about:mozilla is a weekly round-up of news and contribution opportunities. Here’s what’s happening this week.

Redesigning the Tab Bar: More Progress!

More than six months ago, Jared Wein worked on the upcoming redesign of the tab bar. When Matthew Noorenberghe took over the work, only Windows users were able to test the new curved tabs. Now, after lots of lines of code, you are finally able to test them on both OS X and Linux. Thanks to the many optimizations, these new tabs also close faster than before. Find out how to try out the curvy tabs.

Winners of the January 2013 Dev Derby
Last month, we wanted to see what you could do with drag and drop interaction, and we’ve received more than 18 awesome entries. The judges have decided on the three winners: Seba made it to the first place with his interactive story called Pete’s Adventure.

Webmaker: Popcorn Maker and Cloudmashing
Matt Thompson, Chief Storyteller for Mozilla, summed up what’s happening with Mozilla Webmaker this week: A new feature for our Popcorn Maker, which allows you to enhance, remix and share web video in your browser, is about to be released. The sequencing feature allows you to edit multiple video and audio clips from across the web and publish them. Like copy and paste for web media. Find out how to try it out for yourself now.

Mozilla’s DNA and Mobile World Congress
Tristan Nitot is now back from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, at which Mozilla has introduced Firefox OS. Thanks to HTML5, we’re building a mobile Web ecosystem, with applications that can run on multiple mobile operating systems. In his blog post, he doesn’t also talk about what open source and non-for-profit means for the users and developers, but he also talks about you and the other volunteers. Because Mozilla would not exist without participation of volunteers in every aspects of Mozilla’s work.

Mozilla Tagalog Localization Marathon in Manila
Philippines has rich linguistic diversity: Today, you can hear smattering of at least five languages in Tagalog, the widely used Philippine dialect. In 2010, Seth Bindernagel kick-started the localization of Mozilla Tagalog. While 42% have already been translated, it looks very promising. This quarter’s translation efforts will be kicked off with a Translation Marathon in April. Learn more about how you can take part in Arky’s blog post.

Photo of the Week

Firefox has got your back! Learn more about the Firefox Arena Football Mexico event or take a look at some more pictures.

Meet Some Mozillians
Mozilla says bonjour to Joanna Mazgaj, Mozilla Bangladesh and the new members of the ReMo Council. Read more about how they contribute to Mozilla.

Upcoming events
* March 7 – Santa Cruz, Bolivia: Firefox OS Conference
* March 9 – Tunis, Tunisia: WoMoz Café
* March 10 – Cluj-Napoca, Romania: WebQA Selenium workshop
* Learn more about these events or find even more near you on the Events Calendar

Get Involved
These are just some of the available contribution opportunities. Learn more about other ways to get involved and find other Mozillians in our community who share your interests.

About about:mozilla
The newsletter is written by Mozilla’s Community Engagement team and is published every Tuesday. For more on what has been happening this week also checkout the Mozilla Project Meeting. If you have anything you would like to include in our next issue, please contact: about-mozilla[at]mozilla[dot]com or send us a status message on mozilla.status.net or a tweet @aboutmozilla. You can also subscribe to the email version.

Have a good week folks and keep rocking the Web!

about:mozilla is a weekly round-up of news and contribution opportunities. Here’s what’s happening this week.

Mozilla Unlocks the Power of the Web

This will be one of the most exciting weeks ever! One year ago, we promised to change the way you interact with the web on the go. And Sunday, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, we announced the release of the probably best smartphone operating system ever. (If we do say so ourselves.) While the first Firefox OS phones are quite powerful and look pretty fancy, they are also affordable in the developing world: At less than $100, it’s ten times more affordable than many other popular smartphones.

Firefox 19 and its PDF viewer
A few days ago, we were proud to release Firefox 19, the latest version of your favorite browser. It comes with some new features, but the most useful one is definitely the built-in PDF viewer. Now, you can read PDFs directly within your browser and for example check out a menu card from your favorite restaurant. Without having to interrupt your browsing experience with extra clicks or downloads.

Helping or Hurting?
When Christian Heilmann started as a web developer, there was no such thing as CSS. He had to use complicated tables for layout to display a site correctly. But there were still browsers that didn’t render the pages right – which led to the use of massive code snippets. According to Heilmann, the mistakes of the earlier days are being repeated: Many websites expect scripts to be flawlessly executed, which can be a problem. Find out how even Google experienced that we rely far too much on them for incredibly simple tasks.

New Features On the ReMo Platform
During the last month, the Mozilla Reps Web Development team has been working on improving reps.mozilla.org and last week, Pierros Papadeas showed off the two best and new functionalities: You can now see all events in a handy timeline to visually identify events worldwide and through different time periods. And if you are a vouched Mozillian, you can log into the portal – even if you are not a Rep! Find out why this is useful and get to know about the other features in his blog post.

UI Improvements in Firefox for Android
In Lucas Rocha’s latest blog post, it’s all about the recent changes made to the user interface of Firefox for Android. One of them is the two-way tabs tray which now displays the tabs horizontally whenever it improves the use of your screen’s space. The Firefox User Experience team also worked hard on streamlining the look of Firefox: It should feel like the same browser wherever you use it. You can test these new features in a bleeding-edge Nightly build.

Photo of the Week

Mozilla Representatives at the Mobile World Conference 2013. Follow us on our Yammer network for more pictures and news by signing up with your vouched Mozillians e-mail.

Meet Some Mozillians
Mozilla says bonjour to Bas Schouten, Jovanka Gulicoska, Mexico and our little surprise guest. Read more about how they contribute to Mozilla.

Upcoming events
* March 15 – Santa Clara, CA: PyCon US
* March 23 – Cambridge, MA: LibrePlanet
* Find more events near you on the Events Calendar

Get Involved
These are just some of the available contribution opportunities. Learn more about other ways to get involved and find other Mozillians in our community who share your interests.

About about:mozilla
The newsletter is written by Mozilla’s Community Engagement team and is published every Tuesday. For more on what has been happening this week also checkout the Mozilla Project Meeting. If you have anything you would like to include in our next issue, please contact: about-mozilla[at]mozilla[dot]com or send us a status message on mozilla.status.net or a tweet @aboutmozilla. You can also subscribe to the email version.

Have a good week folks and keep rocking the Web!