#Firefox

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LinuxNews.de :tux:

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Firefox 137 bringt HEVC für Linux
linuxnews.de/firefox-137-bring

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LinuxNews.de :tux:

@linuxnews@social.anoxinon.de

Firefox 137 bringt HEVC für Linux
linuxnews.de/firefox-137-bring

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🏳️‍⚧️wikifox🍥:linux:

@wikifox@g0v.social

g0v.social/@GripNews@mastodon.
這個月Mozilla變更隱私政策讓我決定從4/1開始逐步廢除網名"wikifox"
先前Firefox瀏覽器已經愚弄過我的信任:
Firefox 128預設開啟廣告蒐集行為
blog.gslin.org/archives/2024/0

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🏳️‍⚧️wikifox🍥:linux:

@wikifox@g0v.social

g0v.social/@GripNews@mastodon.
這個月Mozilla變更隱私政策讓我決定從4/1開始逐步廢除網名"wikifox"
先前Firefox瀏覽器已經愚弄過我的信任:
Firefox 128預設開啟廣告蒐集行為
blog.gslin.org/archives/2024/0

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CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:

@catsalad@infosec.exchange

Firefox 0-day security vulnerability (CVE-2025-2857) patched

Mozilla patches a sandbox escape vulnerability that is already being exploited (in Chrome)

:firefox:mozilla.org/en-US/security/adv

Announced: 2025-03-27
Impact: ⚠️ critical
Products: Firefox, Firefox ESR (Firefox on Windows only)
Fixed in:
• Firefox 136.0.4 :windows:
• Firefox ESR 115.21.1 :windows:
• Firefox ESR 128.8.1 :windows:

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CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:

@catsalad@infosec.exchange

Firefox 0-day security vulnerability (CVE-2025-2857) patched

Mozilla patches a sandbox escape vulnerability that is already being exploited (in Chrome)

:firefox:mozilla.org/en-US/security/adv

Announced: 2025-03-27
Impact: ⚠️ critical
Products: Firefox, Firefox ESR (Firefox on Windows only)
Fixed in:
• Firefox 136.0.4 :windows:
• Firefox ESR 115.21.1 :windows:
• Firefox ESR 128.8.1 :windows:

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Really Lazy Bear

@reallylazybear@mastodon.social

This is a pretty cool yet somewhat creepy website lol.

deviceinfo.me/

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Really Lazy Bear

@reallylazybear@mastodon.social

This is a pretty cool yet somewhat creepy website lol.

deviceinfo.me/

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Risotto Bias

@risottobias@tech.lgbt

what's a duplicate bookmark finder (two imports of bookmarks) that isn't a malicious extension?

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PauloFreireMuc🏳️‍🌈

@paulofreiremuc@bildung.social

"Der Blog-Beitrag wurde nicht auf den offiziellen Twitter-Konten für Firefox oder Mozilla geteilt, im Gegensatz zu fast jedem anderen Artikel, den das Unternehmen veröffentlicht.

Die Kritik war bisher begrenzt, möglich aufgrund der unauffälligen Ankündigung (sie erschien nur auf dem Firefox-Subreddit am Freitag zum Beispiel), aber das Gesamtfeedback ist derzeit meist negativ."

xda-developers.com/mozilla-met

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@paulofreiremuc@bildung.social

"Der Blog-Beitrag wurde nicht auf den offiziellen Twitter-Konten für Firefox oder Mozilla geteilt, im Gegensatz zu fast jedem anderen Artikel, den das Unternehmen veröffentlicht.

Die Kritik war bisher begrenzt, möglich aufgrund der unauffälligen Ankündigung (sie erschien nur auf dem Firefox-Subreddit am Freitag zum Beispiel), aber das Gesamtfeedback ist derzeit meist negativ."

xda-developers.com/mozilla-met

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Tommi 🤯

@tommi@pan.rent · Reply to Tommi 🤯's post

That’s it. I simply cannot use @zenbrowser for work.

My battery drains faster than a truck burning fuel. My CPU goes crazy. Bugs break the little concentration I have.

This is mainly a lesson to myself: do not use beta software unless you are truly and fully committed to address the potential consequences.

Going back to vanilla , hopefully switching to @librewolf as soon as I have some time to get it up and running.

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Tommi 🤯

@tommi@pan.rent

Mmmmh @zenbrowser just closed 45 tabs, open in 4 workspaces, and I can’t seem to be able to recover them…

Daaamn

Tips? (No time for debugging right now tho)

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All Europeans

@ueeu@vivaldi.net

Comparison of Web Browsers (March 2025)

A table comparing the functionalities available in the most-used browsers!

Conclusion:

The results of the comparison aren't as clear in 2025.

Vivaldi, Opera and Firefox are top of the list, with Edge and Brave right behind them.

Chrome and Safari, on the other hand, are the most basic and least customisable options.

