Mozilla‘s vision of the Internet is a place where anyone can
access information, a place where everyone can hack and tinker;
one that has openness, freedom and transparency; where users have
control over their personal data and where all minds have the
freedom to create and to consume without walls or tight restrictions.
In less than 20 years the Internet has changed our lives. It
is a powerful platform with unprecedented opportunity and connectedness.
But even with great growth and innovation there are significant
challenges to this vision of a healthy Internet.
Mozilla is mobilized to ensure the protection of the Web and to
empower tomorrow’s webmakers and Web users. Today, Mozilla is growing
— with more employees, contributors, products and locations — to
ensure that the Web remains an open, vibrant ecosystem. Because, the
Web is the platform for building the world we want.
Please explore this site to learn more about Mozilla, our priorities
and focus areas that enable us to ensure the healthy growth of this
large and precious global resource.
Mozilla Mobilized
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Mozilla is mobilizing millions of people to build the world
they want. Mobilizing to set the mobile Web free from proprietary
platforms and gatekeepers. Mobilizing to empower the world's next
two billion Web users. And mobilizing to build a new generation
of digital innovators, creators and webmakers.
Moving forward we will continue to focus on building products,
technology solutions and educational offerings that incorporate
Mozilla values into the Web. Today, Mozilla’s mission remains as
important as ever. From Firefox through Firefox OS to our new
Mozilla Webmaker educational offering, the goal is empowerment.
It’s about unlocking the full creative power of mobile; standing
up for user sovereignty, privacy and freedom; and helping millions
of people move from using the Web to actively building its future.
Firefox OS
Just like we did on the desktop, Mozilla is setting out to
ensure that the mobile Web is full of freedom, choice and
opportunity and that it has the ability for users to create
anything they want. With Firefox OS,
we can break open the world of native operating systems and
closed platforms once again.
Firefox OS is the first truly open mobile platform. Developers
are already embracing HTML5, but so far HTML5 applications on
mobile have been held back because they can’t access the device’s
underlying capabilities the way that native apps can. Firefox OS
overcomes these limitations and provides the necessary
APIs to
show how it is possible to run an entire device using open
standards.
Firefox OS devices will launch in early 2013 through Telefónica,
establishing HTML5 as a viable platform for the mobile industry.
The Web as the platform will free developers to create groundbreaking
new apps that work seamlessly across all devices, spurring a new
era of innovation and creativity for the ubiquitous Web.
Firefox for Android
Fast. Smart. Safe.
In June 2012 we released an update to Firefox for Android
that we believe is the best browser for Android available. We completely
rebuilt and redesigned the product in native UI, resulting in a
snappy and dynamic upgrade to mobile browsing that is significantly
faster than the Android stock browser. This made Firefox significantly
faster on Android and delivered a much better browsing experience to
users than the one offered by the device’s stock browser. We also
added Do Not Track to Firefox for Android to let users express their
intent for privacy, even on mobile and are the first mobile browser
to offer Do Not Track. Firefox for Android is a critical part of
supporting the open Web. This is a great start, but it is only a start.
We want these opportunities to exist at all layers of our Web experience.
Firefox for Windows, Mac and Linux
Firefox will always be the part of the Mozilla mission that people
can see, feel and touch. We are excited by the progress and innovation
we have seen with the desktop version of Firefox over the past year.
Several performance and security improvements, memory enhancements make
this the best Firefox yet. We're proud of the work that we're doing to
make developing on Firefox easier by adding exciting tools for developers,
like Developer Command Line,
Web Console
and “Tilt” the 3D Page Inspector.
Recently, we have been experimenting with ways to integrate social
functionality into Firefox. Firefox will support a new Social API that
lets developers integrate social services directly into the browser.
The Social API will support multiple providers and has endless potential
for integrating social networks, e-mail, finance, news and other
applications into your Firefox experience. Our first experimental
provider is Facebook.
Webmaker: Teaching the world the Web
The unique power of the Web means that anyone can make and build
with it. Our new educational offering, Mozilla Webmaker,
will place that power in the hands of millions of new creators everywhere.
Webmaker tools, projects and events help educators, youth, media-makers
and everyday consumers around the world move from using the Web to
making the Web. In 2013, Webmaker will mobilize a global community of
mentors, instructors and youth to teach and learn together; advance
revolutionary Webmaker software tools like Popcorn
and Thimble; and work together to
build a more Web-literate planet.
Webmaker: Video
Advocating for Web standards
Mozilla will continue to contribute to Web standards.
Mozilla has always contributed to Web standards, going back
as far as the start of the project, and we will continue to do
that moving forward. We co-founded
the WHAT-WG to kick off
HTML5. We are a leader in
JavaScript standardization. We
have some of the top CSS and
layout experts in the world.
Standards are a multi-vendor effort, but Mozilla is proud of
the many technologies we have pioneered and submitted to standards
bodies to make them interoperable for the Web as a whole. Some
examples of these include geolocation, WebGL, the Gamepad API, Web
Telephony and IndexedDB.
Action
Fighting for you: Standing up for your security, privacy and freedom
Mozilla is proudly non-profit and answers to no one but you.
That means we're uniquely able to fight for users at a critical
moment in the Web's history. Looking forward, we will mobilize
millions of people to stand up for privacy, security and online
freedom. We will take on new threats to the Web's future — from
locked down proprietary platforms, to would-be censors and gatekeepers,
to short-sighted government legislation. Together we will set the
mobile Web free, reassert the vital importance of privacy and user
sovereignty, and join others in building a more Web-literate world.
