Design trends of 2012: The good, the bad, and the ‘die already’

Modal pop-ups! Crazy typography! Larger-than-life images! Here's all the best -- and worst -- from web & mobile design in 2012.

Facebook: How we helped Mozilla build Messenger for Firefox

Facebook chat, notifications, and updates that follow you everywhere you go on the web, right in your web browser, is a cool idea. What's even cooler is how Mozilla and Facebook actually built it.

Firefox goes social with Facebook Messenger integration

Firefox users can now respond in record time to pressing pings from Facebook friends thanks to a collaboration between Mozilla and the social network.

Oops: Mozilla pulls Firefox 16 over vulnerability, suggests downgrading to version 15 (updated)

Just a day after releasing the newest version of Firefox, version 16, Mozilla has pulled the updated browser over security concerns and advised those who already upgraded to roll back to version 15.

Our first look at Firefox OS and how Mozilla is building its ecosystem of apps

While the native-versus-mobile-web debate has become stale -- "boring" in JacaScript creator Brendan Eich's words -- the technologies interweaving our devices and our data are evolving at ever more rapid rates. Firefox OS, which Eich has been working on at Mozilla, is showing off some of that evolution today.

Firefox 15 edges closer to Chrome with silent updating, memory fixes, & more

Firefox 15, the latest browser from Mozilla, is available now and comes with many new features including “silent” updating just like Google Chrome.

Mozilla Firefox Add-ons hit 3 billion downloads

Look at your Firefox browser on your laptop or phone. It’s likely been tweaked-out with the perfect pallete of colors and acts just the way you want. Since those add-ons became available in 2004,  more than 3 billion have been …

Here’s what Firefox OS is going to look like on your phone

We’ve been itching to know more about Firefox OS ever since Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs started talking real talk about it to us at SXSW.

And today, we got screenshots. Hooray!

UPDATE, 2:55 p.m. Pacific: A Mozilla rep emailed us …

Say it ain’t so, Microsoft: secret APIs in new mobile Windows?

You’d think we’d be finished with all the nasty antitrust legal issues surrounding computer operating systems by now. Windows is still powerful, but it’s a shadow of its former monopolistic self, and Mac OS X, iOS, Android, and Linux are …

Mozilla creates a more secure Firefox with automatic Google search encryption

Mozilla may get criticized for releasing too many versions of Firefox, but at least the company makes some smart changes with each addition.

Released today, Firefox 14 is no exception. The latest version of the browser adds a number of …

Firefox OS: Mozilla’s phone experiment gets support from Sprint and global carriers

Because “Boot to Gecko” doesn’t have much of a ring to it, Mozilla announced today that its upcoming phone OS will now be called “Firefox OS.” The new platform also has the backing of major worldwide carriers, including Sprint and …

Firefox for Android gets a major update, may be the best mobile browser yet (hands-on)

Watch out Google Chrome: For many Android users, Mozilla’s updated Firefox app could quickly become their favorite mobile browser.

Mozilla has been beta testing a revamped version of its Android Firefox app for over a month now, and today the …

Unlucky number 13? New Firefox browser version exposes private data

The latest update to web browser Firefox may have an unlucky number, but it certainly has an unlucky feature: a privacy slip that could allow anyone using your computer to view private, encrypted pages that you previously visited.

The problem …

Mozilla hands normal folks the keys to making their own websites, right from the browser

Mozilla has just launched Thimble, a tidy new way to create simple websites from within a browser window.

Thimble is visual enough for coding newbies, but it also lets you play around under the hood with HTML and CSS — …

Obama’s latest order: Ignite U.S. tech, starting with 90% cheaper Internet access

President Obama has just signed an executive order that could reduce the cost of broadband Internet access by up to 90 percent.

The order makes it faster, easier, and cheaper to get broadband equipment set up on federally owned property, …