News: Firefox 100 on Fedora distro.

This new release can download it and read more on the official webpage.

I tested today and as you can see this is working well:

News: Mozilla try recognition systems .

The recognition systems improve the more people use them, but they are closed systems so no one other than Apple, Amazon, or Google.
The project named Project Common Voice website includes an option to donate your voice.
If you opt to do so, a number of sentences will be popped up in your web browser for you to say. Once recorded, you can play them back to check they are acceptable before submitting them to help the voice recognition engine learn.
You need to read a sentence to help our machine learn how real people speak.
The area of interest for this project come with demographic data. You can try this project on the official website.

Earth - issues from satelite.

This great images and issues from satellite can be found into this gallery.

News about the Firefox browser.

Come with download protection for a large number of executable file types on Windows, Mac and Linux.
The team improved performance for SDK extensions or extensions using the SDK module loader. This new version comes with Guarani (gn) locale.
One of the good features is WebM EME Support for Widevine on Windows and Mac but nothing about Encrypted WebM streams.
As you know the Encrypted WebM streams are encrypted at the block level with AES-128 CTR encryption.
The AES encryption takes way lesser processing time than decryption.
Last come with new two updates to keyboard shortcuts:
 - set a preference to have Ctrl+Tab cycle through tabs in recently used order;
 - view a page in Reader Mode by using Ctrl+Alt+R (command+alt+r on Mac);

About the new Firefox version 50.0, you can read here.

The US$250,000 in prize.

Mozilla team are excited to launch our global Equal Rating Innovation Challenge.
The US$250,000 in prize monies will be split in three categories:

• Best Overall (key metric: scalability)
• Best Overall Runner-up
• Most Novel Solution (key metric: experimental with potentially high reward)

The submissions open in 17 days.
You can read more about this project here.
The Mozilla post can read here.

News: Tutorials with node.js and jpm.

Dear friends,
... today I started a new series of tutorials.
The subject from this is firefox add-ons with node.js.
Into this tutorial, we can see the first steps to make one unsigned default addon.
I used Windows OS, but also you can install under Linux OS easy node.js.
Most of Linux users can know how to do it.
The first tutorial is here.
Thank you. Best regards.

 

News: OpenBSD and Nightly Mozilla Firefox security.

W^X ("Write XOR Execute"; spoken as W xor X[1]) is the name of a security feature present in the OpenBSD operating system. It is a memory protection policy whereby every page in a process' address space is either writable or executable, but not both simultaneously. from wikipedia.

The new Nightly Mozilla Firefox comes with enabled the security feature W^X.
Also will be it available to other versions of its web browser once they are upgraded to version 46.
The implementation of W^X makes all Just in Time ( named JIT) code page working with the browser.
This will need to write to pages, a function needs to be called to explicitly make the page writable. Also, that will remove the execute flag at the same time. The good thing is the permissions for memory pages which allows the compiler to patch code without performance overhead.

News: Firefox will be updated to version 33.

According to benoitgirard all versions of the Firefox web browser will be updated to version 33.
All updates will be available on October 14, 2014. Firefox 33 introduces several changes.
This is visible on the frontend while others improve the browser in the backend. This feature will move compositing to a second thread to make the main thread loop more responsive.
Also, Firefox Beta, Aurora and Nightly versions will be updated to version 34, 35 and 36 respectively. You can download Firefox 33 directly from Mozilla.

News: Feedly Cloud and the new Feedly .

After Google Reader gone, I try to find another reader.
The best choice was Feedly.
The good news it's come now with a new feature Feedly Cloud, see:
June 19th - The Feedly Cloud is now available to everyone.
Learn more and make sure you are migrated
Already some applications were built on Feedly cloud ...
Feedly cloud is now live, providing a fast and scalable infrastructure to seamlessly replace Google Reader. Feedly cloud also comes with a completely stand-alone Web version of feedly, that works with all major browsers. Finally, we are please to announce the first nine applications built on feedly cloud, that allow you to expand your feedly experience.