Exciting, @mozilla is now also launching their own instance! 👏 Currently as a private beta with a waiting list. Together with @medium, @Flipboard and @Vivaldi, that's quite a group of tech companies that believe in the future of #Mastodon and the #Fediverse. Hopefully this commitment will pay off in the long run and not be stopped by the hype around #Bluesky. #Mozilla#SocialMedia
Note: I re-posted this video today in support of @social continuing to explore the fediverse and trying to be a champion of how a responsible organization should approach social media. Good on team #mozilla and #firefox. :firefox:
While I agree with the @fsf warning about the emblematic value of the decision by #Google to pull support for #JpegXL from #Chrome, their article <https://u.fsf.org/3z8> is as empty as could be, especially considering that #GNU#IceCat doesn't support JPEG XL either (being based on a #Firefox branch that doesn't build #JXL support in.) You want to show that #FLOSS can do without? Do it by actually supporting what you complain Google is failing to.
We are excited to announce that Fakespot will be joining the Mozilla family. Together we will expand Fakespot’s capabilities and continue to innovate new ways to create a better online shopping experience for people, one where they can feel safe and confident they are purchasing the best, most trustworthy products. Firefox is committed to making people’s lives better online and we know Fakespot’s expertise will help us deliver an even better ecommerce experience. https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/fakespot-joins-mozilla-firefox-shopping-announcement/
Anyone knows if there’s a #firefox extension that allows you to add some sort of black square overlay on any video to hide parts you don’t wish to see (ads, on-screen chats etc.)?
@asahi95 Even tho I understand your issues with the "recent" decisions from #mozilla, for me #vivaldi isn't really an alternative. In general my dislike of all those chrome skins is still bigger than that of #firefox.
「 Most of us, if we found ourselves trudging up 21 flights of stairs, would just get pissed off and leave it there. But Hoare decided to do something about it. He opened his laptop and began designing a new computer language, one that he hoped would make it possible to write small, fast code without memory bugs. He named it Rust, after a group of remarkably hardy fungi that are, he says, “over-engineered for survival.” 」
— @techreview
⎧ In 2009, Mozilla decided to officially sponsor Rust. The language would be open source, and accountable only to the people making it, but Mozilla was willing to bootstrap it by paying engineers. A Rust group took over a conference room at the company; Dave Herman, cofounder of Mozilla Research, dubbed it “the nerd cave” and posted a sign outside the door. Over the next 10 years, Mozilla employed over a dozen engineers to work on Rust full time, Hoare estimates ⎭ #Rust #Mozilla
Zadziwia mnie jak bardzo różni się podejście #Google i #Mozilla w kwestii wtyczek do przeglądarek. Podczas tworzenia rozszerzenia do #Chrome okazało się, że wiele internetowych poradników i porad jest nieaktualnych, ponieważ Google jakiś czas temu przestało obsługiwać #ManifestV2 (czyli taki plik tłumaczące przeglądarce jakie uprawnienia potrzebuje rozszerzenie, jak się nazywa itd.) w silniku #Chromium i należy tworzyć rozszerzenia już formacie w #ManifestV3.
Zupełnie inaczej sytuacja wygląda w przypadku #MozillaFirefox – jak tylko załadowałem wtyczkę do sklepu, pojawił się komunikat, że moja wtyczka jest oparta o Manifest V3, a zalecane jest korzystanie z Manifest V2, ponieważ starsze wersje #Firefox nie obsługują V3, gdyż jest to stosunkowo nowość
The tech industry is abuzz about a new standard for social networking that is more open, more user-centric, and potentially more powerful than #Twitter and #Facebook. But we’ve been here before.
#Mozilla has done some great things with #Firefox over the years, but Total Cookie Protection (essentially isolated cookie jars) is one of the most robust and privacy-conscious ways of handling cookies that I've seen in any browser today. It's a natural evolution of the "container tab" concept that prevents third parties from easily tracking you across the web.
I just published a blog post about my last 5 years contributing to Mozilla as a volunteer. We're now marking the 16th year I'm contributing as a Mozillian. This time I only wrote down the high-level points and focused mostly on Common Voice. If there is anything else you'd be interested in, please reach out and I can extend the blog post.