dont sleep on fusion. fusion has the juice. look at this shit. impeccable sci fi vibe. alien curvature for reasons u wouldnt understand bc u dont know what poincare sections of the plasma beam are. it's even greebled with ports and domes and shit. u can tell the physics nerds are really cooking here

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

We’ve been working to make encrypted DNS as fast as it is private.

This year we hit that goal: DoH lookups are now 61% faster and within milliseconds of native DNS (plus, it’s finally available on Android) Full breakdown → blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/d...

You asked for better tab groups and profile management, so we built it ✔️

Check out Firefox 144 now with stronger encryption for Password Manager and smoother Picture-in-Picture. www.firefox.com/en-US/firefo...

Firefox for iOS’s “Shake to Summarize” recognized with special mention in TIME’s Best Inventions of 2025

blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/s...

“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy”

V-Dem data

i wrote this post in july two years ago when blue sky had around 200,000 total users and i thought i would ask again

tell me what u are doing
be proud of what u do and share it here

Interop 2026 is now open for proposals!

This is your chance to tell browser-makers which well-defined, well-tested features you wish had better support across browsers.

⬇️ Here's how ⬇️
github.com/web-platform...

Amazing new age verification procedure requires no government ID, no credit card numbers, no photography

import { setTimeout } from 'node:timers/promises'

const verifyAge = async () => {
await setTimeout(568_036_800_000)
return true
}

Folks who use Firefox Developer Edition: What drew you to that version rather than Firefox Release/Beta/Nightly?

Gecko: Intent to ship web apps in Firefox for Windows

I have an open position on my team. Looking for experience with native application development on Windows/Win32 and good C++ skills. Knowledge of macOS/Linux development a plus, as is experience with Rust.

Remote work possible in a lot of EU countries + US & Canada.

www.mozilla.org/en-US/career...

This is your regular reminder that another, better world is possible.

Perplexity’s CEO said the company’s web browser is designed to track users across the web to build detailed profiles and sell hyper-personalized ads. The browser is to monitor browsing habits, shopping activity, travel and dining interests, and time spent on sites, etc.

I so wanted a Commodore 64, but got an IBM PCjr because my dad had a PC at his office and thought he might bring work home. At least the PCjr had 16 color graphics!

Since the sourcing of this fantastic 1979 IBM training slide is buried in various Twitter threads (and linking to Twitter sucks now because logged out users can't navigate conversations) I put together some notes on its origin: simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/3/a...

👍🏻📺📺📺 BEYOND THE INFINITE TWO MINUTES (2021) is a cute science fiction comedy about a time-traveling TV in a Japanese cafe. Available on Amazon Prime and Kanopy.com (free with a library card). youtu.be/GczwQ47CffA

It's 2025 and everything sucks and everyone is job hunting, please enjoy this slowly unfolding thread of tech jobs at places that aren't making the world worse.

If you're hiring at not-evil (or even minimally evil) orgs, please reply w your tech jobs too?

I shouldn’t have resisted the Amazon algorithm so long. It kept recommending the Bobiverse novels, but they looked cheesy. Now I’m binging them and they’re one of my favorite SF genres: goofy AI protagonists. 🤖