Slight change to mobile tracking flags
Since we switched to the rapid release process, the mobile team has been using tracking-fennec to track bugs we care about for a particular release (so that tracking-fennec=7+ means the patch or...
View ArticleUpdated Android Development VM
About a year ago I posted a VMWare VM that had been set up to build Fennec for Android. That was still pretty early in the development of Fennec for Android and things have changed a lot since then. In...
View ArticleNDKr5 in production
Firefox 8 for Android is now being built with NDKr5. Bug 657723 tracked deploying the updated NDK to our build slaves and updating the configuration to use it. After a couple of hiccups along the way...
View ArticleARMv6 Support on Aurora
We launched pretty cool product about a month ago. It got lots of really great coverage in the press. After spending 9 months rewriting Firefox for Android, we’re really happy with the results. But...
View ArticleMobile Hack Day Boston
The mobile team is coming to Boston the 3rd week of August along with some of our friends from graphics, layout, sync, automation and QA for a work week. As part of the week we’re holding a hack day...
View ArticleFive years at Mozilla
As I write this I’m sitting on a Virgin flight to SFO from Boston. Strangely enough, exactly 5 years and a day ago I was also on a Virgin flight to SFO from London. Back then I was flying out to start...
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If your phone says “Intel Inside” you can now have “Firefox Inside”
Thanks to the great work of Kim Moir we now have nightly builds of Firefox for Android x86. If you have one of these devices, such as the Motorola Razr I, ZTE Grand X or Intel Black Ray you can...
View ArticleNew Android Widget Peer
I’m happy to announce that James Willcox, better known to many as snorp, is now an Android Widget peer. James has been doing reviews and acting as a de-facto peer for a while now so it is about time to...
View Articleunsafe CPOW usage
Cross Process Object Wrappers (aka CPOWs) are at the same time amazing and terrible. They are amazing in that they make things Just Work™ in Electrolysis (e10s). One of the major issues with converting...
View ArticleDetecting slow add-ons
As we have been progressing towards a multi-process Firefox we have seen many bugs filed about slowness that after investigation turned out to be related to add-ons interacting poorly with the way...
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