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Newsonaut: Turning inner space into outer space

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:23:59 +0000

Firefox is our last best hope for browser engine diversity and competition. Without it we would be stuck with Google Chrome and its spinoffs everywhere (including Vivaldi). The only holdout would be Apple Safari, hanging in there only because it’s the enforced default on iPhones.

Tags: #browsers #firefox #mozilla

Firefox Developer Experience

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:44:32 +0000

Tags: #feeds #feeds:subscriptions #firefox #mozilla

Firefox in WebAssembly

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 03:13:29 +0000

he Gecko engine compiled to WebAssembly. The real Firefox interface, rendering entirely inside this browser tab.

Tags: #firefox #wasm #webdev

HeyPuter/firefox-wasm: 🦊 Firefox in WebAssembly

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 03:12:49 +0000

🦊 Firefox in WebAssembly

Tags: #firefox #wasm #webdev

Firefox's AI kill switch exists. Only 1% of users have flipped it.

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:58:13 +0000

Mozilla built an AI kill switch into Firefox after its users demanded one. Only 1% have used it. Another 3% turned off some AI features selectively. The rest left everything on. CEO Anthony Enzor-DeMeo says the point is not the percentage but the choice.

Tags: #ai #firefox #llms #mozilla #web

Saying goodbye to asm.js | SpiderMonkey JavaScript/WebAssembly Engine

Wed, 20 May 2026 16:42:18 +0000

asm.js was Mozilla’s response to the question posed by NaCl and PNaCl: how can the web run code at native speeds? The idea was clever: pick a strict, statically-typed subset of JavaScript that an engine could recognize on the fly and compile down to native code. We could get performance similar to NaCl/PNaCl and still have code live inside web content and use web API’s (no separate sandbox, IPC, or alternative API’s). asm.js shipped in Firefox 22 back in 2013 and was a success. It let projects like Unity and Unreal ship C/C++ codebases to the web for the first time, using just standard web technologies. The Epic Citadel demo was ported to the web in just four days. It was a landmark achievement, and a fond memory for the original asm.js team.

Tags: #asmjs #firefox #javascript #mozilla #wasm

2010930 - Initial commit of WebSerial code

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:47:58 +0000

This should have all basic WebSerial functionality. This will be behind a pref dom.webserial.enabled.

Tags: #firefox #webdev #webserial

A first interview with Mozilla’s new CEO on AI, Firefox, and the web | The Verge

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 17:03:50 +0000

It’s no accident that the Firefox guy is taking over, by the way. “Priority one [for Mozilla] is still building the best browser,” he says. “I am very pragmatic that that is our core business, and it would take a lot to prove otherwise.” Going forward, when Mozilla launches new products, they’re likely to be tied to Firefox — Enzor-DeMeo mentions that Mozilla VPN is coming to Firefox next year, just to name one, and says there are other features in the works.

Tags: #business #ceo #firefox #mozilla

I know you don’t want them to want AI, but… - Anil Dash

Sat, 15 Nov 2025 03:03:54 +0000

Another reality that people were a little more quiet in acknowledging, and sometimes reluctant to engage with out loud, is the reality that hundreds of millions of people are using the major AI tools every day. When I would point this out, there was often an initial defensive reaction talking about how people are forced to use these tools at work, or how AI is being shoehorned into every tool and foisted upon users. This is all true! And also? Hundreds of millions of users are choosing to go to these websites, of their own volition, and engage with these tools.

Tags: #ai #firefox #llms #mozilla #users #web

Running inference in web extensions

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 06:13:02 +0000

We’re shipping a new API in Firefox Nightly that will let you use our Firefox AI runtime to run offline machine learning tasks in your web extension.

Tags: #ai #firefox #llm #mozilla

Playing with AI inference in Firefox Web extensions

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 06:12:43 +0000

Concluding, I think this is a very interesting way of working with AI inference in the browser. The obvious downside is that you need to convince your users to download an extension, but the obvious upside is that you possibly can save them from having to download a model they may already have downloaded and stored on their disk.

Tags: #ai #firefox #llm #ml #mozilla

icholy/ContainerScript: Firefox Addon for programmatically assigning URLs to containers.

Mon, 02 Dec 2024 21:40:52 +0000

Firefox Addon for programmatically assigning URLs to containers.

Tags: #firefox #web

Firefox VS the Chrome-ium Empire - YouTube

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 16:03:15 +0000

If only Firefox was 3% better things would be so different... or would they?

Tags: #browsers #chrome #firefox #mozilla #webdev

RSSPreview – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:24:52 +0000

Preview RSS feeds in-browser

Tags: #addons #firefox #rss

Extension Auto-Installer :: Add-ons for Firefox

Wed, 12 Aug 2015 16:08:05 +0000

Extension Auto-Installer is a helper for Firefox/SeaMonkey/Thunderbird extension developers: it allows automatically adding or updating browser extensions, e.g. via command line tools. This makes testing your changes easier.

Tags: #development #extension #firefox #imported:pinboard