[INFOGRAPHICS] Mozilla Firefox 2013 Rewind.

HIGHLIGHTS:

1. This year, Mozilla has celebrated 15 years of it's existences.
2. Firefox OS, first open Web devices entirely based on Web technologies was launched.
3. Working towards gamer friendly browser by introducing highly-optimized version of JavaScript, asm.js, which makes games and web apps run 6 X faster.
4. First commercial 3D game, Monster Madness, powered by asm.js was launched by Epic Games.
5. WebRTC was introduced in Firefox and Firefox for Android.
6. "Most Trusted Internet Company for Privacy" credit was given to Mozilla by Ponemon institute.
7. In response to NSA Spying Saga, Mozilla launced Lightbeam, a tool to see who is tracking you by visual mean and launched StopWatching.US , for online privacy.
8. 2,800 participant from 90 countries participated in the third Mozilla Summit.

Source: Mozilla Blog

Countries with Mozilla Firefox OS Officially Launched/Announced.

As of today, Firefox OS based smartphones has been launched in 13 countries, mostly in Europe and Latin America. Here are the countries with Firefox OS officially Announced/Launched.

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Mozilla's Mission with their Vision.

Want to know how Mozilla foundation wants to make Internet, a better place to live (or surf) ? Read the Mozilla Manifesto here..

ZTE to Propel Firefox OS Smart Phones via eBay.

After launch of Firefox OS Phone across Europe and Latin America, Firefox OS powered phones will soon be available to all, thanks to online shopping site eBay. ZTE announced that they will soon start shipping Firefox phones, initially in US and UK starting 79.99 USD and 59.99 GBP respectively. The devices shipped through eBay are open market devices and they are not optimized for specific networks.

Both Mozilla and ZTE are excited that soon early adopters and developers around the globe will be able to order their first Firefox OS phone through online. The first device to be available online is ZTE Open in Orange.

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Mozilla unveils Minion, an Open Source Security Testing Platform.

Today Mozilla foundation has unveiled how it is committed in building web, a better place to surf, safeguarding users privacy and security.

Today, Mozilla has introduced Minion, a security testing platform to be used by developers and security experts with a purpose of minimizing their work. Mozilla claims that Minion takes a different approach to automated web security testing by focusing on correct and actionable results that don't requires security experts to validate, unlike it counter parts which generally generate huge amount of data which is very difficult for analyzing.

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Mozilla building UP, Personalisation with Price ?

Mozilla might soon come up with a model which is user custom tailored content and controlled privacy. A proposal called User Personalisation (UP) is being put forward by Mozilla, to provide rich content with personalisation and privacy.

UP is the result of series experiments conducted by Mozilla with help of volunteers and web publishers which was aimed to generate content, based on user's interest with the help of browsing history. But, this type of personalisation comes with price, says Mozilla, it may be come with ads or subscription based model, other innovative models, or it might come in the form of user interaction or engagement.

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