Firefox

Mozilla will begin signing Mv3 extensions for Firefox next week

Nightly and Developer Edition users will be able to test the new cruelty

Applications17 Nov 2022 | 12

Mozilla Foundation launches ethical venture capital fund

An unexpected move, but we suspect that Carl Sagan might have approved

Software04 Nov 2022 | 6

Firefox patches Windows 11 Ctrl+C hang, introduces new bug

Copying text now works without issue, so naturally pasting is getting iffy

Software01 Nov 2022 | 8

Firefox points the way to eradicating one of the rudest words online: PDF

Comment The ghosts of dead trees haunt us still

Columnists24 Oct 2022 | 238

Firefox 106 will let you type directly into browser PDFs

Sorry Adobe but we can let users type or even hand-write directly

Software18 Oct 2022 | 86

Serious surfer? How to browse like a pro on Firefox

Mozilla may seem like it has forgotten, but this is the most customizable browser going

Software26 Sep 2022 | 96

Firefox kills another tracking cookie workaround

URL query parameters won't work in version 102 of Mozilla's browser

Personal Tech30 Jun 2022 | 48

Thunderbird 102 gets a major facelift, Matrix chat support

Mozilla's messaging client appears to have benefited from sponsor shakeup

Applications30 Jun 2022 | 43

Mozilla opens testing for Manifest v3 extensions in Firefox

Browser makers line up for Google's extension system but complaints persist

Software20 May 2022 | 24

Mozilla browser Firefox hits the big 100

Kinda sorta. It's out there if you look hard enough

Software03 May 2022 | 101

Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla agree on something: Make web dev lives easier

Browser makers set aside differences

Software04 Mar 2022 | 64

Three major browsers are about to hit version 100. Will websites cope?

Build numbers causing problems: Truly, what is new is old again

Applications17 Feb 2022 | 59

Foxstuck: Firefox browser bug boots legions of users offline

Outfoxed? Not if you read The Reg

Software18 Jan 2022 | 54

Linux Mint 20.3 appears – now with more Mozilla flavor: Why this distro switched Firefox defaults back to Google

Oh, Snap

OSes12 Jan 2022 | 84

Another Debian dust-up with Firefox dependencies – but there is an annoying and awkward workaround

El Reg, as ever, helps you to get back in the game

OSes10 Dec 2021 | 78

Thousands of Firefox users accidentally commit login cookies on GitHub

GitHub: 'Credentials exposed by our users are not in scope'

Security18 Nov 2021 | 27

Is your Apple Mac running macOS Monterey leaking memory? It may be due to mouse cursor customization

Sleuthing leads to suspected RAM-gobbling culprit

OSes17 Nov 2021 | 34

Mozilla sprinkles Firefox Relay with Premium fairy dust

You want more than five email aliases? Sure, but it'll cost you

Security16 Nov 2021 | 1

Waterfox: A Firefox fork that could teach Mozilla a lesson

Comment Why are some of Moz's axed projects bigger than its flagship?

Software04 Nov 2021 | 147

Want to support Firefox? Great, you'll have no problem with personalised, sponsored search suggestions then

Dark pattern consent dialog invites users to share their location with advertisers

Applications08 Oct 2021 | 93

What if Chrome broke features of the web and Google forgot to tell anyone? Oh wait, that's exactly what happened

Feature Browser monoculture bad

Software04 Oct 2021 | 151

Firefox 91 introduces cookie clearing, clutter-free printing, Microsoft single sign-on... so where are all the users?

Extended support release brings a handful of new features, but browser is still struggling for market share

Software11 Aug 2021 | 157

Firefox 89: Can this redesign stem browser's decline?

New visuals, simplified menus, though Mozilla has yet to fully state its position on 'privacy preserving ads'

Applications01 Jun 2021 | 190

Firefox to adopt Chrome's new approach to extensions – sans the part that threatens ad blockers

Mozilla says Google's content-filter API doesn't meet developer needs, others agree

Applications28 May 2021 | 28

Time for an upgrade: Dev of the last modern browser for PowerPC Macs calls it a day

One final update for its 'couple of thousand' users then it's just a hobby

Software31 Mar 2021 | 22

Mozilla Firefox keeps cookies kosher with quarantine scheme, 86s third-party cookies in new browser build

Hey man, are your cookies trackin' me? Take 'em out. You gotta keep 'em separated

Security24 Feb 2021 | 23

Firefox 85 crumbles cache-abusing supercookies with potent partitioning powers

Scorches Flash for the very last time, too

Software27 Jan 2021 | 18

HTTPS-only mode arrives in Firefox 83 as Mozilla finds new home for Rust-y Servo engine

Another notch towards the SSL-only web

Software18 Nov 2020 | 67

A visit to a crafted webpage would have been enough for a bad guy to munch all your Firefox for Android cookies

So make sure you've updated since July, fandroids

Security17 Nov 2020 | 13

Thunderbird implements PGP crypto feature requested 21 years ago

As Mozilla kills off secure file transfer tool because – shock! – it was being abused

