In an exciting collaboration with Mozilla and Google, Intel is bringing SIMD to JavaScript. This makes it possible to develop new classes of compute-intensive applications such as games and media processing�all in JavaScript�without the need to rely on any native...
Open codec pioneer Monty Montgomery, leaves Red Hat, joins Mozilla to work on n open next-generation video codec. Monty Montgomery is the mastermind behind Ogg Vorbis and Ogg Theora. More info here: http://gigaom.com/2013/10/15/monty-montgomery-joins-mozilla-for-daala/...
Today Shumway landed in the Firefox codebase. Shumway is a way to support playing Flash (SWF files) without the Adobe Flash Player. The Adobe Flash Player has been plagued with bugs so being to play Flash without the normal player...
Intel Labs has a new project out Parallel Extensions for JavaScript, code named River Trail. River Trail brings the processing power of Intel�s multi-core CPUs and their vector extensions to web applications. With River Trail it will finally be possible...
For a long time I simply just didn't have the time to do development on my addons. I've created 6 addons and some are fairly popular. Linky which is the most popular one just passed 620.000 downloads and has more...
There's a rumor out that Sony is looking into bringing Firefox to the PS3 platform: "We recently received a tip from a source very close to Sony who says that they have been in talks with Mozilla lately about possibly...
I'm here at EU MozCamp 2009 in wonderful Prague, and just saw that the about:memory feature landed on trunk. I had the chance to talk to Vladimir Vukicevic, how implemented the infrastructure for it, and he told him that this...
I'm trying to figure out a way to achieve this: 1) I want links to open in the same tab. So if I click on a link that has target=_blank or target=_new in my Mozilla Firefox I want them to...
A couple of days ago the first big part of the auto detection of mail accounts landed in Thunderbird. I've blogged about the feature before. This means that you no longer have to enter all of the technical information to...
If your site's uptime is: 99% - it's down 3 days, 15 hours, 36 minutes 99.9% - it's down 8 hours, 45 minutes, 36 seconds 99.99% - it's down 52 minutes, 33 seconds 99.999% - it's down 5 minutes, 15...
Last Thursday the "Videnscenter for Software" held a conference on "Open Source software in the public sector." And Mozilla was represented at the conference. I've heard about the conference and learned that you could ask for a free pass for...
Just a quick note about a cool improvement that is gonna hit x86_64 builds of Mozilla Firefox soon: "Currently, JPEG SSE2 code is only Windows x86. I will add it for x86_64 platform. After adding it, JPEG decoding is 15%...
The seven, perhaps unknown, things about Henrik Gemal. I was tagged by Fabien Cazenave who started to learn XUL by tweaking my Launchy extension. Cool! So here are the rules to this: 1. Link to your original tagger(s) and list...
My son Mads is a early adopter of Mozilla Firefox. The other day he got a Firefox tattoo on his left arm and was very proud of it. Showing it to everybody. And yes, it's washable. So now whenever he...
According to Techcrunch Mozilla Foundation is being audited by the IRS and its non-profit status is in question: On the audit of the Foundation there has not been any formal notification of issues. There has been inquiry regarding its tax...