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Enlarge As Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg prepared to face nearly half of the Senate today to explain what went wrong with his company’s handling of personal data for millions of Facebook users, the Mozilla Foundation released a report that highlights the dangers posed to the entirety of the Internet ecosystem by the increasing concentration of […]
EXCLUSIVE: As part of a six-year effort to highlight the benefits of gigabit networks, the Mozilla Foundation today announced today that it has awarded the final 14 prizes from its $ 1.2 million Gigabit Community Fund. Funded in part by the National Science Foundation, the Gigabit Community Fund launched in 2012 to provide grants to educational […]
Mozilla today announced that it will completely drop support for Firefox on Windows XP and Windows Vista in June 2018. Firefox users on those two platforms can expect security updates until then, but they should make an effort to upgrade Windows sooner rather than later. When Mozilla released Firefox 53 in April 2017, it no […]
Flash will officially be dead in three years. Adobe today announced it will stop updating and distributing its Flash Player at the end of 2020, encouraging content creators to migrate existing Flash content to open formats. Furthermore, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla have also announced their own plans to help Adobe kill Flash. Flash […]
Enlarge (credit: Mozilla) The Thunderbird e-mail client still has its supporters, but for the past couple of years, Mozilla has been making moves to distance itself from the project. In late 2015, Mozilla announced that it would be looking for a new home for Thunderbird, calling its continued maintenance “a tax” on Firefox development. Yesterday, Mozilla […]
Facebook, Mozilla, the City University of New York, and other tech industry leaders, nonprofits, have joined together to launch a $ 14 million fund dedicated to advancing news literacy. The money will be invested in the News Integrity Initiative with the goal of increasing trust in journalism worldwide while also “better informing the public conversation.” Other […]
More than one save-it-for-later service is finding a new owner these days — Mozilla has acquired Read It Later, the developer behind Pocket. The service will be treated as a product separate from (but of course, complementary to) Firefox, and will fold into Mozilla’s open source project. It’s also poised to give a boost to […]
Absent an actual hands-on session, this is our best look at Firefox OS on a TV so far. (credit: Panasonic/Mozilla) Mozilla has laid off a team of about 50 people working on bringing Firefox OS to “connected devices” and is ending its attempts to build a commercial platform for such devices reports CNet. Firefox OS […]
