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Explore options to have a less creepy and more carefree online life Happy International Data Privacy Day! While January 28 marks a day to raise awareness and promote best practices for privacy and data protection around the world, we at Mozilla do this work year-round so our users can celebrate today — and every day […]The post Celebrating Data Privacy Day appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Why we need to revisit the origin of blue hyperlink While musing over my recently published article, Why are hyperlinks blue, I was left feeling a bit blue myself. Yes, it could have been the fact that I was evacuated and Hurricane Ida was destroying my home, I’ll admit. Besides that, I was also bothered […]The post Revisiting why hyperlinks are blue appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Have you ever signed up for a contest to win a big screen TV or a vacation to an exotic location? Or have you joined a big retailer loyalty program so you can save money? If you answered yes to either of these questions you may be exchanging your name, home address, email address, phone […]The post New Year, New Privacy Protection for Firefox Focus on Android appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

For most, the New Year marks a time to reflect, reset and re-prioritize. While learning a new language, creating a budget or starting up a new hobby have become staples of our New Years’ Resolutions, as our lives increasingly shift online, it’s important we also use this opportunity to reassess our digital habits. Whether you […]The post Digital Checklist: How to Start 2022 Right appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Browser maker Mozilla today announced a partnership with The Markup, the non-profit newsroom that investigates how technology is reshaping society, on a research project to provide insights into and data about a space that’s opaque to policymakers, researchers and users themselves. By joining Mozilla and The Markup’s “Facebook Pixel Hunt” in Firefox, people can help […]The post Mozilla partners with The Markup to launch Rally study into Facebook’s tracking and data collection practices appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Your favorite go-to resource to discover, save, and spend time with interesting reads, has gone to Texas. This December, Pocket has teamed up with Texas Monthly, bringing Pocket users weekly deep dives on every episode of America’s Girls, Texas Monthly’s fascinating new podcast about how the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders became international icons. From the scandals […]The post Pocket & Texas Monthly Take You Inside The World of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders With New Partnership appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

While Mozilla can’t make your impossible-to-shop-for dad any easier to shop for, we can help make the process of holiday shopping more enjoyable. The post My best holiday shopping tip? Mozilla appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

All this year, we’ve been experimenting with features to help you discover articles and voices that are relevant to your interests, and better organize your lists so you can easily find the stories that fit your mood or your time available. We saw lots of users engaging with positive and meaningful content, which demonstrated to […]The post Year in Review: How we’re curating the web with you and our top Pocket features appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

I am pleased to share that Kristen Trubey has joined Mozilla as our Chief People Officer. Kristen initially came to Mozilla in August in an interim capacity but she quickly settled in and made an immediate impact. Her expertise, experience and focus to create connections between company culture, employee experience, and business results proved to […]The post Kristen Trubey, Mozilla’s New Chief People Officer appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

While we can’t predict what the history books will say about 2021, we can analyze what defined this year for us. We do just that in Pocket’s Best of 2021 — the most-saved, -read and -shared articles by Pocket readers, spanning culture, science, tech and more. The post Pocket’s state-by-state guide to the most popular articles in 2021 appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Each December, Pocket celebrates the very best of the web — the must-read profiles, thought-provoking essays, and illuminating explainers that Pocket users saved and read the most over the past 12 months. Today, we’re delighted to bring you Pocket’s Best of 2021: more than a dozen collections spotlighting the year’s top articles across culture, technology, […]The post Celebrating Pocket’s Best of 2021 appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Today, Firefox Relay, a privacy-first and free product that hides your real email address to help protect your identity, is available with a new paid Premium service offering. The release comes just in time for the holiday season to help spare your inbox from being inundated with emails from e-commerce sites, especially those sites where […]The post Introducing Firefox Relay Premium, allowing more aliases to protect your identity from spammers appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Here at Mozilla, we are the first to admit the internet isn’t perfect, but we are also quick to point out that the internet is pretty darn magical. The internet opens up doors and opportunities, allows for people to connect with others, and lets everyone find where they belong — their corners of the internet. […]The post A Firefox mobile product manager on her favorite corners of the internet appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

