People do use Add to Home Screen – Firefox UX

Oh no! My claim has been refuted by a rigourous scientific study of …checks notes… ten people. Be right back: just need to chat with eleven people. adactio.com/links/19941 | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 1 year ago

In early 2023, Mozilla will stand up and test a publicly accessible instance in the Fediverse at Mozilla.Social. We’re eager to join the community in gro | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 1 year ago

A glossary of terms about cyberattacks, from ransomware to DDoS

If you read news about technology, you’re bound to run into some jargon. Here at Mozilla, we believe that information should be as accessible as poss | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 1 year ago

Privacy online just got easier with today’s Firefox release

October is one of our favorite months of the year with Autumn and Cybersecurity Awareness Month. We’re supporting Cybersecurity Awareness with Private Br | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 1 year ago

Firefox makes browsing more colorful with new ‘independent voices’

The internet we know today has evolved from a place to perform a specific task into a creative and essential platform touching most aspects of our lives.&n | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 1 year ago

Protect your privacy and your phone number with Firefox Relay

When you share your personal phone number with anyone outside your circle of family and friends, it essentially gives them permission to call you anytime o | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 1 year ago

Clawing Our Way Back to Precision: SpiderMonkey Precise GC (2013)

JavaScript Memory Usage Web pages and applications these days are complex and memory-hungry things. A JavaScript VM has to handle megabytes and often gigabytes of ... | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 1 year ago

Steve Teixeira, Mozilla’s New Chief Product Officer

I am pleased to share that Steve Teixeira has joined Mozilla as our Chief Product Officer. During our search for a Chief Product Officer, Steve stood out t | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 1 year ago

Understanding Apple’s Private Click Measurement

Private advertising technology proposals could greatly improve privacy for web users. Web advertising has a reputation for poor privacy practices. Firefox, | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 1 year ago

Reflecting on 10 years of time well spent with Pocket

Ten years ago, a small, yet mighty team launched Pocket because we felt that people deserved a better way to consume content on the internet. We wanted it | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 1 year ago

Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all users worldwide

Take back your privacy Starting today, Firefox is rolling out Total Cookie Protection by default to all Firefox users worldwide, making Firefox the most pr | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 1 year ago

Calling for Antitrust Reform

Mozilla supports the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA). The time for change is now. It’s time for governments to address the reality | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 1 year ago

When it comes to privacy, default settings matter (2019)

What if I told you that on nearly every single website you visit, data about you was transmitted to dozens or even hundreds of companies, all so that the w | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 1 year ago

Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default (2019)

It’s been several weeks since I was promoted to Senior Vice President of Firefox, responsible for overall Firefox product and web platform development. A | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 1 year ago

Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part of Project Bergamot

Article URL: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/local-translation-add-on-project-bergamot/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31596888 Points: 84 # Comments: 18 | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 1 year ago

Celebrating Firefox: How we got to 100

Whether it’s celebrating the first 100 days of school or turning 100 years old, reaching a 100th milestone is a big deal worthy of confetti, streamers an | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 1 year ago

Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts

So you’ve washed your sheets and vacuumed under the couch in the name of spring cleaning. But what about your online clutter? Apps that delight, inform a | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 2 years ago

What Flips Your Bit: Cosmic Ray Errors at Mozilla

(“This Week in Glean'' is a series of blog posts that the Glean Team at Mozilla is using to try to communicate better about our work. They could be release ... | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 2 years ago

How to make sure you aren’t spreading misinformation online

Facts can be empowering during uncertain times, and perhaps there’s no fact-finding tool more accessible than the internet. But as past years have taught | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 2 years ago

Firefox Extension Helps Bring Movie Magic to Theaters Near You

Firefox is about to let you in on a little known industry secret…did you know some of the leading visual effects studios including Industrial Light & | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 2 years ago

Latest Firefox Relay: bigger attachment size, filters for promotional emails

Since the public launch of Firefox Relay, thousands of users have signed up for our smart, easy solution that hides your real email address to help protect | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 2 years ago

Mozilla and the EFF publish letter about the danger of Article 45.2

Principle four of the Mozilla Manifesto states that “Individuals’ security and privacy on the internet are fundamental and must not be treated as optio | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 2 years ago

Firefox And Pixar Animation Studios team up to help you show your true colors

“But maybe I like this new me.” The trailer for Disney and Pixar’s new film, “Turning Red,” streaming on Disney+ March 11, ends with Mei, its 13- | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 2 years ago

Mozilla Foundation places two-page advocacy ad in The New York Times (2004)

Campaign Supported by Community Marketing and Fundraising Aims to Raise Awareness of Mozilla Firefox MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - December 15th, 2004 - The Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to ... | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 2 years ago

Rust API for the Firefox Profiler

Firefox Profiler is a tool for analyzing the performance of both websites and Firefox itself. You can visit profiler.firefox.com to learn more about and enable it. Inside the Firefox codebase, ... | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 2 years ago

