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An interview with Mozilla president Mark Surman about plans to deploy its ~$1.4B in reserves to fund an AI "rebel alliance" to challenge companies like OpenAI (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/27/mozilla-buildi…

Mozilla is building an AI ‘rebel alliance’ to take on industry heavweights OpenAI, Anthropic
Mozilla is looking to deploy its roughly $1.4 billion in reserves to support "mission driven" companies and nonprofits, and is particularly focused on AI.

from my link log —
Making wasm a first-class language on the web.
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/02/making-webassembly-a-first-class-language-on-the-web/
saved 2026-02-26

Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
This post is an expanded version of a presentation I gave at the recent WebAssembly CG meeting in Munich. WebAssembly has come a long way since its first release in 2017. The 1.0 version of WebAssembly was already a great fit for low-level languages like C and C++, and immediately enabled many new kinds of applications to efficiently target the web.

Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web
WebAssembly has come a long way since its first release in 2017. The first version of WebAssembly was already a great fit for low-level languages like C and C , and immediately enabled many new kinds of applications to efficiently target the web.
— by @…
🧑‍💻

Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
This post is an expanded version of a presentation I gave at the recent WebAssembly CG meeting in Munich. WebAssembly has come a long way since its first release in 2017. The 1.0 version of WebAssembly was already a great fit for low-level languages like C and C++, and immediately enabled many new kinds of applications to efficiently target the web.

🤔 Interesting read on Mozilla's position on implementing the Web Translation API https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1015

Hi @…,
may https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/observatory/analyze?host=qr.mro.name
really be failing beause it's

wtf is this shit https://stateof.mozilla.org

#cq: #StackOverflow for #Agents
https://

uhh, were users *asking* for this? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/remote-improvements

@… it’s for disposing of trash, for automatic https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Ob…

Today’s I ain’t reading all that, happy for you/sorry it happened award goes to the state of Mozilla 2025.

Wait, the for-profit not-for-profit privacy champion funded by half-a-billion dollars a year from Google is doing this? Do you think their then-head of public policy was actually telling the truth when she told me “we’re just another Silicon Valley tech company?” No, couldn’t possibly be. I’m sure there are some benefits of the doubt we could still dust off and send their way.
#Mozilla

@javi

Firefox updated their Terms of Use? Let's see!

As you type a search query within Firefox, Firefox offers search suggestions to provide you with faster and more direct access to what you’re looking for. Some of the search suggestions come from your search provider (“Search Suggestions”). Others come …

JavaScript’s `using` variable declaration is *almost* ready for primetime.
✅ Now available in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Node 24, Deno
❌ Not yet in Safari 🥹
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/using

Mozilla is hiring vibe-coders!

Head of Firefox: Kontrolle über KI und ein anderes Web sind möglich
Mozilla hat KI in Firefox integriert – unter Protest. Nun kommt der Kontroll-Knopf. Wir haben mit dem Firefox-Leiter gesprochen.
https…

Mozilla Foundation is funding for up to $50k technologists building AI systems that strengthen democracy.
Note: Apply before March-16 <
https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/what-we-do/grantmaking/incubator/democracy-ai-cohort/

APPLY NOW Democracy x AI Cohort | Mozilla Foundation
We are seeking to support working prototypes that prove AI can serve democracy. Apply now.

Firefox updated, and I can now block AI «improvements» with one click. Excellent that they came to their senses at Mozilla.

[OT] Latest Firefox browser: block generative AI features with Firefox AI controls #AI

Mozilla be like

Okay, okay, I get it. Thanks Mozilla. I'll give Vivaldi a try at the weekend. Seesh.
#mozilla #firefox

要不是这周的《字谈字畅》我都不知道 text-autospace: normal 已经 Baseline 2025 Newly Available 了。可惜 text-autospace: replace 还没有浏览器在做。

#CSS

The Type — 文字 / 设计 / 文化 — 字谈字畅 276：「它可以拓宽你的认知边界」

Let Mozilla know you DO NOT WANT any AI in their products.
#mozilla

I keep reminding folks that MDN is *not* a spec.
Just last month I had to address some of its bad info on CSS carousels.
I’m glad to see @… correcting some of the CSS `interactivity` wrongness:
https://…

font-family: math;
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/149

Two Years of Building AI in Firefox | Tarek Ziadé
https://blog.ziade.org/2025/12/05/two-years-of-ai-at-mozilla/?trk=feed_main-feed-card_feed-article-content

