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By now, many of you have heard about one of my projects i’ve been heads down on… Firefox OS. Codename’d “Boot 2 Gecko”, it’s mozilla’s project on putting together a fully Web-based OS that will take on the smartphone market. It will support everything you would expect from a smartphone, (friend dialing, spouse messaging, internet […]
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Nailed It, is right. In the month where Adobe is announcing they are discontinuing Android Flash development, Mozilla is going the opposite and has implemented Flash and recent improvements into the latest Native Android Firefox project. Since Firefox’s for Android inception back in March 2010, the top request and comment is “We want Flash, We […]
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Many of you have heard or already experiencing the Firefox browsing experience on your Android Phone or Tablet. We hope your experience has been a great one, and continue to look forward to your feedback. The engineering team is taking it a step further and porting Firefox to a Native Java Application, which promises similar […]
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This week, i’m working out of Romania and London with my colleagues Henrik, David, Matt, and Juan. We’ll ramp up with our Romanian test team to go over some feedback from Firefox 4, as well as plan ahead for Firefox 5 and other upcoming projects. We’ll also take some time out to celebrate a post-launch […]
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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 […]
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Jay Sullivan’s detailed blog post today on Your Firefox in the Cloud: Firefox Sync and Firefox Home reminded me I should syndicate an update myself. Firefox Sync 1.3.1 It’s been 2 weeks now with Firefox Sync 1.3.1 up and running with new branding, new client features, and new server hardware to meet your needs. Traffic […]
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The newly redone Quality.mozilla.org (aka QMO), has just rolled out and got a newer and cleaner facelift to the site. Spearheaded by our very own Aakash Desai and the contribution of work and ideas from many others, we hope version 2.0 of the site will encourage more exposure and usage of those who have an […]
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Firefox Sync 1.3b5 (formerly known as “Weave 1.3b5″) has been baking out in the experimental build world for awhile, and a lot of great progress has been done. For those that were early weave adopters, you’ll find a lot has changed everywhere, from the server to the client. Some of these changes include: Rebranded as […]
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Attended my very first unconference today in San Jose. An Unconference is very different than most conferences i’ve been too, in that there are no set agendas in advance, and no primary expert or panel. Instead, imagine a room of chairs in a circle, with a topic of discussion presented beforehand, and everyone just sits […]
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It’s time to start blogging about all the cool things that i find on the web and how my job is affected. For this first post, i’ve made a 5 part video clip on how Mozilla QA works and the different tools we use. It was originally recorded for a web 101 class at the […]
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