Pixel smartphones delivered with secret but inactive remote maintenance(heise.de)

104 points by qwertox 2 years ago | 66 comments

Opinion: Is a split imminent? – Synadia demands NATS back from the CNCF(heise.de)

9 points by pjmlp 1 year ago | 2 comments

Harvard study: open-source has an economic value of 8.8T dollars(heise.de)

22 points by codeman001 1 year ago | 10 comments

38C3: Hacker hijacks and repairs Beesat-1 satellites from the ground(heise.de)

4 points by doener 1 year ago | 0 comments

Jamming: Polish researchers suspect GPS jammers on ships in the Baltic Sea(heise.de)

43 points by nabla9 1 year ago | 9 comments

Hard disk fraud: long runtimes on new Seagate hard disks(heise.de)

101 points by namanyayg 1 year ago | 71 comments

Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically(ghacks.net)

365 points by goplayoutside 3 years ago | 198 comments

A gHacks article reporting that Firefox may soon automatically reject cookie consent prompts on websites.

Mozilla deletes promise to never sell Firefox data(twitter.com)

746 points by notRobot 1 year ago | 304 comments

An X (Twitter) post from Lunduke Journal reporting that Mozilla removed its promise to never sell Firefox user data; the post content did not load.

Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin(pcworld.com)

1603 points by DemiGuru 2 months ago | 608 comments

PCWorld news article reporting that Firefox is the last major browser still supporting the uBlock Origin ad blocker after Chrome's Manifest V3 changes.

Firefox engineers discover a Windows Defender bug that causes high CPU usage(bugzilla.mozilla.org)

574 points by mconley 3 years ago | 201 comments

A Mozilla Bugzilla bug report comment about Windows Defender causing high CPU usage when running Firefox.

Firefox got faster for real users in 2023(hacks.mozilla.org)

502 points by kevincox 3 years ago | 218 comments

Mozilla Hacks blog post describing how Firefox performance improved for real users during 2023, based on field metrics.

Let me pay for Firefox(discourse.mozilla.org)

673 points by csmantle 1 year ago | 513 comments

A Mozilla Discourse community forum post by a longtime supporter arguing that Mozilla should let users pay for Firefox to fund its development.