In today’s digital age, an open and competitive ecosystem with a diverse range of players is essential for building a resilient economy. New products and ideas must have the opportunity to grow to give people meaningful choices. Yet, this reality often falls short due to the dominance of a handful of large companies that create walled gardens by self-preferencing their services over independent competitors  –  limiting choice and hampering innovation. The UK’s Digital Markets, Competition, and Consumers Bill (DMCCB) offers a unique opportunity to break down these barriers, paving the ..read more

At Mozilla, safeguarding privacy has been core to our mission for decades — we believe that individuals’ security and privacy on the Internet are fundamental and must not be treated as optional. We have long advocated for a federal privacy law to ensure consumers have control over their data and that companies are accountable for their privacy practices. Earlier this month, House Committee on Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation Chair Maria Cantwell (D-WA) unveiled a discussion draft of the American Privacy Rights ..read more

Yesterday, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 3-2 to reinstate net neutrality rules and protect consumers online. We applaud this decision to keep the internet open and accessible to all, and reverse the 2018 roll-back of net neutrality protections. Alongside our many partners and allies, Mozilla has been a long time proponent of net neutrality across the world and in U.S. states, and mobilized hundreds of thousands of people over the years. The new FCC order reclassifies broadband internet as a “telecommunications service” and prevents ISPs from blocking, throttling, or paid pr ..read more

<figcaption>Servo now renders Acid2 perfectly, but like all browsers, only at 1x dpi.</figcaption> Back in November, Servo’s new layout engine passed Acid1, and this month, thanks to a bug-squashing sprint by @mrobinson and @Loirooriol, we now pass Acid2! Note that Acid2 is only designed to work at 1x dpi, so if you have a HiDPI monitor, be sure to run servoshell with --device-pixel-ratio 1 to avoid a red pattern over the eyes. We would also like to thank you all for your generous support! Since we moved to Open Collective and GitHub Sponsors in March, we have received 1578 USD (a ..read more

What is it? crashstats-tools is a set of command-line tools for working with Crash Stats (https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/). crashstats-tools comes with four commands: supersearch: for performing Crash Stats Super Search queries supersearchfacet: for performing aggregations, histograms, and cardinality Crash Stats Super Search queries fetch-data: for fetching raw crash, dumps, and processed crash data for specified crash ids reprocess: for sending crash report reprocess requests v2.0.0 released! There have been a lot of improvements since the last blog post for the v1.0.1 release. Ne ..read more

When Mozilla’s Innovation group first launched the llamafile project late last year, we were thrilled by the immediate positive response from open source AI developers. It’s become one of Mozilla’s top three most-favorited repositories on GitHub, attracting a number of contributors, some excellent PRs, and a growing community on our Discord server. Through it all, lead developer and project visionary Justine Tunney has remained hard at work on a wide variety of fundamental improvements to the project. Just last night, Justine shipped the v0.8 release of llamafile, which includes not only suppo ..read more

Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust! Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tag us at @ThisWeekInRust on Twitter or @ThisWeekinRust on mastodon.social, or send us a pull request. Want to get involved? We love contributions. This Week in Rust is openly developed on GitHub and archives can be viewed at this-week-in-rust.org. If you find any errors in this week's issue, please submit a PR. Updates from Rust Community Foundation Guest Blog: At ..read more

Extern types have been blocked for an unreasonably long time on a fairly narrow, specialized question: Rust today divides all types into two categories — sized, whose size can be statically computed, and unsized, whose size can only be computed at runtime. But for external types what we really want is a third category, types whose size can never be known, even at runtime (in C, you can model this by defining structs with an unknown set of fields). The problem is that Rust’s ?Sized notation does not naturally scale to this third case. I think it’s time we fixed this. At some point I read a prop ..read more

Firefox’s crash reporter is hopefully not something that most users experience often. However, it is still a very important component of Firefox, as it is integral in providing insight into the most visible bugs: those which crash the main process. These bugs offer the worst user experience (since the entire application must close), so fixing them is a very high priority. Other types of crashes, such as content (tab) crashes, can be handled by the browser and reported gracefully, sometimes without the user being aware that an issue occurred at all. But when the main browser process comes to a ..read more

Highlights The team is in the early stages of adding wallpaper support! This is still very preliminary, but you can test what they’ve currently landed on Nightly: Set browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.newtabWallpapers.enabled to true in about:config Click on the “gear” icon in the top-right of the new tab page Choose a wallpaper! Note that you get different options depending on whether or not you’re using a light or dark theme. Set a new look for new tabs! Among other things, Firefox 125 is going to ship with support for the Popover Web API This should make it easier to create dropdo ..read more