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  • Firefox Adds Powerful New Developer Tools

    January 31, 2012

    Firefox for Windows, Mac and Linux adds powerful built-in developer tools and delivers smoother updates by making add-ons compatible by default. Firefox adds a number of new built-in developer tools that let developers change the look and feel of websites in real-time. With Page Inspector, developers can peek into a page’s structure and layout without… Read more

  • Crowdsourcing the State of the Union

    January 23, 2012

      Mozilla partners with public media to empower citizen engagement in U.S. election coverage Tuesday’s State of the Union Address from U.S. President Barack Obama will include something special: crowdsourced captions and subtitles provided by everyday citizens around the world. Using new web tools from the Participatory Culture Foundation, supported by Mozilla, participants will transcribe… Read more

  • Firefox Users Engage Congress: SOPA Strike Stats

    January 19, 2012

    Yesterday, we blacked out the default start page in Firefox and redirected visitors to the Mozilla sites to a special action page. We also sent direct messages to members of the Mozilla community through multiple online channels. All these steps were aimed at informing and mobilizing millions of people on the poorly drafted anti-piracy legislation… Read more

  • Mozilla to Join Tomorrow’s Virtual Protests of PIPA/SOPA

    January 17, 2012

    Starting at 8:00 am Eastern tomorrow, Mozilla will join with other sites in a virtual strike to protest the Protect IP Act (PIPA) and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). These bills protect content at all costs, creating the opportunity for abuse and damaging the Web for all of us. We will be blacking out the… Read more

  • More Than Half-a-Million Dollars Raised for Charity in the Mozilla Firefox Challenge

    January 12, 2012

    Celebrity team lead by Sophia Bush is the winner of $25,000 prize for F Cancer Mozilla is pleased to announce that the Mozilla Firefox Challenge, powered by CrowdRise, wrapped up last night and raised more than $680,000 by thousands of people around the world for social and humanitarian causes, turning individual action into global impact.… Read more

  • Delivering a Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release

    January 10, 2012

    We are pleased to announce that the proposal for an Extended Support Release (ESR) of Firefox is now a plan of action. The ESR version of Firefox is for use by enterprises, public institutions, universities and other organizations that centrally manage their Firefox deployments. Releases of the ESR will occur once a year, providing these… Read more

  • Mozilla seeks designers to supercharge learning in digital badges competition

    January 6, 2012

      Design digital badges for NASA, Intel, Disney-Pixar, the U.S. Department of Education and other leading organizations in the “Badges for Learning” competition. Deadline for entries is January 17. Help the world level up with NASA, the MacArthur Foundation and Mozilla. Mozilla is seeking designers and developers to participate in the $2 million “Badges for… Read more

  • Firefox: 2011

    December 21, 2011

    Firefox helped make the Web more awesome in 2011. We released Firefox 4 with Sync to hundreds of millions of people worldwide; we launched Firefox for Android; added the new Firefox Aurora development channel; adopted a faster release cycle; and introduced Do Not Track to the industry. Now we’re excited to share some of the… Read more

  • New Firefox for Android Experience Optimized for Tablets

    December 20, 2011

    Firefox for Android introduces a completely redesigned experience that is optimized for tablets and makes mobile browsing more intuitive. New tools in Firefox enable developers to create interactive mobile Web experiences. Firefox for Android leverages large tablet screen sizes and optimizes popular features for tablets. The Awesome Screen integrates Firefox Sync and makes it easy… Read more

  • Major JavaScript Enhancements Make Firefox Speedy – up to 30% Faster

    December 20, 2011

    Firefox for Windows, Mac and Linux has new JavaScript enhancements that make Web browsing significantly faster. The latest update to Firefox includes Type Inference which boosts JavaScript performance and allow rich websites and Web apps with lots of pictures, videos, games and 3D graphics to load and run much faster. Type Inference is a feature… Read more