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Mozilla/Firefox: Daniel Stenberg's new Job, Old UX Openings, Firefox 65 Improvements and Extensions, New Tor Browser

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 2nd of February 2019 01:02:26 PM Filed under
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  • Daniel Stenberg: I’m on team wolfSSL

    Publicly announcing me leaving Mozilla turned out a great ego-boost.

    I took some time off to really reflect and contemplate on what I wanted from my next career step. What would the right next move be?

    I love working on open source. Internet protocols, and transfers and doing libraries written in C are things considered pure fun for me. Can I get all that and yet keep working from home, not sacrifice my wage and perhaps integrate working on curl better in my day to day job?

    I talked to different companies. Very interesting companies too, where I have friends and people who like me and who really wanted to get me working for them, but in the end there was one offer with a setup that stood out. One offer for which basically all check marks in my wish-list were checked.

  • [Old] Firefox UX: Bias and Hiring: How We Hire UX Researchers

    This year, the Firefox User Research team is planning to add two new researchers to our group. The job posting went live last month, and after just a few weeks of accepting applications, we had over 900 people apply.

    Current members of the Firefox User Research Team fielded dozens of messages from prospective applicants during this time, most asking for informational meetings to discuss the open role. We decided as a team to decline these requests across the board because we did not have the bandwidth for the number of meetings requested, and more importantly we have spent a significant amount of time this year working on minimizing bias in our hiring process.

    We felt that meeting with candidates outside of the formal hiring process would give unfair advantage to some candidates and undermine our de-biasing work. At the same time, in alignment with Mozilla’s values and to build on Mozilla’s diversity and inclusion disclosures from earlier this year, we realized there was an opportunity to be more transparent about our hiring process for the benefit of future job applicants and teams inside and outside Mozilla thinking about how they can minimize bias in their own hiring.

  • Mozilla Firefox 65 Brings better Image and Video Compression

    Enhanced tracking protection for a better control of your privacy while browsing websites with a tracking cookies. 3 options to control the level of blocking cookies and trackers on websites “Standard, Strict and Custom”.

    Mozilla Firefox 65 allows you to change the user interface language without using additional addon or making a fresh install of Firefox with the required language.

  • February’s featured extensions
  • New Release: Tor Browser 8.0.5

    Tor Browser 8.0.5 is now available from the Tor Browser Project page and also from our distribution directory.

    This release features important security updates to Firefox.

    This new release updates Firefox to 60.5.0esr and Tor to the first stable release in the 0.3.5 series, 0.3.5.7.

  • Qt 5.12.1 Is Now Available, Tor Browser 8.0.5 and Tails 3.12 Both Released with Important Security Fixes, Virt2real Launches StereoPi and Chrome Update for Android

    Tor Browser 8.0.5 was released this week. This release includes important security updates to Firefox and also updates Tor to the first stable release in the 0.3.5 series. NoScript and HTTPS Everywhere also were updated to their latest versions. You can view the full changelog here and download from here.

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