Tor, the open source initiative which provides a more secure way to access the internet, is continuing to diversify its funding away from its long-standing reliance on U.S. government grants. The Tor Foundation — the organization behind the service which stands for ‘The Onion Router’ — announced this week that it brought in a record […]
View More Tor pulls in record donations as it lessens reliance on US government grantsCategory: Firefox
Firefox Focus adds support for enhanced tracking protection and Google’s Safe Browsing service
Firefox Focus for Android and iOS is Mozilla’s privacy-centric mobile browser. Today, the organization stepped up this promise of keeping its users’ data private by adding a few new features to the browser that expand on this by adding a new privacy feature, as well as a few other new tools. The main new addition […]
View More Firefox Focus adds support for enhanced tracking protection and Google’s Safe Browsing serviceMozilla and Qualcomm are bringing a native version of Firefox to Windows 10 on ARM
Microsoft is working with Google to bring a native ARM64 version of Chrome to Windows 10 on ARM and as Mozilla announced today, it, too, is working on bringing a native version of Firefox to Windows 10 on ARM. The organization is doing so in cooperation with Qualcomm. Typically, to make any Windows 10 application […]
View More Mozilla and Qualcomm are bringing a native version of Firefox to Windows 10 on ARMMozilla adds website breach notifications to Firefox
Mozilla is adding a new security feature to its Firefox Quantum web browser that will alert users when they visit a website that has recently reported a data breach. When a Firefox user lands on a website with a breach in its recent past they’ll see a pop up notification informing them of the barebones […]
View More Mozilla adds website breach notifications to FirefoxFirefox’s newest Test Pilot experiments help you track prices and email links
Test Pilot is Mozilla’s program for experimenting with some of its more outlandish ideas for Firefox and beyond. Some of those experiments make it into the browser itself, some become stand-alone extensions and others get unceremoniously canned. Today, the organization is announcing two new Test Pilot projects: Price Wise, which lets you track the price […]
View More Firefox’s newest Test Pilot experiments help you track prices and email linksPocket’s reading app won’t sound so robotic now
Last year, Mozilla made its first acquisition by snatching up Pocket, the Instapaper competitor that helps you save longer articles for later reading. Today, this popular reading app is getting a major update that gives its app a visual makeover, including a new dark mode, and most importantly, a better way to listen to the […]
View More Pocket’s reading app won’t sound so robotic nowMozilla’s Firefox Monitor will now alert you when one of your accounts was hacked
Earlier this year, Mozilla announced Firefox Monitor, a service that tells you if your online accounts were hacked in a recent data breach. All you have to give it is your email address and it’ll use the Have I Been Pwned database to show you if you need to worry and what data was compromised. Today, […]
View More Mozilla’s Firefox Monitor will now alert you when one of your accounts was hackedMozilla hires former Google executive as its new policy and security chief
Mozilla has hired Alan Davidson, a former Commerce Dept. digital director, as its new global policy chief. The Firefox browser maker said Tuesday that the former civil servant, who oversaw internet policy and cybersecurity towards the end of Obama’s presidential tenure, will return Mozilla in the new role after last year serving as its tech […]
View More Mozilla hires former Google executive as its new policy and security chiefFirefox will soon start blocking trackers by default
Mozilla today announced that its Firefox browser will soon by default automatically block all attempts at cross-site tracking. There are three parts to this strategy. Starting with version 63, which is currently in testing in the browser’s nightly release channel, Firefox will block all slow-loading trackers (with ads being the biggest offender here). Those are […]
View More Firefox will soon start blocking trackers by defaultFirefox now supports the newest internet security protocol
Last Friday, the Internet Engineering Task Force released the final version of TLS 1.3. This is a major update to TLS 1.2, the security protocol that secures much of the web by, among other things, providing the layer that handles the encryption of every HTTPS connection. The updated spec promises improved security and a bit […]
View More Firefox now supports the newest internet security protocolFirefox Test Pilot introduces smart ‘Advance’ extension to help you explore the web
Mozilla’s Firefox web browser announced today a new experimental extension called Advance that uses machine learning to help users more contextually and intuitively surf the web. This extension is part of Firefox’s ongoing Test Pilot program (which users can opt into anytime) and is powered by the machine learning backbone of the startup Laserlike to better […]
View More Firefox Test Pilot introduces smart ‘Advance’ extension to help you explore the webFirefox finally gets an option to mute sites with autoplay sound
Autoplay videos are about to get a lot less annoying if you use Firefox.
In the newest version of the experimental Firefox Nightly Edition (version 63.0a1), the popular web browser now gives users control over whether a site is allowed to autoplay vi…