Mozilla Articles
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2014: Mozilla Hacks looks back
Wherever you live, it’s a season of work holidays, school vacations, year-end blog posts, and lists. The Hacks blog will be back in early January 2015 to continue writing for developers about the products and technologies created by Mozilla and by builders of the Open Web around the world. In the (chronological) list below, we […]
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Mozilla Hacks gets a new Editor
Almost three and a half years ago I wrote my first article for Mozilla Hacks and have been the Editor since September 2012. As the face and caretaker of this blog for such a long time, having published 350 posts in two years, I want to take the opportunity to thank you all for reading, […]
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Save the Web – Be a Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellow
This is a critical time in the evolution of the Web. Its core ethos of being free and open is at risk with too little interoperability and threats to privacy, security, and expression from governments throughout the world. To protect the Web, we need more people with technical expertise to get involved at the policy […]
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NFC in Firefox OS
Firefox OS is being developed in an open collaboration with Mozilla’s partners and community. In that spirit, and over the course of over a year, Mozilla and Deutsche Telekom (DT) teams worked closely together to develop a platform-level support for NFC within Firefox OS. During that time, both teams had regular product and engineering meet-ups […]
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350 posts on Hacks in 2 years!
Two years ago, we made a number of changes to the Mozilla Hacks blog. Since then we’ve had over three million unique visitors and 350 quality posts in just less than two years – almost one every second day! Part of these changes included: A clear focus on learning about the Open Web & open […]
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Firefox OS Apps run on Android
At Mozilla we believe that apps and browsing are best viewed as cooperative and symbiotic, each better when working together. We are working to strengthen that relationship by building an apps ecosystem that is built using the Web technologies that so many developers are already familiar with. We built Firefox OS as a mobile OS […]
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Mozilla hits one million bugs – thanks for making the Web better with us
We passed a significant milestone on Wednesday. Mozilla’s installation of the Bugzilla bug-tracking software reached the landmark of bug number 1,000,000. Our Bugzilla installation has been running since Mozilla started in 1998, and tracked bugs, issues, enhancement requests, work projects and almost any other kind of task, across the whole breadth of Mozilla. There are […]
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What Mozilla Hacks is
With the Mozilla moniker, many people believe that the Hacks blog is only about Mozilla products or news. Therefore, I wanted to take the chance to enlighten you and also invite you to be a part of creating content here. What we cover here The goal and objective of Mozilla Hacks is to be one […]
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Technical Blogger? Mozillian? Here's a plugin for you to tell us about your work!
One great thing about Mozilla is that we want people to have a voice. Our products give people a voice on the web without being spied on. As a Mozillian, you don’t have to go through various levels of red tape before you are allowed to speak out in public. As Mozilla grows, it becomes […]
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Mozilla goes to Washington
Last month, Mozilla Foundation employee Jess Klein was honored by the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy as a Champion of Change for her work with Rockaway Help in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Before the White House event, Mozilla sponsored a Civic Hackers’ Happy Hour in DC at canvas.co. Here’s an excerpt […]
