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Jetpack is a Mozilla Labs project which makes it possible for anyone who knows standard web skills (HTML, Javascript, CSS) to make Firefox add-ons. We are happy to announce that we have a winner for the Jetpack 0.5 contest . Given the fantastic group of entrants, with Jetpacks that did ...
Celebrating Five Years of Firefox!
blog.mozilla.com — You say it’s your birthday…Well it’s our birthday too! Five years ago today, Mozilla launched Firefox 1.0 with belief that, as the most significant social and technological development of our time, the Internet is a public resource ... (more) Celebrating Five Years of Firefox!
“Firefox Goes Mobile” Winner Announced, Plus a New Design Challenge!
“Firefox Goes Mobile” Winner Announced, Plus a New Design Challenge!
blog.mozilla.com — The results from the Mozilla Creative Collective’s “Firefox Goes Mobile” design challenge are in, and I’m happy to announce that the winner is “Pocketfox”, by Yaroslaff Chekunov. As the official emblem of the ... (more) “Firefox Goes Mobile” Winner Announced, Plus a New ...
5 years of Firefox
5 years of Firefox
hacks.mozilla.org — Firefox is five years old. We thought that we would celebrate that by talking about how the web has changed over the last five years and Firefox’s role in those changes. Where We’re At 2009 has been an interesting year. We’re at a ... (more) 5 years of Firefox
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Mozilla Jetpack contest winner harnesses GPU power to process data
Download Squad — ... Mozilla Labs has announced a winner of the Jetpack .5 contest. While Jetpack is known primarily as a framework for allowing coders with a web development background to put together add-on type enhancements for Firefox, the winner 's project wasn't your run-of-the-mill sidebar hack. Alex Miltsev's submission was jetpack-to-CUDA, and it provides Jetpack developers with a simple way to offload intense processing tasks to GPUs. CUDA (demo video above) is NVidia's parallel computing architecture - and with CUDA-capable chips in more than 100 million ...

Jetpack contest winner created prototype to harnesses GPU power to process data
D' Technology Weblog — ... Jetpack is a Mozilla Labs project which makes it possible for anyone who knows standard web skills (HTML, Javascript, CSS) to make Firefox add-ons. Mozilla announced the winner of Jetpack 0.5 contest, Alexander Miltsev of Moscow created a prototype “ ...

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