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Re:Build Adafruit projects right from Firefox
on Sunday May 24, 2026 @07:52PM (#48262206)
It uses add-on gating similar to what they do for Web MIDI, so it's not exposed to users unless they specifically opt into it.
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/web-serial-support-in-fire...
Re:How to make Firefox builds 17% faster
on Monday April 13, 2026 @08:11PM (#47759614)
Obviously it'll make the developer more efficient to spend more time twiddling his thumbs waiting for his code to compile rather than creating a simple build performance win that allows him to, you know, spend more time improving Firefox. Not to mention all the other developers who stand to benefit from faster builds.
Re:10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips
on Friday March 06, 2026 @12:41AM (#47271306)
Can you share a link to a crash report from about:crashes? Sounds like some kind of shutdown hang getting force-killed maybe?
Re:Still using Firefox – but not because of its vision
on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @09:13AM (#46433492)
It's available for testing in Nightly builds at the moment.
Re:FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs
on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @03:25PM (#45892360)
Firefox also does a lot of media decoding in a separate process.
Re:Maintaining an Android app in Google Play Store is a lot of work
on Thursday June 12, 2025 @01:30PM (#44260332)
Google Play also limits APKs to 100MB maximum size while AABs have a higher limit.
Keeping GenAI technologies secure is a shared responsibility
Re:Google rolls back reCaptcha update to fix Firefox issues
on Friday May 03, 2024 @04:51PM (#40252247)
See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1894735#c15. It was code specifically targeting Firefox on Windows to blame.
Option Soup: the subtle pitfalls of combining compiler flags
Mozilla expands extension support for Firefox for Android
Re:Mozilla Launching a Public Voice Dataset
on Thursday December 07, 2023 @05:09PM (#38562507)
Common Voice is part of the Mozilla Foundation, not the Mozilla Corporation responsible for shipping Firefox. I.e. what donations to Mozilla actually go towards.
State of Mozilla 2023
Chrome Removing Theora Support
Mozilla ending support for Windows 7
Re:Firefox 109 Release Notes
on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @10:48AM (#34413908)
Notably, MV3 extensions are now supported.
State of Mozilla 21-22
Re:OpenSSL added new C parser code [...] without doing any basic secur...
on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @12:56PM (#33439036)
Isn't openssl included in the oss-fuzz project? If hanno caught it this quickly with his fuzzer, would seem to be surprising if they didn't also.
Re:Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all users
on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @10:26AM (#31740011)
Mozilla occasionally rolls out features in the current release via remote mechanisms. So it's rolling out to existing v101 installs now. I would assume that v102 will also ship with it on by default.
Selena Deckelmann Joining Wikimedia Foundation
Re:Security Vulnerability in Tor Browser
on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @07:12PM (#31512068)
Citation needed.
Also, they've specifically called that out in the advisory when they're aware of that being the case. See the last out-of-band security update they released for example:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-0...
Re:Security Vulnerability in Tor Browser
on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @06:43PM (#31511770)
These are just the pwn2own vulnerabilities. Nowhere did Mozilla ever say they were being exploited in the wild.
Mozilla ships fixes for pwn2own 2022 exploits
The State of Mozilla: 2020 Annual Report
Memory Corruption in NSS via DER-Encoded DSA and RSA-PSS Signatures
Re:Firefox just walked away from a key piece of the open web [progress...
on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @10:08AM (#25929065)
The article goes out of its way to quote a Google engineer but doesn't bother talking to anyone at Mozilla outside of quoting bug comments?
Re:Porting Firefox to Apple Silicon
on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @01:50PM (#25850293)
It was Cylance made by Blackberry.
Re:The Future of Libjpeg-Turbo
on Sunday January 10, 2021 @10:23PM (#25723982)
They received a MOSS grant once upon a time.
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/04/10/mozilla-awards-3650...
That said, given Mozilla's current financial troubles, it seems pretty unlikely they'd be in a position to hire.
Re:Firefox 84.0
on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @03:38PM (#25434941)
Looks like they've fixed the link now:
https://blog.mozilla.org/community/2020/12/15/the-new-faces-...