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Sustainable Internet: Reducing the Environmental Impact
To be sustainable, the internet needs to assess, mitigate, and live up to its responsibilities for a healthy environment. By understanding the environmental impact, we can point to avenues where progress is possible and identify aspects of our digital infrastructures that come with unintended consequences that are too severe to look the other way.
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Yari, the New MDN Web Documentation Platform
Mozilla Developer Network (MDN), Mozilla’s multilingual resource for web documentation, recently launched Yari, MDN Web Docs’ new platform. Yari reduces the burden of developing, maintaining, and contributing to MDN. MDN content is now stored in GitHub and can be contributed to via pull requests.
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The WebThings Iot Platform Continues on Its Own after Mozilla Disengages from Iot
David Bryant recently announced that Mozilla WebThings becomes WebThings and leaves the Mozilla umbrella to become an independent community-led open source project. The project’s website also moves from Mozilla IoT webpage to its own (webthings.io). The move ensures the continuity of operations for the WebThings user base while Mozilla continues to focus on its restructuration.
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Mozilla's WebXR Viewer 2.0 Experiments with WebXR-Compliant JavaScript API for iOS
WebXR 2.0 is a full rewrite of Mozilla's experimental augmented reality (AR) browser aimed to allow web developers to experiment with web-based AR experiences on iOS using WebXR. A key tenet of WebXR 2.0 is its new, specification-complying implementation of the WebXR JavaScript API.
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Mozilla Will Continue to Support Existing Ad Blockers, Partially Implementing Extension Manifest V3
Mozilla will continue to support existing extensions which prevent ads from being displayed, unlike Google, which in its draft Extensions Manifest v3, proposes changes to the browser extensions mechanism which may break ad-blockers.
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GeckoView and the New Firefox Preview for Android
Mozilla has recently released Firefox Preview to the Android Play store. It's a new iteration of the Firefox Mobile web browser that was built from scratch around GekcoView, an open-source web browsing component that is based on the Gecko browser engine
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Fastly Open-Sources Lucet, Its WebAssembly Compiler and Runtime
The Fastly edge cloud platform recently open-sourced Lucet, its native WebAssembly compiler and runtime. Lucet enables edge developers to build custom solutions for the edge at scale without limitations imposed by vendors, programming languages, or application programming interfaces (API).
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Mozilla Pushes WebXR as New Open Web API for Augmented Reality
After adding support for WebVR to Firefox, Mozilla is now working on a new API, called WebXR, to bring mixed reality to the Web. Initially announced last year, WebXR aims to replace WebVR in time and to offer a smooth transition for developers using WebVR.
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WebAssembly Studio: An Online WASM IDE Tool from Mozilla
WebAssembly Studio is an online tool developed by Mozilla and used to compile C/C++ and Rust code into WASM.
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Microsoft, Google, and Mozilla Team Up for Web Documentation
In a coordinated announcement, three major browser vendors have agreed to consolidate their individual web API reference documentation into Mozilla's MDN and have formed an advisory group to guide future efforts. The groups will start using MDN as a single point of truth for web platform documentation and reference.
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Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla Urge Site Operators to Replace SHA–1 Certificates
Following their SHA–1 deprecation plans announced last year, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla detailed recently their timelines to remove support for SHA–1 certificates from their flagship browsers. Researchers at security firm Venafi found however, that 35% of analyzed websites are still using SHA–1 certificates.
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Firefox 50 Extends Benefits of Electrolysis
Mozilla has released Firefox 50. The latest update increases the benefits to users from multiple content processes, and fixes a dozen high impact security vulnerabilities. Among the improvements in Firefox's latest release is further access to Electrolysis, Mozilla's functionality for rendering and executing web-related content in background processes.
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Mozilla Discontinue Support for Firefox Hello [Interview]
Mozilla has discontinued and removed Firefox Hello from its flagship browser. InfoQ talked to Nick Nguyen, VP of Firefox, about the decision to stop supporting the WebRTC experiment.
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Mozilla's Servo Browser Now Available Nightly
The Servo browser, built from scratch by Mozilla Research, has matured to the point where nightly builds are available for download. The group hopes to broaden the browser's reach so that they can quickly improve its web compatibility and performance.
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Firefox 46 Tackles Security Issues, Improves Performance
Mozilla has released Firefox 46, including improved security of the JavaScript JIT Compiler, and delaying Addon signing.