There are plenty of reasons why you might want to keep something you are doing on the web to yourself. You might be looking for a ring for your soon-to-be fiance, looking up what those mysterious skin rashes could be, or reading a salacious celebrity gossip blog. That’s where Private Browsing mode comes in handy. […]The post Firefox’s Private Browsing mode upleveled for you appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Starting with Firefox version 94, you will be able to personalize your browsing experience with 18 exciting new colorways themes. Each limited edition colorway presents its own individual bespoke characteristic. Find a color that better fits you with our palette. Learn more about how to get colorways.The post Personalize Firefox with colorways appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

As of today, Firefox desktop is the first major browser to become available in the Windows Store for Windows 10 and Windows 11 users. Previously, if you were on Windows and wanted to use Firefox, you had to download it from the internet and go through a clunky process from Microsoft. Now that Microsoft has […]The post Firefox: the first major browser to be available in the Windows Store appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

I am excited to announce that Eric Muhlheim has joined Mozilla Corporation as our Chief Financial Officer (CFO). As our CFO Eric will be a key member of our steering committee reporting to me. He will lead our continued strategy to scale our mission impact by growing and diversifying our revenue through new investments, product […]The post Welcome Eric Muhlheim, our incoming Chief Financial Officer appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

With something like 15 billion mobile phones in the world, our collective thumbs are getting a workout from swiping and tapping tiny screens all day. Check out some of our favorite pro tips and tricks for getting the most out of Firefox on your phone and tablet that might also give your thumbs and your […]The post 8 Firefox pro tips and tricks for Android and iOS (plus a few more) appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

According to researchers, the average person has about 6,200 thoughts throughout the day. That’s a lot of time spent bouncing between random thought bubbles like: Does my cat understand me? Who is Kaia Gerber’s mom? Best sneaky vegan side dishes Why is everyone talking about bones or no bones? Parkour vs slacklining Cheapest flights to […]The post Life is complicated. There’s more than one way to browse to meet your needs with Firefox Focus. appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Today, we are rolling out a brand new Firefox homepage on Android and iOS, designed for those on-the-go, short bursts of online interactions that are constantly interrupted by life. With this new Firefox homepage we wanted to lift that heavy mental burden of remembering to finish those halfway read articles or vacation research until you […]The post Firefox brings you a new homepage making it easier to jump back in to the stuff you care about on your mobile devices appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Today, Firefox is launching Colorways, a new feature that allows our users to express their most authentic selves and to bring them joy while browsing the web. As we challenge what the browser has been, and expand and define the vision of what Firefox browser is and can be, part of that challenge is to […]The post Introducing new Colorways for Firefox 94 appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Mozilla’s Firefox is thrilled to be named one of the nearly 100 brands within Fast Company Magazine’s inaugural and high-profile, Brands That Matter 2021 ranking and recognition program for companies and nonprofits that have had an undeniable impact on business and culture. Mozilla’s Firefox was recognized by Fast Company specifically for “continuing to do what […]The post Mozilla’s Firefox named in inaugural Brands That Matter appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Have you ever been in that situation where you need to give your email address over, but you don’t want to? There could be a security reason. Can you trust who you’re sharing with not to spam your inbox? Are you certain they won’t expose you to data breaches due to lax security on their […]The post Tired of spam? A burner email account could be the answer. appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Slate and Mozilla’s Pocket have extended their ‘Behind The Podcasts’ collaboration, partnering on a series of new Pocket Collections to provide podcast and Pocket fans with even more opportunities to explore the behind-the-scenes stories that inspired some of Slate’s most successful podcasts. This November, Pocket readers can look forward to all-new collections curated by Slate’s […]The post More Stories Behind the Podcasts: Slate’s latest curated Collections on Pocket appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

