20 Years with Mozilla

Today marks 20 years I’ve been working full-time for Mozilla. As the Mozilla organization evolved, I moved with it. I started with staff@mozilla.org at Netscape 20 years ago, moved to the Mozilla Foundation ~17 years ago, and the Mozilla Corporation ~15 years ago. Thank you to Mitchell Baker for taking a chance on me. I’m […]

My New Role at Mozilla

Several months ago I took on a new role at Mozilla, product manager for Firefox browser accessibility. I couldn’t be more excited about this. It’s an area I’ve been interested in for nearly my entire career at Mozilla. It was way back in 2000, after talking with Aaron Leventhal at a Netscape/Mozilla developer event, that […]

mozilla.org is 20 years old

[This is a copy of http://www.mozilla.org/mission.html from launch day] our mission Netscape Communications made two important announcements on January 23rd, 1998: First, that the Netscape Communicator product would be available free of charge; Second, that the source code for Communicator would also be free. On March 31st, the first developer release of the source code […]

Some of the Press Coverage of Firefox 57 Beta (Quantum)

Firefox takes a Quantum leap forward with new developer edition by Peter Bright at Ars Technica Firefox 57 beta arrives with major visual overhaul and next-generation browser engine by Emil Protalinski at VentureBeat Mozilla release Firefox 57 beta (Quantum): It’s 2x faster than Firefox 52 by Brad Linder at Liliputing Mozilla’s Firefox Quantum browser is […]

Some Nice Things People Said About Firefox 57 Beta (Quantum)

“Super impressed by @firefox quantum. I’ve been using it for a few days now and I’m switching permanently. Noticeably faster than Chrome.” Erik Reppel “Firefox Quantum is blazing fast! Good job, Mozilla!” Oleksandr Shpak “Using the new Firefox beta. it is much faster then the old one. It is as fast as Chrome. maybe faster. […]

SiteSonar: Measuring the Impact of Ads

A while ago I wrote about about web performance and ad blockers. In that blog post I explained that I block ads because I can’t take the performance hit, that running an ad blocker or using Firefox’s tracking protection makes the web responsive again and a real pleasure to use. That blog post lead to […]

Firefox Roadmap

I posted an update to the Firefox Roadmap. Firefox will deliver a rock solid browsing experience with world-beating customization and a first of its kind recommendation engine that gets you the content you want when you want it, whether at home or on the go.

Context Graph

In the lead-up to the London all hands we had a Town Hall where Mark Mayo and Nick Nguyen previewed the three year strategy for Firefox. That talk mostly covered an emerging area of focus and investment we’re calling the Context Graph. This last week, Nick posted a vision for the Context Graph over at […]

Firefox 48 Beta, Release, and E10S

Tomorrow In the next few days, Firefox 48 Beta becomes available. If all goes well in our beta testing, we’re about 6 weeks away from shipping the first phase of E10S to Firefox release users with the launch of Firefox 48 on August 2nd. E10S is short for “Electrolysis”. Similar to how chemists can use […]

thoughts on web performance and ad blockers

I often use an ad blocker with my web browser. I do this not because I hate seeing ads. I block ads because I can’t take the performance hit. Running an ad blocker, or using Firefox’s tracking protection, makes the web responsive again and a pleasure to use. Sites load fast, navigation is smooth, everything […]