Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
Yesterday I posted about an issue using the new Prism for Firefox extension on OS X. Based on a suggestion from Chris Beard, I've implemented a workaround that fixes the problem. It's not the world's cleanest solution, but it is only needed until the next release of Firefox comes out ...
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
As we prepare to go live with Prism 1.ob3, I should mention that there is an issue with using the Prism extension in Firefox 3.6 on OS X. Prism uses the Firefox runtime (meaning the XUL, XPCOM and other libraries) for apps it creates. There is a small bug in ...
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Monday, January 18th, 2010
Succumbing to overwhelming pressure from the Linux community, I've built Prism 1.0b3pre on Ubuntu.
Download the standalone version or Firefox extension.
I'm very pleased to say that (for whatever reason) I was able to reproduce the infamous Ubuntu crash experienced by some users of Prism 1.0b2. Some research led me to a ...
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Friday, January 15th, 2010
Based on feedback from my last post, I fixed the extension version numbers (including the Firefox maxVersion) in Prism 1.0b3pre. I also decided to build on top of Mozilla 1.9.2 instead of 1.9.1. My policy has been to use the version of Mozilla that underlies the most recent official Firefox ...
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Monday, January 11th, 2010
Quite a few bugs have been fixed since Prism 1.0b2, so I've made new builds for Mac and Windows. Please take a look and let me know if you have any problems. Once they've been tested a bit, I'll put them up on the Prism website as 1.0b3.
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
One of the most frequent questions I get about Prism is how to make it work with such-and-such beloved Firefox extension. One thing is certain, to make an extension work with Prism you have to add Prism's application ID to the extension's install.rdf file, as described here. The ID for ...
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Thursday, October 8th, 2009
A number of people have reported crashes when using the Prism 1.0b2 build on Ubuntu. I haven't been able to reproduce this problem, so I've created a debug build for further testing. The first person to get me a usable backtrace of the crash will win: a new car!
Okay, maybe ...
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Thursday, October 8th, 2009
This year's European MozCamp was held in my home town of Prague. The venue, the Andel's hotel in Smichov, was perfect: cool-looking interior, convenient location and even surprisingly good food (we are in Prague, after all). Many thanks to the organizers, William and Irina, for choosing Prague and for throwing ...
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
I've build a candidate version of Prism 1.0b2 (based on the latest Gecko 1.9.1 sources) for Ubuntu. Please let me know if you encounter any difficulties with it. I'll try to get it onto the official site by the end of the week.
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
I gave a talk at OSCON last week entitled "Prism, Bringing Web Applications to the Desktop”. I've posted the slides with my script inline.
(As an aside, this is the first time I've ever written down a script for a talk. Usually I just run through the slides a couple of ...
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