"Say (an encrypted) hello to a more private internet."
Just #mozilla making your #firefox more privacy preserving, as we are wont to do.
blog.mozilla.org/en/products/f…
As web users, what we say and do online is subject to pervasive surveillance. Although we typically associate online tracking with ad networks and other thSarah Vasquez (The Mozilla Blog)
Firefox 115 can silently remotely disable my extension on any site
Link: lapcatsoftware.com/articles/20…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
On Monday morning we (Mozilla) detected a very large crash spike affecting #Firefox users on Linux, specifically on an older version of a Debian-based distribution.
It turned out to be an interesting bug involving the #Linux kernel and #Google JavaScript code so let me tell you about it.
A thread 🧵
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.… 1/6
NEW (nobody) in Core - JavaScript Engine. Last updated 2023-06-23.bugzilla.mozilla.org
They really look awesome together, don't they?
This summer, please reorganize your task bars appropriately 😆
Now I have to go and rearrange my Firefox and @thunderbird icons on the task bar! They need to be side-by-side.
Is it just me, or does there need to be a huge VS in the middle...
Just like our software, the current (and yes, beloved) Thunderbird logo has seen small, iterative improvements throughout the last 20 years. But now the software is evolving into something more modern, and we believe it deserves a fresh logo that properly represents this revitalization.
Introducing the brand new Thunderbird logo, designed by the creator of the original #Firefox and #Thunderbird logos, @jonhicks 🎉
blog.thunderbird.net/2023/05/i…
We asked Jon Hicks, creator of the original Firefox and Thunderbird logos, to re-imagine his iconic design in light of our exciting future.Ryan Sipes (The Thunderbird Blog)
Just like #Firefox, you can add your own custom start page to #Thunderbird. What are some of your favorite start pages?
(Pictured in our screenshot is Bonjourr. via github.com/victrme/Bonjourr)
Minimalist & lightweight startpage inspired by iOS - GitHub - victrme/Bonjourr: Minimalist & lightweight startpage inspired by iOSGitHub
True story: Mozilla's @mconley is a legend. (Also, he worked on Mozilla Messenger, and is responsible for #Ubuntu shipping with Thunderbird!)
His enthusiasm is so contagious that just listening to this podcast might turn you into a software engineer! Join us for ThunderCast episode 2 as we reminisce about the early days of the internet, and talk about Firefox features more people should be using.
blog.thunderbird.net/2023/05/t…
#Thunderbird #Firefox #Podcast
Mozilla's Mike Conley joins us to discuss the nostalgia of the early internet, his first task for Thunderbird, and some great Firefox featuresJason Evangelho (The Thunderbird Blog)
"We need people fighting for Firefox"
I agree. Firefox has been my default browser since a loooong time. The current situation is very problematic in the medium-long term, and has potential to be worse than the "IE6" times, because Google is (and has been for ages) actually an Ads company.
If not directly, somehow help keep Firefox alive.
Welcome back to the ThunderCast: Episode 2 is READY!
We welcome special #Mozilla guest @mconley, a software mechanic, musician, livestreamer, and self-described “pre-internet phenomenon” among many other awesome things.
Join us for a great conversation full of nostalgia, a behind-the-scenes look at some great Firefox features, and much more!
blog.thunderbird.net/2023/05/t…
#Podcast #Firefox #OpenSource #Dev #Email #Linux
Mozilla's Mike Conley joins us to discuss the nostalgia of the early internet, his first task for Thunderbird, and some great Firefox featuresJason Evangelho (The Thunderbird Blog)
We've lined up some awesome guests for the next 3 episodes of #ThunderCast:
Episode 2: Mike Conley of #Mozilla, a software mechanic who works on #Firefox desktop.
Episode 3: Mike Saunders, who does marketing and community outreach for @libreoffice.
Episode 4: Thib Martin @thibaultamartin, a GNOME Foundation Board member who also has a special talent for making people love @matrix.
Get subscribed, some great conversations are coming!
blog.thunderbird.net/2023/03/t…
Welcome to the debut episode of the ThunderCast, an inside look at the making of Thunderbird, with community conversations about open source.Jason Evangelho (The Thunderbird Blog)
If you love the #Firefox Translations add-on as much as we do and find yourself thinking "this should REALLY come to Thunderbird," then this bug is worth keeping an eye on:
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…
NEW (nobody) in Thunderbird - Add-Ons: General. Last updated 2023-03-30.bugzilla.mozilla.org
In fact, I learnt a lot about how #Thunderbird and @mozilla are actually related, and I always thought it's a hardwired #Mozilla product just like #Firefox.
