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Reader Mode Improvements in Firefox 24
Firefox 24 was released today! Along with a lot of other great features, this release includes a bunch of improvements to Reader Mode. The most noticeable improvements are a polished options menu and a...
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Home Page Snippets for Firefox for Android
Have you ever noticed the messages that appear under the search box on desktop Firefox’s home page? We call these messages snippets, and they’re dynamically created from web content hosted by Mozilla....
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Remote Developer Tools and Firefox for Android
A lot of the Firefox for Android UI is written in Java, but under the hood there’s still quite a bit of JS that controls core browser logic. We also use HTML to create the content of most of our...
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This past weekend I attended Mozilla Festival in London, and it was incredibly energizing! Everyone at MozFest was so excited about the web, but unlike your average tech conference, there was a much...
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WIP: Home Page Customization in Firefox for Android
In Firefox 26, we released a completely revamped version of the Firefox for Android Home screen, creating a centralized place to find all of your stuff. While this is certainly awesome, we’ve been...
View ArticleDare 2B Digital 2014: Remix the Web!
Dare 2B Digital is an annual South Bay conference that brings 300 young women ages 12-16 together to encourage them to consider STEM fields in college by coming together for a full day of inspiring...
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Firefox Hub Add-on Hackathon
For the past few months, the Firefox for Android team has been working on Firefox Hub, a project to make your home page more customizable and extensible. At its core, this feature is a set of new APIs...
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Firefox for Android: Search Experiments
Search is a large part of mobile browser usage, so we (the Firefox for Android team) decided to experiment with ways to improve our search experience for users. As an initial goal, we decided to look...
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It’s been a year since I became an engineering manager, and I’ve been thinking about what lessons I’ve learned. A year may sound like a short time, but it feels like ages. It’s hard to even remember...
View ArticleLeaving Mozilla
I first joined Mozilla as an intern in 2009, and after almost 6 years of working at Mozilla full time, I’ve decided it’s time for me to do something new. My last day will be Friday, July 15.It amazes...
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