Open Positions

May 4th, 2008

We are looking for talented and self motivated software developers, architects and project managers to join our browser software development team:

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Browser performance test

April 22nd, 2008

Friends ;-) recommended me this page to test the browser performance:

dhtml benchmark

This test is especially good if one needs to test the event handling performance in the browser engine.

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WANTED: Technical Project Manager

March 19th, 2008

Our browser team is looking for a Technical Project Manager to join us working on a web browsing technology software for a Linux software stack based on an open source.

Apply online for this position.

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WANTED: Project Manager / Browser Technology Specialist

March 2nd, 2008

Our browser team is looking to hire Project Managers and Software Developers (C/C++/Linux).

The position below describes the browser technology specialist but we are also looking for a project manager to work for the same domain.

Apply online for this position.

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Chinese, Japanese and Korean rendering in MicroB engine

September 7th, 2007

Maemo CJK Support project provides excellent support for Chinese, Japanese and Korean input and rendering.

I’ve installed the 4.0 Beta Release of maemo CJK on OSSO 1.0 with the latest version of the Mozilla based browser for maemo.

Here are the results:

http://www.google.co.jp/  
without fonts with fonts
google-jp-no-fonts.png google-jp-with-fonts.png
http://www.google.co.kr/  
without fonts with fonts
google-kr-no-fonts.png google-kr-with-fonts.png

See installation instructions here:

maemo-cjk.png

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Extra fonts for MicroB engine

August 30th, 2007

I was able to get Arabic and Chinese fonts rendering with MicroB engine.

  1. Go to http://browser-extras.garage.maemo.org/ with your Nokia N800 device
  2. Install Arabic True Type Font and Chinese True Type Font
  3. Reboot the device

See some screen shots below…

Wikipedia home page before the fonts packages were installed:

wiki no fonts 1 wiki no fonts 2

Wikipedia home page after the installation:

wiki with fonts 1 wiki with fonts 2

BBC Arabic and BBC China rendering:

bbc arabic bbc china

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MicroB Party

August 28th, 2007

Hacking is nice but sometimes it is good to get out and have some beer.

Here are some pictures made by Romaxa at Ristorante Gastone and Kaisla pub:

http://picasaweb.google.com/romaxa/MicroBParty

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Mozilla based browser for Nokia 770

August 27th, 2007

Nokia 770 owners could now try our latest Mozilla based browser.

More information is available here: MicroB for 770.

n770 MicroB

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Mozilla based browser for maemo: 2nd public release

August 17th, 2007

I have been using this release for at least couple of weeks.
It is much more stable and has many big fixes for annoying bugs from the previous release. See more about improvements here.

The second public release has also support for Google Spreadsheets.

This is how it was in the 1st release:

google microb 200707

Now it looks much better:

google microb 200708

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Mozilla based browser for maemo is out!

July 18th, 2007

After the huge efforts spent by the browser team members to develop, tune and polish Mozilla engine, it is finally available for public. Big-big-big thanks and congratulations to all who was (and is) involved in the project, guys at Nokia and INdT, Mozilla community for great help and patience ;-)

Quick links:

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