Posts from October, 2010

For those that have used the Firefox Betas (Desktop and Mobile), you’ll have noticed a set of smiley faces that allow you to tell Mozilla if you’re happy or sad and why. What we’ve seen is that our beta userbase is a whole lot more talkative than we initially thought (at the time of this […] Continue reading

QMO has always had a lot of potential, but its always been a little bit lacking. We have always understood it is a community site that allowed our new and old community members to get more information about opportunities within our sphere of work, but nothing much past that. There were ideas, but no real […] Continue reading

Want to make sure the next major version of Thunderbird is going to kick ass ? Want to participate to a great open source project , but don’t know where to start ? The Thunderbird dev team is busy ,… Continue reading

Some of you may have noticed that the aptly named Nightly Tester Tools addon doesn’t work on nightly builds at the moment. A few months ago Dave Townsend mentioned that the popular Nightly Tester Tools extension was in need of some new owners and an update. A couple of people that work on automation have […] Continue reading

There’s not too much to mention this time around. Input 1.9 was mostly to round out all of the dashboard’s features (i.e. Themes and Sites) for Mobile Firefox feedback as well as fix some security bugs before moving on to Input 2.0. Thanks again to Chris Howse, Frederic Wenzel, Dave Dash, Ryan Snyder, Michael Kurze, […] Continue reading

OHai! Welcome to the world restartless add-ons. With Jetpack, its now so much easier to create add-ons for Firefox. Jetpack is a Mozilla Labs project that makes it much easy to build Firefox add-ons using common web technologies like HTML, … Continue reading → Continue reading

The Input team ( i.e. the people behind input.mozilla.com ) definitely feel like we’re not getting the most bang for our buck in terms of the messages we have in our database. It’s pretty much the only publicly accessible database of user feedback on a major piece of software out there and we’re only processing […] Continue reading

This post is really an effort to comfort myself after experiencing something of a late night conniption fit while on a business trip.  The goals of the trip were many but my role was simple, assist our Solution Architect in un-buggering a few problems… Continue reading

Calling all Android Phone Users! Firefox Mobile 4.0 beta 1 was released last week for Android and Maemo platforms.  This is the first released beta of Mobile firefox on android, so we are looking for feedback and test coverage. How can you help? First, download the beta here.   If you’re feeling more adventurous, skip the […] Continue reading

Just a couple of days back I noticed a tweet in the twitter list of the availability of Firefox for Android and Maemo in its beta. I was excited that finally Firefox is available to the mobile community, not that it is the first time. It has been available for the Maemo users for quite … Continue reading → Continue reading