Mozilla Firefox

The pen is mightier than the sword, but is personal organization more powerful than having to worry about grammar? You tell us in today’s March Add(on)ness. Momentum Optimization With Momentum, … Read more The post March Add(on)ness: Momentum (2) vs Grammarly (3) appeared first on The Firefox Frontier.

The pen is mightier than the sword, but is personal organization more powerful than having to worry about grammar? You tell us in today’s March Add(on)ness. Momentum Optimization With Momentum, … Read more The post March Add(on)ness: Momentum (2) vs Grammarly (3) appeared first on The Firefox Frontier.

Decide who will be the ultimate privacy extension in today’s Firefox March Addonness… uBlock Origin Privacy, tracking uBlock Origin is an efficient blocker. Easy on CPU and memory. Nobody likes … Read more The post Firefox March Addonness: uBlock (1) vs Kimetrack (4) appeared first on The Firefox Frontier.

Decide who will be the ultimate privacy extension in today’s Add-on Madness… uBlock Origin Privacy, tracking uBlock Origin is an efficient blocker. Easy on CPU and memory. Nobody likes to … Read more The post March Add(on)ness: uBlock (1) vs Kimetrack (4) appeared first on The Firefox Frontier.

Decide who will be the ultimate privacy extension in today’s Firefox March Addonness… uBlock Origin Privacy, tracking uBlock Origin is an efficient blocker. Easy on CPU and memory. Nobody likes … Read more The post Firefox March Addonness: uBlock (1) vs Kimetrack (4) appeared first on The Firefox Frontier.

Decide who will be the ultimate privacy extension in today’s Add-on Madness… uBlock Origin Privacy, tracking uBlock Origin is an efficient blocker. Easy on CPU and memory. Nobody likes to … Read more The post March Add(on)ness: uBlock (1) vs Kimetrack (4) appeared first on The Firefox Frontier.

The OSCAL organizers have given a reminder about their call for papers, booths and sponsors (ask questions here). The deadline is imminent but you may not be too late. OSCAL is the Open Source Conference of Albania. OSCAL attracts visitors from ... [More] far beyond Albania (OpenStreetmap), as the biggest Free Software conference in the Balkans, people come from many neighboring countries including Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia, Greece and Italy. OSCAL has a unique character unlike any other event I've visited in Europe and many international guests keep returning every year. A bigger ham radio presence in 2018? My ham radio / SDR demo worked there in 2017 and was very popular. This year I submitted a fresh proposal for a ham radio / SDR booth and sought out local radio hams in the region with an aim of producing an even more elaborate demo for OSCAL'18. If you are a ham and would like to participate please get in touch using this forum topic or email me personally. Why go? There are many reasons to go to OSCAL: We can all learn from their success with diversity. One of the finalists for Red Hat's Women in Open Source Award, Jona Azizaj, is a key part of their team: if she is announced the winner at Red Hat Summit the week before OSCAL, wouldn't you want to be in Tirana when she arrives back home for the party? Warm weather to help people from northern Europe to thaw out. For many young people in the region, their only opportunity to learn from people in the free software community is when we visit them. Many people from the region can't travel to major events like FOSDEM due to the ongoing outbreak of immigration bureaucracy and the travel costs. Many Balkan countries are not EU members and incomes are comparatively low. Due to the low living costs in the region and the proximity to larger European countries, many companies are finding compelling opportunities to work with local developers there and OSCAL is a great place to make contacts informally. Sponsors sought Like many free software communities, Open Labs is a registered non-profit organization. Anybody interested in helping can contact the team and ask them for whatever details you need. The Open Labs Manifesto expresses a strong commitment to transparency which hopefully makes it easy for other organizations to contribute and understand their impact. Due to the low costs in Albania, even a small sponsorship or donation makes a big impact there. If you can't make a direct payment to Open Labs, you could also potentially help them with benefits in kind or by contributing money to one of the larger organizations supporting OSCAL. Getting there without direct service from Ryanair or Easyjet These notes about budget airline routes might help you plan your journey. It is particularly easy to get there from major airports in Italy. If you will also have a vacation at another location in the region it may be easier and cheaper to fly to that location and then use a bus to Tirana. Making it a vacation For people who like to combine conferences with their vacations, the Balkans (WikiTravel) offer many opportunities, including beaches, mountains, cities and even a pyramid (in Tirana itself). It is very easy to reach neighboring countries like Montenegro and Kosovo by coach in just 3-4 hours. For example, there is the historic city of Prizren in Kosovo and many beach resorts in Montenegro. If you go to Kosovo, don't miss the Prishtina hackerspace. [Less]

Stand by for FPR6 Security Parity Release 1 due to the usual turmoil following Pwn2Own, in which the mighty typically fall and this year Firefox did. We track these advisories and always plan to have a patched build of TenFourFox ready and parallel ... [More] with Mozilla's official chemspill release; I have already backported the patch and tested it internally. The bug in question would require a TenFourFox-specific exploit to be useful, but is definitely exploitable, and fortunately was easily repaired. The G5 will chug overnight and have builds tomorrow and heat the rear of the house all at the same time. [Less]

When looking at a GitHub issue, I often need to know, “What PRs are open for this issue?” I wrote the GitHub Issue Hoister add-on to address my problem. It hoists those “mcomella added a commit that references this issue” links to the top of an ... [More] issue page to make them easier to access and see at a glance: Check out the brief tutorial for caveats and more details, or just download it off AMO. For bugs/issues, file them on github. [Less]

Mozilla Fellow Hang Do Thi Duc joins us to share her Data Selfie art project. It collects the same basic info you provide to Facebook. Sharing this kind of data about yourself isn’t something we’d normally recommend. But, if you want to know what’s ... [More] happening behind the scenes when you scroll through your Facebook feed, installing Data Selfie is worth considering. Use at your own risk. If you do, you might be surprised by what you see. Hi everyone, I’m Hang, Ever wonder what Facebook knows about you? Why did that ad for motorcycle insurance pop up when you don’t own a motorcycle? Why did that ad for foot cream pop up right after you talked about your foot itching? I wondered. So I created something to help me find out. I call it Data Selfie. It’s an add-on–a little piece of software you download to use with your web browser–that works in both Firefox and Chrome. How does it work? Every time you like, click, read, or post something on Facebook, Facebook knows. Even if you don’t comment or share much, Facebook learns about you as you scroll through your feed. My add-on does something similar. It’s here to help you understand how your actions online can be tracked. It does this by collecting the same information you provide to Facebook, while still respecting your privacy. NOTE: The add-on is available in Firefox too. Want to see what your Data Selfie looks like? Here’s how: Go here: DataSelfie.it Download the Firefox or Chrome add-on Check out my privacy policy if you want to know more about how this works . You’ll see an eye icon that looks in the upper right corner of your browser. Click on it. From the list, click “Your Data Selfie.” You’ll see there’s not much to your Data Selfie yet. Just browse Facebook as you normally do. It takes about a week of regular Facebook use for your Data Selfie to gather enough information to give you a good idea of what Facebook might know about you. Thanks! I hope you enjoy your Data Selfie. Hang Do Thi Duc Mozilla Fellow PS. My Data Selfie says I’m a laid-back, liberal man who isn’t likely to have a gym membership and prefers style when buying clothes. Pretty accurate, actually. The post Prepare to be Creeped Out appeared first on The Mozilla Blog. [Less]