Firefox OS released, Firefox 88% faster, Mozilla's 2013 highlights celebrating 15 years

It marked the 15th anniversary of foundation in 2013MozillaButThe Mozilla BlogI looked back over this past year. A full year highlight such as Firefox's rapid improvement and update and release of Firefox OS is like this.

Mozilla in 2013 | The Mozilla Blog
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/12/16/mozilla-in-2013/


Absolutely out of the question of talking about Mozilla in 2013, the mobile terminal dedicated OS "Firefox OSIt's release. Spain in July 2013TelefonicaThree smartphone terminals are on sale in 14 countries including Colombia, Venezuela, Poland, Italy, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, Brazil, Hungary, Greece, Serbia and Montenegro.

Currently it is a region that is limited to Europe and South America, but in the future it will expand the region further, and in 2014 Smartphone with Firefox OS will be released in Asia.


The other day,The latest version 26 was releasedWeb browser"Firefox"The number of users exceeded 500 million people. Due to frequent version upgrades, benchmark software "OctaneIn the measurement using "JavaScriptRuntime execution speed is up by 88% compared with 2012.

Also, game engineUnreal Engine 3Introduced,Epic GamesWith the partnership,Asm.jsSuccessfully improved the processing speed of games using 6 times. 2013 was a year that focused on web games as well.

Firefox for AndroidAs a result of improving the speed, it gained a high evaluation of 4.5 points on average, already downloaded more than 50 million times. Firefox for Android, Kobo tablet and Gigabyte's "GSmartPreinstalled on ".


Mozilla recalls that "in 2013 it was a year in which we enhanced customer service more than ever." For example, by strengthening the support team, 150 million users have received necessary advice from Firefox.

In addition, we are also focusing on protecting user privacy, and add-ons for visualizing tracking on the web "Lightbeam"Has been released. And as a response to the NSA's spy problem, we are guaranteeing the right to explain how users' data are usedStopWatching.UsParticipating in. Measures to protect these user privacy have been evaluated, MozillaPonemon Institute"Most Trusted Internet Company" (the most trustworthy Internet company) "has been certified.