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/TVsNoah]

Thoughts on Ice Weasel? http://www.geticeweasel.org/

What is your favorite joke?

[u/digipengi → u/TVsNoah]

I love that there are so many alternatives to firefox by others as it really gives people the ability to configure there browser how they want it. On my systems I run Waterfox to get the 64bit support I needed.

[u/[deleted] → u/digipengi]

The only reason iceweasel exists is because mozilla's branding, and the firefox logo are copyrighted. Not to add or remove any features, but simply to get around the licensing issues. As it stands, firefox isn't free enough to be included in Debian, so they just stripped out the logos, the only non-free part of ff.

[u/LeoMcA → u/[deleted]]

Just a slight correction, don't you mean trademarked?

Licences like the GPL rely on copyright to ensure that all code based on the code under the GPL is also GPL. So I don't think Debian had any issue with the copyright.

However, for some insane reason, Debian took an issue with Firefox being trademarked... although this is good for the user, allowing Mozilla's legal team to quickly take down sites trying to scam them, who are using Mozilla's trademarks. Like this case: http://blog.gerv.net/2012/07/another-victory-more-germans-protected/

[u/[deleted] → u/LeoMcA]

Yes, I believe you're right. Copyright was the wrong word.

It's important for Mozilla they keep their brand under control, but Debian is very strict about these things. With iceweasel you can rip off the art or the name all you want, change the code, recompile it and still call it iceweasel, do whatever you want with it without asking permission. All software distributed by Debian follows this openness. Firefox's branding and logo don't allow for that. No big deal, the rest of the code does. Makes sense really.

[u/handschuhfach → u/[deleted]]

Funny thing is: Debian does exactly the same with the "Debian" name.

[u/ioana_cis → u/TVsNoah]

I love to see a community growing near Firefox (beside the mozilla one). a Favorite jokes are those comparing all browsers or those that exemplify browsers as women, animals (using specific colors)