Software18 Sep 2020 | 57

Upside down, you turn me, you're giving bork instinctively: Firefox flips as a train connection is missed

Bork!Bork!Bork! Respectfully, I say to thee... I'm aware that you're borking

Bootnotes08 Sep 2020 | 31

If you think Mozilla pushed a broken Firefox Android build, good news: It didn't. Bad news: It's working as intended

Netizens up in arms over unexpected UI change, missing add-ons support

Software25 Aug 2020 | 155

Firefox maker Mozilla axes a quarter of its workforce, blames coronavirus, vows to 'develop new revenue streams'

250 'true Mozillians' laid off, Taiwan office completely shuttered

Software11 Aug 2020 | 62

Mozilla doubles down on anti-tracking tech: It'll be tougher for wily ad-biz cookie monsters to track Firefox

Apple still leading in anti-cookie diet, Google – predictably – in the rearguard

Personal Tech04 Aug 2020 | 37

Firefox 79: A thin release for regular users, but plenty for developers to devour

Reverse tabnapping is no more

Software30 Jul 2020 | 20

Firefox 78: Protections dashboard, new developer features... and the end of the line for older macOS versions

New Regular Expression evaluator borrowed from Chromium V8 – a sign of more collaboration to come?

Software01 Jul 2020 | 19

Talk about the fox guarding the hen house. Comcast to handle DNS-over-HTTPS for Firefox-using subscribers

Last November: These ISPs know too much! June: God bless the ISPs

Security26 Jun 2020 | 28

At Mozilla VPN stands for Vague Product News: Foundation reveals security product will launch eventually, with temporary pricing, in unspecified places

But it does have a name. 'Firefox Private Network' is out, ‘Mozilla VPN’ is in.

Security19 Jun 2020 | 15

Update Firefox: Mozilla just patched three hijack-me holes and a bunch of other flaws

Plus: Zoom fixes code-execution security bugs

Security04 Jun 2020 | 13

Prepare to have your shonky password hygiene shamed by Firefox 76

Mozilla's finest shores up security features among other tweaks

Software06 May 2020 | 21

We could all do with a bit of empathy in our systems, says Mozilla as it ships Firefox 75 in the thick of global pandemic

Also: Interim CEO Mitchell Baker drops the 'interim' part

Software08 Apr 2020 | 13

Mozilla plugs two Firefox browser holes exploited in the wild by hackers to hijack victims' computers

Update now before it's too late

Security06 Apr 2020 | 9

We're number two! Microsoft's Edge browser slips past Firefox in latest set of NetMarketShare figures

Though Statcounter puts Moz's finest second. Chrome still top dog

Software06 Apr 2020 | 59

If you use Twitter with Firefox in a shared computer account, you may have slightly spilled some private data on that PC

HTTP header ends in own goal

Security02 Apr 2020 | 10

Firefox to burn FTP out of its browser, starting slowly in version 77 due in April

Already sin-binned it in 2018, will keep it around in extended support until 2021, and is way behind Chrome

Security20 Mar 2020 | 43

Firefox 74 slams Facebook in solitary confinement: Browser add-on stops social network stalking users across the web

Prompt to install enhanced extension is the first thing you'll see

Software12 Mar 2020 | 57

If you're serious about browser privacy, you should probably pass on Edge or Yandex, claims Dublin professor

Merging search and address bar means more data for the tech giants

Security27 Feb 2020 | 64

Firefox now defaults to DNS-over-HTTPS for US netizens and some are dischuffed about this

Good for privacy – or an alarming move towards further internet centralisation?

Software25 Feb 2020 | 105

Firefox 72: Floating videos, blocking fingerprints, and defeating notification pop-ups

Updated Beefy Firefox release despite new 4-weekly release cycle, but users stick stubbornly to Google Chrome

Software08 Jan 2020 | 60

Mozilla locks nosy Avast, AVG extensions out of Firefox store amid row over web privacy

Add-ons accused of slurping every URL netizens visit

Security04 Dec 2019 | 76

Newly born Firefox 71 emerges from its den – with its own VPN and some privacy tricks

Mozilla continues exploring privacy as a source of revenue

Software04 Dec 2019 | 110

Minigame: Celebrate Firefox 70's release by finding a website with 70+ trackers blocked

Yeah, it's not us

Security22 Oct 2019 | 37

Hold up, ace. Before you strap into Firefox's latest Test Pilot, ask yourself...

How much do I trust Mozilla with my data?

Software13 Sep 2019 | 22

Mozilla says Firefox won't defang ad blockers – unlike a certain ad-giant browser

Extensions still free to use uber-powerful webRequest API to filter crap out of webpages

Software03 Sep 2019 | 41

Today in tortured tech analogies: Mozilla lets Firefox loose in the hen house, and by hen house, we mean the tracking cookie jar, er...

Remember when people didn't use browsers from the one of world's biggest adtech giants?

Software03 Sep 2019 | 61

Mozilla shaves down Beard to a luxuriant mustache, looks for new CEO by end of year

The clock is ticking to find replacement, he's off by Xmas

Software29 Aug 2019 | 7