This is a story of how one email almost cleared out my life savings. Finding my dream home My husband and I had relocated to a new city and had been renting for two and a half years. We were finally ready to buy our own place and stop throwing money away on rent, and […]The post Hacked! How finding my dream home almost led me to a financial nightmare appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

This is a story about paying a steep price for a pair of cheap socks. The first loose thread in June One Tuesday morning as I* was having my coffee and toast before kicking off the work day, I got a text from my credit card company alerting me to a suspected fraud charge. Of […]The post Hacked! Unravelling a data breach appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

We have long advised Web users to look for HTTPS and the lock icon in the address bar of their favorite browser (Firefox!) before typing passwords or other private information into a website. These are solid tips, but it’s worth digging deeper into what HTTPS does and doesn’t do to protect your online security and […]The post HTTPS and your online security appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

One of our promises this year was to deliver ways that can help you navigate the web easily and get you quickly where you need to go. We took a giant step in that direction earlier this year when we shared a new Firefox experience. We were on a mission to save you time and […]The post News from Firefox Focus and Firefox on Mobile appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

You might have heard of VPNs — virtual private networks — at some point, and chalked them up to something only “super techy” people or hackers would ever use. At this point in the evolution of online life, however, VPNs have become more mainstream, and anyone may have good reasons to use one. VPNs are […]The post Do you need a VPN at home? Here are 5 reasons you might. appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

At Mozilla, we believe part of making the internet we want is celebrating the best of the internet, and that can be as simple as sharing a tweet that made us pause in our feed. Twitter isn’t perfect, but there are individual tweets that come pretty close. Each week in Top Shelf, we will be […]The post Miracle Whip, Finstas, #InternationalPodcastDay, and #FreeBritney all made the Top Shelf this week appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Fingerprinting is a major threat to user privacy on the Web. Fingerprinting uses existing properties of your browser like screen size, installed add-ons, etc. to create a unique or semi-unique identifier which it can use to track you around the Web. Even if individual values are not particularly unique, the combination of values can be […]The post Analysis of Google’s Privacy Budget Proposal appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

A password is like a key to your house. In the online world, your password keeps your house of personal information safe, so a super strong password is like having a superhero in a fight of good vs. evil. In recognition of Cybersecurity Awareness month, we revisited our “Princesses make terrible passwords for Disney+ and […]The post Superhero passwords may be your kryptonite wherever you go online appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

In real estate, the age old mantra is “location, location, location,” meaning that location drives value. That’s true even when it comes to data collection in the online world, too — your location history is valuable, authentic information. In all likelihood, you’re leaving a breadcrumb trail of location data every day, but there are a […]The post Location history: How your location is tracked and how you can limit sharing it appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Spyware has been in the news recently with stories like the Apple security vulnerability that allowed devices to be infected without the owner knowing it, and a former editor of The New York Observer being charged with a felony for unlawfully spying on his spouse with spyware. Spyware is a sub-category of malware that’s aimed […]The post Did you hear about Apple’s security vulnerability? Here’s how to find and remove spyware. appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

If recent surveys and polls ring true, over 46% of the global workforce is considering leaving their employer this year. Despite COVID-19 causing initial turnover due to the related economic downturn, the current phenomenon coined “The Great Resignation” is attributed to the many job seekers choosing to leave their current employment voluntarily. Mass vaccinations and […]The post The Great Resignation: New gig? Here are 7 tips to ensure success appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Your online privacy remains our top priority, and we know that one of the first things to secure your privacy when you go online is to get on a Virtual Private Network (VPN), an encrypted connection that serves as a tunnel between your computer and VPN server. Today, we’re launching the latest release of our […]The post Mozilla VPN adds advanced privacy features: Custom DNS servers and Multi-hop appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Today, people have to work too hard to find what they want online, sifting through and steering clear of content, clutter and click-bait not worthy of their time. Over time, navigation on the internet has become increasingly centralized and optimized for clicks and scrolling, not for getting people to where they want to go or […]The post Get where you’re going faster, with Firefox Suggest appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

