That Mozilla Firefox is a model to copy is well known, but I guess manydid not expect the open source media player VLC, one of the best media players around to get community-built extensions just like Firefox. Well, a VideoLan player builder announced a complete overhauling of VLC codes to permit the implementation of community-built extensions come version 1.1. Developers will use Lua – a lightweight scripting language to create their extensions for VLC. More
Opera developers have released another snapshot of the upcoming Opera 10.5 web browser. In the previous release, Linux builds were absent, this new snapshot marks the return of the penguin. But Mac and Linux versions of Opera 10.5 are much behind in development with respect to the Windows version. Opera intends to roll-out Opera 10.50 final for Windows first, and then set-off to deliver to the other platforms their ‘finals’. More
Mozilla enters directly into the mobile browser market with the release of its first ever mobile browser. Fennec ‘Maemo’ 1.0 is now available for Nokia N900.
Opera Mini the leader in this sector should watch-out as Firefox intends to bring all its desktop experience to mobile devices – for example Mozilla rolled out Weave Sync on Frclassay for Firefox and Firefox mobile, so users could completely synchronize their bookmarks, saved passwords, preferences, browsing history, and open browser tabs.
Flash was dis-activated by default in Firefox for Maemo 1.0 RC 3 as it greatly compromised its permanence, but no Flash also means Firefox mobile users wouldn’t be able to adequately view Flash dependent web sites or watch YouTube video clips – Mozilla now has temporary Flash substitute add-on called YouTube enabler for Firefox mobile, but it might still affect the overall performance and interactivity of the browser. More
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Another step towards a full-fledged Firefox Mobile browser was made yesterday when Mozilla announced a third release candidate for Maemo. Also known as Fennec, and often called Fennec ‘Maemo’, Firefox 1.0 for Nokia’s Maemo platform supports N900 and N810. If you’ve got RC2 installed on one of these, you’ll soon be receiving an update.
An update that fixes several crash bugs, improves page load times and responsiveness but that disables plug-in. “Adobe Flash plug-in used on many sites degraded the performance of the browser to the point where itdidn’t meet our standards”. But Mozilla points out that testers can still manually turn on experimental plug-in support using about:config. Mozilla says its “working on an add-on that will allow the user to have control of which sites to enable plug-ins for”.
Firefox for Maemo Release Candidate 3 Release Notes
