On 27/08/15 09:08, J. Ryan Stinnett wrote:
Maybe it's the wrong setup request? Service now says: For a
Discussion Forum, which can be created as a mailing list on
lists.mozilla.org, a newsgroup on news.mozilla.org or a public Google
Group, please use this link:
Oops, that's a bit busted. It
On 16/08/15 21:36, bernard wrote:
Or maybe attend Mozfest in London if you can get there?
https://2015.mozillafestival.org/
Although note that MozFest is a rather different thing to what MozCamps
used to be.
Gerv
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On 08/07/15 17:09, Reza Akhavan wrote:
I'm curious, do we have a list of common behaviors that are patented?
Given that such a list could easily be interpreted as an opinion about
the applicability of patents, making it would almost certainly fall foul
of Lindholm's Law:
On 23/06/15 14:38, Jonas Sicking wrote:
I agree that we should enable addons to modify outgoing phone numbers
in such a way that the user sees the modified phone number.
However given that addons will be able to modify the dailer UI, there
is no way we can ensure that the user sees what
On 22/06/15 16:21, Jonas Sicking wrote:
** Phone behavior **
One of the primary pieces of functionality of a smartphone is the
phone. I.e. phone calls and SMS/MMS. While these are old and boring
technologies, they are still heavily used.
I think it would be great to add hooks to enable
On 23/02/15 20:20, Frederik Braun wrote:
The idea is to use a FMD-specific key that is used to encrypt all
communication between the phone and the user, so that our server is
nothing more but a stupid relay.
That would be great... but, as the bug notes, there is a trade-off
between using kA
Cory Doctorow:
Imagine a user-centric, data-centric, freedom-centric version of this
security measure: all devices would have to be sold with encrypted
filesystems by default, so that users whose phones are lost or stolen
can be sure that their data is intact, that their bank accounts won’t be
On 23/02/15 17:33, Fabrice Desré wrote:
The use case of FMD being that you lost your phone, we don't ask
anything on device...
Obviously not :-)
So if the server side is compromised, yes you can
wipe the device.
That doesn't necessarily have to follow. Read Cory's article and see
what he
On 17/12/14 02:10, gkee...@mozilla.com wrote:
The problem is the GPS chipset vendors. They have no interface to put
downloaded AGPS info on the GPS chip (well QC does, they have a
proprietary protocol for this). They are stuck in a mindset that
mobile internet connections are not ubiquitous
On 16/12/14 13:46, Donovan Preston wrote:
I believe the problem with GPS is not one of configuration, it is one of
licensing. The carriers have a license to use commercial AGPS and SUPL
servers, but devices that are not shipped by a carrier do not have a
license to use one.
AGPS is just a way
On 20/11/14 03:13, vkval...@gmail.com wrote:
I am planning to use that in firefox OS. I guess I need to use xpcom
interface to access gecko api for device functionality.
Any other caveats in this approach. Is this approach workable.
Native applications are not supported on Firefox OS.
Why
On 12/11/14 04:54, Dee wrote:
* Changing volume control works even when no music is playing. This
accidentaly changes the volume when the phone is in my pocket. And often
it gets noiseless in this way and I do not hear it any more.
There's good Android software called Volume Locker to deal
On 11/11/14 21:04, Asa Dotzler wrote:
As we star work on the next reference device(s) I wanted to reach out to
y'all and ask you how the Flame *hardware* has worked for you as a daily
driver (dogfooding) device.
Can I briefly re-mention here that it would be a really awesome thing
for a whole
Hi,
I have a Flame running 1.3, and want to upgrade it to 2.1:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Developer_phone_guide/Flame
However, the instructions there aren't working for me (trying to flash
the 1.3 base image - which the page says is necessary - leads to the
phone rebooting
On 11/09/14 12:30, Kumar Rishav wrote:
fastboot devices Does it show ur device?
No. That is, I can follow the instructions you give for getting into
fastboot mode, but the fastboot devices command returns no output.
Where should I get a good copy of fastboot? I appear to have one from
October
On 11/09/14 13:16, Gervase Markham wrote:
On 11/09/14 12:30, Kumar Rishav wrote:
fastboot devices Does it show ur device?
No.
