Seeing the progress done by Chromium on Linux, I wanted to implement an equivalent of a Firefox extension that I like: automatically generating QR Code to send a link to my phone easily. So far, here is what I have been able to do: Add a page action icon in the URL bar Open a …
I just compiled a recent build of Chromium (unbranded Google Chrome) from here. I would love to start playing with extensions, so I tried stuff from there. Alas, it doesn’t work. Since a bunch of stuff is still missing from the Linux builds, I guess extensions don’t work either. Did anyone manage to get extensions …
The website addons.mozilla.org recently changed the rule for sandboxed addons: you no longer need to register and login to install one. That was a big issue because the review process is a bit heavy, and a lot of add-ons were stuck in that Limbo of Firefox. The difference for my recent sandboxed Video Games Spy …
I’ve just read on Techcrunch that Flock was going to switch from Firefox to Chrome. This is not completely news to me because at the time I was still at Flock, one colleague (Chris Campbell) was doing experiments with Chrome to see the feasibility of the switch. I don’t know what’s going on inside Flock …
After 7 years living outside of my home country, I decided to live back there… At least for a few years . I’ve been living for about 4 years in Tokyo to do my Ph. D. After that, I moved to the Silicon Valley to join Flock, at the time a tiny startup operating from …
This is a feature that I really love in Gnome (Linux), and that I wish Firefox had it too. That would make it even more integrated into the Gnome desktop. It is about the options for text and icons on toolbars. Currently, Firefox proposes three options: Icons only (the default) Icons and text Text only …
Wired wrote an article about Godzilla and its lawers. While it’s true that Toho is pretty serious on protecting their brand Godzilla, it gets somewhat surprising when they extend their attacks to the suffix “-zilla”, very common in the Mozilla related projects and blog. As a side note, mozdev has a policy to refuse to …
Matthew Gertner proposes that all XULRunner applications (including Firefox) should share the same XULRunner instance. While it’s very natural on Linux, I don’t think it’s reasonable on Windows and Mac to expect multiple application to run on the same runtime. That would force Mozilla to keep backward-compatibility, and that’s a big pain in the neck. …
Update: since since entry is fairly well ranked on search engines, I thought I should link to this page explaining how to become an AMO editor (and what does an editor do). My application as a AMO editor has just been accepted! I will now be reviewing Firefox extensions and themes, for the benefit of …
I was at the Mozilla Developer Day last Sunday, from the morning coffee to the dinner burrito. That was great, I met a lot of people from Mozilla and from outside. Mark Finkle, in charge of the developer community Dan (Thunder) and Seth, who not only share my interest for the Japanese language but also …
