We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the extension will soon...
The last few weeks have been interesting if you follow Firefox news. Mark Surman (President, Mozilla Foundation) and Laura Chambers (CEO, Mozilla Corporation) wrote posts saying that “Mozilla is going...
(I would generally be inclined to post something like this post to social media, but I recently read Molly White’s) post on POSSE, so… here we are.) Firefox 131 is...
Mozilla did their biggest Reddit AMA yet on Thursday, June 13, with eight members of the Firefox leadership team. With 400 total comments on the post, they covered a lot...
I was once told that Firefox users don’t always do enough to celebrate the small wins. Here’s something that I consider to be a big one, but might not be...
Prologue You might not know it, but Firefox was once widely considered to be an innovative browser. It wasn’t just an alternative to Internet Explorer (and now Chrome). Firefox introduced...
TL;DR: I made a styled version of Reddit for Kbin instances for people participating in the reddit migration. Inspired mostly by Old Reddit, but it actually has a dark mode!...
“We see no reason to reopen as I don’t think we’re the bad guys here,” yoasif, an r/firefox moderator who received the message, tells The Verge in an email. “Reddit...
Update: The Verge has now posted about this: “Moderators incorrectly marking a community as NSFW is a violation of both our Content Policy and Moderator Code of Conduct,” Reddit spokesperson...
Trying to archive some of the best posts from r/firefox over the years. Two years ago, mitcheecostelo posted about an “aesthetic firefox icon to replace the default icon!” that his...
It is the weekend, and no one likes working on the weekend… but Reddit seems to have no issue making their teams do it. Screenshot of a message from ModCodeofConduct....
A comprehensive mapping of old subreddits to new communities. With /r/startrek moving to Lemmy, I realized that Redditors are going to need a way to find their old communities on...
Many Reddit communities (sub-reddits) have shut down this Monday, r/firefox is one of them. Are you out of the loop? If you want to learn a bit more, and want...
Firefox developers recently added support for Nvidia’s Virtual Super Resolution (VSR) technology. The idea received 278 votes on Connect Mozilla, so it is clearly interesting for people with the latest...
Reddit is one of the most popular social media sites on the web, with millions of users and communities dedicated to every topic imaginable. The platform is known for its...
One of the earliest Fennec parity items in the new Firefox for Android (Fenix) was the Save as PDF option. Longtime Firefox users missed the feature upon release of Firefox...
Firefox is experiencing a resurgence since the news of Chromium based browsers weakening ad blocking extensions has hit the public consciousness. You may be one of the people switching to...
There are a lot of fun things posted on r/firefox, but if you don’t visit often, you might miss some things. This is the fourth post of an ideally monthly...
There are a lot of fun things posted on r/firefox every month, but if you don’t visit often, you might miss some things. This is the third post of a...
While mapping on OpenStreetMap last Sunday, I came across a Little Free Library. Florence the Holliswood Lending Library - Charter #93137 I added the library to the map. Forgive my...
You’d think businesses would think twice before dropping support for the open web, but MBNA seems to not have learned the lesson that South Korea learned the hard way. I...
There are a lot of fun things posted on r/firefox every month, but if you don’t visit often, you might miss some things. This is the second post of a...
Mozilla has announced that part of the move to Manifest V3 in Firefox will mean that the page_action extension API will be merged into action. Documentation for action shows that...
There are a lot of fun things posted on r/firefox every month, but if you don’t visit often, you might miss some things. This is the inaugural post of a...
You may have read my post about the poor customer service experience and product issues that I experienced with SoFi last week. This afternoon, without any warning, I received am...
Note: Since writing this post, SoFi has approved my application and my account was opened. It isn’t often that I experience a customer service interaction so unpleasant that I feel...
In September of 2018, I applied to a mobile product role at Mozilla. Part of the interview process included writing a take-home assignment with a writing prompt about AMP. Given...
If you are like most deskop Linux users, if you have heard of the various intrusive ways Microsoft has used to “encourage” Windows users to use their Chromium-based browser, Edge,...
On March 13, 2022, Vanced announced on Twitter that Vanced had been discontinued. Vanced was a modded version of the official YouTube app that added features like ad blocking, sponsor...
In this post, I review some of the add-ons most requested for Firefox by the Firefox community on reddit. While Firefox for Android currently has 18 add-ons available by default,...
Firefox 93 was released last Tuesday, and early reviews were positive. That didn’t last long though, as reports soon spread on tech media that Firefox was now showing ads in...
Firefox is popular in online privacy communities because it is a high quality, open source web browser that is extensively configurable. Unfortunately, those communities often instruct new Firefox users to...
Mozilla recently proposed that Firefox remove its compact UI density setting as part of its Proton UI Refresh. Resulting coverage has resulted in consternation among Firefox users. As a member...