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n800 as an IP phone

So today my Mac decided to get hung 5 minutes before our weekly mobile call.  No one told me running two VMs, open office, safari, firefox (in each VM and natively), mail etc. etc. etc. at the same time was a bad idea…. Anyway, not wanting to miss out on all the exciting developments in [...]

Tab search

I love tabs. I’m one of those people who spends a week with the same browser window open, just creating tabs every time I look at something new.  In my mind, it means I can always find what I was looking at a couple hours ago of even a couple days ago.  Maybe with the [...]

Mobile tinderbox

We’ve got a new tinderbox set up and producing builds for the n800/n810.  You can find it here: http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showbuilds.cgi?tree=Testing As of now, it is just making sure that the tree builds for these targets.  We aren’t running any tests to see if the builds actually run, let alone run well.  If any one is interested [...]

Maemo repository

I have created debian installer packages (.deb files) for armel and i386 for the builds I blogged about several weeks ago. You can download these directly for the i386 scratchbox or armel based device running OS2008. Once you’ve downloaded the .deb file, you can install it by running the following command as root: # dpkg [...]

Mobile build options

For desktop systems, Mozilla is supporting three major systems (Mac, Windows and Linux).  There aren’t a huge amount of variations needed for subclasses  of these systems.  However, as we begin supporting mobile devices, I can see the need arising for “profiles.”  There are two major reasons for this. First, especially when it comes to embedded [...]

Minefield on the N800

Nokia released a Beta version of OS2008 for the N800 yesterday.  This is of particular interest to the Mozilla community because of the pango and cairo support it brings to the device.  Using this support, one can follow the build instructions found here and get a working build of Minefield that will run on your [...]