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Mozilla is also going to stop trusting SSL certificates issued for more than a year. This applies to new certificates issued on or after 1 September 2020. If you have an existing two-year certificate, you can continue to use it until it expires. 🔒
Mozilla recently launched a clever (if not 100% original) add-on called No More 404s, which provides Firefox users with options to read an earlier version of a 404 or deleted web page via the Wayback Machine.
Mozilla introduced Firefox Focus – a simple-to-use and free private iOS browser. Interesting in that it also offers a system-wide content blocker that seems primarily focused on privacy invasive trackers. I don’t use browsers outside of Mobile Safari, but I’m planning on checking this out.
Not all of these are new, but they are new to me. Here are several interesting plugins I’ve discovered recently: The Mozilla web apps team has released a free plugin called Offline Content that uses the Service Workers API and browser’s Cache API to allow your users to access — as the name indicates —…
David and Olivia Bisset sat down for a chat with Matt Mullenweg about open source, Tumblr, and how Matt deals with negativity. Matt has three roles today: CEO of Tumblr, CEO of Automattic, and project lead for the next release of WordPress. He shares what went wrong with post formats and what he would love to acquire next if he could. The answer may (or may not) surprise you! Recorded shortly before WordCamp Europe 2022.
A proposal has been published on the Make WordPress blog that asks for feedback on the idea of licensing Gutenberg under the GNU General Public License, v2 (GPL v2) and the Mozilla Public License v2.0 (MPL v2.0). Matt Mullenweg notes that allowing people to embed Gutenberg under the MPL might increase its usage outside of…
Mozilla vs. The Bottom Line Sad news from Mozilla — the company has laid off 250 people. If that wasn’t bad enough, it appears that certain features in Firefox that many developers treasure may be vastly reduced or simply eliminated soon. 😱 This tweet from Kat Marchán, if accurate, reflects what is known at the…
