Tag Archives: fennec

Desktop Notifications

By dougt | Published: June 21, 2010
This is a feature that may come to a browser some day.  I am interesting in your thoughts: Desktop Notifications Desktop notifications allow a web page to notify the user using system level services, such as Growl, in a clean, safe, and easy to use manner. The code is very simple: navigator.notification.notify("Another Desktop Notification", "Check [...]
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Got Android? We need you…

By dougt | Published: May 18, 2010
Mozilla has started to produce nightly builds of Fennec for Android.  You can get them here: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/nightly/latest-mobile-trunk/fennec.apk No auto-updating yet, so check back often.  Send your feedback to the forum.
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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 [...]
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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 canvas [...]
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