Category Archives: Mobile

mobile sunspider performance

A few weeks ago Vlad had the chance to do performance tests across a variety of different devices. He’s picked up a Droid as part of his Android work, also has access to an N900, and I also know he’s … Continue reading

Posted in Mobile, Performance, TraceMonkey | 4 Comments

3 short mozilla videos worth watching

First, Aza Raskin does a quick interview with Dan Mills to talk about what’s going on with Weave. There’s been a huge amount of development going on in the weave project including a completely new server and client. I’ve heard … Continue reading

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two days with the G1

I’ve had my T-Mobile/HTC/”with Google” G1 for two days now.  I got mine on the 21st in the mail, ahead of the launch date and I’ve been living with it for a couple of days.  A lot of people that … Continue reading

Posted in G1, Mobile | 22 Comments

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. … Continue reading

Posted in Beta, Design, Fennec, Firefox, Mobile, Mozilla, N800, N810 | 4 Comments

mobile / arm tracemonkey first numbers

Vlad has been doing some of the integration work to get TraceMonkey working on ARM. He’s posted a first set of performance numbers which are more or less in line with the x86 numbers that were originally posted. Here’s the … Continue reading

Posted in JavaScript, Mobile, Mozilla | 3 Comments

building the complete browser for everyone everywhere

Since Stuart landed the Qt port into mozilla-central the other day and Ryan Paul wrote an article on Qt and Mozilla I thought it might be worth it to add some context to that work. Ryan’s article contains this quote … Continue reading

Posted in Apple, GNOME, Mobile, Mozilla, Open Web, Qt, WebKit | 16 Comments

second edition of about:mobile is up

The second edition of about:mobile is up wherein we cover Fennec M6, Windows Mobile, Network Peformance and Geolocation. Go check it out on the devnews site above or feel free to sign up for the mailing list which will conveniently … Continue reading

Posted in Mobile, Mozilla | 5 Comments

fennec on the big screen

This image was taken from the overhead projector during Jay’s morning talk about mobile.

Posted in Fennec, Mobile, Mozilla, N800, N810 | 3 Comments

flashblock port to MicroB

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 … Continue reading

Posted in Embedding, Fennec, Firefox, Linux, Mobile, Mozilla, N800, N810 | 3 Comments

upcoming travel and event schedule – guadec, oscon + more

July is going to be a pretty intense travel month for me. Here’s a rundown of where I will be: July 6th-July 10th: Istanbul, Turkey. I’ll be there for GUADEC and I’m speaking on Wednesday. Hopefully to re-iterate how important … Continue reading

Posted in Fennec, Firefox, Kicking My Ass, Mobile, Mozilla, Open Web, Speaking, Travel, whoisi | 1 Comment