Creating Files through BlobBuilder
As Web sites transition more and more into Web applications, working with files in meaningful ways is becoming increasingly important. Starting with Platform Preview 2, IE10 includes support for the File API, enabling developers to read and slice files on the client. Platform Preview 4 adds support for BlobBuilder, a way for developers to crea [...]
Vsevolod Vlasov is a WebKit Reviewer!
Vsevolod Vlasov has been a major contributor to the recent improvements to the Web Inspector. Please join me in congratulating Vsevolod on his new role as a WebKit reviewer!
Smarter address field suggestions
We have already introduced address field search suggestions powered by our partners Google (default), Bing, Яндекс (Yandex), and Wikipedia (English only). Now we want our own address field suggestions to meet the same high quality standards as the ones provided by our partners for your bookmarks and history entries.In our old system; everythi [...]
Debugging IndexedDB Applications
IndexedDB is a W3C Working Draft that enables JavaScript developers to store, search, and retrieve data on the user's local client, even when Internet connectivity is disabled. This blog post describes IDBExplorer, a tool we use internally to debug IndexedDB applications. IDBExplorer lets you view database schemas, object store content, and [...]
Bringing Chromebooks to every classroom
Cross-posted from the Google Enterprise Blog.Editor's note: We’re posting this electronic communication from sunny Orlando, where we’re chatting with schools at the annual FETC ed-tech conference. We wanted to share highlights from our keynote this morning, which featured a panel moderated by Tom Vander Ark, author of Getting Smart: How Digital [...]
Opera 11.61 released
Opera 11.61 is now available for download.This is a recommended security and stability update.Download Opera 11.61(build 1250)Changelogs:WindowsMacLinux [...]
This Week in Privacy
In the last ten years Microsoft has invested heavily in user privacy. Just like security, privacy considerations are baked into every Microsoft product. It is almost a year since the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an international community that develops open standards to ensure the long-term growth of the Web, accept [...]
Crowdsourcing the State of the Union
Mozilla partners with public media to empower citizen engagement in U.S. election coverage Tuesday’s State of the Union Address from U.S. President Barack Obama will include something special: crowdsourced captions and subtitles provided by everyday citizens around the world. Using new web tools from the Participatory Culture Foundation, supported by Mozilla, participants will transcribe… Read more
Opera 11.61 Release Candidate
This is a Release Candidate for Opera 11.61. Take a look at the changelog for more information about the changes since the previous build.DownloadWindowsMacLinux/FreeBSDChangelogCORE-43788 Can't scroll with mouse wheel over iframe with scrolling=no if smooth scrolling is enabledCORE-42642 JavaScript crashCORE-43273 Opera freezes when loading a big [...]
IE10 Compat Inspector
Compat Inspector is now available for IE10. Use Compat Inspector to quickly identify if Internet Explorer platform changes affect your site. Whether you're preparing for IE10 or still updating for IE9, run Compat Inspector on any page experiencing problems. Then watch for messages explaining potential issues and steps you can take [...]
Firefox Users Engage Congress: SOPA Strike Stats
Yesterday, we blacked out the default start page in Firefox and redirected visitors to the Mozilla sites to a special action page. We also sent direct messages to members of the Mozilla community through multiple online channels. All these steps were aimed at informing and mobilizing millions of people on the poorly drafted anti-piracy legislation… Read more
Under the Covers: Let It Snow…
With one of those rare Seattle snowstorms underway today, I feel this is a great time to publish this description of our Holiday 2011 Test Drive demo “Let It Snow.” —Editor When a browser effectively uses the underlying hardware, the possibilities are limitless. Over the holidays we released a demo that helps showcase the advantages of a full [...]
Mozilla to Join Tomorrow’s Virtual Protests of PIPA/SOPA
Starting at 8:00 am Eastern tomorrow, Mozilla will join with other sites in a virtual strike to protest the Protect IP Act (PIPA) and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). These bills protect content at all costs, creating the opportunity for abuse and damaging the Web for all of us. We will be blacking out the… Read more
Staying Safe Online in the New Year
The bad guys didn’t take a holiday vacation: Internet Explorer’s SmartScreen service blocked nearly 2 million malware downloads per day on average from mid-December through New Year’s. December 25 saw a 30% spike in malware blocks— successfully preventing users from being tricked into giving their PCs an unwanted “present.” January is a [...]
Introducing Seven More IEBlogs
Today we introduce seven new language versions of IEBlog—French, German, Portuguese (Brazil), Korean, Japanese, Chinese (PRC), and Russian. Links to these appear in the new “Languages” block at the top of the right column. We plan to publish translated versions five to ten days after their appearance on the English language IEBlog. We’ve wo [...]
Opera 11.61 snapshot on Friday 13th
It's Friday the 13th, so what better day to stay safely at home and do a bit of testing?Then again, they say that most accidents happen at home... I think I'll leave it to you to make the decision.Safe testing!WARNING: This is a development snapshot: It contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes, and data [...]
