Mozilla, developers of the Firefox browser, opened up a competition last September for budding developers and programmers to code games built using web technologies; HTML, Java, WebGL etc. Voting for the winners opened January and the vote has now been completed.
Continuing on the advancements Mozilla has made with JavaScript to bring better gaming to browsers and mobile devices, they have now teamed up with Epic Games to bring the Unreal Engine 3 to the web. This port will enable developers to reach a larger market and cut costs. Expect to see ports of popular games running the Unreal engine to make their way on the web in due time. In the mean time, check out the video Mozilla put together for their announcement.
What's the most popular gaming platform? It's not the Wii. It's not the Xbox 360. It's not the DS, or PSP. It's definitely not the PS3, and contrary to what Apple would like you to believe, it's not the iPhone. It's actually the humble web browser, thanks to the vast audience for casual browser games.
Firefox creator Mozilla is well aware of this, and is also aware of the current trend towards locking away content into smartphone apps. So the foundation has launched a push to try and persuade developers to put some of that content back onto the open web.
With so many browsers on the market, Mozilla is making sure that Firefox 4 stands out from the rest. I saw a demo of what was to be expected from Firefox 4 a couple months back on the web, and I was pretty impressed. As of right now, the Firefox 4 beta is available to download.
Using it right now.
Due to my set up, it still looks like Firefox 2, which makes me happy.
Bit of a panic when the tabs were above the address bar, but they have an option to fix that.
I installed the beta to have a look realized none of my add-ons were compatible yet, so uninstalled. But it looks nice, I like the new look
It's because it's beta, but if you install:
https://addons.mozilla.org/...
That should give you your add ons.
just use chrome instead if you want this look + best speed + best safety + best javascript performance
go ahead: give me reasons why you should use FF instead of chrome
(I know only one: -no youtube-download plugins)
I didn't like the tabs being on top, but i got over it because this way it wastes less space and i get to see more of each webpage.
The one thing I find annoying is the File, Edit, View, History, Bookmarks, Tools and help buttons. I barely use them and it'd be better if they'd go and give me an even larger viewing area.
Any idea on how to install this in Ubuntu. I've extracted the folder and I click run-mozilla I click run in terminal and the terminal opens and closes and if I click run NOTHING happens.
Some upgrades I'd make...
-Remove the home button, kinda pointless... I use the bookmark toolbar too much, -I have no real homepage I use and I'm sure others I like it.
-Removing the refresh and cancel button, just use the F5.
-Have the option of hiding the file toolbar it's a waste of space.
*You may notice space as something I talk about a lot the larger viewing area the better really.*
-Put the tabs in the very top bit where it says what ever page your on( the bit with the close expand and minimize ) since it only says what tab your on which is display in the tabs that entire section is a waste, still keep the close buttons etc.
Press Alt. on windows or whatever equivalent in Linux to get rid of the top file toolbar
You can remove the home, refresh and cancel button, click firefox, customise then toolbar layout then drag whatever buttons you don't want onto the buttons screen.
That's most of your problems solved.
I don't want to be a troll but I highly recommend chrome it's like FF 5
chrome: faster browsing, animated tabs, faster javascript, 100% w3c compatible <> firefox 4 97% w3c compatible, built-in html and script inspector(with debugger), a great tool for website developers(like me))
just give it a try, you won't regret it and will become a chrome fan just like me and everyone who tried chrome:
http://www.google.com/chrom...
(and if everyone would use chrome website development would become much easier)
Chrome litters you system with temp files
Firfox and even Internet Explorer 8 auto clean themselves up after running, but there is no such option for chrome
When I run Ccleaner
I only get < 1MB from FF and IE8 temp files but with Chrome its a lot
Also cookie trackers and adware on chrome but my layers of anti Spyware, Virus and Adware plus firewall does the job
I used chrome up until this Firefox released which is actually so much faster than the old one. The script inspector is something easily gotten by a simple addon.
Also, TABSF is correct. When I run CCleaner I get over 100mb from Chrome temp files while I never get more than 10mb on Firefox.
