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Andreas Gal Entrepreneur. Technologist. Former CTO Mozilla, CEO Silk Labs. Now  Principle 4 of the Mozilla Manifesto states: Individuals’ security and privacy on the Internet are fundamental and must not be treated as optional. Unfortunately treating user security as optional is exactly what happens when sites let users connect over insecure HTTP rather than HTTP over TLS (HTTPS). What insecure m

Andreas Gal Entrepreneur. Technologist. Former CTO Mozilla, CEO Silk Labs. Now  WebRTC is one of the most exciting things to happen to the Web in years: it has the potential to bring instant voice and video calling to anyone with a browser, finally unshackling us from proprietary plugins and installed apps. Firefox, Chrome, and Opera already support WebRTC, and Microsoft recently announced future

Andreas Gal Entrepreneur. Technologist. Former CTO Mozilla, CEO Silk Labs. Now  Today, I am starting my role as Mozilla’s new Chief Technology Officer. Mozilla is an unusual organization. We are not just a software company making a product. We are also a global community of people with a shared goal to build and further the Web, the world’s largest and fastest-growing technology ecosystem. My new

Andreas Gal Entrepreneur. Technologist. Former CTO Mozilla, CEO Silk Labs. Now  Why building a better browser doesn’t translate to a better marketshare I posted a couple weeks ago about Chrome effectively having won the browser wars. The market share observations in the blog post were based on data provided by StatCounter. Several commenters criticized the StatCounter data as inaccurate so I deci