Our articles covering Mozilla. Best known for their flagship open-source browser Firefox, Mozilla develops a range of other open-source software products including email clients, bugtrackers, and an OS. The non-profit organization was founded in 1998 by Chris Beard and is based in Mountain View, California.
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Explore the Twitter interactions of US politicians with this social network tool
Mozilla and SMAT have designed a Twitter network graph of interactions between politicians to expose influence networks ahead ...
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Mozilla needs your help to expose YouTube's recommendation algorithm
A new browser add-on called RegretsReporter invites users to report dubious YouTube recommendations so Mozilla can investigate ...
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New Firefox for Android launches with souped-up privacy tools and a bottom address bar
Mozilla is launching its new version of Firefox for Android today with enhanced privacy tools, addons support, and visual ...
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Mozilla lays off 250 employees — about 25% of its workforce
In an internal email, Mozilla cited the coronavirus as well as a new focus on developing monetizeable products as the reason ...
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Mozilla CEO: India's lack of data protection laws has harmed its citizens
Mozilla's CEO, Mitchell Baker, said yesterday that India's lack of data protection bill has "increased the harm faced by ...
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Mozilla’s handy new Firefox extension generates burner email addresses on-demand
Over the weekend, Mozilla launched a new email relay service called Firefox Private Relay. The idea is to provide an 'email ...
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Microsoft Edge overtakes Firefox — but good luck dethroning Chrome
Mozilla Firefox has lost its spot as the second most popular browser to Microsoft Edge — but Google's Chrome still lords ...
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Digital fingerprints are the new cookies — and advertisers want yours
More and more advertisers are using 'fingerprinting', which is when a company creates a profile of your device’s unique ...
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Pardon the Intrusion #12: Private by default
Mozilla, the company behind the Firefox browser, has begun rolling out encrypted DNS over HTTPS (DoH) for US users by default. ...
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Google Chrome can now show devs how their sites look to users with visual impairments
Google's popular Chrome browser has launched a new tool to help developers tune their websites for different visual deficiencies ...
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Mozilla launches a VPN app for Android and Windows
Mozilla, the organization behind Firefox browser, is bringing its VPN (Virtual Private Network) service to Android and Windows ...
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You're going to want this latest version of Firefox, trust us
Mozilla has pushed out an update to patch a critical vulnerability in Firefox. It's urging users to update as quickly as ...
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Mozilla, GitHub, and Cloudflare appeal to Indian government over its online content policing plans
Mozilla, GitHub, and Cloudflare wrote a letter today to the Indian government to see the final draft of intermediary rules ...
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Mozilla’s report shows just how awful Ring’s privacy practices are
When the first internet-connected devices hit the market, they were rare enough that you could seriously consider whether ...
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Mozilla and Element AI want to build 'data trusts' in the artificial intelligence age
Mozilla, the nonprofit behind the free and open-source Firefox web browser, is partnering with Montreal-based Element AI ...
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PSA: Scammers are exploiting a Firefox bug to lock users out of the browser
Firefox users are being targeted by malicious websites that display a fake warning message and then completely lock them ...
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Why Facebook’s response to Twitter ceasing political ads isn’t satisfactory
Mozilla points out that Facebook's ad API is far from perfect and doesn't solve the core issue of promoting untrue messages. ...
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Chrome and Firefox will now alert you about data breaches involving your accounts
Mozilla and Google add password breach notification tools natively into Firefox and Chrome browsers respectively in the latest ...
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Mozilla unveils 28 horror stories about YouTube’s recommendation algorithm
Mozilla gathered 28 user-submitted stories, detailing incidents where YouTube’s recommendation served videos featuring ...
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Google accused of 'privacy gaslighting' over its anti-tracking policy
Google's watered-down anti-tracking policy for the web has invited fresh criticism from privacy experts who say the search ...
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Nice: Firefox 69 now blocks cryptominers and tracking cookies by default
Your move, Google
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How Mozilla is crowdsourcing speech to diversify voice recognition
Voice assistants like Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri represent their overwhelmingly white, male developers leading to ...
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Google, Apple, and Mozilla won't budge on Kazakhstan's sneaky plot to spy on citizens
Google and Mozilla are deploying a technical solution to block the use of Kazakhstan root CA certificate Qaznet Trust Network ...
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Web advertising 5 times more profitable than crypto-jacking, research says
New academic research has found that crypto-jacking is way less efficient at generating website revenue when compared to ...
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Mozilla fixes second Firefox zero-day bug used in Coinbase hack attempts
This is the second 'zero-day' exploit patched by Mozilla in a week week, as reports indicate spearphishers have been targeting ...
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Hackers exploit Mozilla Firefox bug reportedly affecting Coinbase users
Mozilla has urged Firefox users to update their browsers immediately, after its team patched a critical security flaw appearing ...
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Mozilla will launch a paid version of Firefox this fall (Updated)
Firefox premium will launch by October that'll have features like VPN (Virtual Private Network) and secure cloud storage. ...
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How this annoying, tiny glitch broke every Firefox extension
Mozilla fixes a security certificate issue with Firefox browser that effectively preventing users from re-enabling or re-installing ...
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Mozilla rolls out new automated crypto-jacking filtering in Firefox
Mozilla's Firefox beta has new automated protections against illicit, in-browser cryptocurrency mining (cryptojacking) and ...
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Mozilla just launched an Android password manager
Firefox Lockbox lands on Android.
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Mozilla's new tool lets you send self-destructing 1GB files for free (Update: now up to 2.5GB)
The folks behind Firefox have just launched Send, a free cross-browser web app for sharing self-destructing files up to 2.5GB ...
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HTC unveils VR's future with new Vive headset, eye-tracking, and more
HTC unveiled new Vive hardware at CES, but we've got our eye on the changes the company is bringing to the user experience ...
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GDPR’s impact was too soft in 2018, but next year will be different
One of the defining moments for tech in 2018 was on May 25, when the EU implemented its General Data Protection Regulation ...
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Firefox 64 offers better tab management and personalized extension recommendations
Firefox introduced its latest variant – Firefox 64 – last night with features like improved tab management and smart ...
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Mozilla is deeply concerned about Microsoft killing EdgeHTML
Monopolies are bad.
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Please appreciate Mozilla’s security-focused gift guide
Shout out Mozilla. The not-for-profit company behind the web-browser Firefox has put together a gift guide with a difference. ...
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This browser extension makes it harder for Facebook advertisers to target you
A trio of Mozilla Fellows just released a browser extension that'll help you thwart Facebook's targeted advertising machine. ...