Do Not Track
Our Internet experiences involve more of our personal data,
which forms a picture or profile of who we are online. The ability
for organizations to monitor, log, store, use, correlate and sell
information about who we are and what we do has huge implications
for individuals and for society.
In an effort to give users more control over their Web experiences,
we developed the Do Not Track feature
in Firefox. We also became the first browser manufacturer to offer
it on multiple platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux and Android.
Do Not Track is even available for Firefox OS
so that user privacy settings can be controlled on a system-wide
level to ensure that every third-party application on a user's device
respects their choice.
Do Not Track is important because it gives users a voice online
to express their preference for privacy and personalization. It
captures the user’s intent and allows them to put their hand up
and ask for privacy online.
SOPA / PIPA & ACTA
SOPA/PIPA
Mozilla was instrumental in the movement to motivate the Web
community to act against the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect
IP act. These laws, had they gone into effect, would have given the
US government and private businesses incredible censorship powers
that would have global ramifications, weaken the Internet's security
and discourage innovation and investment worldwide.
Mozilla was one of many organizations that blacked out its websites
in opposition to the SOPA/PIPA bills in congress. For the first time,
the Web community of more than 15 million people came together to
speak against a policy that affected the Web as a whole. This historic
protest represented a significant turning point for the Web as a way
to engage the electorate and mobilize citizens for change.
ACTA
Early in 2012, Mozilla warned against the ratification of the
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) by the
European Parliament. In a blog post,
Mitchell Baker urged the policymakers that opaque processes were a
“bad way to develop Internet policy” — in particular, that the global
trade agreement was negotiated in private without open involvement
of all the stakeholders. After massive street protests of Net-savvy
citizens across Europe, the European Parliament rejected ACTA on
July 4th in an unequivocal vote.
Firefox Flicks
This year we brought back Firefox Flicks
— a video challenge for aspiring filmmakers, animators and creatives
from around the world to produce and submit short films. These films
made by Firefox fans, promoted and educated users about the issues
that affect their online lives such as privacy and security. Most
importantly, these filmmakers shared what makes Firefox different
using their own voices. Celebrities and film-industry experts helped
select the regional winners from more than 400 submissions from
thousands of filmmakers worldwide.
Collusion
Mozilla Collusion
gives consumers a powerful tool to protect their privacy, arming
them with transparency, facts and the power to make their own
decisions about how their personal data is shared and used. Made
possible with the support of the Ford Foundation, Collusion allows
users to see who is tracking them across the Web. It shows, in real
time, how that data creates a spider-web of interaction between
companies and other trackers.
Community
Mozilla is an organization that is fundamentally about people and
making the Web better for everyone. The Mozilla community is essential
to the success of the project. We can’t fight for an open, hackable and
transparent Web without people who believe in and support that cause.
We have Mozilla communities spanning the world and these remarkable
people are responsible for coding, testing, localizing, hosting
hackfests and summer code parties, teaching Webmakers, marketing,
evangelizing Mozilla products and much more.
Learn more about how you can get involved with Mozilla.
Mozilla Reps
The Mozilla Reps program,
designed to empower volunteers to become official representatives of
Mozilla in their region, has grown to more than 350 people in more
than 70 countries in a little more than a year. The program plays a
critical role in helping Mozilla execute against its organizational
goals around the promotion and development of Firefox OS, Firefox
for Windows, Mac and Linux and Firefox for Android. Reps have
organized more than 700 events around the world and have successfully
recruited and trained hundreds of new contributors across dozens of
functional areas.
MozCamps
MozCamps are regional events that bring together core paid and
volunteer Mozilla staff members from all areas of the project for
two full days of presentations, discussions, brainstorms, work
sprints, hackathons and, of course, a little bit of fun.
While the main focus is on community leaders and core contributors,
MozCamps also aim to train up future leaders — those Mozilla contributors
who have been particularly active in the past six months and
represent the next generation of Mozilla leadership in the
community.
This year‘s MozCamps were held in Buenos Aires, Warsaw and
Singapore, bringing together more than 300 employees and 600
volunteers.
Emerging Communities
Some of the fastest growing and most dynamic communities are some
of our youngest communities. They can be found in the Middle East,
Africa and South East Asia and many of their members have been invited
to MozCamps in 2012 as participants. The
Tunisian community,
Kenyan community and
Filipino community
have been doing particularly outstanding work and each comprises roughly
a dozen active contributors across many functional areas, including
localization, QA, marketing and development. One of the newest Mozilla
communities launched in 2012 is in
Myanmar.
Along with this annual report, we released our audited financial
statements for 2011. Mozilla remains well positioned, both financially
and organizationally, to advance our mission of building openness,
freedom and participation into the Internet.
Mozilla remains financially healthy; we continue to hire more
people globally, we’ve opened new Mozilla Spaces around the world,
have launched significant new initiatives such as Firefox OS and
are able to support those with viable resources.
The majority of our revenue comes from the search functionality
in the Firefox browser. Google is the largest source of revenue and
in December 2011, we announced that we negotiated a significant and
mutually beneficial revenue agreement with Google. This new agreement
extends our long term search relationship with Google for at least
three additional years.
Mozilla has a number of other relationships in the Web community,
as well as new relationships with mobile operators, device manufacturers,
third-party content partners and other players in the mobile ecosystem.
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