Firefox enables hundreds of millions of people all over the world to each have a Web experience that’s unique. They can make Firefox look and feel the way they want with Add-ons and Personas. And more importantly, Firefox becomes their trusted guide to the Web. It intelligently [...]

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Sore throats from yelling after every goal. Red eyes from waking up too early or staying up too late to watch a game. Sick leaves multiplying during important matches. It’s official: Football fever has spread around the globe, as the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ is already underway. For those of you who are football fans, [...]

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Dumitru Daniliuc, better known to the community as Dumi, has spent most of his time working on WebSQLDatabase. After getting it working within Chromium’s sandbox, Dumi has focused his efforts on fixing bugs, cleaning up code, getting database functional within Web Workers, and helping implement the synchronous interface to the API.
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Site developers have been clear that they want interoperability and standards compliance (or “Same markup”) for newer technologies as well as backward compatibility for their existing sites. After reading questions and comments on the last few compatibility-related blog posts, I thought now is a good time to recap IE’s compatibility features for site developers.
As IE [...]

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Editor’s note: On May 28, Mozilla announced the release candidate build of the next version of Firefox, which will include the Crash Protection for “out of process plugins” feature to help create a smoother, faster and more secure browsing experience for users. Early testing shows that this feature may protect users from a significant number [...]

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With Internet Explorer 9, developers can build new classes of HTML5 applications that were previously not possible. We’re having fun building sample web applications that provide a glimpse into the types of experiences that hardware acceleration provides. In this post, we take a closer look at Flickr Explorer, one of the samples that we released [...]

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In our most recent beta release, we fired up all engines to bring to life our fastest version of Chrome to date. Today, we’re bringing all this beta goodness to the stable channel so that it’s available to all Chrome users. We’re particularly excited to bring Chrome for Mac and Linux out of beta, and [...]

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A recent article incorrectly suggested that Internet Explorer add-ons must send and store cookies when making HTTP requests. That’s simply not true– Internet Explorer APIs enable add-ons to respect the user’s privacy and not leak information. Existing APIs are available to add-ons running in any version of IE to accomplish the task described in the [...]

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We have been working on an application for the iPhone based on the Firefox Sync (formerly Weave Sync) technology. The app is called Firefox Home, and it gives iPhone users instant access to their Firefox browsing history, bookmarks and the set of tabs from their most recent browser session. What’s more, it provides Firefox “Awesome [...]

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Chris came to WebKit as an accessibility expert, and he has put a lot of work into improving our accessibility support. He has done bug-fixing and architecture work, implemented many ARIA features, and greatly enhanced DumpRenderTree’s accessibility testing capabilities.
Please join me in congratulating Chris on his reviewer status!

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