Whenever you open Firefox, we want it to feel like it speaks your language and matches your style. This month, our mobile team is rolling out features inspired by community ideas, user requests and the small everyday moments that make browsing more delightful. Today we’re bringing three of those ideas to life: on-device translations for […]

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Last year, the Firefox team set out to test something fans requested: choosing a custom app icon. The experiment was simple. Offer a small set of options and see how people use them. The team created early concepts, but experiment lead Gabrielle Lussier noticed something was missing. The designs were clean and functional, but none […]

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It’s not every day a video codec wins an Emmy. But yesterday, the Television Academy honored the AV1 specification with a Technology & Engineering Emmy Award, recognizing its impact on how the world delivers video content. The web needed a new video codec Through the mid-2010s, video codecs were an invisible tax on the web, […]

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Fast Company has named Firefox to its 2025 “Brands That Matter” list, recognizing companies that go beyond acquiring customers to build meaningful relevance and cultural impact. For us, that honor reflects a simple truth about Mozilla’s mission: We build Firefox to give people agency and choice every time they go online. In 2025 this brand […]

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Every day, Firefox users around the world turn to Mozilla Support (SUMO) with a question, a hiccup or just a little curiosity. It’s community-powered – contributors offer answers and support to make someone’s day a little easier. We celebrated this global community last month with Ask-A-Fox, a weeklong virtual event that brought together longtime contributors, […]

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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 corners of the internet. We all have an internet story worth sharing. In […]

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Today, Mozilla is thrilled to join the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA) as its newest member. The DPGA is a UN-backed initiative that seeks to advance open technologies and ensure that technology is put to use in the public interest and serves everyone, everywhere — like Mozilla’s Common Voice, which has been recognized as a […]

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With Firefox 145, we’re rolling out major privacy upgrades that take on browser fingerprinting — a pervasive and hidden tracking technique that lets websites identify you even when cookies are blocked or you’re in private browsing. These protections build on Mozilla’s long-term goal of building a healthier, transparent and privacy-preserving web ecosystem. Fingerprinting builds a […]

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We’re working on a new feature to display direct results in your address bar as you type, so that you can skip the results page and get to the right site or answer faster. Every major browser today supports a feature known as “search suggestions.” As you type in the address bar, your chosen search […]

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What would your browser history say about you? Whether you were getting things done this week or just collecting tabs, a new Firefox extension helps you reflect on your digital habits.  Designed as a personal productivity tool, Fox Recap is a capstone project from a group of college seniors at California State University, Monterey Bay. […]

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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 corners of the internet. We all have an internet story worth sharing. In […]

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