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Mozilla retrenching 60 workers Mozilla Corp., the maker of web browser Firefox, is cutting about 60 jobs as part of a shake-up under a new chief executive officer. Mozilla said that the move affects about 5% of its workforce and that the cuts were primarily in the product development...

Tesla worst car brand for user privacy — Mozilla report Tesla has the worst data protection policies of 25 major car brands, according to a recent analysis of user privacy and security policies among carmakers conducted by Mozilla. The Internet software company spent over 600 hours researching...

Microsoft fixes 5-year-old bug that caused Firefox to munch CPUs Microsoft has fixed a five-year-old bug in Windows Defender that caused significant CPU usage spikes for users of the Mozilla Firefox browser, Neowin reports. Firefox developer Yannis Juglaret confirmed that Microsoft rolled out...

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Firefox launches offline translation tool Mozilla has announced the launch of Firefox Translations, an offline machine translation tool for the Firefox web browser. “To empower the community to contribute with new languages, we also developed a comprehensive training pipeline to allow...

Linux developers faster at fixing security bugs than Microsoft and Apple Linux developers take less time to patch security vulnerabilities than the teams at large software companies — including Microsoft, Apple, and Google. That is according to Google's Project Zero, a research initiative that...

Chrome, Firefox, and Edge version 100 problem — expect sites to break Three commonly-used internet browsers are nearing their 100th versions, and Engadget reported that the triple-digit release numbers in the browsers' User-Agents (UA) could cause problems with several websites. The browsers...

Bing could replace Google as Firefox's default search engine Mozilla is experimenting with replacing Google Search as the default search engine on its Firefox browser with Microsoft's Bing service. This is according to a report from German web developer Sören Hentzschel, who closely tracks...

Mozilla to launch Firefox Premium subscription service Mozilla plans to launch a new subscription service named Firefox Premium, Mozilla CEO Chris Beard said in an interview with T3N. Firefox Premium will not mean that browser users will need to pay for a new version of the Firefox browser...

Mozilla releases another fix for broken Firefox extensions Mozilla has begun distributing its second set of Firefox updates in two days as it seeks to fix a bug that broke Firefox extensions for many users on Friday, CNET reports. Extensions, which are called add-ons in Firefox, require...

Mozilla awards $500,000 in funding to open source projects Mozilla has announced the recipients of its Open Source Support grants.

Firefox Quantum – The fastest Firefox ever Mozilla announced that Firefox Quantum is now available in Developer Edition, and is the fastest Firefox ever.

Firefox for iOS has automatic ad and content blocking Mozilla has released its latest version of Firefox for iOS, which has automatic ad and content blocking in Private Browsing mode, as well as a tracking protection option in regular browsing.

Mozilla launches Firefox Send Mozilla has created a new website which allows users to send files to one another.

Price of data stops South Africans using the Internet The price of mobile data is a key barrier to Internet use in South Africa, a report from Research ICT Africa prepared for Mozilla has found.

If you use Mozilla Thunderbird and you get blank print previews for emails and obviously blank printout of sometimes many pages with nothing at all on them, here is how I fixed a client computer via the Thunderbird CONFIG EDITOR Click on TOOLS >> OPTIONS >> ADVANCED >> GENERAL >> CONFIG...

Firefox will let you control memory usage and performance Mozilla is working on a new performance settings section for Firefox, reported BleepingComputer.

Firefox 51 released – the details Mozilla has released Firefox 51 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The new version promises “a richer and safer experience on the web”, said Mozilla.

Mozilla gets a new logo Mozilla has shared its new logo, which includes a nod to the URL. The logo replaces the letters “ill” with “://”, which is part of the URL structure “http://www”.

Mozilla presents new logo options – wants your feedback Mozilla is getting a new logo, and wants feedback from you on the seven options it has so far.