Found the problem - I wasn't running the flash.sh script with sudo, so
fastboot couldn't see my device. :-| Sorry to bother you.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en
On 11/08/14 19:06, John Ford wrote:
a single source of truth about what
built a given build through the on device manifest.
Now _that_ I am in favour of. Full speed ahead! :-)
Gerv
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Another problem, which isn't packaging specific but that is still
important, is how do we give a browsed-to app additional permissions
over what webpages have. Currently permissions are created by the
installation code, but that won't work for browsed-to privileged apps.
But by seeing that
On 09/04/14 23:09, Dave Huseby wrote:
dang, maybe I'm only allowed 1 attachment?
Mozilla lists don't allow any attachments AFAIK.
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On 20/01/14 19:33, Marek Raida wrote:
Well, I've HERE Maps in Movistar FFOS Edition without option to
delete the app (quite the opposite problem). As for the
OpenScreetMaps = they are huge!!! and what's worse, every region has
different hierarchies (in data), so I do not believe it to be
On 14/01/14 03:16, Karl Dubost wrote:
When accessing Web sites, sometimes Firefox OS is identified as a
basic feature phone and is being sent to the WAP site. (below an
example of that)
On Firefox OS, * the user gets a blank page. That's not very helpful.
There should be a better way to
On 03/11/13 11:27, Hubert Figuière wrote:
I just boostrapped the page with the publicly available phones:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/Phones
Feel free to add to it :-)
I don't know them all, but it would be great if that page also listed
the codenames where
On 10/10/13 15:57, Fabrice Desré wrote:
We have a tts engine used for accessibility purposes (see
https://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/content/media/webspeech/synth/)
based on picotts. I'm cc-ing Eitan that knows this are way better.
There is also interest in using eSpeak, if we can
On 02/09/13 19:31, Fernando Jiménez Moreno wrote:
I think that we need to show a system notification (I'll let UX
decide how the notification should look like) every time an user
attempts to perform an action associated with a write in the data
partition during a low storage situation (that is
On 29/08/13 14:45, Hubert Figuière wrote:
That would require the ZTE Open to be actually Open. It is not. You
can't reflash them.
My understanding is that you can, and we are working on instructions for
doing so.
Gerv
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On 30/08/13 09:47, Gervase Markham wrote:
On 29/08/13 14:45, Hubert Figuière wrote:
That would require the ZTE Open to be actually Open. It is not. You
can't reflash them.
My understanding is that you can, and we are working on instructions for
doing so.
To expand, I am told that by next
On 26/08/13 07:53, MARINA RODRIGUEZ IGLESIAS wrote:
our intranet and supporting internal clients. This is my first
experience in a commercial product development and I'm very excited
to become part of your community and participate in firefoxOS
development. I'm sure we can learn a lot together
On 11/07/13 15:40, Icy Fox wrote:
My company is a startup looking to market FireFox OS tablets starting
in Brazil with plans to reach the rest of America eventually, and
we're currently looking for a manufacturer interested in helping us
produce the tablets for consumer use.
Does anyone
On 09/07/13 08:07, Fabrice Desre wrote:
Another item on the Engineering whislist that I think is crucial for
b2g success is to add some kind of add-on support. Firefox's popularity
is in no small part due to its add-on model that allows both
customization and extensibility.
How can we
On 21/05/13 00:49, Cheng Wang wrote:
Lastly, given that we can't get build/device information automatically
via the user agent, it's making my job very difficult, since there are
now at least 6-7 builds out there, not to mention people using the
emulator. I can't promise anything about how
On 30/04/13 07:52, Cheng Wang wrote:
* Change user agent so we stop getting offered android apps
The default UA does not contain the string Android; if they get
offered Android apps, we need to know the sites concerned so we can
either get them to fix their sniffing, or consider removing a UA
On 19/04/13 17:29, Dave Hylands wrote:
You use the following:
BRANCH=branch-name ./config.sh phone-name
You can cd to B2G/.repo/manifests and do git branch -a to see the names of
the branches:
remotes/origin/master
remotes/origin/v1-train
remotes/origin/v1.0.0
On 24/04/13 16:30, Julien Wajsberg wrote:
Out of curiosity, what is your license scanning script ? :)
http://hg.mozilla.org/users/gerv_mozilla.org/relic/
It's what's used to produce our large open source licensing compliance
document, which you can find in the legal section of Settings.