*click* Until Firefox devs screw something up that's absolutely no AI functionality for me, thanks.
Oh, it's in its own new section of the settings, "AI Controls".
#firefox #mozilla #noai

Maybe this is interesting regarding AI-features, translations, Mozilla Firefox, AI hallucinations... https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2021766

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@S1m/116127178349448562
Dear Mozilla,
Please do more of THIS kind of Firefox improvements, and less wasting time on AI features that very few, if any, are asking for.
Thanks,
A very long-time Firefox user

Unpopular opinion (maybe): Everyone is shitting on #Mozilla for stuffing #AI into #Firefox. And I largely agree. But I would actually like to see _more_ AI in

Remember 2013 when i wrote ruby scripts, https://github.com/rtanglao/momogs , that used the get satisfaction API to report on Mozilla Thunderbird Desktop SUMO metrics? Neither do I :-) but i'm cooking up something better in python! hooray for "free compute" and i wish ruby was as popular as p…

Hay un plugin para #firefox que permite usar una instancia local de #LibreTranslate para traducir contenidos web.

When Anthropic’s AI isn’t being used to mass murder schoolgirls in Iran, it’s helping Mozilla improve Firefox.
So it’s not all bad, surely.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/hardening-firefox-anthropic-red-team/

Hardening Firefox with Anthropic’s Red Team  | The Mozilla Blog
For more than two decades, Firefox has been one of the most scrutinized and security-hardened codebases on the web. Open source means our code is visible,

"For years, longtime #Firefox users have hung on while #Mozilla has pursued random directions, added advertiser-friendly features, and tried repeatedly to jump onto the AI bandwagon. But all those users want is a reliable, standards-compliant browser that gives them control over their web exp…

Yes it does. 🤪
"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Thinkbot/0.5.8; In_the_test_phase,_if_the_Thinkbot_brings_you_trouble,_please_block_its_IP_address._Thank_you.)"

Instead of an "AI kill switch" like they promised, #Mozilla will provide "AI controls" buried deep in settings a #Firefox update which isn't out yet, until then the AI features which are already released and on by default can only be disabled by digging through about:co…

in #mozilla #firefox addons the window load event listener does not trigger on small/fast web pages, since the page is loaded before the event handler is registers.
m(
via @…

Battery drain on GrapheneOS here the last couple of days has definitely been worse than stock Google Android.
Battery-monitor says Molly is the main culprit.
Apparently Molly, the Signal client, keeps an open connection to the Signal server.
You can't just have the app check every 10 minutes if it has to ring like a phone upon call request. You need actually persistent connection.
On Google's android, google's play-servers do some kind of kung-fu to keep that modem mostly asleep despite this persistence.
Without Play Services, that don't happen.
But, there is a thing in F-Droid called "Sun up".
That does a similar thing I guess? Called "unified push". It uses Mozilla's servers instead of Google's. And does so anonymously apparently, but who knows for sure really? Not me.
End to end encryption means worst you'd be leaking is timing data really.
So install Sun Up from F-Droid and change Molly's settings / notifications / delivery-method to "Unified Push"
We will need a MollyServer too apparently as a bridge from Signal to Unified-Push at Mozilla.
All the cool kids are using molly.adminforge.de - there's the QR code you need at the site there. Maybe molly.notify.dykes.ca or some other one is better? I dunno. Can always use a different one if yours goes away.
We will find out over the next few days if that actually makes any difference to battery consumption.
Might save more if you have lots of other things also using open connections that can use unifed-push too. Emails and Matrix or whatever. Mux all those connections into one.
I don't do those things on my phone though, so it's just Molly, so we'll see.
#grapheneOS #molly #signal

There's a media query for JS enabled/disabled: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/At-rules/@media/scripting

scripting - CSS | MDN
The scripting CSS media feature can be used to test whether scripting (such as JavaScript) is available.

