Tag: mozilla
Mozilla has had enough of Flash’s security flaws, disables Firefox plugin
The Next Web reported on Mozilla disabling Firefox’s flash plugin. Mozilla has blocklisted all vulnerable versions of Adobe Flash in its Firefox browser, following the discovery of numerous critical security flaws in the platform. Mark Schmidt, head of Firefox Support, took to Twitter to announce the change. https://twitter.com/MarkSchmidty/status/620783674561327104/photo/1 Fall out from this.
Mozilla finally brings Firefox to iOS
John Gruber on Firefox finally being available on iOS. That it took them until 2014 to bend to practicality — iOS has been growing in popularity worldwide ever since it debuted, and Apple was never going to allow them to use their own rendering engine in an iOS app — epitomizes everything wrong with Mozilla…
Three Mozilla board members resign over choice of new CEO
WSJ Digits reports on the resignation of three Mozilla board members over choice of new CEO. How did the CEO appointment go ahead when three board members, who felt so strongly against it that they are willing to quit over it, and Mozilla employees oppose the decision? I can’t even begin to imagine how messed…
Mozilla plans to sell ads in Firefox
John Gruber comments on Mozilla’s plan to sell ads in Firefox. Now go to Mozilla’s own weblog, where they announced this with the headline “Publisher Transformation with Users at the Center”. What a pile of obtuse horseshit. If you want to sell ads, sell ads. Own it. Don’t try to coat it with a layer…