![]() Besides breaking my keyboard over the weekend (and I really liked that keyboard, because it works well with all of my USB Macs even in OS 9), Mozilla upgraded the WebM libvpx to 0.9.7, wrecking our custom AltiVec work. Not all was wine and roses with the port. In fact, I didn't need to update any of my addons when I started using 10.0b1 personally. Those of you using the QTE will notice that it didn't get disabled like every other beta did. Now your addons don't get nuked every time you upgrade, unless, of course, the server says they are incompatible or they use binary or other unstable APIs. But it would be nice for presentations and other kinds of remotely-hosted demonstrations, and an excellent way to fool your boss that you're working (just switch to the tab with a static screenshot of Outlook taking up the whole screen :).įinally, Mozilla has enough confidence in AMO to make extensions default to compatible. Now, if you're like me, you realize that the possibilities for phishing just jumped about twelve or thirteen times, and using it for full-screen video on pretty much any Power Mac is hopeless (my quad G5 even at full tilt can't push 1920x1080 WebM video in software). Mozilla is also including a full-screen API where, if you permit it, a web page can dynamically open itself up to full screen. The proof of the pudding is in course in the animation, though, so why not a rotating HTML5 logo? Performs pretty well, even in software rendering on the 1GHz iMac G4. Here is a static example from MDN: notice that all the 3D objects on the page are not images, but have selectable text, because they are in fact just transformed text. We render these in software (son of no-OpenGL-2-in-10.4), so performance is not great, but they work and they work surprisingly well, considering. Great work, Mozilla!įx10 also includes 3D CSS transforms and properties. This is much like the old and much-beloved DOM Inspector (from Firefox 2.x and previous still in Classilla and SeaMonkey) except that it is fully integrated within the main browser and not a separate XUL component. Even cooler is that you can dynamically alter the style, turn inherited and specified properties on and off, and find it within the page source. You can right-click on anything and select Inspect Element, and the HTML element appears in context with its children and parents, highlighted for your visual convenience. In addition to the usual gratuitous UI change(s) (this time around it's the disappearing/reappearing forward button if you are using large icons in the toolbar), there are some remarkably solid additions in this release and my personal favourite is the Inspect Element feature. After a little more delay than I had previously planned, 10.0 beta is available, the first of our "stable" releases (based on the putative Firefox ESR).įirefox 10 is actually a really strong release. Sorry about the RSS blip earlier that was me hitting the wrong button.
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