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Political backlash against Mozilla's new CEO continues as OkCupid suggests browser alternatives
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2014-04-01 00:50
Last week Mozilla appointed former CTO Brendan Eich as its new CEO, but the response to that move has centered on something other than its focus on mobile. In 2008 Eich donated $1,000 to support Proposition 8, a ban on gay marriage in California, and as a result a number of employees have called for him to step down.
Brendan Eich, Mozilla's alpha nerd, takes over as CEO
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2014-03-25 03:26
Brendan Eich, the programmer who invented JavaScript in a 10-day burst of activity at Netscape in 1995, now is the chief executive of Mozilla, the nonprofit organization that develops the Firefox browser and Firefox OS mobile operating system.
Firefox 28 launches, but lacks notable features after Mozilla drops Metro version at 11th hour
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2014-03-19 01:04
Mozilla has unveiled Firefox 28.0 FINAL for desktop, with Firefox for Android 28.0 also due for release shortly.
The most notable feature in version 28 is a missing one, with Mozilla pulling the planned Firefox for Metro release for Windows 8/RT shortly before shipping. The end result is an underwhelming desktop update overshadowed by the new Android release.
Mozilla claims it’s dropped the Modern UI due to lack of uptake during the beta-testing program, but this has stripped Firefox 28 of any headline-grabbing new features.
Unity's new weapon for devs: Porting games to Firefox
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2014-03-18 09:23
Mozilla has teamed up with Unity to run its games on the Web without plugins -- but with an add-on.
Announced at the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco, the extension will ship later this year with the anticipated Unity 5.0. Powered by the Web graphics library WebGL and the JavaScript subset asm.js, the add-on update says more about game developer's faith in Firefox than anything else.
Mozilla and Epic Preview Unreal Engine 4 Running in Firefox
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2014-03-13 01:26
Today, Epic Games and Mozilla are demonstrating how the Web is continuing to evolve as a powerful platform for gaming by providing a sneak peek of Epic’s Soul and Swing Ninja demos, running in Firefox at near-native speeds. This video is the first glimpse of Unreal Engine 4 running on the Web without plugins.