Meet MaDonna, a one-woman Firefox theme machine
Way up in a bucolic corner of the Pacific Northwest lives one of the most prolific designers of Firefox themes, a twinkly 78-year-old great-grandmother who goes by the online handle … Read more
Firefox supports conscious clicking in your browser and beyond
If you’re anything like me, you believe the everyday choices we make matter – from the most mundane to the most significant. The choice to use Firefox browser matters for … Read more
Has your password been hacked in a data breach? Troy Hunt can help you find out.
As more of our important personal information is stored online behind password-protected accounts, news about data breaches sends us scrambling to find out if our passwords were hacked. One of … Read more
The Download: Internet Health in the News for the week of May 26
This week, we read news on people (like Ev Williams), products (like Kin), companies (like Wikipedia) and government bodies (like the EU) fighting to make the Web a friendlier, more … Read more
The Download: Internet Health in the news for the week of May 19
This week we celebrate the efforts of a surfer hacker, fear the accomplishments of Twitter bots and get a deeper look at the campaign to abolish net neutrality. Between the … Read more
Net Neutrality: Answers You Seek
Net neutrality has been in the headlines a lot recently. And while it’s a complicated issue, it’s a really important one to understand. Recently, I spent the day with Heather … Read more
How would you measure the health of the Internet?
If you want to know if the Internet is healthy, what do you track? The number of people online? The speed of your connection? Mozilla’s Internet Health Report is an … Read more
The Download: Internet Health in the News on May 12
Ransomware and net neutrality continue to dominate the news. This week on The Download we’ll learn more about anti-Net Neutrality bots spamming the FCC, tips on controlling your online privacy, … Read more
What you said about Mozilla’s Internet Health Report
What does a healthy Internet look like? And how can we all do our part to ensure it gets healthier from year to year? In January, Mozilla launched a prototype … Read more
Firefox is Always Open for Internet Health
My apartment building has a community garden. The building owner started it with a donation of raised beds and soil. What happened next amazes me to this day. One day … Read more
The Download: Internet Health in the News on May 5
Like a zombie rising from the dead, net neutrality is back leading the news, with a rising chorus speaking out against a proposed gift to ISPs. Other links passed around … Read more
Step into the “Internet Health Clinic” @ re:publica 17
Have you ever wondered if the Internet is healthy? Wouldn’t you love to know if efforts against centralisation, censorship or surveillance are succeeding in making the Internet healthier? How can … Read more