Privacy Preserving Attribution for Advertising

Advertising provides critical support for the Web. We’ve been looking to apply privacy preserving advertising technology to the attribution problem, so t | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 2 years ago

Update on Firefox Reality

Mozilla’s mission is to make sure the Internet remains open and accessible to all. Four years ago, we launched Firefox Reality, a browser for mixed reali | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 2 years ago

Mozilla is bringing popular privacy features to its desktop and mobile VPN

At Mozilla, online privacy has always been one of our top priorities. Recently we announced Total Cookie Protection on Firefox Focus to combat cross-site t | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 2 years ago

Shaw Joins Firefox’s Trusted Recursive Resolver Program

Shaw becomes first Canadian ISP to Commit to Data Retention and Transparency Requirements That Protect Customer Privacy Today, Mozilla, the maker of Firefo | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 2 years ago

Preventing secrets from leaking through Clipboard

  For decades users have been pressing Ctrl+C or relying on copy buttons. All these tricks and shortcuts to speed up text processing have become natural and intuitive to us. ... | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 2 years ago

Firefox Relay now available with more email aliases with Premium service

Today, Firefox Relay, a privacy-first and free product that hides your real email address to help protect your identity, is available with a new paid Premi | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 2 years ago

Mozilla publishes position paper on the EU Digital Identity Framework

The EU is considering a draft law that has serious ramifications for the website security ecosystem. We have recommendations for how to fix it. | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 2 years ago

Firefox Add-On Policy Changes 2021

From time to time, the Add-ons Team makes changes to the policies in order to provide more clarity for developers, improve privacy and security for ... | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 2 years ago

Finding and Fixing DOM-Based XSS with Static Analysis

Despite all the efforts of fixing Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) on the web, it continuously ranks as one of the most dangerous security issues in software. In particular, DOM-based XSS is ... | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 2 years ago

Firefox 94 for iOS and Android adds new features for bookmarks and tabs

Today, we are rolling out a brand new Firefox homepage on Android and iOS, designed for those on-the-go, short bursts of online interactions that are const | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 2 years ago

New Colorways for Firefox 94

Today, Firefox is launching Colorways, a new feature that allows our users to express their most authentic selves and to bring them joy while browsing the | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 2 years ago

Mozilla removes paywall-bypassing addons for Firefox

Add-ons are a powerful way to extend and customize Firefox. At Mozilla, we are committed not only to supporting WebExtensions APIs, but also ensuring the safety and reliability of the ... | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 2 years ago

Welcome Imo Udom, Mozilla’s New Senior Vice President, Innovation Ecosystems

I am delighted to share that Imo Udom has joined Mozilla as Senior Vice President, Innovation Ecosystems. Imo brings a unique combination of strategy, tech | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 2 years ago

Implementing form filling and accessibility in the Firefox PDF viewer

Intro Last year, during lockdown, many discovered the importance of PDF forms when having to deal remotely with administrations and large organizations like banks. Firefox supported displaying PDF forms, but ... | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 2 years ago

News from Firefox Focus and Firefox on Mobile

One of our promises this year was to deliver ways that can help you navigate the web easily and get you quickly where you need to go. We took a giant step | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 2 years ago

Analysis of Google’s Privacy Budget Proposal

Fingerprinting is a major threat to user privacy on the Web. Fingerprinting uses existing properties of your browser like screen size, installed add-ons, e | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 2 years ago

Superhero passwords may be your kryptonite wherever you go online

A password is like a key to your house. In the online world, your password keeps your house of personal information safe, so a super strong password is lik | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 2 years ago

Pentest-Report Mozilla VPN Apps and Clients 03.2021 [pdf]

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@blog.mozilla.org | 2 years ago

The evolution of WebRTC 1.0. – Advancing WebRTC

March 2018 update: Firefox 59 now implements transceivers (stage 3) as described in this article. Remote tracks are now muted and temporarily removed from their stream(s), rather than ended, in response to direction changes (e.g. from removeTrack). Listen to stream.onremovetrack … | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 2 years ago

Mozilla VPN Completes Independent Security Audit by Cure53

Today, Mozilla published an independent security audit of its Mozilla VPN, which provides encryption and device-level protection of your connection and inf | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 2 years ago

Why Are Hyperlinks Blue?

The internet has ingrained itself into every aspect of our lives, but there’s one aspect of the digital world that I bet you take for granted. Did you ev | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 2 years ago

Firefox 91 introduces enhanced cookie clearing

We are pleased to announce a new, major privacy enhancement to Firefox’s cookie handling that lets you fully erase your browser history for any website. Today’s new version of Firefox ... | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 2 years ago

Firefox 91 Introduces HTTPS by Default in Private Browsing

  We are excited to announce that, starting in Firefox 91, Private Browsing Windows will favor secure connections to the web by default. For every website you visit, Firefox will ... | Continue reading


@blog.mozilla.org | 2 years ago