‘Mozilla.com’ Archives
How Apache & Some Magic Helped Move Mozilla to .org
Over the past couple weeks my teammates at Mozilla have been blogging about our goal to merge our major websites, currently spread across several domains, into the one and only site mozilla.org. Their posts provide a lot of good history on this project: Moving Towards One Mozilla by John Slater Bringing Mozilla Product Sites Back Home to Mozilla.org by Chrissie Brodigan Creating regional hubs to support Mozilla’s local communities by David Boswell John, David, and Chrissie explain the project from the engagement & contributor perspective, but I’m here to explain some of the tech details behind the merge. As the ... Read More »
Plugin Checker Launched
Today we launched a Plugin Checker to help people find and update their plugins. Why is this important to you? Crashes are the number one concern for Firefox users, and we are listening. At least 30% of all Firefox crashes are caused by third-party plugins. Many major security vulnerabilities exploit out of date plugins. Why is this important to Mozilla? Increasing awareness about plugins makes the web better, and that's our mission. We want the web to be safer. We want the web to be less crashy. We want to help everyone -- not just Firefox users ... Read More »
