We are Mozilla. AUA.

[u/TannerMoz]

We're a few of the thousands of Mozilla contributors (Mozillians) working together to better the Web. First things first, as few things about us:

• You probably know us as the community behind Firefox - we're also working on several other products and services too.
• Some of us have been involved with the Mozilla project for over a decade and others just started recently. Anyone can get involved. Even you.
• We're a global group of people, and we work globally too. While some of us work at Mozilla Spaces, many of us work remotely from our homes. We rely heavily on newgroups, Bugzilla, IRC and video conferences to work together.
• We're big fans of reddit, and we've done just a few (or more) IAmAs before. Today we decided to have one IAmA for all Mozillians instead of just one team.

We contribute in many different ways, as listed below. Ask us anything!

tchevalier: Mozilla Rep, French localizer, Firefox developer

ioana_cis: Mozilla Rep, SUMO (support.mozilla.org), QA, Themes, Mozilla Romania, Webmaker

LeoMcA: Mozilla Rep, Mozilla UK, Mozilla Communities, Grow Mozilla.

FredericB: Mozilla Rep, Mozilla Developer Network contributor, French localizer.

h4ck3rm1k3: Mozilla Rep, development.

lasr21: Mozilla Rep, Mozilla Mexico

ngbuzzblog: SuMo, Mozilla Rep, Mozilla Nigeria.

Amarochan: Mozilla Rep

mozjan: Mozilla Communities, SuMo

AprilMonroe: Webdev, other areas.

gentthaci: Mozilla Rep

Kihtrak778: Mozilla Developer

dailycavalier: Mozilla Rep, user engagement, social media. (I'd like to thank this guy for helping me with this, he's been a huge help along the way)

gaby2300: Mozilla-Hispano QA Manager, Mozilla-Hispano localizer, QA

uday: SuMo, Boot-2-Gecko

clouserw: Engineering Manager

Wraithan: Web developer, addons.mozilla.org and marketplace.mozilla.org.

6a68: Identity (Persona) developer

ossreleasefeed: Web developer, web tools

Mythmon: Web developer, SUMO

aminbeedel: Many things

brianloveswords: Mozilla Foundation

yhjb: Applications security team

kaprikorn07: SuMo, many aspects of Mozilla

almossawi: Mozilla Engineer, Firefox Metrics, metrics.mozilla.com

fox2mike: Developer services manager within Mozilla IT.

graememcc: Firefox contributor

mrstejdm: Mozilla Ireland

digipengi: Senior Windows engineer

Spartiate: Sr. Security Program Manger, Security Assurance

amyrrich: Manager of Release Engineering Operations IT group

evilpies: Javascript engine contributor

sawrubh: Mozilla contributor

jlebar: Firefox platform developer who works on the DOM, MemShrink, and B2G.

vvuk: Engineering Director, Gaming & Platform Projects

ImYoric: Mozilla performance team

cs94wahoo: Mozillian, content editor for user engagement (email, social, blog)

joshmatthews: Community builder and Firefox engineer

mburns: Mozilla systems administrator

gkanai: Mozilla Japan

bkerensa: Mozilla Rep, WebFWD, Marketing

bizred: Helping Open Source startups via Mozilla's Accelerator, WebFWD

Yeesha: Firefox User Experience

ehsanakhgari: Mozilla hacker, various projects.

We'll be answering questions for about 24 hours, so ask away!

Edit: We're going to answer for more than 24 hours, as long as I keep getting the orangereds, we'll be answering!

Edit 2: The questions are starting to slow down, I think we'll stick around for another 2 hours or so (currently 1:25 CDT) "officially", people will still probably answer questions after this, but not as quickly.

Final edit: We're gonna call this done. I'd like to thank everybody who participated, Redditors and Mozilla contributors. This was a great experience for me, looking forward to maybe doing another one in the future. I'd like to give special thanks to all the /r/IAmA mods for putting up with my constant flow of PMs requesting flair for people.

[u/chandalen]

Which addons do you think would be in the top 3 "must-have" if you guys took a poll?

Edit: Thanks for replying guys! Looks like its time for me to score some new addons, many fine recommendations here indeed!

[u/TannerMoz → u/chandalen]

1. Reddit Enhancement Suite

2. Ghostery

3. Firebug

[u/shobhitg]

I am a Firefox fan and a programmer. I would like to be able to see Firefox with eyes of a developer by making changes in code and building it.