At Mozilla, we believe part of making the internet we want is celebrating the best of the internet, and that can be as simple as sharing a tweet that made us pause in our feed. Twitter isn’t perfect, but there are individual tweets that come pretty close. Each week in Top Shelf, we will be […]The post Matrix 4, Blue’s Clues, #StarTrekDay and More — Everything That’s Old is New Again in This Week’s Top Shelf appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

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March 2020 brought to the world a scenario we only imagined possible in dystopian novels. Once bustling cities and towns were desolate. In contrast, the highways and byways of the internet were completely congested with people grasping for human connection, and internet friends became more important than ever. Since then, there have been countless discussions […]The post Did internet friends fill the gaps left by social distance? appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Today, Mozilla published an independent security audit of its Mozilla VPN, which provides encryption and device-level protection of your connection and information when you are on the Web, from Cure53, an unbiased cybersecurity firm based in Berlin with more than 15 years of running software testing and code auditing. Mozilla periodically works with third-party organizations […]The post Mozilla VPN Completes Independent Security Audit by Cure53 appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

The internet has ingrained itself into every aspect of our lives, but there’s one aspect of the digital world that I bet you take for granted. Did you ever notice that many links, specifically hyperlinks, are blue? When a co-worker casually asked me why links are blue, I was stumped. As a user experience designer […]The post Why are hyperlinks blue? appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

With Listen, you can have your articles in Pocket read out loud. This is perfect for those times when you’re doing chores around the house or driving during your commute, when your eyes and hands are busy. Step 1: Open your Pocket list in your mobile device and choose an article. Step 2: Tap the […]The post How to enable text-to-speech in Pocket appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Pocket has long been the go-to place to discover, save, and spend time with the most thought-provoking and entertaining content from around the web. Now, Pocket – a Mozilla product – has teamed up with Slate’s world-class podcast hosts to provide deep dives into the episodes their listeners can’t stop thinking about. Through curated Pocket […]The post Stories Behind the Podcasts: Pocket’s New Partnership With Slate appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Save what inspires you. Pocket is your save button for the internet. When a story catches your eye anywhere online, save it to Pocket and it’ll go straight to your list, ready for you to dig into when you’re free. Step 1: Create a Pocket account. Step 2: Install the Pocket app across your iOS […]The post Get started with Pocket appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

This past graduation season, Mozilla’s Pocket teamed up with Her Campus for The Future Connection, a writing contest for college students to reflect on what it’s like to come of age in a “hyper-online and always-connected world.” While this isn’t a new concept for them — this generation, including our essay contest winner, Esther Omole, were born […]The post Here’s what I learned from reading dozens of essays about the internet appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

This past May, Pocket and HerCampus teamed up to announce an essay contest asking college students to reflect on what it’s like to come of age in a hyper-online world for a $5,000 cash prize and the opportunity to be published and promoted on Pocket. There were over 800 entries, and we are excited to […]The post Reflection: Embracing My Undulating Image appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

At Mozilla, we believe part of making the internet we want is celebrating the best of the internet, and that can be as simple as sharing a tweet that made us pause in our feed. Twitter isn’t perfect, but there are individual tweets that come pretty close. Each week in Top Shelf, we will be […]The post Cybersecurity, Facebook data, OnlyFans update and more are on this week’s Top Shelf appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

At Mozilla, we believe part of making the internet we want is celebrating the best of the internet, and that can be as simple as sharing a tweet that made us pause in our feed. Twitter isn’t perfect, but there are individual tweets that come pretty close. Each week in Top Shelf, we will be […]The post Fall Plans vs. the Delta Variant, deciphering Gen Z’s use of emojis, Sarah Paulson as Linda Tripp, and more are on this week’s Top Shelf appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.