Prism is now WebRunner

Update: WebRunner has been discontinued and is no longer available for download. Although we no longer support the public product, Salsita can still produce a packaged web app for distribution by your company. Contact us for more details. Mozilla Labs has not been working actively on Prism since early 2008. However, the Prism name has [...]

Chrome Drops H.264: Good, Bad or Indifferent?

The announcement by Google that they will be dropping support for the H.264 video codec from their Chrome browser pivots nicely off my (fairly) recent posts about the problems with web standards. There has been much discussion in the wake of the announcement about the merits of open versus proprietary technologies. Some have accused Google [...]

Prism and the Open Web Store

Responding to Google’s announcement last week of a Chrome Web Store, Jay Sullivan asks on the Mozilla Blog for ideas about an alternative Open Web App Store. This is something that I’ve been thinking about and discussing with Mark Finkle for a couple of years now in the context of Mozilla Prism. In fact, I [...]

Prism 1.0b4, Fixes Rare Windows Registry Issue

A while back I blogged about a rare issue that occurred if a user clicked on the regprot.exe file included in Prism to handle protocol handler registration. I thought the issue had been fixed ages ago, but a couple of recent reports have led me to believe that it can still occur in some cases, [...]

Wanted: C++ Developer in Prague for Mozilla-Related Projects

I’ve been doing freelance development for the past two years for various clients. All of the projects I currently work on are related to Mozilla technologies (Prism, Firefox extensions, etc.). Business is booming, and I would like to hire someone to help me keep up. The only two hard requirements are for someone who is [...]

Thoughts on Planet Mozilla

One of the biggest struggles I face every day is information overload, just like most of the people reading this post. As a result I am constantly reassessing the value of various feeds in my RSS reader and viciously pruning the ones I don’t really need. I don’t subscribe to any feed that produces more [...]

Do We Need a Firefox OS?

Google Chrome has achieved striking success considering that it has yet to celebrate its first birthday. Mike Arrington at TechCrunch claims that the browser now has 30 million users (citing Google as a source). [Update: The Google OS post mentions this in the second sentence so I'm not sure why I blamed Mike.] Market share [...]

The Browser Platform Wars

I was chatting recently with the founder of a high-profile startup that is making strategic use of Mozilla technology. “People keep telling me that WebKit is the future,” he complained. “Have we made the wrong choice?” I did my best to reassure him of course, providing arguments that support their choice and pointing him to [...]

FOSDEM Bound

In a few hours I’ll be jetting off to Brussels for FOSDEM, the annual European open source get together. On Sunday I’ll be presenting an updated version of the Prism talk that I gave at MozCamp EU last fall. We have big plans for Prism, which has slipped somewhat under the radar, in the next [...]

Lions and Tigers and EU MozCamp… Oh My!

I’m in Madrid right now for a couple of days of R&R (in theory, at least) before heading to Barcelona tomorrow for EU MozCamp. I’ll be running a session on Prism. The timing is auspicious since we’re at something of a crossroads with the product. It doesn’t have any obvious official standing inside of Mozilla [...]