Tag Archives: fennec

Fennec 1.0 gource

By dougt | Published: February 15, 2010
Fennec 1.0 has been released for the N900 devices.  It is fun to look back to see how far everything has come.  One interesting way to view the development progress is a visualization tool called gource.  Gource produced this graph for the frontend changes that make up Fennec 1.0 (best viewed in HD). There are lots [...]
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Fast Flash in Fennec

By dougt | Published: November 29, 2009
For the last few days, we have been making Flash fast in Fennec. Our situation in Fennec is that we have a hidden browser element that contains the flash object/embed element. When a paint needs to happen, we draw whatever the plugin wants to draw into a canvas or sent of canvas elements. These [...]
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Geolocation in Firefox 3.5 and Fennec

By dougt | Published: April 30, 2009
I’m excited to introduce a new feature in Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 that I’ve been working on called geolocation. Geolocation is an opt-in tool that lets users share their location information with web sites through Firefox and will enable a new range of services on the web. Geolocation can make web sites smarter and [...]
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A Short History of Mozilla on Windows Mobile

By dougt | Published: February 10, 2009
I thought it might be nice to reflect on my involvement in porting the Mozilla to Windows Mobile. In 2004 we had a project called Minimo — it was meant as a lighter weight build-time configuration of Mozilla for GTK. To showcase the build options, we had an application called TestGtkEmbed that developers could [...]
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