I received a couple mails and comments lately about Mozilla XForms not being available for Firefox 5 (or on addons.mozilla.org for Firefox 4). I also have been thinking about the future direction the Mozilla XForms extension could and should take. This post tries to outline some of those thoughts. Let’s start with the facts. On [...]

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VirtualBox and its USB support always have caused some trouble. Since VirtualBox 4, the USB support is not part of a different binary any more (PUEL vs. OSE), but lives inside an extension pack, which you can download from the VirtualBox download site. On openSUSE, this means you can install the VirtualBox package using Yast [...]

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This combination seems to be a bit hard for openSUSE. While PulseAudio solves many problems Linux users have with audio (and creates others), openSUSE seems to make it even harder for users to make use of it. That’s usually not a problem, until Skype comes into the game. As soon as it detects PulseAudio being [...]

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A lot of improvements went into Firefox 4 that also affected compatibility with the Mozilla XForms extension. We have been trying to keep up with the developments and with Beta 8 of Firefox 4 there should be no more breaking changes. To make sure we didn’t miss any important regressions over the previous versions, I [...]

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Firefox 4 will come with a lot of under-the-hood changes that affected XForms as well. Fixing those issues wasn’t trivial and took quite some time (the first bug is from February), but as of today I’m happy to announce that xforms and schema-validation build with the current Mozilla trunk code again. The upcoming Beta 7 [...]

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