Hardening Firefox with Anthropic’s Red Team 
#infosec

Hardening Firefox with Anthropic’s Red Team  | The Mozilla Blog
For more than two decades, Firefox has been one of the most scrutinized and security-hardened codebases on the web. Open source means our code is visible,

https://justthebrowser.com/
"Just the Browser helps you remove AI features, telemetry data reporting, sponsored content, product integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers. The goal is to give you just the browser and nothing else, using hidden settings in web browsers intended for com…

🦊 #Firefox Add-On Hall of Fame
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/
- uBlock

If a not-for-profit for-profit privacy-protecting company funded by surveillance capitalism isn’t trustworthy, I don’t know what is. @… https://polymaths.social/@c…

Maybe this is interesting regarding AI-features, translations, Mozilla Firefox, AI hallucinations... https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2021766

Mozilla says Firefox users will be able to disable all AI features in its desktop browser, starting with Firefox 148, rolling out on February 24 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/mozilla-will-…

Repository is now public. Right now this is just called Swb, or Simple Web Browser. Open to naming suggestions.
Swb is being written in Vala using WebKitGtk. I've been daily driving Gnome Web since Mozilla's new CEO decided that Mozilla should be an AI company, but I'm cheap (actually quite poor) and have a crappy laptop with a small, low-resolution screen and I hate that there's no way to reduce the size of the interface. That was the original motivation, anyway.

»Mozilla — Firefox bekommt KI-Ausschalter:
Die KI-Funktionen in Firefox lassen sich ab der nächsten Version mit einem Knopf vollständig ausknipsen.«
Gut kann mensch KI auf Firefox nun ausschalten, denn ob es genutzt wird und wenn für was, sollte mensch selber entscheiden dürfen.
🦊 https://www.

Mozilla: Firefox bekommt KI-Ausschalter - Golem.de
Die KI-Funktionen in Firefox lassen sich ab der nächsten Version mit einem Knopf vollständig ausknipsen.

Ok, så hur kan vi bli mer digitalt oberoende av USA? Här några tankar:
Mail, kalender (mm): Proton
X/Bluesky: Mastodon
AI: Mistral
Office: LibreOffice
Signal/WhatsApp: Olvid, Threema.
Knepigare:
Webbläsare: Vivaldi. Men helst vill jag att Mozilla flyttar Firefox-utvecklingen till Europa.
Sökmotor: Qwant (tycker inte riktigt den håller måttet än)
OS: Linux (men håller det som alternativ till MacOS/Windows?)
Slack mm: Nextcloud Talk kanske (ha…

I filled that Mozilla survey.
The text area for comment at the bottom, mostly.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/bookmarks-firefox#w_how-to-use-keywords-with-bookmarks
https://old.reddit.com/r/Safari/comments/pmu979/possible_to_have_keyword_shortcuts_like_firefox/
https://safarikeywordsearch.aurlien.net

RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115933745141491485
Periodic reminder that despite relentless Chrome propaganda, a lot of innovation in web browsers comes from Mozilla and Apple.

from my link log —
HashiCorp Vault is overhyped, and Mozilla SOPS with KMS and git is underrated.
https://oteemo.com/2019/06/20/hashicorp-vault-is-overhyped-and-mozilla-sops-with-kms-and-git-is-massively-underrated/…

huh #mozilla #firefox creates completely unique addon uuids in every deployment, and include this in the "Origin" header of HTTP requests initiated by the addon:

As I mentioned earlier, I switched to Thunderbird (Mozilla) for all of my email collection. Been using it for over 24 hours and have it set up the way I want it on both pc and phone. Excellent program.
Now here is a stupid security? rule that just doesn't work: ANU emails can't be configured to a 3rd party email client like Thunderbird even through IMAP. However, one can set up, in ANU's web Outlook interface, to forward them automatically to a bloody Gmail account! 🤦‍♀️<…

Have you recently noticed increased #Mozilla work on #firefox ? From small things like finally supporting .mkv files playing, through better linux support (things related to GPU support, XDG dir spec), AI stuff, AI stuff kill switch for anti-AI fetishists, to new GUI on Android.... Probably m…

Introducing Mozilla’s Firefox Nightly .rpm package for RPM based linux distributions! –
If using #fedora you have no more excuse not to use #firefox nightly and help keep the web open.

Introducing Mozilla’s Firefox Nightly .rpm package for RPM based linux distributions! – Firefox Nightly News
After introducing Debian packages for Firefox Nightly, we're now excited to extend that to RPM-based distributions. Just like with the Debian packages, switching to Mozilla’s RPM repository allows Firefox to ...