I'm really looking forward to the improvements in Supernova and also future updates to #K9Mail. I used to be a #GMail user but ran into performance problems on older devices and under bad networking conditions. Not a problem for good old #IMAP! :)
#Chromium landed support for fractional scaling on #Wayland a couple of days ago. It was reverted again today. Reason for revert: This change completely broke Chromium Ozone/Wayland on compositors that support fractional-scale-v1.
Nobody had ever tested it and the authors missed the whole actual scaling part with wp_viewporter.
Anyhow, here's a working initial patch for #Firefox:
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…
ASSIGNED (robert.mader) in Core - Graphics. Last updated 2023-03-23.bugzilla.mozilla.org
I've just run into another CPU bug affecting #Firefox so this is a good occasion to show you how one looks like and how I identify it. CPU bugs have always been a fact of life but they've become more common as CPUs have become more complex.
But let's begin from the start, the bug in question is a crash: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.… 🧵 1/5
NEW (nobody) in Core - Layout. Last updated 2023-03-11.bugzilla.mozilla.org
#PocketToots is a new #Firefox extension that syncs your #Mastodon bookmarks to Pocket, AND adds a link in Pocket to the original toot.
Very cool! addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…
Download PocketToots for Firefox. Saves your Mastodon bookmarks to Pocket and adds a link back to the Mastodon post in Pocket.addons.mozilla.org
Wow, so the other day I shared what #Microsoft does when you search to download #Firefox from #Edge* but they go one step further for #Chrome.
(I have zero love for either surveillance capitalist but, my goodness, what absolute asshattery. Having spent more time than I’d like testing in #Windows these past two days, I constantly feel like some malevolent entity is trying to exploit me at every turn. Because one is. This OS is a case study in hostile #design.)
* mastodon.ar.al/@aral/109704475…
#web
From the Firefox 109.0 changelog:
„The native HTML date picker for date and datetime inputs can now be used with a keyboard alone[…]“
Nice! Always great to see native elements being improved.
The full changelog can be found here: mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/109.…
#firefox #mozilla #release #changelog #date #picker #accessibility #keyboard
Here's a very early implementation of #Firefox Sync running in Thunderbird Daily!
The bones are there and the foundation is solid.
Though it may be called something else by the time we launch it in Thunderbird 115 (such as Thunderbird Sync or #Mozilla Sync), it's a feature we're THRILLED about putting in your hands.
I’m not going to use bloody bugzilla, so if anyone from Mozilla sees this, your enterprise flow for adding certificate authorities (CAs) to Firefox on Linux fails on Fedora Silverblue.
Since Fedora Silverblue is seen as the possible future of Fedora/Red Hat, you folks might want to talk to the Fedora folks about it and come up with a solution.
github.com/fedora-silverblue/i…
#mozilla #firefox #fedora #fedoraSilverblue #bug #tls #ssl #redHat #linux #enterprise #certificates
In Firefox version 64+, you can add your custom certificate authorities to Firefox using an enterprise policy file and by copying your certificates to /usr/lib/mozilla/certificates or /usr64/lib/mo...GitHub
Wonderful holidays and a happy new year!
🎄🍭🎅🎁☃️ 🍾🥂🎆
I wish you all the best for the next year #Thunderbird 🐦. And now have a nice time with your friends the #Firefox 🦊 and the #Mozilla 🦖😀
To all #blind #ScreenReader users on various platforms who use #Firefox: The project to speed up web page and screen reader interaction, code-named Cache-The-World, is now at a phase where in Nightly 109, it has been enabled for all users. So if you spot anything that is unusual or not working as before, please let the #accessibility team know. Next step is an experiment for 50% roll-out on Windows in the 111 beta.
The page where you can track the progress is here: wiki.mozilla.org/Accessibility…
My blog post describing how we cut #Firefox out-of-memory crashes by more than 70% with one weird trick is out: hacks.mozilla.org/2022/11/impr…
The title is not click-bait, I swear, it *is* one weird trick.
Poorly behaving web pages and apps are no longer capable of crashing the browser by exhausting memory, thanks to a simple trick.Gabriele Svelto (Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog)
