Kev Needham, Mozilla's Firefox desktop manager, explained that Mozilla was changing Firefox so it could support new technologies such as Electrolysis and Servo, protect users from spyware and adware, ...

Through its official blog, Mozilla announced that it will be making changes to how Internet browser Firefox will be handling add-ons in the future, with the most important change being Firefox's ...

The Mozilla Foundation has announced a new Mozilla labs project that will make life easier for users and developers of Firefox add-ons. Called Jetpack, the new tools are designed to put an end to ...

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The misbehaving Firefox add-ons were misusing an API that controls how Firefox connects to the internet. Mozilla’s Firefox team has blocked add-ons that were abusing the proxy API in order to prevent ...

Firefox add-ons are a great way to add features and improve security in Mozilla’s browser, but they can seriously slow performance too. Now Mozilla is taking action against those speed-killing ...

Back in July, Mozilla disclosed plans to modernize its Firefox browser. Today, the organization made those plans more concrete, with a tentative timeline for introducing long-desired improvements such ...

Mozilla has released a Hall of Fame that software developers definitely don't want to be on. To promote the fact that not all Firefox add-ons are created equal, the browser-builder has named and ...

Mozilla will add a new lockdown feature to Firefox 3.6 that will prevent developers from sneaking add-ons into the program, the company said. The new feature, which Mozilla dubbed “component directory ...

Mozilla is discontinuing the Aurora version of its Firefox browser, which formed the basis of its developer version. From April 18, developers will be moved to the beta version. However, Mozilla says ...

Old XUL-based Firefox extensions built on the ancient Add-ons SDK will stop working when Mozilla releases Firefox 57, scheduled for the end of 2017. Only add-ons built on the new WebExtensions API ...