«Partnering with @… to improve Firefox’s security
AI models can now independently identify high-severity vulnerabilities in complex software. As we recently documented, Claude found more than 500 zero-day vulnerabilities (security flaws that are unknown to the software’s maintainers) in well-tested open-source software.»
I am not an AI fan but with suc…

Partnering with Mozilla to improve Firefox’s security
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

I’m gong to boycott the local establishment that abbreviates “mozzarella” as “motz” because the correct abbreviation is “mozz” which also reminds me of the early days of Mozilla on Mac OS. I love cheese.

Ach, ich hab immer via Shell geguckt, ob bei mail was bei username@localhost angekommen ist (für privaten Rechner brauch ich kein Forwarding an richtige Mail).
Gerade der Gedanke, ich kann die einfach in Thunderbird als lokalen Ordner anzeigen. Mit Flatpak grob so
1. Bei Flatpak Zugriff auf Ordner /var/mail erlauben
3. `ln -s /var/mail/USERNAME "/home/USERNAME/.var/app/org.mozilla.Thunderbird/.thunderbird/CHECKMICH.default-release/Mail/Local Folders/System-Mail"

I trust Mozilla the same way I trust any other lying, manipulative, hypocritical bottom feeder.

Mozilla getting some positive press coverage for once... for promising a "switch off AI features" button in Firefox.

Double grumble with an asterisk!!!!
I'm here getting my car serviced and I attached to their wi-fi. OK, that's pretty normal.
But their wi-fi intercepts TLS connections and substitutes its own certificate. Bad, bad, bad. At least my tools noticed it and said "we ain't gonna get fooled".
However, this happened in Thunderbird (e-mail tool) which popped up an utterly obscure dialog to tell me and ask what I wanted to do.
Hey, Mozilla/Thunderbir…

Mozilla want us to have content for some "study" on "Transparency"
https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/campaigns/demand-the-data-whats-really-going-viral/
Sorry @…

Demand the Data: What’s Really Going Viral? | Mozilla Foundation
Social media platforms aren’t sharing what goes viral on their sites. Tell YouTube, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, and X to disclose their most-viewed content. Sign now.

Are mozilla's fork any good?
#browser

@… @… @…
I could see it here:

Mozilla says Claude Opus 4.6 found 100 bugs in Firefox in two weeks in January, 14 of them high-severity, more than the bugs typically reported in two months (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/send-us-more-anthropics…

The real issue with ditching Firefox and leaving Mozilla behind is why haven't I done it years ago

Current status, waiting for the #mozilla swag to arrive.
#fosdem2026

Ok, something other than politics for a minute. Browsers.
I started daily driving Gnome Web around the time the new Mozilla CEO announced the AI-heavy focus for the company going forward. I'm not having any problems with WebKit as a rendering engine, but I think the interface leaves a bit to be desired for my uses. Here's my complaints.
- The interface takes up too much screen real estate on small laptop screens
- Bookmarks are currently not even working for me
…

He visto esta comparativa de navegadores y me parece sublime https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/30262814

Yeah so I’ve moved off Firefox. Good riddance, Mozilla. Hope you drown in your AI slop.
Hello, Vivaldi.

Mozilla think that adding some controls to their settings to allow users to opt out of the AI features is good enough.
No sign of a separate build without them there at all, but at least a switch to disable them, in theory.
They say:
"Once configured, the AI preferences will persist across browser updates"
Though they do have a history of turning on telemetry over and over again even when you keep turning it off. Or inventing new telemetery for you to turn off each update.
One switch will turn off:
"AI-enhanced tab grouping with suggested names,"
Which sounds horrifying, but then I don't really like tab groups anyway.
They seem to be suggesting that this is all just for desktop though, and so the Android build will presumably continue to not even have a working about:config at all.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-controls/
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/mozilla-will-let-you-turn-off-all-firefox-ai-features/

I wonder if part of the reason that Mozilla are so confused about what their actual user-base want is that all the people who want to turn off the AI bullshit are also the ones who turn off telemetry so the bulk of people with
also have telemetry turned off so are invisible to Mozilla.
🤔

Oh. Its proprietary!?
#browser #firefox #vivaldi #mozilla