Category: Firefox

The Mozilla project is marking the 20th anniversary of the initial release of its Firefox browser, a significant innovation at the time. Within five months of its launch, Firefox captured 6% of the browser market share, reducing the dominance of Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE) to 89.04%.

The Mozilla Foundation, the nonprofit that oversees projects, owns trademarks and sets policy for Mozilla (the developer of the Firefox browser), has announced it is laying off 30% of its staff as part of a reorganization that is needed to address the inevitable onslaught of change in the world of technology and an increasingly radical perception of the idea of ​​putting people before profits.

Mozilla is releasing Firefox 132 for everyone who is running the browser in the stable channel. At the same time, new builds have received two supported ESR branches, 115.17.0 and 128.4.0. Firefox 133 is now in the Beta channel, and is scheduled for release on November 26.

Months after Chrome and Edge, Mozilla Firefox is getting support for the Mica effect on Windows 11. With Mica enabled, the browser looks more consistent and fancy in the latest OS from Redmond. Here's how to give it a try.

Laura Chambers, who replaced Mitchell Baker as CEO of Mozilla Corporation this year, has revealed an initiative related to Mozilla's entry into the advertising display platform market. Mark Surman, CEO and president of the Mozilla Foundation, made a similar announcement. In building its advertising network, Mozilla is going to use technology from the recently acquired startup Anonym. The latter are the creators of an alternative infrastructure for the advertising industry.

The Mozilla team behind the Firefox browser has released version 131 stable. The ESR branches have received their own portion of update by reaching versions 115.16.0 and 128.3.0. Finally, Firefox 132 has entered beta testing. Here are the key changes in this Firefox 131 stable.

Austrian digital rights organization NOYB (None of Your Business) has filed a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority against Mozilla, accusing it of violating users' privacy. According to the organization, Mozilla activates a privacy feature in the Firefox browser without the explicit consent of users. This, according to them, is used to identify users' online activity.

Mozilla has extended the support of the previously released Firefox 115 ESR for another six months until March 2025. Thus, the support period for Firefox 115 will be not a year as usual, but a year and a half. At the same time, the company will support Firefox 115 in parallel with the new ESR branch Firefox 128.

Mozilla Firefox 130 is available in the stable branch. The new release boasts with the ability to translate a selected text on a web page with added support for more languages. The browser now includes a new section, "Firefox Labs", that allows enabling/disabling experimental features in the stable version of the app. Finally, there are some improvements here and there, and security fixes.

Google regularly pays other companies to be the default search engine, including Mozilla, the maker of the Firefox browser. For that, a US federal judge has ruled that such deals have a "significant effect" on maintaining Google's search monopoly, preventing other search engines from competing fairly and entrenching Google's dominance. Google is officially recognized as a monopolist with its search market share about 95%.