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25 July 2014
Why Mozilla Was Right: GCHQ & NSA Track Cookies
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During 2013, I've written a few articles about Mozilla 's attempt to give users greater control over the cookies placed on their ...
24 July 2014
Turning Mozilla Thunderbird into a Phoenix
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I've always been a big fan of Mozilla's email client, Thunderbird, even when it was unfashionable to admit it. Because, for the ...
Brendan Eich, Mozilla's CTO, on EME and DRM
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A few weeks back, I wrote about the troubling prospect of DRM being baked into HTML5. At the centre of a related piece was a post by Brend...
24 November 2013
Towards a Post-H.264 World
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In my post yesterday about Cisco making the code for its H264 codec available, I noted that the really important news was that Mozilla w...
Is Cisco Open-Sourcing its Code - or Openwashing?
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You know that open source has won when everybody wants to wrap themselves in a little bit of openness in order to enjoy the glow. That...
Is Mozilla on the Bridge of Khazad - or on the Fence?
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Last week I explored at some length the curious reasons that Sir Tim Berners-Lee gave for supporting the proposal to add hooks for DRM in...
23 November 2013
Did You Know that Mozilla is Hijacking the Internet?
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A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the incredible spectacle of the European arm of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) attacking Moz...
26 October 2013
Mozilla Comes under Attack - and of Age
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Back in March, I wrote about the odd little attack by the European arm of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) on Mozilla's pla...
19 September 2013
Meeting Mr Firefox: Johnathan Nightingale
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Mozilla and its central Firefox project are themes that I have returned to often on this blog. That's not so surprising: Mozilla is ...
18 September 2013
Mozilla Sends Cease And Desist Letter To Commercial Spyware Company For Using Firefox Trademark And Code To Trick Users
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Techdirt has written several times about the increasing tendency for governments around the world to turn to malware as a way of spying ...
14 April 2013
Mozilla and the Open Source Browser Bonanza
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Even if you don't remember the birth of Mozilla 15 years ago , you are certainly benefitting from its consequences. For, back then, ...
31 March 2013
Is Mozilla "Undermining the Openness of the Internet"?
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One of the core areas that Mozilla is working on is user privacy, and one important aspect of this is controlling cookies. Most people a...
10 March 2013
Mozilla to the Rescue, Again?
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I've written a number of posts about Mozilla's rise and fall and rise: how it went from saving the open Web and open standards in...
06 January 2013
Mozilla Helped To Stop SOPA In January, Now It's Worried About WCIT
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Mike wrote how both Vint Cerf and Sir Tim Berners-Lee were concerned about the outcome of the WCIT talks currently taking place in Dubai...
08 December 2012
Mozilla's Big Comeback
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Mozilla is now something of a venerable institution in the open source world - the first release of browser code by Netscape took place ...
11 April 2012
Of Microsoft, Netscape, Patents and Open Standards
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I still remember well the day in October 1994 when I downloaded the first beta of Netscape's browser. It was instantly obvious that t...
17 February 2012
Head of Mozilla Says ACTA Is 'A Bad Way To Develop Internet Policy'
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One telling sign of the widespread concern about SOPA/PIPA was that the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, which oversees the open source Fire...
31 January 2012
Pandora's Box 2.0: Opening proprietary code
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Open source lies at the heart of Google – it runs a modified form of Linux on its vast server farms, and uses many other free software pr...
03 January 2012
What should free software do in 2012?
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In my last column , I suggested that one of the best things that Mozilla could do in order to promote the Open Web and openness in genera...
16 December 2011
What Should Mozilla Do?
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There has been a flurry of excitement about Mozilla recently. Not, as you might hope, about the latest version of Firefox; one of the uni...
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