July 2, 2009 8:21 pm
By now you probably know that one of Firefox 3.5 main features is the ability to show video encoded in Theora format natively, that is without the need of a plugin or any other software.
As good as this is, it has no option for showing the video in full screen. But as usual, it didn’t take much time before a extension came to the rescue to provide the necessary feature (in fact it has been available before Firefox 3.5 final).
Full Screen Video, by Dao Gottwald adds an option to video’s context menu to view a video in full screen mode. Right-click, select and watch.
There are a couple of caveats though: the video restarts when switching to full screen but I found it to be a problem much less annoying than I thought it would be. Also, full screen is only achieved on Windows. On other platforms it’s just a maximized window.
And if you don’t like the native video controls or get bored of them, you can customize them as almost everything else, Firefox audio and video controls are customizable (more work for theme authors!).
Long time community member, Ken Saunders, has released some cool skins you can try simply editing your userChrome.css file in your profile folder. Check Ken’s cool video player themes.
July 1, 2009 4:06 pm
Within the web today, a browsing transformation is underway. We’re seeing constant advancement from the static browsing Middle Ages of old and the ushering in of a new Modern Era of openness, speed and security.
With this words, Mozilla’s Sean Martell presents his cool Da Vinci-esque A Web Browser Renaissance wallpaper available for 4:3 and widescreen formats. Also available as a persona.
1:06 pm
It’s been about a day since Firefox 3.5 launch and the results show it was a high success. According to Mozilla’s own Worldwide Real-time Firefox Downloads dashboard, it has been downloaded about 5 million times, with the United Stated accounting for about one fourth of those.
While it may seem a low number compared with Firefox 3’s record setting 8 million downloads on day one, it’s hard to compare because unlike Firefox 3, Firefox 3.5 is also available as an update, so users clicking on Check for Updates… in the Help menu, will get it without counting as a Firefox download. Last year, there was no other way to get Firefox 3 at that time, but downloading it in full.
11:40 am
With every Firefox release comes change, and Firefox 3.5 is no exception. While the changes are always well intentioned and aimed to make our web life easier, it’s not always like that for everyone, hence, there’s always something new to tweak.
Accessing about:config through the location bar, checking some setting, updating a file, or installing an extension, there’s usually a way to make things work your way.
June 30, 2009 7:31 pm
Want more fun to celebrate Firefox 3.5? MozHunt is just for you.
As you surf around the web for more news about what’s going with Firefox 3.5 launch, you may want to pay careful attention and see if you spot one of several pandas hidden around in Mozilla related sites and blogs.
2:49 pm
In about 5 minutes, 6:50pm GMT (that’s 3:50pm in one of Brazil’s time zone), you will have your first chance to shock the web posting to your blog, Tweet or Facebook to raise awareness about Firefox 3.5 release, as part of Shock Shiretoko, a Spread Firefox project.
But this is just the first of a total of 24 waves during the next 24 hours at :50 each hour. The big final will be tomorrow (Wednesday 30) at 3:50pm GMT where Firefox fans will cause one big Shiretoko shock through the web.
On tweet, be sure to link to http://bit.ly/ShiretokoShock and add the hashtag #fx35.
More details at Shock Shiretoko page.
1:44 pm
Join the celebration with a cool new Firefox 3.5 T-shirt, available now at the Mozilla Store featuring this cool design. No more short phrases to describe Firefox, this image says it all. Literally.
12:33 pm
After slightly more than a year in development, Firefox 3.5 is finally here. As planned, it is an evolutionary update that builds on the significant performance enhancements and features introduced in Firefox 3.0, to deliver a still more responsive experience, more private, and extending the possibilities of the web by supporting a new set of powerful web standards.
Let’s take a look at what’s new in Firefox 3.5.
June 28, 2009 1:15 am
Mozilla Labs has released an important update to Weave, a Firefox extension that aims to synchronizes the complete Firefox user experience among all computers you use and have installed Weave on, including mobile devices running Fennec (available for Windows Mobile and Maemo).
Weave is now capable of synchronizing preferences in addition to tabs, forms, passwords, history and bookmarks as seen in previous versions.It also improves startup performance, provides a better API for extension developers, and most notably, the ability to automatically log into sites, as initially demonstrated last May.
June 27, 2009 2:30 pm
Mozilla’s Blair McBride, has released a first Firefox build featuring a command line integrated with the awesome bar to perform some basic tasks.
As you may recall, Taskfox, is a project that aims to integrate some of Ubiquity’s command line abilities into Firefox to for example perform searches with inline previews, alter page contents, insert maps, schedule events, share web pages, search tabs, and a very long, etc.
