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Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service
At Mozilla, we are always committed to people’s security and privacy. It’s part of our long-standing Mozilla Manifesto. We are continually looking for
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 272 posts.
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Firefox 70
Firefox 70 is released today, and includes great new features such as secure password generation with Lockwise and the new Firefox Privacy Protection Report, as well as cool additions for ...
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Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio
Unsolicited volume can be a great source of distraction and frustration for users of the web. So we are making changes to how Firefox handles playing media with sound and ...
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Block Fingerprinting with Firefox
Browser fingerprinting is a hidden way websites and third parties can identify your web browser based on a mix of device details, settings, and system characteristics. Firefox helps prevent browser fingerprinting with built-in protections designed to reduce that tracking and give you more control over your online…
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Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default
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
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Brave launches 1.0
San Francisco – November 13, 2019 – Brave Software, makers of the innovative Brave browser which combines privacy with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform, today announced the official launch of Brave 1.0. The Brave open source browser fundamentally shifts how users, publishers, and advertisers interact…
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DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps
We're excited to announce that map and address-related searches on DuckDuckGo for mobile and desktop are now powered by Apple's MapKit JS framework.
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Ending our Medium integration
Sometime in the past few weeks, Medium abruptly deleted third-party access to their publishing API. There was no warning before, or notic...
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Adblocking: How about Nah?
For more than a decade, consumer rights groups (including EFF) worked with technologists and companies to try to standardize Do Not Track, a flag that browsers could send to online companies signaling that their users did not want their browsing activity tracked. Despite long hours and backing from...
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HTTP headers for the responsible developer
Guide to using HTTP headers for a better web. Learn about HTTPS, HSTS, CSP, Cacheable, immutable resources, serving WebP images, Feature-Policy and more.
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Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances
Almost a hundred years ago, John Maynard Keynes suggested that the industrial revolution would effectively end work for humans within a couple of generatio
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The world needs more search engines
There are only very few truly independent search engines in the world. Google, Bing, Yandex, and Baidu are the best known ones. Most other players only white label results from those four and are dependent on them and their business model. Or they are so localized and small that they do not offer a credible…
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Reducing notification permission prompt spam in Firefox
Permission prompts are a common sight on the web today. They allow websites to prompt for access to powerful features when needed, giving users granular and contextual choice about what ...
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Google’s robots.txt parser is now open source
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
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The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JavaScript Interpreter in Firefox 70
Modern web applications load and execute a lot more JavaScript code than they did just a few years ago. While JIT (just-in-time) compilers have been very successful in making JavaScript ...
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Serious Chrome zero-day
The Sophos Blog
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Firefox 65.0 released
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!
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Reinventing Firefox for Android
With Firefox Preview, we’re combining the best of what our lightweight Focus application and our current mobile browsers have to offer to create a best in class mobile experience. The new application is powered by Firefox's own mobile browser engine -- GeckoView -- the same high-performance, feature enabling motor…
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Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018)
Let’s retire the ‘virtual DOM is fast’ myth once and for all
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Running GitHub on Rails 6.0
On August 26, 2019, the GitHub application was deployed to production with 100% of traffic on the newest Rails version: 6.0. Read more about our process for upgrading, what we learned, and what’s next.
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How to build a plugin system on the web and also sleep well at night
The solution we found helps us run Figma plugins in a safe way — i.e. not eval(UNTRUSTED_CODE).
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Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust
Brave Shields, which protect users’ privacy from trackers and ads, are one of the cornerstone components of the browser involved in handling every single web request made for loading a website.
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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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Flutter: a Portable UI Framework for Mobile, Web, Embedded, and Desktop
Today marks an important milestone for the Flutter framework , as we expand our focus from mobile to incorporate a broader set of devices and form factors. At I/O, we’re releasing our first technical preview of Flutter for web , announcing that Flutter is powering Google’s smart display platform including the Google…
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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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Svelte 3: Rethinking Reactivity
It’s finally here
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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.