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Success and Competition 11 Jul 2013 | 08:56 pm
Last week one of the regular browser competitive “bake-offs” named Firefox “speed king”, which highlights how much competition has improved Firefox. This time we beat Chrome in performance areas wher...
Serendipity 9 Jul 2013 | 11:52 pm
Barcelona has a couple of large music festivals in the spring. The largest is Sonar, which takes over *both* of the FIRAs, including the gigantic one that Mobile World Congress just moved to in 2013....
Success and Firefox OS 1 Jul 2013 | 04:49 pm
Firefox OS is launching today. With that in mind, it’s a good time to recap why Mozilla builds products, what our products represent and how our products relate to our goals. Mozilla’s goal is to bu...
Total Surveillance 11 Jun 2013 | 08:13 pm
Imagine you live in a world where the buildings are glass and you can’t ever close the curtains. Imagine the floor is glass, the ceiling is glass and all the walls are glass. There are no curtains, no...
Keynote talk: Nature of Mozilla; Public Policy Approach 25 Apr 2013 | 08:52 pm
Here’s a talk I gave at the annual public policy event organized by the Center for Democracy and Technology. It starts with about 3-4 minutes summary of my high level view of Mozilla, using languag...
Thunderbird: Stability and Community Innovation 7 Jul 2012 | 05:16 am
Thunderbird provides an open-source, cross-platform email alternative for those of us who still use stand-alone email clients (and I am one). It’s trust-worthy, it’s under your control, and it’s buil...
Contributor Imprisoned in Syria 6 Jul 2012 | 02:47 am
Please help us Free Bassel, open source developer and CC volunteer Bassel / joi / CC BY On March 15, 2012, Bassel Khartabil was detained in a wave of arrests in the Mazzeh district of Damascus. Sinc...
The Ada Initiative Advisory Board Changes 26 May 2012 | 03:11 am
The Ada Initiative was founded early in 2011 when Val Aurora and Mary Gardiner decided to take the plunge, quit their jobs and found an organization dedicated to supporting women in open technology an...
The Ada Initiative Advisory Board Changes 25 May 2012 | 11:11 pm
The Ada Initiative was founded early in 2011 when Val Aurora and Mary Gardiner decided to take the plunge, quit their jobs and found an organization dedicated to supporting women in open technology an...
Upcoming: A Year in Europe 17 May 2012 | 12:49 pm
Mozilla is an increasingly global community. This is important to the success of our mission. If we hope to have a world of openness and opportunity for all we should be building centers of gravity i...