ByDan Knauss
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News for Firefox and Mozilla doesn’t seem to be getting better these days, which saddens people like me who currently use Firefox as their primary browser. 😟
Cal Paterson says “Firefox usage is down 85% despite Mozilla’s top exec pay going up 400%” and then explains three measures that show what is wrong: overhead, ethics, and results.
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. 🔒
A small team from Mozilla has created FlyWheel which – as this post explains – is “an API for web pages to host local web servers for exposing content and services to nearby browsers”. This is interesting because these browser APIs are useful for advertising and discovering local-area web servers, which opens up possibilities ranging…
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 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…
If you like trying out new open-source CMS applications now and then, check out Django-based Wagtail, which Mozilla and Google are using. Wagtail is designed for headless deployments where the frontend pulls content from the CMS with GraphQL queries.
I had the privilege to attend and be the media partner at A Day of REST, the world’s first conference devoted to the WordPress REST API. Here’s my initial review, and some pictures, from the event.