More Than Half-a-Million Dollars Raised for Charity in the Mozilla Firefox Challenge
Celebrity team lead by Sophia Bush is the winner of $25,000 prize for F Cancer Mozilla is pleased to announce that the Mozilla Firefox Challenge, powered by CrowdRise, wrapped up last night and raised more than $680,000 by thousands of people around the world for social and humanitarian causes, turning individual action into global impact.… Read more
Controlling Selection with CSS user-select
IE10 Platform Preview 4 includes support for a new CSS property, -ms-user-select, which makes it easier for Web developers to control exactly what text can be selected on their Web sites. If you were to watch me all day at my workstation, you would notice that as I read on the computer, I select text. I’m not the only on [...]
More Opera 11.61
Here's another Opera 11.61 snapshot. The changelog is fairly short, but it has some useful fixes that are ready for testing.ChangelogCORE-42565 Crash on applying 3025 background imagesCORE-43307 Do not cache invalid UserJS source filesCORE-42991 Stylesheet not applied due to malformed gzip contentCORE-42472 Secure iframe with URL to image lowers se [...]
Delivering a Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release
We are pleased to announce that the proposal for an Extended Support Release (ESR) of Firefox is now a plan of action. The ESR version of Firefox is for use by enterprises, public institutions, universities and other organizations that centrally manage their Firefox deployments. Releases of the ESR will occur once a year, providing these… Read more
Camera and privacy changes in Labs
Welcome back on the desktop blog in the New Year! Our batteries are fully loaded, we hope yours too ;), so lets start this year with something interesting, that will catch your eyes! Let us share with you an experimental Camera build, which we made available at Opera Labs. From now on you can set and manage privacy settings for the camera directly [...]
CSS Corner: Using the Whole Font
With cross-browser support for both the CSS3 @font-face rule and the WOFF font packaging format, modern Web typography has expanded far beyond the realm of ‘Web-safe fonts.’ Well-known magazines such as the New Yorker use Web fonts to preserve the typographic personality of their headlines, while [US [...]
Mozilla seeks designers to supercharge learning in digital badges competition
Design digital badges for NASA, Intel, Disney-Pixar, the U.S. Department of Education and other leading organizations in the “Badges for Learning” competition. Deadline for entries is January 17. Help the world level up with NASA, the MacArthur Foundation and Mozilla. Mozilla is seeking designers and developers to participate in the $2 million “Badges for… Read more
Speed and Security
Today’s Beta release improves on two of Chrome’s core principles: speed and security.One of the things people like best about Chrome is that it loads web pages quickly. To get you where you want to go even faster, Chrome will now start loading some web pages in the background, even before you’ve finished typing the URL in the omnibox. If the [...]
Opera 11.61 Christmas Snapshot
If you feel that the wait for Christmas is too long, perhaps this can keep you busy for a while.This is a snapshot of Opera 11.61, which is planned for release some time in January. There are a few crash fixes, and other things that have popped up since the release of 11.60.Since this will most likely be the last Opera snapshot of the year, I'd lik [...]
Firefox: 2011
Firefox helped make the Web more awesome in 2011. We released Firefox 4 with Sync to hundreds of millions of people worldwide; we launched Firefox for Android; added the new Firefox Aurora development channel; adopted a faster release cycle; and introduced Do Not Track to the industry. Now we’re excited to share some of the… Read more
New Firefox for Android Experience Optimized for Tablets
Firefox for Android introduces a completely redesigned experience that is optimized for tablets and makes mobile browsing more intuitive. New tools in Firefox enable developers to create interactive mobile Web experiences. Firefox for Android leverages large tablet screen sizes and optimizes popular features for tablets. The Awesome Screen integrates Firefox Sync and makes it easy… Read more
Major JavaScript Enhancements Make Firefox Speedy – up to 30% Faster
Firefox for Windows, Mac and Linux has new JavaScript enhancements that make Web browsing significantly faster. The latest update to Firefox includes Type Inference which boosts JavaScript performance and allow rich websites and Web apps with lots of pictures, videos, games and 3D graphics to load and run much faster. Type Inference is a feature… Read more
Mozilla and Google Sign New Agreement for Default Search in Firefox
We’re pleased to announce that we have negotiated a significant and mutually beneficial revenue agreement with Google. This new agreement extends our long term search relationship with Google for at least three additional years. “Under this multi-year agreement, Google Search will continue to be the default search provider for hundreds of millions of Firefox users… Read more
Let It Snow... Faster!
In the spirit of the holiday season, we offer a new HTML5 experience that makes the most of your PC hardware and the new touch capabilities in Windows 8. Check out Let It Snow and get ready for a GPU-powered snow storm. This experience brings together hardware-accelerated HTML5 canvas, SVG, CSS, and more. On Windows Developer Preview with supp [...]
