Hello, SUMO community! We're setting the stage for something big: a revamp of our style guide designed to make our support content not just user-friendly, but user-delightful. To get a ...
Today marks a significant moment in our journey, and I am thrilled to share some important news with you. After much thoughtful consideration, I have decid
A year ago I was sharing how a Mozilla Performance Sheriff catches performance regressions, the entire Workflow they go through, and the incoming improvements. Since I joined the Performance Tools ...
By Celia Bernhardt | cbernhardt@queensledger.com A new mural featuring soft colors and detailed flowers stretches along the main atrium of NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens. The mural was designed by artist Zeehan Wazed, and brought to life through a community painting party in the hospital. Wazed developed the design with the help...
Great news for people using Firefox Nightly on Debian-based Linux distributions (such as Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and others): installing, updating, and testing the latest Firefox Nightly builds just got ...
I was once told that Firefox users don’t always do enough to celebrate the small wins. Here’s something that I consider to be a big one, but might not be int...
We recently identified a bug in the addons.mozilla.org (AMO) external API that caused all signing requests to mark extension submissions as being Android compatible. A ...
Highlights Some more great work from our performance team means that sites using Vue.js 3.0 will run better in Firefox! We’ve added some new behaviours to session restore, and ...
In August we encouraged developers to start preparing their desktop extensions for Firefox Android open availability on addons.mozilla.org (AMO). The project is progressing well and ...
Browser choice screens are back on the menu. Most notably, the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) will require them from 2024. But lawmakers and regulators in many other jurisdictions have also been looking at choice screens alongside other interventions to address deep-seated competition issues in browsers and browser engines...
SpiderMonkey is the JavaScript engine used in Mozilla Firefox. This newsletter gives an overview of the JavaScript and WebAssembly work we’ve done as part of the Firefox 116 and 117 Nightly release cycles.
You might not know it, but Firefox was once widely considered to be an innovative browser. It wasn’t just an alternative to Internet Explorer (and now Chrome). Firefox introduced honest-to-goodness new features that people loved and rely on to this day.
Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400+ Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years (www.pcmag.com)
Keeping you in the loop: What’s new in our Knowledge Base? (blog.mozilla.org)
Hello, SUMO community! We're setting the stage for something big: a revamp of our style guide designed to make our support content not just user-friendly, but user-delightful. To get a ...
Improving Performance in Firefox and Across the Web with Speedometer 3 (hacks.mozilla.org)
Today’s Speedometer release is more open and challenging than before and is the best tool for driving browser performance improvements.
A New Chapter for Mozilla: Focused Execution and an Expanded Role in Charting the Internet’s Future (blog.mozilla.org)
Today marks a significant moment in our journey, and I am thrilled to share some important news with you. After much thoughtful consideration, I have decid
New Sheriffing feature and significant updates to KPI reporting queries (blog.mozilla.org)
A year ago I was sharing how a Mozilla Performance Sheriff catches performance regressions, the entire Workflow they go through, and the incoming improvements. Since I joined the Performance Tools ...
Hospital Mural by Queens Artist Zeehan Wazed Unveiled - Queens Ledger (queensledger.com)
By Celia Bernhardt | cbernhardt@queensledger.com A new mural featuring soft colors and detailed flowers stretches along the main atrium of NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens. The mural was designed by artist Zeehan Wazed, and brought to life through a community painting party in the hospital. Wazed developed the design with the help...
Down and to the Right: Firefox Got Faster for Real Users in 2023 (hacks.mozilla.org)
We’ve been working hard on making Firefox even faster and we’re extremely happy to report that this has resulted in an improvement in speed.
Introducing Mozilla’s Firefox Nightly .deb Package for Debian-based Linux Distributions (blog.nightly.mozilla.org)
Great news for people using Firefox Nightly on Debian-based Linux distributions (such as Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and others): installing, updating, and testing the latest Firefox Nightly builds just got ...
Firefox 120: Searching Tabs in the Address Bar Will Work Across Containers (www.quippd.com)
I was once told that Firefox users don’t always do enough to celebrate the small wins. Here’s something that I consider to be a big one, but might not be int...
Built for Privacy: Partnering to Deploy Oblivious HTTP and Prio in Firefox (hacks.mozilla.org)
Mozilla continues to champion user privacy on the web, teaming up with Fastly and Divvi Up to bring privacy-preserving technology to Firefox.
Firefox tests a built-in checker for fake reviews (www.theverge.com)
Based on technology from Fakespot.
Changes to Android extension signing (blog.mozilla.org)
We recently identified a bug in the addons.mozilla.org (AMO) external API that caused all signing requests to mark extension submissions as being Android compatible. A ...
All Lights Green for 119 – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 145 (blog.nightly.mozilla.org)
Highlights Some more great work from our performance team means that sites using Vue.js 3.0 will run better in Firefox! We’ve added some new behaviours to session restore, and ...
Test Firefox Android extensions and help developers prepare for an open mobile ecosystem in December (blog.mozilla.org)
In August we encouraged developers to start preparing their desktop extensions for Firefox Android open availability on addons.mozilla.org (AMO). The project is progressing well and ...
Can browser choice screens be effective? (research.mozilla.org)
Browser choice screens are back on the menu. Most notably, the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) will require them from 2024. But lawmakers and regulators in many other jurisdictions have also been looking at choice screens alongside other interventions to address deep-seated competition issues in browsers and browser engines...
Hacking the ELF format for Firefox, 12 years later ; doing better with less (glandium.org)
Faster Vue.js Execution in Firefox (hacks.mozilla.org)
Firefox performance on Vue.js has improved significantly throughout the year. Most recently, we sped up reactivity with Proxy optimizations.
August patch set for TenFourFox (tenfourfox.blogspot.com)
The next patch set has landed , bringing the TenFourFox security base up to 115ESR. This includes the usual new certificate roots and update...
Artemis - Apps on Google Play (play.google.com)
A threadiverse app for Android
Clojurists Together: FireFox 116.0 Release (www.clojuriststogether.org)
Though the long wait is finally over. Firefox 116.0 ships with custom formatters support!...
Tor University Challenge (toruniversity.eff.org)
How your university can support freedom of expression for people around the world.
SpiderMonkey Newsletter (Firefox 116-117) (spidermonkey.dev)
SpiderMonkey is the JavaScript engine used in Mozilla Firefox. This newsletter gives an overview of the JavaScript and WebAssembly work we’ve done as part of the Firefox 116 and 117 Nightly release cycles.
How Firefox Loses When it Tries to Copy Chrome (www.quippd.com)
You might not know it, but Firefox was once widely considered to be an innovative browser. It wasn’t just an alternative to Internet Explorer (and now Chrome). Firefox introduced honest-to-goodness new features that people loved and rely on to this day.