Earlier this year, the FTC settled with PayPal over the company’s handling of privacy disclosures in its peer-to-peer payments app Venmo, but Mozilla doesn’t think the changes Venmo made as a result went far enough. This week, Mozilla says it delivered a petition signed by 25,000 Americans asking Venmo to set transactions shared in its […]
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Answering its critics, Google loosens reins on AMP project
Accelerated Mobile Pages, or AMP, has been a controversial project since its debut. The need for the framework has been clear: the payloads of mobile pages can be just insane, what with layers and layers of images, Javascript, ad networks, and more slowing down page rendering time and costing users serious bandwidth on metered plans. […]
View More Answering its critics, Google loosens reins on AMP projectMozilla 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 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 […]
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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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With Lockbox and Notes, Mozilla launches its first set of mobile Test Pilot experiments
Mozilla’s Test Pilot program for Firefox has long been the organization’s way to trial some of its more experimental ideas for new browser features. Now it’s expanding this program to include mobile apps, too, with the launch Firefox Lockbox, of a password manager for iOS, and Notes by Firefox, a note-taking app for Android. Both […]
View More With Lockbox and Notes, Mozilla launches its first set of mobile Test Pilot experimentsFirefox gets speedier tab switching, a new accessibility tool for developers and more
Mozilla today released version 61 of its Firefox browser. By now, it’s no secret that Firefox is back in contention as a serious competitor to Google’s Chrome browser and while the new release doesn’t offer any groundbreaking new features, all of the new improvements and tools in Firefox 61 are good examples for why Firefox […]
View More Firefox gets speedier tab switching, a new accessibility tool for developers and moreMozilla’s next browser might be controlled by your voice
Firefox maker Mozilla is working on an entirely new type of internet browser: One that’s controlled with your voice.
Because why not? We’re all getting used to talking to Alexa, Siri, and the Google Assistant and asking these digital assistants…
Monetizing computing resources on the blockchain
Ben Dickson Contributor Ben Dickson is a software engineer and the founder of TechTalks. More posts by this contributor Unlocking the potential of eye tracking technology Can you trust crypto-token crowdfunding? A while back, a blockchain startup approached me with their pitch, a decentralized social media application in which users can earn money by simply […]
View More Monetizing computing resources on the blockchainFirefox 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 Hubs is a super-simple social chat room for robots
The socially networked web is frightening enough, but maybe chatting with some friendly robots will ease the tension? Today, Mozilla showed off a preview of Hubs, a dead-simple social WebVR experience that users can dive into with a couple clicks, share a URL, and then meet up with other people across platforms, including mobile, desktop and […]
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