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Sayonara, fast fox. Mozilla is redesigning its logo.
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Mozilla, the non-profit company best known for the Firefox browser and its progressive outlook on online privacy, is giving its fox logo a makeover.
The company announced in a blog that it would seek user input on creating a new design system. Post authors Madhava Enros, Sr. Director, Firefox User Experience and Tim Murray, Creative Director, Mozilla explained that it was revamping the “fast fox” logo to better represent the suite of products that it now produces.
“Firefox is creating new types of browsers and a range of new apps and services with the internet as the platform,” Enros and Murray write. “With your input, we’ll have a final system that will make a Firefox product recognizable out in the world even if a fox is nowhere in sight.” Read more…
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Firefox will soon show users ads in new tabs
Free browsers sound nice, but at the end of the day, something’s got to pay the bills.
Mozilla announced last week that its Firefox browser would begin featuring ads, in what Pocket founder and CEO Nate Weiner referred to in a blog post as “a privacy…
Mozilla makes ‘tracking protection’ the default on Firefox for iOS
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As the good citizens of the internet become more and more woke as to how little of our activity online is truly private, Mozilla Firefox wants to step up as the browser for privacy-oriented people.
Mozilla announced in a blog post on Thursday that default “tracking protection” is rolling out in Firefox for iOS. That means browsing done on iPhone and iPad devices will be automatically blocked from pixel tracking — which allows advertisers, and, oh, Facebook, to collect data on which websites you visit and products you view.
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Don’t call it a Facebook exodus. At least not yet.
Mozilla announced Thursday it would “pause” advertising on Facebook. The Firefox nonprofit company is pulling a Ross from Friends thanks to Facebook’s relationship with Cambridge Analytica, which exposed the data of 50 million Facebook users “without their knowledge or consent.”
Denelle Dixon, Mozilla’s chief business and legal officer, explained the decision in a blog post:
Specifically, Mozilla is concerned about the default app permissions that it says lack transparency about how third-party apps can access users’ data. Mozilla is perturbed that if Facebook users play games, read news, or take quizzes on Facebook, they are likely unknowingly opening up their information including work, education, timeline posts, and more, to external companies. Read more…
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Firefox Quantum is here. Firefox’s new web browser is the most interesting thing to happen in the browsing space in a long time, and, yes, it will let you run all the tabs you want. But there’s one obstacle standing in Firefox’s way to greatness, and that’s Google’s browsing behemoth, Chrome.
Since its debut in 2008, Chrome has cemented itself as the web browser of choice for anyone who knows better than to use the default — a title that used to belong to Firefox. Over time, thanks to its speed and lack of bloat, Chrome made Firefox irrelevant.
Quantum aims to turn back the tide, partly by hitting Chrome where it hurts: speed. Firefox claims Quantum loads some popular websites twice as fast. Read more…
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