On 24/04/13 16:51, L. David Baron wrote:
If the reason you're interested is license-scanning scripts, you
should be aware that what device you configure for affects what code
gets pulled.
Can you elaborate a little bit?
If the difference is device vs. emulator, that's OK, as I'm not so
Hi everyone,
I often find myself wondering what I can and can't say about Firefox OS,
and what has been announced publicly. I'm sure others are in the same
position. So I thought it would be great if there was a page which
summarised the public info on key topics such as announced partners,
Hi B2G team,
Where can I find info about what B2G branches there are, what they are
for, and how much change is expected on each?
(Motivation: If we get back into significant development, including e.g.
importing code from outside the project, then the Open Source Licenses
page needs to be
On 24/02/13 13:53, Yash Shah wrote:
Hi, I keep looking gsoc 2013 ideas page which is not yet updated. So
I keep looking in brainstorming page. But the Mentor Reporter's
Contacts are never there. So Not able to contact anyone. So It would
be very fine if this website provides atleast his email
On 22/02/13 06:06, Yash Shah wrote:
Hi, I am 2nd Year B.Tech Student from DAIICT Ganghinagar ( India ). I
have very good knowledge of Current Web Technologies ( HTML, CSS,
PHP, Javascript, XML, Python, Django, Ajax, JQuery ). I am very much
interested to participate in GSOC for Mozilla and
On 18/01/13 09:47, Jonas Sicking wrote:
[2] http://xkcd.com/936/
I thought of that also, and I presume Stefan didn't go for it because
we'd have to ship a wordlist. If, however, we are already doing so (e.g.
for spell-checking or the keyboard) then I agree that this is a good idea.
Gerv
On 18/01/13 16:16, Lawrence Mandel wrote:
How about simply not specifying a default password so that the user
has to enter one? IIRC, this is fairly standard practice.
Probably because people wouldn't bother. But if you supply a default
one, clearing it is (usually; I haven't used FxOS text
On 14/01/13 19:37, Alex Keybl wrote:
Below are a few notes on flags, for all of those interested.
This explains everything... except: what does TEF stand for?
Gerv
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On 13/11/12 11:46, Jonas Sicking wrote:
It would indeed be possible to add an API exposed to the settings app
which allowed it to modify arbitrary Gecko preferences. What I was
referring to was running about:config or other chrome-privileged
pages.
However, see below.
OK. Could we add such an
On 09/11/12 13:31, Robert Kaiser wrote:
There's no about: pages that run in chrome mode at all (which most do),
i.e. no about:config, about:crashes, about:memory, etc. - we cannot run
chrome-privileged pages inside content-privileged apps due to security
reasons. This bites us in multiple case
On 09/11/12 08:50, Jonas Sicking wrote:
This is due to time constraints. It's much harder to implement in B2Gs
security model since we essentially don't have any chrome JS code
running other than what's part of gecko. In fact, we don't have any
chrome code which displays UI at all.
But the
On 07/11/12 16:39, Fabrice Desre wrote:
On 11/07/2012 03:21 AM, Gervase Markham wrote:
But B2G doesn't have anything like about:config yet, does it? Are there
any plans to implement something like that?
There's no about:config and no plans to add a generic one.
Wow, that sucks
On 26/10/12 02:04, Jonas Sicking wrote:
Likewise vibration API is probably something that game developers
would want to try out. Would it be possible to write a shim
implementation which blinks the screen or otherwise creates a visual
indicator for when vibration is turned on?
Similarly, if we
On 25/10/12 21:28, Kyle Machulis wrote:
For setting up devices and adapters, it's in for B2G, and only needs
some small additions to make it work on linux. For actually talking to
arbitrary devices, we're not yet exposing sockets up through the DOM.
There's bugs for that (bug 788256), but that's
This is a proposed lightweight policy for adding sites to the UA string
override list.
I propose that we implement this policy, then switch the B2G default UA
back to the OS-agnostic one (no Android; bug 787054). If we hit
problems with specific sites, we file bugs, run through this process,
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