Mobile

Talos is the Mozilla performance testing system. Talos runs in conjunction with our continuous build system (Tinderbox). After every build completes, it is sent off to Talos for performance testing. Mobile has continuous builds for Maemo and Windows Mobile (not sure what’s up with mobile-wince-arm-dep-191). Recently, Talos was setup for the Maemo builds. We are collecting data for a few metrics. Tp3 (pageload time) is notably missing. Aki has it working on the staging server, so it should be available soon.

Nino D’Aversa, a student at Seneca College, has been working on some Fennec Windows Mobile features. His latest blog post shows the progress he has made on Bug 465664, adding tel: link support. That’s right, click a tel: link and the dialer opens to make the call.

TechCrunch has an ongoing project to design a “dead simple and dirt cheap touch screen web tablet to surf the web.” The latest version, Prototype B, looks pretty nice.

Fennec Alpha 2 is now available for download! Desktop versions are available too (Windows, OS X, Linux). While we added some good features in this alpha, the primary focus was performance. Faster startup. Faster page loading. Faster panning and UI interactions.

Next week I’ll be in Mountain View, CA. Mozilla Mobile is having a face-to-face work week, gearing up for Fennec Alpha 2. As a remote employee, I enjoy getting together with the rest of the team.

Last weekend I decide to add some Mochitest unit testing to XUL Explorer, one of my XULRunner based applications. Luckily, this is something Dave Townsend already did with a different XULRunner application, McCoy. It was pretty easy to use Dave’s McCoy patch as a basis for getting things working in XUL Explorer. I used XULRunner 1.9.0.4 for building XUL Explorer and, amazingly, my unit tests ran on the first try! Here’s the changeset.

The newest official XULRunner has been released. XULRunner 1.9.0.4 matches the Firefox 3.0.4 release. For XULRunner developers, most of the changes in 1.9.0.4 are related to security fixes.