Firefox Privacy Campaign - An unexpected Event

   

  Before Event

On 31st January myself and Prasanth attended a Google event at Web2all company where we fortunately got 45 minutes time which we wanted to put it into a good use ..

we actually started discussing about the privacy issues that we are facing right now ..
Which somehow we got the attention of others .Then we thought sharing about privacy to all, with this precious time was an excellent idea .

Resources used

One laptap

Topics we discussed

• Privacy and security
• Light beam
• Phishing
• Http vs Https

During Event

Prasanth showed up with the power point presentation which he used in his college then he gave a start with what is privacy and Light beam.while i spoke it some real time Examples like Facebook ,Google and how these data are being used by Third party websites and gave a gist of how it would be to have someone's details without their knowledge. I related how the small industry could be affected by these information they track.

About Participants

There were 12 participants excluding us.

The participants are from Startup background and from other colleges.

 Our Achievement

We were able to inspire two students to sign up for FSA program.

Our Special Thanks to Mr.Senthil

Metoomentor

Web2all

Creating A Web App

Creating a app goes through these phases

1. creating a App Manifest

1. serve the manifest with web app

1. Appify the code

1. Validate the markup

1. Publlish the app

Manifest

{
  "name": "My App",
  "description": "My elevator pitch goes here",
  "launch_path": "/index.html",
  "icons": {
    "512": "/img/icon-512.png",
    "128": "/img/icon-128.png"
  },
  "developer": {
    "name": "Your name or organization",
    "url": "http://your-homepage-here.org"
  },
  "default_locale": "en",
  "chrome": { "navigation": true }
}

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps/Build/Manifest

Explanation for each steps

step 1 literally signifies the Manifest Sample part where you provide details about the

 Developers name and the details about the App and it has a extension called as .webapp

Here are for API

Telephone

var tel = navigator.mozsms //creating object

Sms

sms.send('12345677','Hello') //Sending to system

sms.OnReceived = function(event) // Reply from the Telephone

Console.log(event.message)

step 2 Serve the manifest with the app, it more like the coding path where you use HTML CSS and JS 

Step 3 it says that the app must fit into all type of the screen thereby giving the app look 

Step 4 Validating the markup in this case it is HTML 

Step 5 Finally pushing the app into the market place.

  The app should consists of 

index.html

Ui.css

function.js

Manifest.webapp

The app can be uploaded as website else it can be zipped

The Os first looks into the manifest then it goes through the given path

For more details check out the firefox developers Blog

All about October Office Hour_ Dive into Firefox OS part 1

It has been quite a time where Mozilla choose Firefox OS to IOT rather than for it to be for smartphone..Mean while lets take a privilege on knowing how the Mozilla is working with the Firefox OS..

Here i begin with the text form of office hour conducted in October

Things to be known before you contribute to the Firefox

1. Architecture
2. Web application
3. Debugging and validation
4. testing 
5. Publishing

Architecture

This thing should be understood before you start with the web application 

there are three layers  

• GONK -Low level Linux Kernel
• GECKO- application run time i.e rendering engine
• GAIA- Front end

*GECKO is similar to the feature in firefox browser

After a long time.....

This event on November 19 2015 came up with short notice however i was able to make it in time, it was good to know we still have space to collaborate  we were given swags at the end of the event Gowtham helped with the terms in focus to the area of contribution it was quite a good valuable time spent as a FSA.The event is focusing on enabling people to contribute to Mozilla Firefox projects. Agenda, 1. Top projects in Mozilla 2. How to contribute 3. What is track productionAfter this we created a task force in which i found my place in Programming(I am not a geek in it).

A code contribution

 Hey whats up guys this is Seshan i have uploded my webpage's source code which could be uploded by anyone using Googleappengine

My Protofolio

allaboutseshan

the code for this website is available in the following 

https://github.com/seshankb/Website-template

Wow A community for Madurai

November 8 2015

Place :Mozspace

Before event

I got a whatsapp message message from Prasanth give a dull information about about the community startup!i kept it aside for a minute or so then suddenly i took it read the message again it said the MOZMadurai is up!

i felt like OMG something blogged in my head How could it be?who started it?

where and when?............................

He said a Student like us is starting it with Mr.Senthil help (who was known to me through Google developer group)

Event Time

Topics we discussed

• FOSS
• Webmaker
• Contribution 
• Locality
• Net neutrality
• Bugzilla 

My Part

Most of my part was listening and sometimes i discussed about the things i knew about Firefox vs Chrome and some facts about Reverse Engineering and few minute speech about how we are benefited by helping open source and some income tips through it.

Caught some pics 

and here it is!

All photos

Tring Tring it's windows 10

Well in my last blog i told you about a call and this blog is going to carry information about that.....

A student named Arjun gave a call....

Arjun  : Seshan are you free this evening .
Me      ; yes i am .
Arjun  : Then keep the time aside for us.We will come to your home.
Me      : But why?
Arjun  : Dude we would like to have some fun with Buildbox lets make it a event.
Me      :What about this weekend since we don't have a place, we can have it in our home what do                    you say?
Arjun  :Thats better..Meet you on 10 at 10:30

DATE : 10th october 2015

Venue : My home (Thavittusandai,Madurai,India)

Number of participants : 6(That adds me too)

Since they know about the Mozilla we moved on to the Build Box straight away which lasted for 2 hours and then we were discussing about the web and virus and we played few videos which was created by Firefox that it all,and yeah i nearly forgot to mention we had game with HTML5.

The game:

                 We took a webpage source code and edited to the highest possibility

Pic

one missing right!, Probably one must take a photo,he is the one who took this photo

About Windows 10


As a final touch we updated a windows 8 system to windows 10 and was felt a really varied UI and all was new.while we started experiencing a fall back with MICROSOFT EDGE and we tired installing Firefox that's when some youtube videos came in Handy
for your reference :

https://youtu.be/mEUekKqLJ-E
Microsoft says that’s largely for compatibility with legacy enterprise apps. But Edge is the default, and it will be available across Microsoft’s product line, from PCs to smartphones to Holo Lens and Surface Hub. Microsoft said it built Edge to be clean, tight, and responsive.

Those words were not that true indeed i noticed some flaws like slower webpage (Very few pages i think it may be due to cache problem)loading when compared with Firefox and chrome.I referred few blogs around the topic  and i found that i am not the only one who is facing this problem.
 These are few more things which we felt like blogging

• A reasonable way to set the default search engine
• The ability to set multiple home pages in different tabs
• File drag and drop(It is the thing i cannot digest) a worthwhile favorites/bookmark manager.

This Link helps to Remove windows 10 Edge :

http://www.thewindowsbulletin.com/remove-microsoft-edge-browser-from-windows-10-3452/