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Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center
Our push this year has been building privacy-centric features in our products that are on by default. With this move, we’re taking the guesswork out of h
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Mozilla’s DNS over HTTPs
The current insecure DNS system leaves billions of people around the world vulnerable because the data about where they go on the internet is unencrypted. We’ve set out to change ...
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Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68
As of Firefox 68—releasing next week—camera and microphone will require an https connection to work. Access from insecure http will cease to work, matching how Chrome works. Camera and microhone are powerful features, and Firefox will now only expose them in secure contexts, a security and privacy improvement. Largely…
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Protections Against Fingerprinting and Crypto Mining in Firefox Nightly and Beta
We have added a feature to block fingerprinting and cryptomining in Firefox Nightly as an option for users to turn on.
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HolyJit: A New Hope
tl;dr: We believe there is a safer and easier way of writing a Jit. Current State Today, all browsers’ Jits share a similar design. This ...
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Americans from Both Political Parties Overwhelmingly Support Net Neutrality
Our survey also reveals that a majority of Americans do not trust the government to protect Internet access There’s something that Americans of varied
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The First Browser Dedicated to Developers Is Coming
At Mozilla we know that developers are the cornerstone of the Web, that’s why we actively push standards and continue to build great tools to make it eas
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An update on Mozilla's terms of use for Firefox
On Wednesday we shared that we’re introducing a new terms of use (TOU) and privacy notice for Firefox. Since then, we’ve been listening to some of our
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Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo
Today, I step into the role of CEO of Mozilla Corporation. It is a privilege to lead an organization with a long history of standing up for people and buil
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Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS
There’s only so much room on your screen. Pop-ups, overlays, and ads can take over fast, getting between you and what you came to do. That’s where
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WebAssembly support now shipping in all major browsers
While Mozilla has been preparing to launch Firefox Quantum, its fastest browser yet, some notable developments have happened with WebAssembly, the binary f
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Washington Post integrates Talk – Mozilla’s open-source commenting platform
To engage readers, build community, and strengthen journalism, Mozilla’s open-source commenting platform will be integrated across washingtonpost.com
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Contextual Identities on the Web
The Containers Feature in Firefox Nightly enables users to login to multiple accounts on the same site simultaneously and gives users the ability to segregate site data for improved privacy and security. We all portray different characteristics of ourselves in different situations. The way I speak with my son is much…
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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
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Mozilla expands extension support for Firefox for Android
Today, Mozilla announced more than 450 new extensions (software that adds new features or functionality to the browser) to users on Firefox for Android at
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Firefox for iOS now available
If you’re an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch user you’ll be happy to learn that Firefox for iOS is now available in the App Store worldwide. Firefox for iOS lets ...
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One Step Closer to a Closed Internet
Today, the FCC voted on Chairman Ajit Pai’s proposal to repeal and replace net neutrality protections enacted in 2015. The verdict: to move forward with
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Firefox Focus – a free, fast and easy to use private browser for iOS
Today, we’re pleased to announce the launch of Firefox Focus – a free, fast and easy to use private browser for iOS. We live in an age where too ma
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Firefox extensions to make remote work and school a little better
If you are newly working or going to school from home, the remote approach can be a big shift in how to get things done. Firefox has a number of browser ex
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Initial Release of Mozilla’s Open Source Speech Recognition Model and Voice Data
With the holiday, gift-giving season upon us, many people are about to experience the ease and power of new speech-enabled devices. Technical advancements
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Introducing Firefox Monitor, Helping People Take Control After a Data Breach
Data breaches, when information like your username and password are stolen from a website you use, are an unfortunate part of life on the internet today. I
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Mozilla and Epic Announce Unreal Engine for the Web
Mozilla, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting openness, innovation and opportunity on the Web, is advancing the Web as the platform for high-en
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Update on Multi-Process Firefox
About four months ago, we launched multi-process Firefox to a small group of Firefox 48 users. Shortly after the carefully measured roll-out, we increased to approximately 50% of our user ...
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Open Letter to Microsoft’s CEO: Don’t Roll Back the Clock on Choice and Control
Satya, I am writing to you about a very disturbing aspect of Windows 10. Specifically, that the update experience appears to have been designed to throw aw
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Extensions in Firefox 59
Firefox Quantum continues to make news as Mozilla incorporates even more innovative technology into the platform. The development team behind the WebExtensions architecture is no exception, landing a slew of ...
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Hey advertisers, track this
If it feels like the ads chasing you across the internet know you a little too well, it’s because they do (unless you’re an avid user of ad blockers, i
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AdBlock Plus’s effect on Firefox’s memory usage
[Update: Wladimir Palant has posted a response on the AdBlock Plus blog. Also, a Chrome developer using the handle “Klathmon” has posted numerous good comments in the Reddit discussion of this post , explaining why ad-blockers are inherently CPU- and memory-intensive, and why integrating ad-blocking into a browser…
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Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part of Project Bergamot
In January of 2019, Mozilla joined the University of Edinburgh, Charles University, University of Sheffield and University of Tartu as part of a project fu
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Mitigations landing for new class of timing attack
Several recently-published research articles have demonstrated a new class of timing attacks (Meltdown and Spectre) that work on modern CPUs. Our internal experiments confirm that it is possible to use ...