on the current status of the fsync issues on Linux. It’s worth a read if you care about such things.
Rob Campbell posted a howto for people who want to run Mozilla unit tests on Linux. If you’ve ever wondered how to do it, it’s a decent overview on how to get started. And it’s pretty relevant to what I posted yesterday.
I lost power last night and I finally decided it was time to buy a UPS. I’ve never actually owned one.
I go out to the store this morning and buy one, bring it home, plug it in and I decide to try and figure out what kinds of loads various things sitting on my [...]
Hey, this is awesome stuff. Nice job, Greg! It’s going to be a great fit. The Seneca guys are fantastic.
Almost every single Firefox user on Linux gets their builds directly from the various distributions. Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat, Debian (down-branded), Novell, Foresight, etc. And in those cases users generally have a pretty good experience. But that’s not always the case.
I’ve always seen this position as both good and bad. It’s [...]
At Mozilla we’ve been doing a lot of work on mobile and one aspect of that work is to make it easier to embed Mozilla into other applications. We’ve been pretty focused on end user features, product and platform in a way that gets our browser into people’s hands in a very direct manner. [...]
Above is a video that I took of Chris Double’s awesome whatwg video work running on my N810. Note that I didn’t have to do anything special to get this to work. I took the two patches, applied them to my trunk mozilla build and ran them through the ARM toolchain. The [...]