company:mozilla

Capitalizing on the Digital Attention Economy: The Brave Browser
▻https://hackernoon.com/capitalizing-on-the-digital-attention-economy-the-brave-browser-c975b7b9

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“…in an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: …the attention of its recipients.” (Herbert A. Simon, Professor Carnegie Mellon University, 1971)There’s a new, better way to browse the #internet: the Brave Browser.Image taken from the Brave homepage.The Brave Browser operates on a principle I’m calling the Digital Attention Economy. As Professor Simon pointed out in 1971, the world is flooded with information, but human attention is a finite resource. Capitalizing on that resource has been every corporation’s objective, and we’re all familiar with the advertisement deluge that ensues. It’s overwhelming. Now, there’s a better way.With attention, security, and privacy in mind, CEO Brendan Eich (creator of Javascript and co-founder of Mozilla) and CTO Brian (...)

#cryptocurrency #advertising #basic-attention-token #brave-browser

Changemakers in #programming: Brendan Eich
▻https://hackernoon.com/changemakers-in-programming-brendan-eich-e43f2cc7d269?source=rss----3a81

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Changemakers in Programming: this new blog series will be focusing on organizations, associations and people who have had and/or continue to have a positive impact on the tech world and the world of programming!For this second post, we will learn about the inventor of #javascript. This is the story of BrendanEich, a programmer with a long and growing list of accomplishments!Currently, Eich is the CEO of Brave, which has developed a new internet browser (called Brave) that promises its users more privacy, better security, and faster browsing speeds. But you may also know him as the creator of JavaScript and co-founder of Mozilla (where he was also CTO and briefly CEO).In this blog post, we’ll explore how Eich got to where he is today and discuss his latest project (Brave) and how it might (...)

#brendan-eich #founder-interview #braves

Thunderbird to Get a UI Refresh, Better Gmail Support in 2019
▻https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/01/thunderbird-plans-2019

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The dev team behind the Thunderbird e-mail client have detailed their ambitions for the coming year — and if you’re a fan of fast, pretty things, you’re gonna be pretty well pleased. Mozilla’s desktop email client might not be as popular as its desktop browser, but Thunderbird remains a venerable app with a large following. After […] This post, Thunderbird to Get a UI Refresh, Better Gmail Support in 2019, was written by Joey Sneddon and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.

Who Controls the Internet? – Mozilla Festival – Medium
▻https://medium.com/mozilla-festival/who-controls-the-internet-27a3bbe3d524

The internet was intended for many, but today it’s controlled by few. A discussion about centralization and possible solutions, from antitrust to a new economic model.

This MozFest 2018 panel features Mozilla director of public policy Chris Riley and EDRi senior policy advisor Maryant Fernandez.

Tech suffers from lack of humanities, says Mozilla head | Technology | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/12/tech-humanities-misinformation-philosophy-psychology-graduates-mozilla-

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Mitchell Baker, head of the Mozilla Foundation, has warned that hiring employees who mainly come from Stem – science, technology, engineering and maths – will produce a new generation of technologists with the same blindspots as those who are currently in charge, a move that will “come back to bite us”.

“Stem is a necessity, and educating more people in Stem topics clearly critical,” Baker told the Guardian. “Every student of today needs some higher level of literacy across the Stem bases.

“But one thing that’s happened in 2018 is that we’ve looked at the platforms, and the thinking behind the platforms, and the lack of focus on impact or result. It crystallised for me that if we have Stem education without the humanities, or without ethics, or without understanding human behaviour, then we are intentionally building the next generation of technologists who have not even the framework or the education or vocabulary to think about the relationship of Stem to society or humans or life.”

“We need to be adding not social sciences of the past, but something related to humanity and how to think about the effects of technology on humanity – which is partly sociology, partly anthropology, partly psychology, partly philosophy, partly ethics … it’s some new formulation of all of those things, as part of a Stem education,” Baker told the Guardian.

“Otherwise we’ll have ourselves to blame, for generations of technologists who don’t even have the toolsets to add these things in.”

Kathy Pham, the computer scientist at Mozilla who is leading the challenge, said “Students of computer science go on to be the next leaders and creators in the world, and must understand how code intersects with human behaviour, privacy, safety, vulnerability, equality, and many other factors.

“Just like how algorithms, data structures, and networking are core computer science classes, we are excited to help empower faculty to also teach ethics and responsibility as an integrated core tenet of the curriculum.”

#Mozilla #Développeurs #Education #Université #Humanités

Firefox OS/B2G OS : passé, présent, [no future]
▻https://linuxfr.org/news/firefox-os-b2g-os-passe-present-no-future

Firefox OS aujourd’hui aussi présent sous le nom de Boot 2 Gecko (ou B2G OS) est un système d’exploitation pour smartphones, tablettes, télévisions et objets connectés. Il a été développé par Mozilla Corporation qui l’a présenté officiellement en février 2012.

