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

Brand New: Mozilla to Mobile OSes: Fox You.

Unlike the system icons or logos of Safari and Chrome, Firefox’s has always been the most memorable, with an adorable fox wrapping its tail around the globe. Since we didn’t want to reuse the exact same logo for Firefox OS, we worked with Wolff Olins to unleash the fox with an awesome branding. Here you can see the first drawings of the fast and powerful fox. Why don’t you take a look at the finished illustrations and the different poses of the fox?

Wrap Long Lines & Watch Videos at Ludicrous Speeds
Who doesn’t love a sneak preview? Well, we do! In his latest two blog posts, Jared Wein tells you about two upcoming features that you can already test in a bleeding-edge Nightly build< /a> of Firefox. The first feature allows you to read long .txt files easier than ever before by adapting the line length to the size of the browser window. The second addition allows you to adjust the playback speed of a video by simply right-clicking on it. So now you can watch videos in slow motion, high speed or ludicrous speed.

Webmakers Shake Athens & MozFest 2013
Matt Thompson, Chief Storyteller of Mozilla, has got so many new updates regarding the Mozilla Webmaker project for you this week! The most exciting thing that is new this week is a video that explains what the “web literacy standard” is and how you can get involved. The second update is from Hive Athens, a new webmaking network in Greece that drew over a hundred kids to multiple activity stations for webmaking (and doing the Harlem Shake). Last but not least, Matt tells you the date for this year’s Mozilla Festival in London, an event that provides a mix of making and learning mayhem.

Making HTML5 work with Firefox OS
Christian Heilmann just got back from CeBIT in Germany, the world’s largest and most international computer expo. His part of the show was to give a talk about Firefox OS and what it means to HTML 5. He went through the different parts that make Firefox OS special – for example to search for apps by content. For example, you enter the name of a band and get Music, Video and Lyrics apps. He also came up with an interesting simile: Find out why Firefox OS is the Volkswagen Beetle of smartphones in his blog post.

Font Inspector in Firefox Nightly
If you’re a developer, you probably already know about the element inspector that allows you to test changes to your websites and view the source code of other pages easier than ever before. Paul Rouget, a Mozillian since 2003, now built a font inspector you can access in the inspector. It shows you the font used by the selected element, its name and a preview. Find out more about the font inspector on his blog.

Video of the Week

This is the Mozilla edition of the Harlem Shake in Greece. Woohoo!

Upcoming events
* March 14 & 15 – Munich, Germany: UX Munich
* March 16 – Sucre, Bolivia: Firefox OS App Workshop
* March 16 – Tunis, Tunisia: WoMoz Café
* March 16 – Zamboanga City, Philippines: Zamboanga City goes Mobile – Open Source Style
* March 17 – Haldia, India: MozCamp @ HIT
* 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.

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!