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Yet the rebranding of the foundation in August, and of its subsidiary Mozilla Corporation last December, reflects internal changes at organizations looking to redefine themselves, to shake off setbacks, and to reassert their relevance at a time of rapid technological and political transition.

Last May, Nabiha Syed became executive director of The Mozilla Foundation, and a year on, reached out to The Register to share her vision for an organization humbled by layoffs and confronted by stochastic parrots and stochastic politics. [...]

#Firefox 142 Open-Source Web Browser Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New https://9to5linux.com/firefox-142-web-browser-is-now-available-for-download-heres-whats-new

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Linux

Firefox’ new “AI” features cause CPU spikes and battery drain: https://www.osnews.com/story/143044/firefox-new-ai-features-cause-cpu-spikes-and-battery-drain/ #Firefox #AI

Firefox users report high CPU and memory usage in the latest release, caused by browser's on-device AI inferencing for its 'smart tab grouping' feature.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/firefox-high-cpu-usage-inference-disable

#mozilla #firefox #opensource

Wave of 150 #crypto-draining extensions hits #Firefox add-on store

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/wave-of-150-crypto-draining-extensions-hits-firefox-add-on-store/

#cybersecurity

#Firefox 141.0.3 is out now to fix a regression that caused issues on sites built with the Svelte framework and an issue where cryptominers were not listed as blocked in Strict Tracking Protection https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/141.0.3/releasenotes/

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Linux

#Firefox 141.0.2 is out now to fix a startup crash experienced by some #Linux users with outdated #NVIDIA drivers, an issue where Firefox wouldn't start on some Linux systems where GTK+ was built without Wayland support, and other bugs https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/141.0.2/releasenotes/

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware

Nice to see my hare-csv module (https://git.sr.ht/~blainsmith/hare-csv) is needed for the Himitsu Firefox add-on.

https://himitsustore.org/

#HareLang #SecureSecrets #PasswordManager #Firefox #OpenSource

Servo was supposed to be the future rendering engine for Firefox, but now it's an independent project. I tried it out and it's pretty impressive! #webdev #firefox

https://www.spacebar.news/servo-undercover-web-browser-engine/

Latest @[email protected] Android update automatically turned on "Suggested stories" on the new tab page.

Nobody asked for this.
Nobody wants this.

#firefox

#Firefox 142 Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing, Here’s What to Expect https://9to5linux.com/firefox-142-is-now-available-for-public-beta-testing-heres-what-to-expect

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Linux

AI-assisted tab groups, reduced memory usage on Linux, unit conversions in the address bar AND expanded PiP support – it's Firefox 141.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/firefox-141-release-ai-tabs-linux-memory

#firefox #opensource #foss

#Firefox 141 Open-Source Web Browser Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New https://9to5linux.com/firefox-141-web-browser-is-now-available-for-download-heres-whats-new

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Linux

Hey #Firefox hackers! My credit card issuer, Chase, does something funky where its page won't load unless it's in the focused tab:

https://secure.chase.com/web/auth/dashboard

I want to get it to load in the background instead.

Any ideas? I tried turning off all the lazy-load-enabled settings in about:config but that didn't work.

I guess if anybody cares, next Tuesday, #Firefox 141 will be released. Among other things, a few good items:

1. On #Linux, Firefox uses less memory and no longer requires a forced restart after an update has been applied by a package manager.

2. Support for #Cookies Having Independent Partitioned State (CHIPS) is now re-enabled, allowing developers to opt a cookie into storage partitioning per top-level site.

References:

• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/141.0beta/releasenotes/
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Privacy/Guides/Privacy_sandbox/Partitioned_cookies

#privacy #browser

After years in development, we will be releasing WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141! WebGPU gives web content a modern interface to the user’s graphics processor, enabling high-performance comp…