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12/21/11--08:26: Firefox: 2011 (chan 1964497)

Firefox helped make the Web more awesome in 2011. We released Firefox 4 with Sync to hundreds of millions of people worldwide; we launched Firefox for Android; added the new Firefox Aurora development channel; adopted a faster release cycle; and introduced Do Not Track to the industry. Now we’re excited to share some of the… Read more


01/06/12--11:08: Mozilla seeks designers to supercharge learning in digital badges competition (chan 1964497)

  Design digital badges for NASA, Intel, Disney-Pixar, the U.S. Department of Education and other leading organizations in the “Badges for Learning” competition. Deadline for entries is January 17. Help the world level up with NASA, the MacArthur Foundation and Mozilla. Mozilla is seeking designers and developers to participate in the $2 million “Badges for… Read more


01/10/12--08:40: Delivering a Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release (chan 1964497)

We are pleased to announce that the proposal for an Extended Support Release (ESR) of Firefox is now a plan of action. The ESR version of Firefox is for use by enterprises, public institutions, universities and other organizations that centrally manage their Firefox deployments. Releases of the ESR will occur once a year, providing these… Read more


01/12/12--12:38: More Than Half-a-Million Dollars Raised for Charity in the Mozilla Firefox Challenge (chan 1964497)

Celebrity team lead by Sophia Bush is the winner of $25,000 prize for F Cancer Mozilla is pleased to announce that the Mozilla Firefox Challenge, powered by CrowdRise, wrapped up last night and raised more than $680,000 by thousands of people around the world for social and humanitarian causes, turning individual action into global impact.… Read more


01/17/12--21:02: Mozilla to Join Tomorrow’s Virtual Protests of PIPA/SOPA (chan 1964497)

Starting at 8:00 am Eastern tomorrow, Mozilla will join with other sites in a virtual strike to protest the Protect IP Act (PIPA) and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). These bills protect content at all costs, creating the opportunity for abuse and damaging the Web for all of us. We will be blacking out the… Read more


01/19/12--14:22: Firefox Users Engage Congress: SOPA Strike Stats (chan 1964497)

Yesterday, we blacked out the default start page in Firefox and redirected visitors to the Mozilla sites to a special action page. We also sent direct messages to members of the Mozilla community through multiple online channels. All these steps were aimed at informing and mobilizing millions of people on the poorly drafted anti-piracy legislation… Read more


01/23/12--08:31: Crowdsourcing the State of the Union (chan 1964497)

  Mozilla partners with public media to empower citizen engagement in U.S. election coverage Tuesday’s State of the Union Address from U.S. President Barack Obama will include something special: crowdsourced captions and subtitles provided by everyday citizens around the world. Using new web tools from the Participatory Culture Foundation, supported by Mozilla, participants will transcribe… Read more


01/31/12--09:49: Firefox Adds Powerful New Developer Tools (chan 1964497)

Firefox for Windows, Mac and Linux adds powerful built-in developer tools and delivers smoother updates by making add-ons compatible by default. Firefox adds a number of new built-in developer tools that let developers change the look and feel of websites in real-time. With Page Inspector, developers can peek into a page’s structure and layout without… Read more


02/10/12--09:57: ACTA is a Bad Way to Develop Internet Policy (chan 1964497)

Editor’s note: Today, Mitchell Baker posted her thoughts on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement proposal. Below is an excerpt from her blog: ACTA (“Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement”) is a proposed new international law establishing international enforcement standards against counterfeit goods and pirated intellectual property items. ACTA was negotiated as a “trade agreement” which means that it was… Read more


02/22/12--08:53: Mozilla Marketplace Opening for App Submissions Soon (chan 1964497)

The Mozilla Labs Apps project aims to establish a people-centric Apps ecosystem that provides freedom, choice and opportunity for users and developers. We are doing this by adding key capabilities to the Web platform in the form of new Mozilla-proposed APIs and by establishing the Mozilla Marketplace as the first operating system- and device-independent market… Read more