So today my Mac decided to get hung 5 minutes before our weekly mobile call. No one told me running two VMs, open office, safari, firefox (in each VM and natively), mail etc. etc. etc. at the same time was a bad idea….
We’ve got a new tinderbox set up and producing builds for the n800/n810. You can find it here:
http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showbuilds.cgi?tree=Testing
As of now, it is just making sure that the tree builds for these targets. We aren’t running any…
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 we started producing on change builds with it on Wed July 27th and the first NDKr5 built…
I want to run a debug build of fennec on my windows mobile emulator. I have been able to do this by “mounting” my object directory as a shared folder. Unfortunitely I’m seeing IO errors which I’ve read could be due to the way the emulator maps in the “storage card.”
Jaya just dropped me a note about this video he posted of Fennec running on his gumstix device with an E-Ink display.
On Friday I landed a patch for bug 577636, which adds an option to mozilla-central’s configure to use ccache for your build. You can just add — with-ccache=<path to ccache> to your mozconfig to begin building with ccache. Or you can just use — with-ccache=ccache if…
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 make it official.
Just to update Doug’s post we’ve got the problem with web content not painting fixed.
I’ve implemented a freetype font back end for Windows and Windows CE that we’ll be using for Fennec. This will allow Fennec to render international fonts we were previously incapable of handling.
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 multi-process Firefox now operates. This doesn’t necessarily mean that the add-on author has…
