In the last post I announced a short series about productization of Fennec. This is the second post in the series.
Before we actually start talking about the default services and best choices, we should provide some background on why’s and what-for’s.
There are two main purposes of adding default web services to Mozilla products:
provide users [...]
Fennec is a XUL-based browser developed by Mozilla and designed for mobile devices. It shares much of the code with Firefox (e.g. the HTML rendering engine, bookmarking and history, download and add-ons management, JavaScript engine), but uses a different user interface, which is adapted to the mobile contexts in which it will be used.
The notion [...]
I’m happy to write this: in the upcoming Firefox 3.0.7 release (scheduled for tomorrow), four three of our beta locales will move out of the beta status!
Estonian (et)
Kannada (kn)
Telugu (te)
Congratulations to the localization teams that made it possible!
Seth already did two great posts about our process: So what does “getting new languages ready [...]
As you probably know, minor releases of Firefox, denoted by the third digit in the version number (or fourth in case of 2.0 releases), are intended as security and stability updates. The idea here is that there shouldn’t be any significant changes to the user interface or browser behavior between, say, version 3.0.6 and 3.0.7. [...]
We’re planning to add Mibbit as a default irc:// and ircs:// protocols handler in 3.1. The implementation in the en-US version happens in bug 435687. The bug is still open but hopefully we’re not far away from closing it soon. Many thanks to the Mibbit team for being very responsive and making the necessary changes [...]
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