The GNOME user experience hackfest in Boston was a great way to spend the worst week in Wall St history! Though there wasn't a lot of hacking, there was a LOT of discussion, and we covered a lot of ground.
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Test Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 Without Changing Your Existing Installation
Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 was released on October 14, 2008 and it currently comes in 36 fully-localised languages. This beta is based on Gecko 1.9.1 layout engine and according to the official website, this release features "significant changes to improve web compatibility, performance and ease of use". You can read the release notes on the official website, here.
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First look: Mozilla's mobile Fennec browser
Mozilla released the first workable alpha version of its new Fennec mobile browser last week, showcasing a new interface optimized for small-screen devices.
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Flock 2.0 Has Arrived
Flock, the social Web browser built on Mozilla Firefox is now out of beta and can be integrated with the MySpace Data Availability platform.
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Video Element Update
"Some updates to the video element have landed and are now in the Firefox nightly builds..."
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I have a dream: Emacs/Firefox on GNU/Mozilla systems
Mitchell Baker: « We started a conversation a while back about two year product and technology goals. I’d like to return to that discussion...» --
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"Big boost to the PlayOGG campaign coming from Firefox:
«This is the first beta from Mozilla to include support for the and elements. This beta includes support for the OGG Theora and OGG Vorbis formats on all platforms» ..."
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clearing up a little confusion about geolocation in Firefox 3.1
"There has been some confusion around the Geolocation functionality that we’re including in Firefox 3.1 Beta 1. I thought I might make a short post to try and clear some of it up..."
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Mozilla Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 available for download
Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 is now available for download. This milestone is focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3.1. Ongoing planning for Firefox 3.1 can be followed at the Firefox 3.1 Planning Center, as well as in mozilla.dev.planning and on irc.mozilla.org in #shiretoko.
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Mozilla launches video accessibility drive
Video and audio support will soon be built directly into Firefox, by way of the free Vorbis and Theora codecs, and Mozilla is using the opportunity to advance multimedia accessibility for hearing-impaired and seeing-impaired users.
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Video
"The video element is used to embed video content in an HTML or XHTML document. The video element was added as part of HTML 5..." -- See also:
*Audio
*Using geolocation
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Firefox 3 Hug Day (for Ubuntu)
Fellow Ubuntu Triagers!
This week’s HugDay target is Firefox 3!
* 658 New bugs need a hug
* 131 Confirmed bugs just need a review
Nothing needs to be said about how important Firefox is, it just needs to work. With over 1300 bugs currently open, we can use a lot of help getting the information needed to shake out the bugs.
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Five Nifty Ubiquity Scripts
The extensible and open nature of Ubiquity means that you can easily expand its functionality by installing additional scripts that add new commands. There are dozens of Ubiquity scripts floating on the Web, but here are a few that you might find particularly useful.
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Icecat 3.0.3 in European Portuguese
Icecat 3.0.3, a completely free version of Firefox, is available in European Portuguese. Go grab it. :)
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Overhauled tabbed browsing for Firefox 3.1
Firefox 3.1 may well be remembered as the “tab release”, as tabbed browsing will be the most noticeable updated area users will face when it comes out in final form.
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