Mozilla Mobile - MicroB

Adblock Plus is available for MicroB

2007-12-14T09:37:00.000-08:00

... Save your time and traffic.
Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them.

To install Adblock Plus click here (for OS2008 only)

Once installation is done, reopen the Browser and note the red icon in the bottom right. Click on it, pass though some info-dialogs to reach the config page:
chrome://adblockplus/content/config.html
That's the Adblock Plus config page which might be opened whenever afterwards by clicking on the red icon or just after opening the chrome url.

List of filters:
http://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions

Lots of useful filters:
http://www.pierceive.com/filtersetg/archive/

Filter for RU zone:
abp://subscribe/?location=http%3A%2F%2Fdenis-ovs.narod.ru%2Fadblock.txt&title=RU%20AdList

From my experience Adblock Plus does indeed speed up browsing on most pages. There is only one execption: if the page is consist of a large number of separate files that all have to be checked by Adblock, and all end up not being blocked, then Adblock makes loading the page slower. Those pages, however, aren't all that common.

Moreover, Adblock performance (startup as well as page load) heavily depends on the filter set that is used.

There is three main preferences (see all on about:config):
1. extensions.adblockplus.enabled - enables adblock
2. extensions.adblockplus.showinstatusbar - make the red icon visible.
3. extensions.adblockplus.patternsfile - path to patterns.ini file which contains all filtering stuff. On the device it's there: /home/user/.mozilla/microb/adblockplus/patterns.ini

Also see:
browser-extras
MozMobile

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Spellchecker's available for MicroB engine.

2007-12-07T04:08:00.001-08:00

So, finally I'm glad to say that Spellchecker is ready =)
It was published on 23/11 on browser-extras but now it has some more fixes I really like:
- Fixed problem with non-ascii char, that means it's possible to use spellcheck with Russian language;
- UI fixes which save some space.

Spellchecker uses Hunspell which is based on MySpell and works also with MySpell dictionaries. Hunspell is the default spell checker of OpenOffice.org office suite and Thunderbird as well.

The main Hunspell advantages:
+ Extended support for language peculiarities; Unicode character encoding, compounding and complex morphology.
+ Improved suggestion using n-gram similarity, rule and dictionary based pronounciation data.
+ Morphological analysis, stemming and generation.
+ list of huge amount of supported languages

To install Spellchecker click here (en-US dic's included).
Find your dictionary which is ported for OS2008 on browser-extras->downloads or port any dictionary by self.

Also see:
Browser-Extras project
MozMobile

Browser-extras is open for a talk.

2007-11-07T23:13:00.000-08:00

After getting huge amount of letters from the world about "we'd like to have smth and smth more and ..."
... finally we've made a mailing lists for browser-extras project. Now everyone can participate in our project and have a talk with developers directly.

Click to subscribe:
- browser-extras-users
...for everyone who have some ideas how to make surfing the Internet better.
- browser-extras-devel
...for everyone who would like to be involved into browser-extras development.

See next to be in touch
Browser-Extras page
MozMobile page

Greasemonkey's available for MicroB.

2007-10-11T03:56:00.000-07:00

After a hard time working for MicroB development we're ready to announce Greasemonkey (GM) extension. Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript. Hundreds of scripts, for a wide variety of poular sites, are already available at http://userscripts.org.

To install it into your N800 click here.

List of features provided by MicroB GM is almost the same as in general Firefox GM.

2 ways to manage GM:
- using GM UI
- chrome://greasemonkey/content/config.html

Additional features soon:
- Editing scripts,
- New user script.

See browser-extras page for new extensions.

2007-08-24T12:41:00.000-07:00

Where to test your browser???

1. BrowserSpy will tell you who are you and what your browser can.
2. One of the oldest tests is Acid2.
3. Gunlaug provides some interesting cases.
4. The test generates random pieces of malformed HTML.

2007-08-23T11:41:00.000-07:00

Who has been looking for Arabian and Chinese fonts for N800? Fonts are available for Mozilla browser. Click, install and use it with your N800.

2007-08-23T08:40:00.000-07:00

GUADEC 2007 was a place where the first MicroB - Mozilla based browser for maemo was presented.
Yesterday we celebrated this event in a ristorante Gastone - a taste of Italy in Helsinki. Some shots.

lets begin...

2007-08-21T08:08:00.000-07:00

This site is gonna contain some stuff related to Mozilla development in mobile area.