Firefox 16 adds a command line that is a fast and easy way to control your web developer tools from your keyboard. It’s also a great way to add new tools to help your development without complicating the browser’s user interface.
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Firefox 16 and CSS Prefixes
Firefox 15 Plugs Leaky Addons
Firefox 15 prevents most memory leaks caused by add-ons, including Firebug. For many users with add-ons installed this will significantly reduce Firefox’s memory consumption, without requiring upgrades to those add-ons. For those users, Firefox 15 is likely to be faster (sometimes drastically so) and less likely to crash, especially if they have multiple add-ons installed …
Junior – Firefox on iPad (Prototype)
Junior — an iPad browser that makes browsing more fun, more ergonomic and re-thinks browser user experience from the ground up. Like the fact that the browser is runnning fullscreen with only two buttons overlayed: a back button and a “go somewhere” button. The latter brings up a screen where you can change tabs, load …
Firefox Responsive Mode
Collusion – See who’s tracking you online
Collusion is an experimental add-on for Firefox and allows you to see all the third parties that are tracking your movements across the Web. It will show, in real time, how that data creates a spider-web of interaction between companies and other trackers. A neat demo/datavisualization is also available, in case you don’t want to …
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Firefox Release Channels
Opera Mobile Emulator with support for (some) -webkit vendor prefixes
Opera, along with Mozilla, announced at a CSS Working Group meeting that we would support some -webkit prefixes. This is because through our site compatibility work, we have experienced that many authors of (especially mobile) sites only use -webkit prefixed CSS, thereby ignoring other vendor prefixes and not even including an unprefixed equivalent. This leads …
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The Vibration API
Part of Mozilla’s WebAPI, to controlling vibration of (handheld) devices: The idea with the Vibration API is to be able to give the user a notification, in a game or other use case, by telling the device to vibrate. It accesses the native vibrator and tells it how long it should vibrate. First was called …
SOPA already made its first victim …
The SOPA vote, which was supposed to be yesterday, has been postponed until after the winter recess. Nonetheless, it has already made its first victim: a firefox addon named DeSopa to bypass SOPA DNS Blocking has already been removed from the Firefox Addons Website. When installed, users can click a single button to resolve a …