Firefox for Windows 10
With the release of Firefox 40, all users of Windows 10 are in for a treat. Over the past months, a small team at Mozilla has been working on optimizing … Read more
Articles in “Firefox”
User Study of Tracking Protection in Firefox Nightly
Background A recently landed feature in the experimental Firefox Nightly build integrates proactive tracking protection for Firefox Nightly users coupled with Do Not Track (DNT). With tracking protection active, ads … Read more
Task Continuity
Research and blog post by Gemma Petrie & Bill Selman For many consumers, software and hardware choices are increasingly becoming choices between incompatible brand ecosystems. In today’s marketplace, a consumer’s … Read more
Save, Share, Revisit
In early January, we conducted user research to refresh our understanding of how people save, share, and revisit content with the goal of building our knowledge base for a larger … Read more
Find it Faster: The New Search Interface in Firefox
How often have you done a web search, already knowing that you would click the first result that looked like a Wikipedia page? Quite often? Then Firefox is about to … Read more
(Re)Designing Firefox
Update — 2014/05/28 I added a slideshow of some of the design iterations we went through from Firefox 4 to Firefox 29. So, we launched a thing. You may have noticed … Read more
Firefox’s Redesigned Preferences Feel More like the Web
Another great Firefox improvement is releasing soon! Firefox’s Preferences, until now, have required navigation through a cumbersome floating window where it’s nearly impossible to find what you’re looking for. This … Read more
Customizing Firefox
Customizing Firefox from Philipp Sackl on Vimeo. One of the ideas behind the Australis redesign of Firefox was to allow more people to customize their browser. The all-new customization mode … Read more
Emerging Needs in Thailand & Indonesia
This research was led by Bill Selman & Gemma Petrie. In Fall 2013, the Mozilla User Experience Research Team visited Thailand and Indonesia to conduct Firefox qualitative research. In addition … Read more