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  • Empowering User Privacy and Decentralizing IoT with Mozilla WebThings

    In designing Mozilla WebThings, we have consciously insulated users from servers that could harvest their data, including our own Mozilla servers, by offering an interoperable, decentralized IoT solution. Learn about the user research that informs our project, and how we've engineered privacy by design into every aspect of Mozilla WebThings. ...

    Posted by Josephine Lau

  • TLS 1.0 and 1.1 Removal Update

    As you may have read last year, Safari, Firefox, Edge and Chrome browsers are removing support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 in March of 2020. That means there’s less than a year to enable TLS 1.2 (and, ideally, 1.3) on your servers, otherwise all major browsers will display error pages, ...

    Posted by Mike Taylor

  • Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-on Outage

    Recently, Firefox had an incident in which most add-ons stopped working. This was due to an error on our end: we let one of the certificates used to sign add-ons expire which had the effect of disabling the vast majority of add-ons. Now that we’ve fixed the problem for most ...

    Posted by Eric Rescorla

  • Owning it: browser compatibility data and open source governance

    What does it mean to “own” an open-source project? With the browser-compat-data project (“BCD”), the MDN (Mozilla Developer Network) community and I recently had the opportunity to find out. The post Owning it: browser compatibility data and open source governance appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.

    Posted by Daniel Beck

  • Introducing Mozilla WebThings

    Project Things is graduating from its early experimental phase and from now on will be known as Mozilla WebThings. This platform for monitoring and controlling devices over the web consists of the WebThings Gateway, a software distribution for smart home gateways focused on privacy, security and interoperability, and the WebThings ...

    Posted by Ben Francis

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