Cette dépêche retrace les grandes lignes de l’évolution de Firefox OS depuis ses premières versions jusqu’à sa fin. B2G (Boot to Gecko) est le nom de développement du système et celui autorisé pour la diffusion non officielle de Firefox OS.

lien n°1 : Article Wikipédialien n°2 : Communaute francophone de Firefox OSlien n°3 : Site officiel de Mozilla présentant Firefox OSSommaire

Plateforme

Architecture de Firefox OS Gaïa Gecko Gonk

Les versions successives :

2012 Première version, avec Gecko 18 [1.0.1]

2013, deux versions, avec Gecko 23 puis 26 [1.1 puis (...)

There’s Now an Arc Theme for Thunderbird
▻http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/03/theres-now-arc-theme-thunderbird

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If you use both the Arc GTK theme and Mozilla Thunderbird as your e-mail app, we’ve found a theme that helps them blend. The Arc theme for Thunderbird faithfully translates the soft edges and gentle colour palette of the standard Arc GTK theme to Mozilla’s open-source email client. We’ve seen Arc themes for Firefox, VLC, Telegram, […] This post, There’s Now an Arc Theme for Thunderbird, was written by Joey Sneddon and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.

Mozilla Acquires Pocket, Will Open Source Pocket Code
▻http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/02/mozilla-acquire-pocket-open-source

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Chances are you’ve heard the new: Mozilla has acquired Pocket, the go-to ’read it later’ service, and says it plans to open-source Pocket code in due course. This post, Mozilla Acquires Pocket, Will Open Source Pocket Code, was written by Joey Sneddon and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.

Plus de 500 salariés de la tech s’opposent à Trump sur le fichage des musulmans
▻http://www.numerama.com/politique/216458-plus-de-500-salaries-de-la-tech-sopposent-a-trump-sur-le-fichage-de

585 salariés de différentes grandes entreprises technologiques, de Google à IBM, s’opposent publiquement aux propositions de campagne de Donald Trump concernant le fichage des musulmans. 585 salariés de grandes entreprises technologiques, comme IBM, NVIDIA, Google, Twitter et Mozilla, viennent de signer un texte dans lequel ils s’engagent à ne jamais aider le gouvernement américain à ficher les citoyens américains en fonction de leur religion, une pratique anti-constitutionnelle. Ils s’opposent (...)

#Islam #surveillance

Brave Software | Building a Better Web
▻https://brave.com

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Browse faster and safer with Brave.

The new Brave browser automatically blocks ads and trackers, making it faster and safer than your current browser.

Soon, micropayments and better ads will give users and publishers a better deal.

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#navigateur #asuivre

Firefox exploit found in the wild | Mozilla Security Blog
►https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/08/06/firefox-exploit-found-in-the-wild

Firefox exploit found in the wild

Yesterday morning, August 5, a Firefox user informed us that an advertisement on a news site in Russia was serving a Firefox exploit that searched for sensitive files and uploaded them to a server that appears to be in Ukraine. This morning Mozilla released security updates that fix the vulnerability. All Firefox users are urged to update to Firefox 39.0.3. The fix has also been shipped in Firefox ESR 38.1.1.

The vulnerability comes from the interaction of the mechanism that enforces JavaScript context separation (the “same origin policy”) and Firefox’s PDF Viewer. Mozilla products that don’t contain the PDF Viewer, such as Firefox for Android, are not vulnerable. The vulnerability does not enable the execution of arbitrary code but the exploit was able to inject a JavaScript payload into the local file context. This allowed it to search for and upload potentially sensitive local files.

The files it was looking for were surprisingly developer focused for an exploit launched on a general audience news site, though of course we don’t know where else the malicious ad might have been deployed. On Windows the exploit looked for subversion, s3browser, and Filezilla configurations files, .purple and Psi+ account information, and site configuration files from eight different popular FTP clients. On Linux the exploit goes after the usual global configuration files like /etc/passwd, and then in all the user directories it can access it looks for .bash_history, .mysql_history, .pgsql_history, .ssh configuration files and keys, configuration files for remina, Filezilla, and Psi+, text files with “pass” and “access” in the names, and any shell scripts. Mac users are not targeted by this particular exploit but would not be immune should someone create a different payload.

Update Firefox to the latest version | Firefox Help
▻https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/update-firefox-latest-version

If you use your Linux distribution’s packaged version of Firefox, you will need to wait for an updated package to be released to its package repository. This article only applies if you installed Firefox manually (without using your distribution’s package manager).

Ne pas utiliser #firefox avant d’avoir la 39.0.3 . Je suis sous ubuntu et on est à la 39.0.0 ce matin .

Faille concernant windows et linux (pas mac visiblement)

#security #faille

Large US tech firms plan ’go slow’ day in protest over net neutrality rules | Technology | theguardian.com
▻http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/04/etsy-mozilla-reddit-protest-net-neutrality

Some of the world’s largest tech firms are planning a “go slow” day next week in protest of proposals that could create fast lanes on the internet for some companies.

