Mozilla News
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Congratulations 2012 Firefox Flicks Winners!
May 17, 2012We are excited to announce from the Cannes Film Festival that we have selected the global winners of our 2012 Firefox Flicks competition. After calling on creatives, filmmakers and students to help us tell the story of Mozilla Firefox, we received more than 400 submissions from thousands of filmmakers worldwide. Please see the video reel… Read more
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Do Not Track Gains More Support around the Web
May 17, 2012Editor’s Note: Mozilla today announced updated user and industry adoption of Do Not Track. Check out the blog post from Alex Fowler, Mozilla Global Privacy and Policy Lead. Excerpt below. Mozilla introduced the Do Not Track header last year to give users more control over online tracking by third parties. Since launching Do Not Track,… Read more
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Windows on ARM Users Need Browser Choice Too
May 9, 2012For the past eight years, users and developers have enjoyed a Windows platform environment that offered users a choice of browsers to navigate their digital lives. It wasn’t always that way. Prior to the launch of Firefox in 2004, there was really only one browser for Windows – Internet Explorer. Only IE and Firefox had… Read more
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From CTIA Wireless 2012: The Web Will Connect our Future
May 9, 2012Editor’s Note: Gary Kovacs, Mozilla CEO, posted on his blog about his keynote speech at CTIA. This is reposted below: Today I have the honor of delivering the opening keynote at CTIA Wireless 2012 with a presentation titled “The Web Will Connect our Future.” Alongside speakers that range from the CEOs of the top US… Read more
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TED-U Talk: Gary Kovacs: Tracking the trackers
May 3, 2012On February 28 at TED University, Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs presented “Tracking the trackers.” As part of that, he provided the crowd with a demo of Collusion, a tool that visualizes the entities that track our behavior on the Web. TED is a nonprofit devoted to “Ideas Worth Spreading” from the technology, entertainment and design… Read more
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Firefox Introduces a Simpler Update Process and More Than 85 Improvements to Developer Tools
April 24, 2012Firefox for Windows, Mac and Linux makes updating the browser easier and includes more than 85 improvements to built-in developer tools. We put a lot of work into making the Firefox update experience easier. Firefox simplifies the update process for Windows users by removing the user account control dialog (UAC) pop-up while maintaining the security… Read more
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Mozilla Open Badges ships Beta release
April 10, 2012Adding skills and achievements to your online identity When Mozilla’s Open Badges project began in late 2010, it was little more than a demo and an audaciously big idea: what if we could use the web to create whole new ways to “show what you know?” Today, that big idea is becoming reality, with impressive… Read more
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New Adventures for Dolly, Bernadette, and Winston
March 22, 2012Firefox Live was created to raise awareness of the red panda species (aka “firefox”) and their endangered status (in addition to sharing the cute cubs with the world). To help achieve this goal, we partnered with the Red Panda Network to promote preservation and to support their Forest Guardian program. On March 27, we will… Read more
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Video, user experience and our mission
March 19, 2012Editors Note: Mitchell Baker posted her thoughts about Web video and the Mozilla mission. Below is an excerpt from her blog post. One key value at Mozilla is giving our users a great experience. We want to build products that people love and that build openness and user sovereignty into the Web. “Products that people… Read more
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Firefox Adds New Developer Tools and Add-on Sync
March 13, 2012Firefox for Windows, Mac and Linux adds new in-product developer tools that make it easier to visualize page elements. Firefox also expands Firefox Sync capabilities to let users sync add-ons across computers. Firefox includes new developer tools that represent the structure of websites in a new way and make it easier to live-edit CSS code.… Read more
