Topic: Mozilla

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Firefox’s New Profile Manager Goes Live For Everyone Next Week

Mozilla Firefox will be enabling a profile management feature from 14 October 2025. The new profile manager lets users separate browsing activities easily.

9 October 2025

Google Can Keep Paying for Firefox Search Deal, Judge Rules

US judge in antitrust case rules Google can keep paying Mozilla and other companies for default search placement, but bans exclusive contracts.

2 September 2025
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Firefox’s On-Device AI Features Now Up to 10x Faster

Mozilla replaces slow WebAssembly with native C++ for Firefox AI features, netting faster performance for features like Smart Tab Groups and alt-text generation.

29 August 2025

Thunderbird Pro Features Detailed in New Update

Thunderbird Pro will offer Thundermail email service, appointment scheduling, file sharing, and maybe even AI features. Email will be hosted on German servers.

21 August 2025

Updated: Mozilla Slammed Over Battery-Draining “Garbage” AI in Firefox

Firefox's new AI tab groups is causing high CPU usage and battery drain. Find out why users are complaining and how to disable the feature.

10 August 2025

Firefox Add-Ons Website Revamps Listing Pages

Firefox Add-Ons are a crucial element of this open source browser, and finding good ones that work well, important. A design change aims to help.

29 July 2025

Mozilla VPN Linux App is Now Available on Flathub

The Mozilla VPN Client can now be installed on Linux distributions from Flathub, a change that will allow more users to access the paid VPN service.

10 July 2025

Mozilla Axes its AI-Generated Text Detector Add-On

Mozilla Fakespot Deep Fake Detector shuts down on June 26 2025. It says it's to save money, but is it a sign Mozilla is moving away from its original ideals?

19 June 2025

Mozilla Kills Off Orbit, Its AI Add-On for Firefox

Orbit, Mozilla's AI assistant add-on for its Firefox web browser, is being discontinued as most of its features are now available natively.

9 June 2025

Mozilla is Shutting Down Pocket to Focus on Firefox

Pocket, the popular "read it later" service Mozilla bought in 2017, is shutting down on July 8. Users have until October to export data. Why? Well…

22 May 2025
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Firefox Now Supports Custom Images on New Tab Page

A number of new personalisation features have been added to the Firefox New Tab page in the past year, including the ability to pick a background image from a small set of hand-picked pics and […]

15 May 2025
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Google Search Deal Critical to Firefox’s Future

Google’s search deal with Mozilla is such a sizeable portion of its overall income that without it, Firefox would struggle to compete – or even survive, say Mozilla. It’s no secret that Google has paid […]

5 May 2025