Firefox OS App days around the world
As you may know by now, Mozilla has been working on Firefox OS, a new, open and powerful mobile platform that will launch in 2013. At Mozilla, we believe that smartphone platforms should be open...
View ArticleEducation and great products
I was invited earlier this week to a round table about Net Neutrality organized by the French government. During the conversation, someone pointed out that Net Neutrality is pointless if mobile...
View ArticleGetting ready for FirefoxOS AppDays
In two or three days, in Paris and in 23 other cities in the world, the FirefoxOS AppDays will be held. Last week, my colleagues celebrated an important milestone in the development of FirefoxOS....
View ArticleData privacy day
Today is Data Privacy Day in Europe and in the US, and a a study performed by the Ponemon Institute puts Mozilla in the spotlight by naming it Most Trusted Internet Company for Privacy in 2012 (see the...
View ArticleWhat if the browser disappeared?
I was reading the other day a provocative article titled The end of the browser?. This article basically argues that with the world using more and more mobile devices, mobile applications are replacing...
View ArticleOne less browser engine
It’s a sad day for the Web. Opera Software has announced the following: this year Opera will make a gradual transition to the WebKit engine, as well as Chromium, for most of its upcoming versions of...
View ArticleMozilla’s DNA and Mobile World Congress
I’m just back from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where Mozilla announced partnerships with 18 operators and 4 device manufacturers, who will launch devices to become available in 2013 in...
View Article15 years of Mozilla
Fifteen years ago on March 31st, 1998, a company called Netscape published the source code of its flagship product: a Web browser called Communicator. The Mozilla project was born. I immediately fell...
View ArticlePersona: more privacy, better security while making developers and users happy!
In the spirit of showing what’s (and who) is beyond the code that powers Mozilla technology, I’m interviewing Lloyd Hilaiel, a Mozilla employee working remotely from Denver, Colorado. Lloyd, can you...
View Article20 years of a free Web
Tim Berners-Lee and Mitchell Baker Twenty years ago this week, something important happened to the Web: it was set free. On April 30th, 1993, the software powering the Web was put in the Public Domain....
View ArticleFirefox OS: We Don’t Want To Be The Third Platform
Firefox OS smartphone by ZTE, sold in Spain Firefox OS was released earlier this week in Spain, and will be released next week in Poland. It’s a very important moment in Mozilla’s history. The launch...
View ArticleUser Personalization and User Sovereignty
Eighteen months ago, Mitchell baker posted an article on her blog: User Sovereignty for our Data where you could read the following: Right now there’s no convenient way for me to share information...
View ArticleHappy birthday, World Wide Web!
On August 6th 1991, 22 years ago today, the Web was born. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, its inventor, described it on the alt.hypertext newsgroup like this: The WWW project merges the techniques of information...
View ArticleThe (small) price of openness and transparency
Mozilla’s code is open I recently read a couple of articles in the press about the fact that the Firefox touch-friendly User Interface for Windows 8 will not be released before early next year. Anyone...
View ArticleMozilla Summit and the nature of Mozilla
It’s been two weeks that I’m back from the Mozilla Summit and the vibrant energy that I perceived there is still fresh in my mind. I’d like to thank all the people involved in making the Mozilla Summit...
View ArticleA financially healthy Mozilla
Mozilla has recently issued its 2012 annual report, which we call the State of Mozilla. It’s easy to be distracted by these numbers, especially in a world where all browser vendors are commercial,...
View Article2003-2013, what an amazing decade!
2003-2013 It’s the end of the year, so it’s a moment where things are a bit more quiet in our lives, which is an opportunity to reflect on what has taken place over the past 12 months. Interestingly,...
View Article25 years of love for the Web
Tim Berners-Lee (right) and the author I have to admit I’ve always been a fan of Tim Berners-Lee for inventing the Web, hence the embarrassing fan boy picture above. But I’m even more of a fan now....
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