Mozilla officially advocates against CISPA

We reported a few days ago that the new bill called CISPA has great support from many area companies such as Google, Facebook, Intel, Oracle, Microsoft roundtrips and is expected to be submitted for approval in the U.S. Senate soon. This bill may force private companies and websites offering information about the user if requested by a government organization.


The Mozilla today, however, announce its statement on the Forbes opposition with this bill without, of course, not recognizing that they need better protection measures on a general basis. The Mozilla says CISPA has a broad and disturbing range of influence extends far beyond the Internet security and violate our privacy.


It's good to see companies and organizations of the size of Mozilla officially take place on such important issues that may forever change the way we use the Internet. We await with great interest the developments on the subject.

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Released the first beta of the Mozilla Firefox 13

The Firefox 12 may be made ​​available before a few days, but if someone is impatient of what does the popular browser, the first beta for the 13th edition just released. The changes are small but have the goal faster browsing. For example, when the user restart the browser, no longer automatically reopens all those tabs that were, saving valuable time.


 Users will notice that the SPDY protocol is enabled by default to provide better speed, and there is a new default home page with quick access to bookmarks and history. Most changes relate to the developers, but if anyone is interested can download the beta now.

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Mozilla presents the click-to-play function for plug-ins in Firefox

Mozilla is famous for the way it approaches safety and the degree of customizing plug-ins in Firefox, so it is surprising that so much has been slow to implement the feature click-to-play function in the popular browser.


Click-to-play presented in the nightly build of Firefox and in accordance with the engineer of Mozilla, Jared Wein, the company is working on a system that remembers user preferences per page. For example, if you want to load the flash always on YouTube you should choose the first time and never again.


In this way the Mozilla hopes that users will enjoy a faster and more stable browsing experience on the Internet. After all the plug-ins are to blame for a large number of problems with Firefox specifically rate the last upgrade of the browser.

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Mozilla tries video chatting directly through Firefox [Video]

The effort of Mozilla to enhance Firefox in order to cope with the tough competition of web browsers, including the integration of functions previously exploited or applications, or (ultimately) from social networks.

One of these is the built-in video chatting service that we will see in a later version of Mozilla Firefox. The application uses the open-source protocol for connecting WebRTC video (we have encountered in experiments on the Google Chrome browser), and the SocialAPI add-ons for audio / video streaming, built in HTML and JavaScript.

As you will see the following video, the video call is make a very basic level, allows communication only between 2 users are connected via Persona (Browser ID).

Mozilla WebRTC Video Call Demo

Judging by the fact that Google is interested in integrating this function, then very soon Skype (and by extension Microsoft) will have very strong competition ...

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Mozilla Firefox 11: the final version is available!

It's a bit delayed, compared with previous updates, but now is available the final version of Mozilla Firefox 11, which brings together for the first time the possibility of importing bookmarks from other browsers that are installed on your computer (like Chrome, Opera , Internet Explorer).




Also, added a feature that we meet some time in Google Chrome, and is able to synchronize the add-ons to those used by the user on other devices, provided they have enabled the option Sync.


In the above add the classic repair various problems, but also the integration of 3D view mode for web developers, which were previously available through add-on "Tilt".


You can download Mozilla Firefox 11 for Mac, Windows and Linux here.

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Mozilla shows us the first demo of the mobile operating system Boot to Gecko!

Mozilla was presented at MWC 2012 to attract more supporters and partners for the project Boot to Gecko (B2G) and the Open Web Apps, the mobile operating system and applications based on technologies web (HTML5, JavaScript, CSS) and will be compatible with any platform, any device or any web browser.




According to a company already has doses hands with Telefónica and Deutsche Telekom to create and promote Open Web Devices (OWD) in 2012, and declare their support for the idea and Adobe, Qualcomm. Also, this week will see the preview of Mozilla Marketplace! For now, let's look at the preview of B2G in a prototype device OWD:

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New homepage in Mozilla Firefox 12, integrating applications and chat later!

Mozilla has accustomed us to constant releases of new versions of the Firefox browser, however, will have noticed that changes made ​​are from small to almost non-noticed by the user.

However, perhaps for the first time since the release of Firefox 4, is preparing to bring features found in Google Chrome, as a new homepage with tabs that lead to the most popular websites of the user.

This addition will be the version Mozilla Firefox 12, while it is in the works and the integration of applications and chat functionality for future versions! However, according to the schedule maintained by the company, the new homepage will be available in April and applications in the summer, so it remains to see if reach functionality in Google Chrome or he will escape further ...

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