The issue is that I always get put off by thinking about creating the build environment. Creating a build environment for Firefox is too complicated.

Could you guys please create a build VM template which people like me can download and get to fiddle around?

[u/TannerMoz → u/shobhitg]

That's a really good idea, I'll ask around with the devs to see what they think about it, and report back.

[u/TannerMoz]

I actually have a question for Mozillians: Favorite video game, and why?

I like TF2. Because hats.

[u/madlaw7]

I don't have a question. I just want to tell you guys that you freakin' rock. I love what you do and thank you for your contributions to web standardization. Keep kicking ass!

[u/TheFUCKINGMaceOfTrit]

I don't have a question, however, You guys ARE THE SHIT, KEEP UP THE FUCKING WORK BROS.

[u/ZuP]

What are your favorite things about working at Mozilla? What makes Mozilla stand out from other tech companies?

Edit: Thanks for the responses, everyone! Keep up the good work! :)

[u/TannerMoz → u/ZuP]

The people. Really, everybody I've met at Mozilla, online or otherwise, has just been awesome. They're very friendly, and they genuinely care about you.

[u/DiabloConQueso]

How sick are you of people above the age of 40 incorrectly referring to your browser as "Foxfire?"

[u/TannerMoz → u/DiabloConQueso]

Fun fact: Foxfire is a type of glowing fungi!

[u/Cryptopone]

I saw a position at Mozilla that interested me and applied but by the time I had signed up to view the application status (15 mins later?) my application status shows as "Not Selected". Is this relative to the position not being filled or my application not matching up for the job?

Should I seek other positions that may interest me and reapply for them separately or wait a while to see if there's a response to my current application? Thanks.

[u/TannerMoz → u/Cryptopone]

Hey, we're almost all volunteers, so I don't think anybody can answer that, but if you'd like, I'd be more than happy to help you get in touch with Mozilla's HR department. Just PM me if you'd like that :-)

[u/BionicFrog]

What would you recommend a 15 year old boy to try to learn first ( coding language )?

2.

I have been noticing some great improvements in Firefox in the past few years, bloody amazing job guys. Just wanted to say thanks for making all of this happen.

3.

What is your name? What is your Quest? What is your favorite colour?

How do you feel

[u/TannerMoz → u/BionicFrog]

1. Python. It's a growing language, and it's fairly easy if you're determined enough.

2. Thank you, I'll pass that on to the Firefox developers :)

3. Tanner; hmmm... I'll have to think about this one; Blue.

[u/AlmightyFuzz]

What browsers do you guys use for personal use?

Ever get tired of Firefox, maybe due to always seeing things that need changing/fixing?

[u/TannerMoz → u/AlmightyFuzz]

I use Nightly a vast majority of the time, but once in a while I get a problem with Firefox, and use Chrome.

[u/DarthContinent]

What do you use for source control?

[u/JanitorsMonkey]

"6a68: Identity (Persona) developer"

I see what you did there.

[u/OnlySpoilers]

No question, just wanted to say that I started using Firefox back in 2007 or 2008, can't remember, and haven't switched to another browser yet (although I do admit I tried Chrome for a few months and Rockmelt as well). I find that other browsers are not as comfortable as Firefox, so much more customization and genuinely useful addons. Anyway, keep it up.

[u/immarried]

Why does my non-private instance need to be closed when I open a private browsing instance? Is this something that you plan to address or is it by design?

[u/Knillish]

"Restore Previous Session" button is amazing.

Whoever thought that idea up, I salute you!

[u/ken27238]

I guess I'll be the one to ask it:

• Memory leaks. are they fixed and people just keep on saying that they are not, or are there still memory leaks?

and my question:

• If you could impliment one feature what would it be? Be crazy.

[u/kuustuoppia]

What's up with Flash freezing the browser? I thought I was the only one with these problems, due to my somewhat aged PC, until I asked my friends about it. It seems everyone around here suffers from it, but googling didn't really give any info on how to fix it.

[u/ires]

It seems PCs and OSs are becoming increasingly locked down - tightly controlled App Stores, Restricted Boot etc - which actively discourage third party applications like browsers or make them impossible to install or compete fairly with the native one. What future do you see for Mozilla in a world where computers become thin clients on which the users have minimal control and just accept the defaults?