On 10 September, tech firms including Etsy, FourSquare, KickStarter, Mozilla, Reddit and Vimeo will install a widget on their sites to show how they believe the internet would look if the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) overturns “net neutrality” rules.

Evan Greer, co-founder of Fight for the Future, a pressure group helping to organise the protest day, said in an email: “Net neutrality is tough to explain to people, so we wanted to organize an action that actually shows the world what’s at stake. I think the three most hated words on the internet right now are ‘Please wait, loading ... ’ Unless internet users unite in defense of net neutrality, we could be seeing those dreaded ‘loading’ wheels a lot more often on some of our favorite websites, while monopolistic companies get to decide which content gets seen by the most people.”

#fcc #guardian #netneutrality

Mozilla Labs : TogetherJS
►https://togetherjs.com

TogetherJS : une librairie javascript opensource créée et hébergée par Mozilla pour intégration d’outils de collaboration directmeent dans un site web. Permet navigation synchronisée, chat, suivi des focus et clics des utilisateurs, synchro des modifications

#togetherJS #javascript #outil #webapp #collaboratif #mozilla

Les publicitaires accusent Mozilla de détourner le net - Numerama
▻http://www.numerama.com/magazine/26736-les-publicitaires-accusent-mozilla-de-detourner-le-net.html

« L’accusation est surprenante, mais illustre sans aucun doute les immenses craintes des professionnels de la publicité en ligne devant l’initiative de Mozilla, à savoir le blocage automatique des #cookies tiers. Comme l’a remarqué The Inquirer vendredi dernier, les annonceurs ont lancé une campagne pour dénoncer le détournement d’Internet qu’opérerait la fondation avec ses projets. » Tags : internetactu fing (...)

#publicite #marketing #neutralitedunet

Google et Mozilla font communiquer Chrome et Firefox avec #WebRTC
▻http://www.numerama.com/magazine/24991-google-et-mozilla-font-communiquer-chrome-et-firefox-avec-webrtc.htm

Si l’utilisation de WebRTC nécessite pour l’instant des versions avancées de Firefox et Chrome, les deux entreprises ont néanmoins prouvé que la communication entre deux internautes fonctionne, et cela sans recourir au moindre programme tiers.

WebRTC : Un protocole de communication en temps-réel entre navigateurs web
▻http://www.w3.org/TR/webrtc

Qui veut vos #données_personnelles ? Yves Eudes | Le Monde
►http://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2012/08/23/qui-veut-vos-donnees-personnelles_1749130_1650684.html

la société californienne #Mozilla a créé une application baptisée #Collusion, qui suit la propagation de vos données sur le réseau et crée un graphique animé permettant de la visualiser en temps réel.

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URL canonique - ZZZ
►http://zzz.rezo.net/URL-canonique.html

Par exemple, lorsque SPIP sera racheté par la Mozilla Corp., l’URL canonique de l’article de l’article « Est-ce que je peux... », qui est actuellement ►http://www.spip.net/fr_article1475.html, deviendra (sur ordre du département marketing) ►https://spip.mozcorp.world/Est-ce-que-je-peux.html.

tiens je l’avais raté celle là

Mozilla Labs » #Chromeless #Browser 0.1
►http://mozillalabs.com/chromeless/?p=26

Pour construire une appli à base de html/js/css :

Chromeless is an experimental toolkit to make it possible to prototype browser applications using HTML, JavaScript and related Web standards.

Firefox
►http://blog.mozilla.com/metrics/2010/04/05/firefox-page-load-speed-%E2%80%93-part-ii
#performance #retour_d'expérience #mozilla #temps_de_chargement #page #dev #web

Index of /pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk
►http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk

#firefox #nightly #build #téléchargement #Mozilla #logiciel #mac #alpha #navigateur

Mozilla Community Marketing Guide
►http://contribute.mozilla.org/Marketing

The Community Marketing Guide is a resource for members of the Mozilla community who are interested in getting involved and in helping to promote the Mozilla project in their locale.

#marketing #mozilla #guide

Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Introducing Snowl
►http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-snowl

Snowl is an experiment, a prototype Firefox extension that integrates messaging into the browser based on a few key ideas

#snowl #mozilla #firefox #extension #message #commentaire #twitter #cleverplanet #clevermarks

ARIA: Accessible Rich Internet Applications - MDC
►http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Accessible_DHTML

ARIA, formerly known as DHTML accessibility, is a standard being developed at W3C - World Wide Web Consortium

#dhtml #accessibilité #ARIA #Mozilla #Firefox #W3C #standard #ajax #CSS #dev #javascript #clavier #webdesign #webdev #widget #xhtml

SIMILE | Seek
►http://simile.mit.edu/seek

“Seek” adds faceted browsing features to Mozilla Thunderbird and lets you search through your email more effectively.

#seek #extension #thunderbird #recherche #mail #mozilla

Cyclone3 - Screenshots
►http://www.cyclone3.org/about-XUL-CMS/screenshots

#cyclone3 #cms #logiciel_libre #perl #xul #xpfe #mozilla #screenshot #type:screenshot