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Mozilla VPN Service Now Available |
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Starting today, there’s a VPN on the market from a company you trust. The Mozilla VPN (Virtual Private Network) is finally out of Beta, and now available for subscribers using Windows. No long-term contracts are required. It is currently available for $4.99 USD per month in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Malaysia, and New Zealand, with plans to expand to other countries during the last four months of 2020.
Get the Details → |
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A Look at Password Security, Part II: Web Sites
The conventional story is: Passwords are simultaneously too long for users to memorize and too short to be secure. To understand how we got to where we are now, we need to explore the history of password systems.
While timesharing is mostly gone, most of us continue to use multiuser systems; we just call them Web sites. This post discusses some of the problems of Web authentication using passwords.
Read On in Part II →
Read Part I → |
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| Record 360 Video in Mozilla Hubs |
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Starting today, there’s a VPN on the market from a company you trust. The Mozilla VPN (Virtual Private Network) is finally out of Beta, and now available for subscribers using Windows. No long-term contracts are required. It is currently available for $4.99 USD per month in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Malaysia, and New Zealand, with plans to expand to other countries during the last four months of 2020.
Get the Details →
Watch a Demo → |
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| MDN Swag Shop Now Includes Developer Edition Bags, Shirts, and More |
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The number of designs available in the MDN Swag Shop has expanded and now includes the Mozilla Developer Edition logo.
Visit the Swag Shop → |
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Speeding Up Firefox Startup With the about:home Startup Cache
Launching an application like Firefox is quite complex. Firefox engineer Mike Conley explains how meticulous profiling in various conditions has revealed a number of opportunities for launch speed improvements.
Find Out How → |
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Mozilla Common Voice Wins ISSIP Excellence in Service Innovation Award
The International Society of Service Innovation Professionals (ISSIP), which serves specialists in agile digital transformation, has recognized Mozilla Common Voice for supporting innovation with open voice data.
Find Out More About Common Voice →
Read the Press Release → |
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Event Deadlines
The deadline to register for CascadiaJS and receive a Goodie Box delivered to your home (including a CascadiaJS 2020 hoodie and some other goodies) is Friday, July 24. Mozilla Developer Relations is sponsoring live captioning for this event.
Learn about CascadiaJS→
Mozilla is hosting the Security Standardisation Research (SSR) conference this year (in a virtual capacity). The submission deadline is August 24th.
Learn about SSR→ |
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Tips for the Virtual Conference Speaker or MC
These two helpful articles will get you prepared for your next online event.
Heidi Waterhouse writes about "the kinds of speaking that aren't speeches . . . being an MC or running a panel or doing interstitial banter with someone."
Guilherme Ferreira provides helpful, detailed, step-by-step guidance for speakers at virtual conferences. |
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