Mozilla Thunderbird: Thunderbird Desktop Release Channel Will Become Default in March 2025
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by Monica Ayhens-Madon
3d ago
We have an exciting announcement! Starting with the 135.0 release in March 2025, the Thunderbird Desktop Release channel will be the default download. If you’re not already familiar with the Release channel, it will be a supported alternative to the ESR channel. It will provide monthly major releases instead of annual major releases. This provides several benefits to our users: Frequent Feature Updates: New features will potentially be available each month, versus the annual Extended Support Release (ESR). Smoother Transitions: Moving from one monthly release to the next will be less disrupt ..read more
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The Mozilla Blog: Welcoming Peter Rojas as Mozilla’s SVP of New Products
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by Laura Chambers
3d ago
We’re thrilled to share that Peter Rojas has joined Mozilla Corporation as our new Senior Vice President of New Products. In this role, Peter will lead Mozilla’s endeavors to explore, build and scale new products that align with Mozilla’s greater mission and values. He will report to me and join Mozilla’s steering committee.  At Mozilla, we are continuing to explore and scale new products that diversify revenue, address evolving consumer needs, and positively impact this new era of the internet. Peter brings a deep well of experience at the intersection of technology, entrepreneurship an ..read more
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About:Community: FOSDEM 2025: A Celebration of Open Source Innovation
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by Rizki Kelimutu
3d ago
Brussels came alive this weekend as Mozilla joined FOSDEM 2025, Europe’s premier open-source conference. FOSDEM wasn’t just another tech gathering. It is a representation of a vibrant community, open source innovation, and the spirit of collaboration. And we’re proud of being part of this amazing event since its inception. This year, FOSDEM is celebrating its 25th anniversary. And unlike previous years’ gloomy weather, this year, we were blessed with surprising sunshine, almost as if the universe was applauding a quarter-century of open-source achievements. As for Mozilla, our presence this ye ..read more
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This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 585
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by TWiR Contributors
3d ago
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 X (formerly 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. Want TWIR in your inbox? Subscribe here ..read more
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The Rust Programming Language Blog: crates.io: development update
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by Tobias Bieniek
4d ago
Back in July 2024, we published a blog post about the ongoing development of crates.io. Since then, we have made a lot of progress and shipped a few new features. In this blog post, we want to give you an update on the latest changes that we have made to crates.io. Crate deletions In RFC #3660 we proposed a new feature that allows crate owners to delete their crates from crates.io under certain conditions. This can be useful if you have published a crate by mistake or if you want to remove a crate that is no longer maintained. After the RFC was accepted by all team members at the end of August ..read more
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Firefox Developer Experience: Firefox WebDriver Newsletter 135
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by Julian Descottes
5d ago
WebDriver is a remote control interface that enables introspection and control of user agents. As such it can help developers to verify that their websites are working and performing well with all major browsers. The protocol is standardized by the W3C and consists of two separate specifications: WebDriver classic (HTTP) and the new WebDriver BiDi (Bi-Directional). This newsletter gives an overview of the work we’ve done as part of the Firefox 135 release cycle. Contributions Firefox is an open source project, and we are always happy to receive external code contributions to our WebDriver impl ..read more
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Mozilla Privacy Blog: Navigating the Future of Openness and AI Governance: Insights from the Paris Openness Workshop
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by Mozilla
5d ago
In December 2024, in the lead up to the AI Action Summit, Mozilla, Fondation Abeona, École Normale Supérieure (ENS) and the Columbia Institute of Global Politics gathered at ENS in Paris, bringing together a diverse group of AI experts, academics, civil society, regulators and business leaders to discuss a topic increasingly central to the future of AI: what does openness mean and how it can enable trustworthy, innovative, and equitable outcomes? The workshop followed the Columbia Convenings on Openness and AI, that Mozilla held in partnership with Columbia University’s Institute of Global Pol ..read more
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Wladimir Palant: Analysis of an advanced malicious Chrome extension
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1w ago
Two weeks ago I published an article on 63 malicious Chrome extensions. In most cases I could only identify the extensions as malicious. With large parts of their logic being downloaded from some web servers, it wasn’t possible to analyze their functionality in detail. However, for the Download Manager Integration Checklist extension I have all parts of the puzzle now. This article is a technical discussion of its functionality that somebody tried very hard to hide. I was also able to identify a number of related extensions that were missing from my previous article. Contents The problematic ..read more
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Mozilla Performance Blog: Performance Testing Newsletter (Q4 Edition)
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by Gregory Mierzwinski
1w ago
Welcome to the latest edition of the Performance Testing Newsletter! The PerfTools team empowers engineers with tools to continuously improve the performance of Mozilla products. See below for highlights from the changes made in the last quarter. This quarter also saw the release of perf.compare! It’s a new tool used for making comparisons between try runs (or other pushes). It is now the default comparison tool used for these comparisons and replaces the Compare View that was in use previously. Congratulations to all the folks involved in making this release happen! Feel free to reach out in ..read more
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The Servo Blog: Servo in 2024: stats, features and donations
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1w ago
Two years after the renewed activity on the project we can confirm that Servo is fully back. If we ignore the bots, in 2024 we’ve had 129 unique contributors (+143% over 54 last year), landing 1,771 pull requests (+163% over 673), and that’s just in our main repo! Including bots, the total number of PRs merged goes up to 2,674 (+144% over 1094). From all this work, 26% of the PRs were made by Igalia, 40% by other contributors and the rest by the bots (34%). This shows how the Servo community has been growing and becoming more diverse with new actors participating actively in the project. 2 ..read more
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