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Mozilla is an Open Source Project. That means that the source code is publicly available and everyone can read it and see what is happening under the hood. (Searchfox is a great way to navigate the hundred of thousands of files by letting you do a full text search on the Mozilla codebase if you… Continue reading Coding in Public – Working on Open Source

This blog post will be more of a storytelling than the last ones, where we discussed web protocols and the HTTPS-Only feature in Firefox. This time we will be looking more into what I’m actually doing and more importantly the things I learned on the way. The goal HTTPS-Only tries to upgrade every HTTP connection… Continue reading My First Project: Improving the User Experience of HTTPS-Only By Adding Suggestions

In my last blog post we explored why HTTPS is better and more secure compared to HTTP and that ~20% of traffic on the world wide web is regrettably still done over HTTP.  This time I will tell you more about “HTTPS-Only Mode”, the project I’m working with during my outreachy internship. What is HTTPS-Only… Continue reading How HTTPS-Only Mode makes your browsing safer

During my outreachy internship at Mozilla I am working on the Improving the User Experience of HTTPS-Only Mode, which is a new security feature in Firefox, the Mozilla Browser. In my next blog post I will explain what HTTPS-Only Mode is. But before we dive into that I will explain the basic concepts. What even… Continue reading The Future belongs to HTTPS

So a week ago today I started my outreachy internship at Mozilla for the project: “Improve the User Experience of HTTPS-Only Mode” \o/ As a first task I am supposed to introduce myself … which is quite hard but I do have a cheatsheet for that. Whenever I have to write a bio I go… Continue reading Outreachy Introduction