Mozilla Cracks Down On Third Party Cookies Parties
Every once and a while it is worth looking at the state of tracking cookies and what browsers are doing to keep them from becoming the predominant parasite on the interwebs. For…
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Mozilla’s VPN May Finally Start Passing Packets In A Month
The Mozilla VPN extension has been in beta since last September in the US for Windows 10, Chromebooks, Android, and iOS devices. Originally it was a free service but with this change…
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Mozilla Rust Considered for Linux Drivers
When Graydon Hoare of Mozilla (and later others) designed Rust, they wanted a fast, concurrent, memory-safe language without garbage collection because web browsers need to be fast and resistant to...
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Mozilla Publishes Website Called Track THIS
Track THIS is a website that will give advertisers an interesting (and probably wrong) view of who you are. Once you select a persona, the website will launch a...
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Mozilla Is Looking For ‘Mo Money
Would you consider paying for a premium version of FireFox, as it is something which the Mozilla Foundation is considering as a new way to generate revenue? They are suggesting that this…
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Mozilla Tightens Firefox Anti-Tracking
Dave Camp, who is the Senior Vice President of Firefox at Mozilla, wrote a blog about multiple Firefox anti-tracking initiatives at the organization. First up is Enhanced Tracking Protection. For new...
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Firefox 67 Releases with Performance Boosts
Since 2016, a new version of Firefox has come out every six-to-nine weeks. Mozilla occasionally markets specific versions more heavily than others, such as their Quantum branding with Firefox...
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Mozilla Firefox for Android Mothballing Until Fenix
Mozilla has just published a Google Doc that outlines their plans for Fennec (Firefox for Android). It looks like this document was supposed to coordinate Mozilla employees and volunteers, so the specifics...
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The browser giveth and the browser taketh away
The upcoming version of Firefox will include anti-fingerprinting technology to increase your privacy when browsing the web. Fingerprinting is a bit different from dumping a cookie on your system, instead advertisers can…
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Mozilla & Ubisoft “Clever-Commit” Deep-Learning Code Review
The basic premise of “deep learning” is that you process big pools of data to try and find “good” and/or “bad” patterns. After you build up a set of trained data, you…
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Discord Nitro Dips Toes into Game Sale and Distribution
Starting with a slowly-ramping group of ~50,000 Canadians, Discord has begun distributing PC games. Specifically, there will be two services for paying members of the Discord Nitro beta program: a...
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Mozilla, Opera, and Google Pull Malicious Extension
I don’t think this should surprise anyone, but it’s good to report on none-the-less. There was a popular browser extension, called Stylish, that allowed users to customize the pages that they visit,…
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Mozilla is hoping you don’t want to live in a material world
Mozilla is working on Firefox Reality, a browser with an interface specifically designed for AR and VR interaction. The source code for the browser is available already, you can follow the
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NoScript 10 Goes WebExtensions for Firefox 57+
While I like the flexibility that JavaScript brings to the web, I also like that tools exist to control it. NoScript is a relatively popular Firefox extension that does just that. When…
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A Chunk of Servo Comes to Firefox: Quantum CSS
If you’re on Firefox Nightly, you are able to enable their new CSS engine with an about:config flag, called layout.css.servo.enabled. For a few years now, Mozilla has been working on...
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Valve and Mozilla Announce SteamVR and WebVR for macOS
At WWDC, Valve and HTC announced that their SteamVR platform would be arriving for macOS. This means that the HTC Vive can now be targeted by...
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Epic Games Releases Zen Garden Demo for WebAssembly
HTML5 was a compile target for Unreal Engine since Unreal Engine 3, but it was supposed to be a bigger push for Unreal Engine 4 then it has been. At the time,…
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Firefox 52 Adds WebAssembly
Mozilla’s latest browser version, Firefox 52, was just released to the public on Tuesday. I wasn’t planning on putting up a post about it, but I...
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