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Reaching readers, one TikTok at a time
Spoiler: The internet’s not finished. Welcome to “Web in Progress,” a series celebrating the internet as a space you can shape, not just scroll through. Just as Firefox empowers you to take charge of your online experience, this series highlights...
2025-03-20 17:58
VIDEO: The Thunderbird Design System
In this month’s Community Office Hours, Laurel Terlesky, Design Manager, is talking about the new Thunderbird Design System. In her talk from FOSDEM, “Building a Cross-Platform, Scalable, Open-Source Design System,” Laurel describes the Thunderbi...
2025-03-13 19:07
Misinformation in the age of AI: It’s in the details (like extra fingers)
As you scroll through social media, the posts blend together: a heroic cat, a shocking statistic, a breaking news clip. But in a world where AI blurs the line between fact and fiction, how do you tell what’s real from what’s misinformation?  The s...
2025-03-11 18:28
Thunderbird Monthly Development Digest – February 2025
Hello again Thunderbird Community! Despite the winter seeming to last forever and the world being in a state of flux, the Thunderbird team has been hard at work both in development and planning strategic projects. Here’s the latest from the team dedi...
2025-03-11 14:32
Mozilla’s Response to Proposed Remedies in U.S. v. Google LLC
Last week the Department of Justice and some state attorneys general filed revised proposed remedies in the U.S. v. Google LLC search case. If the proposed remedies barring all search payments to browser developers are adopted by the court, these misgu...
2025-03-11 12:52
Mozilla’s response to proposed remedies in U.S. v. Google
Last week the Department of Justice and some state attorneys general filed revised proposed remedies in the U.S. v. Google LLC search case. If the proposed remedies barring all search payments to browser developers are adopted by the court, these misgu...
2025-03-11 12:52
Browser choice? Here’s how EU’s DMA is helping make it real
Too often, well-intentioned regulation misses the mark. This can be due to poor design, poor implementation, poor compliance, or failure to address unintended consequences. But the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) has the potential to be different. The...
2025-03-06 16:32
Thunderbird for Android January/February 2025 Progress Report
Hello, everyone, and welcome to the first Android Progress Report of 2025. We’re ready to hit the ground running improving Thunderbird for Android experience for all of our users. Our January/February update involves a look at improvements to the acc...
2025-03-06 15:12
Thunderbird Release Channel Update
The monthly Release channel is ready to help you move from annual to monthly updates in Thunderbird. This update lets you know how to switch from the annual update (ESR) to monthly updates (Release), why you might have to wait, and what features you’...
2025-03-04 20:17
An update on our Terms of Use
On Wednesday we shared that we’re introducing a new Terms of Use (TOU) and Privacy Notice for Firefox. Since then, we’ve been listening to some of our community’s concerns with parts of the TOU, specifically about licensing. Our intent was just t...
2025-02-28 23:09
Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox
We’re introducing a Terms of Use for Firefox for the first time, along with an updated Privacy Notice.  Why now? Although we’ve historically relied on our open source license for Firefox and public commitments to you, we are building in a much dif...
2025-02-26 17:00
Mozilla’s approach to Manifest V3: What’s different and why it matters for extension users
Extensions are like apps for your browser, letting you customize and enhance your online experience. Nearly half of all Firefox users have installed at least one extension, from privacy tools to productivity boosters. To build these extensions, develop...
2025-02-25 14:00
Growing Mozilla — and evolving our leadership
Since 2022, Mozilla has been in an active process evolving what we do – and renewing our leadership. Today we announced several updates on the leadership piece of this ongoing work.  We’ve recognized that Mozilla faces major headwinds in terms of ...
2025-02-19 19:02
Spring detox with Firefox for iOS
A fresh start isn’t just for your home — your iPhone or iPad deserves a privacy detox too. With Firefox for iOS, you can block hidden trackers, stop fingerprinting, and keep your browsing history more private with Enhanced Tracking Protection. How ...
2025-02-18 17:54
What is the best hardware concurrency for running inference on CPU?
In the Firefox AI Runtime, we can use multiple threads in the dedicated inference process to speed up execution times CPU. The WASM/JS environment can create a SharedArrayBuffer and run multiple threads against its content and distribute the load on se...
2025-02-18 16:34
Bluesky’s Emily Liu on rethinking social media (and why it’s time to chime in)
Here at Mozilla, we are the first to admit the internet isn’t perfect, but we know the internet is pretty darn magical. The internet opens up doors and opportunities, allows for human connection, and lets everyone find where they belong — their cor...
2025-02-12 16:46
Paris AI Action Summit: A milestone for open and Public AI
As we close out the Paris AI Action Summit, one thing is clear: the conversation around open and Public AI is evolving—and gaining real momentum. Just over a year ago at Bletchley Park, open source AI was framed as a risk. In Paris, we saw a major sh...
2025-02-12 08:00
Thunderbird Monthly Development Digest – January 2025
Hello again Thunderbird Community! As January drew to a close, the team was closing in on the completion of some important milestones. Additionally, we had scoped work for our main Q1 priorities. Those efforts are now underway and it feels great to cro...
2025-02-11 13:41
ROOST: open source AI safety for everyone
Today we want to point to one of the most exciting announcements at the Paris AI summit: the launch of ROOST, a new nonprofit to build AI safety tools for everyone.  ROOST stands for Robust Open Online Safety Tools, and it’s solving a clear and imp...
2025-02-10 15:20
Thunderbird Desktop Release Channel Will Become Default in March 2025
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 ...
2025-02-06 19:32