Tag Archives: mozilla

Geolocation – Setting your position manually

By dougt | Published: June 26, 2010
I thought that this was written down somwhere, but I couldn’t easily find it…. so If you know how to muck with about:config, there is an easy way to set your location manually.  First figure out your longitude and latitude.  There area bunch of tools on the web that gets you this.  Once you have [...]
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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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Labyrinth Game in the browser

By dougt | Published: December 21, 2009
A few months ago, I mentioned the game Labyrinth and how I wanted this to work in the browser. Syd Lawrence took up the cause and put together a cool implementation. Play it here. You must be running Firefox 3.6 RC or better. This uses the new orientation events added to Firefox 3.6. Syd also [...]
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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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