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| March 2025 | Mozilla revised its privacy FAQ, removing a previous pledge to never 'sell personal data' and acknowledging data collection from advertisements and chatbot interactions, clarifying its stance on data usage. |
| March 2025 | Mozilla faced significant criticism over changes to its Firefox Terms of Use, which introduced a broad license for user-uploaded data, raising privacy concerns and potential AI-related implications. |
| February 2025 | Krebs on Security discovers Mozilla continues to use and promote OneRep despite previous concerns about the company's background. |
| January 2025 | Mozilla settled the federal labor charges with the National Labor Relations Board, agreeing to pay $300,000 in lost benefits and wages to Cher Scarlett, and committing to post a notification of employee rights and a promise not to retaliate. |
| 2024 | Mozilla ceased operations for its virtual reality initiative, including Mozilla Hubs, following the company's restructuring. |
| 2024 | Mozilla rebranded again with a new 'Reclaim the Internet' motto, with assistance from Jones Knowles Ritchie. |
| September 2024 | NOYB (None of Your Business) filed a data protection complaint against Mozilla with the Austrian data protection authority regarding the 'Privacy Preserving Attribution' experimental feature in Firefox, alleging unauthorized user tracking and GDPR violations. |
| July 2024 | Scheduled complete archival of the Mozilla Location Service project. |
| June 2024 | Steve Teixeira, Mozilla Corporation's Chief Product Officer (CPO), filed a discrimination lawsuit against Mozilla, alleging he was discriminated against and retaliated against after taking three months off for cancer treatment. |
| March 2024 | Mozilla announced the planned retirement of the Mozilla Location Service, with functionality to be gradually reduced leading to project archival. |
| March 14 2024 | Krebs on Security investigation reveals OneRep's founder's past connections to multiple people-search companies, prompting Mozilla to issue a statement about their partnership with OneRep. |
| 2023 | The Mozilla Reps program, a volunteer-based initiative that allowed volunteers to become official representatives of Mozilla, was discontinued after years of active engagement in community development and recruitment. |
| 2023 | The National Labor Relations Board prosecuted Scarlett's charge against Mozilla. |
| December 2023 | Mozilla disclosed the results of the third security audit and released the full report by Cure53. |
| October 2023 | Mozilla rebrands 'Firefox accounts' to 'Mozilla accounts', expanding the scope of their authentication service beyond the Firefox browser and emphasizing the broader Mozilla brand. |
| July 11 2023 | Thunderbird blog announces the release of Thunderbird Supernova, featuring a modernized user interface and improved underlying code structure to enhance maintenance and extensibility. |
| April 2023 | Cure53 conducted a third security audit of Mozilla VPN. |
| 2022 | Cher Scarlett filed a labor charge against Mozilla with the National Labor Relations Board regarding her prior labor advocacy. |
| November 2 2022 | At the Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, Mozilla simultaneously announced online the early 2023 launch of Mozilla Ventures, a venture capital and product incubation facility with a $35 million starting fund, led by founding Managing Partner Mohamed Nanabhay. |
| February 2022 | Mozilla announced that Igalia assumed stewardship of the Firefox Reality project, which was subsequently renamed to Wolvic, and Mozilla discontinued its support for the browser. |
| 2021 | Mozilla Festival (MozFest) held virtually with nearly 10,000 participants from over 87 countries, focusing on human rights, climate justice, and technology, particularly trustworthy artificial intelligence. |
| 2021 | Cher Scarlett, an #AppleToo activist and software engineer, engaged in labor advocacy that led to subsequent legal action against Mozilla. |
| November 19 2021 | Mozilla announced Firefox Relay Premium monthly subscription service, officially ending the Beta version of Firefox Relay. Users can now receive unlimited alias emails using @mozmail.com email addresses. |
| August 2021 | Mozilla released the full security audit report by Cure53 from the second audit. |
| July 2021 | Mozilla disclosed most of the vulnerabilities found in the second security audit. |
| March 2021 | Cure53 performed a second security audit, noting significant improvements from the previous year and identifying multiple issues, including two medium-severity and one high-severity vulnerability. |
| 2020 | WebThings was spun off as an independent project following Mozilla layoffs, ending its affiliation with Mozilla. |
| 2020 | Mozilla launched Mozilla Builders, an experimental 'Fix-The-Internet' incubator program that funded 80 projects across three subprograms: The Startup Studio, The MVP Lab, and The Open Lab. |
| 2020 | Mozilla announced a 25% staff reduction, cutting nearly 250 employees due to reduced market share of Firefox and cost-cutting measures. |
| December 2020 | Mozilla closed its Mountain View office. |
| September 2020 | Mozilla announced the decommissioning of Firefox Send, ending its online encrypted file-transfer service. |
| August 2020 | Cybersecurity firm Cure53 conducted the first security audit of Mozilla VPN, identifying multiple vulnerabilities, including one critical-severity vulnerability. |
| August 2020 | During the COVID-19 pandemic, Mozilla laid off most of the Servo development team due to lack of funds and organizational restructuring. |
| August 2020 | Servo was transferred to the Linux Foundation to continue its development after the Mozilla layoffs. |
| July 2020 | Mozilla forcibly sent push notifications to Firefox users advertising its blog post about the #StopHateForProfit campaign against Facebook, which was done without user consent and resulted in significant user backlash. |
| July 22 2020 | The Book of Mozilla verse 6:27 officially landed in the Mozilla trunk codebase, appearing in Firefox Nightly 80. |
| July 15 2020 | Mozilla VPN officially launched, initially available in six countries: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Singapore, Malaysia, and New Zealand for Windows 10, Android, and iOS (beta). |
| July 15 2020 | Mozilla officially launched Mozilla VPN, transitioning from its previous beta version as Firefox Private Network. |
| June 18 2020 | Firefox Private Network was rebranded as 'Mozilla VPN'. |
| April 9 2020 | Mozilla released Firefox Private Relay as a Firefox add-on, providing users with disposable email addresses to combat spam and manage email subscriptions. |
| February 19 2020 | Mozilla launched the beta of the standalone virtual private network for Android, Microsoft Windows, and Chromebook. |
| October 2019 | Mozilla announced plans to launch a premium version of Firefox browser with a $10 per installation support service, though this was quickly retracted. |
| September 10 2019 | Mozilla released the Firefox Private Network web browser extension beta version as part of the relaunch of the Test Pilot Program. |
| June 27 2019 | Originally intended date for the introduction of the 6:27 verse in the Book of Mozilla, specifically related to Firefox Preview. |
| January 2019 | HTC partnered with Mozilla to make Firefox Reality web browser available on Vive virtual reality headsets. |
| September 2018 | Mozilla announced Firefox Reality, a web browser built entirely for virtual reality and ready for consumer download, available on Oculus VR headsets. |
| April 26 2018 | Mozilla VR released Hubs, their first experiment in Social Mixed Reality, which is a multi-user virtual space built in WebVR. |
| 2017 | Mozilla held its last global Summit, after which the organization transitioned to smaller All Hands gatherings for employees and volunteers to collaborate. |
| 2017 | Mozilla launched the Wireless Innovation for Network Security (WINS) challenge, offering $2 million in prize money to innovators developing wireless solutions for post-natural disaster internet access and connecting underserved communities. |
| December 18 2017 | Mozilla issued a public apology for the unauthorized installation of the Looking Glass add-on and released the source code of the extension in response to user criticism. |
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