The "worst" browsers actually have the highest market shares, probably because they're already preinstalled on iOS and Android.

eylenburg.github.io/browser_co

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Tech Éthique

@TechEthique@piaille.fr

Jour 5 : Sortie progressive des

Extensions recommandées pour améliorer la confidentialité et la sécurité sur Firefox :

Après mon passage à Firefox, j'ai cherché à protéger mes données des tiers. Voici les meilleures extensions que j'ai trouvées pour renforcer cette protection :

✅ uBlock Origin →
Un bloqueur de publicité et de trackers ultra efficace qui améliore également la vitesse de navigation et réduit la consommation de données.(Alternative : AdGuard)

✅ Privacy Badger →
Développé par l’EFF, cet outil bloque automatiquement les trackers qui suivent votre activité sur plusieurs sites.



Gafam extension
ALT text detailsGafam extension
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Captain Steph :php:

@sirber@fosstodon.org

to remove that from

about:config
browser.ml.chat.enabled => false

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Rainer "friendica" Sokoll

@rainer@friendica.sokoll.com

bzw.

Ich bin so ein Tab-Messi, mache ständig neue Tabs auf. Die legt der Browser dann immer brav ganz rechts ab.
Irgendwann sind es dann so viele Tabs, daß sie nicht mehr alle in die Tableiste passen und ich bekomme rechts und links Pfeile zum Scrollen.
Das ist suboptimal, lieber wäre mir eine zweite Tab-Leiste unter der ersten.
Geht das irgendwie?

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sheislaurence

@sheislaurence@mastodon.social · Reply to FediFollows's post

@FediFollows welcome to the world @iFixit! Know you from my @restartproject days, and thought of you again yesterday, how timely: do you have any recommendations for adapting older hardware to the requirements of today's internet, namely: supported . Got all my disabled yesterday on , as my version of Mac (10.11) is beyond unsupported. Issues with Chrome too.

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All Europeans

@ueeu@vivaldi.net

Comparison of Web Browsers (March 2025)

A table comparing the functionalities available in the most-used browsers!

Conclusion:

The results of the comparison aren't as clear in 2025.

Vivaldi, Opera and Firefox are top of the list, with Edge and Brave right behind them.

Chrome and Safari, on the other hand, are the most basic and least customisable options.

The "worst" browsers actually have the highest market shares, probably because they're already preinstalled on iOS and Android.

eylenburg.github.io/browser_co

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GENKI

@nibushibu@vivaldi.net

自分も応援はしている。
インストールはしているのだけど全然使えてはいないんだけど :tony_grinning:
同じ フォークのものだと のほうが UI 的には Arc インスパイアな感じでちょっと洗練されている気がしている。
そういう意味でも にはより 的な親近感もある(日本で開発されてるし

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🌸🇪🇺 Dreamy Mia 🏳️‍⚧️🌸

@m@lgbtqia.space

Had enough of big tech browser corpos like Google (Chrome) or Mozilla (Firefox) collecting your data and selling them to Advertisers?

Then it is time to uninstall them and get yourself a Norwegian browser Vivaldi with 0 external investors!

vivaldi.com/

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🌸🇪🇺 Dreamy Mia 🏳️‍⚧️🌸

@m@lgbtqia.space

Had enough of big tech browser corpos like Google (Chrome) or Mozilla (Firefox) collecting your data and selling them to Advertisers?

Then it is time to uninstall them and get yourself a Norwegian browser Vivaldi with 0 external investors!

vivaldi.com/

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Kazuky Akayashi ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ

@KazukyAkayashi@social.zarchbox.fr

Bon j'arrive toujours pas a aller sur mes sites en local (glance.lan ou encore pihole.lan) avec Firefox/IronFox sur Android même après avoir installé le certif d'Aurorité de Caddy et avoir activé l'option pour que Firefox/IronFox utilise les certif de l'appareil ... je sais plus quoi faire.

Un truc que j'aurais pas vu/zapper ??

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nogajun🍉

@nogajun@mastodon.social

のUser Agent Switcherを使ってたけど開発者用ツールだから面倒だったんだよね。これは助かる。
あと関係ないけど、このサイトは で作ってるんだ。こういうニュースサイトっぽいサイトでAstro使ってるのを初めて見た

ワンクリックでFirefoxをChromeに偽装できる「Chrome Mask」の特徴と使い方 - ろぼいんブログ: roboin.io/article/2025/03/08/c

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Nils Weisensee

@nw@ioc.exchange

Why does Google Docs prevent me from pasting when using ? And why the fuck does Chrome ask me to make it my default browser EVERY SINGLE TIME I open it just to paste the markdown it won't let me paste using the browser I actually like?

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TheEvilSkeleton

@TheEvilSkeleton@treehouse.systems

At last, starting from Firefox 137, Firefox will finally publish ARM64 (AArch64) builds as a Flatpak on Flathub!

hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozill

@FlatpakApps @flathub

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TheEvilSkeleton

@TheEvilSkeleton@treehouse.systems

At last, starting from Firefox 137, Firefox will finally publish ARM64 (AArch64) builds as a Flatpak on Flathub!

hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozill

@FlatpakApps @flathub

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Nick @ The Linux Experiment

@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social

As promised, here is an interview with @ryanleesipes from , on the whole and terms of use situation.

We talk about why this had to happen, how Thunderbird will handle their own Terms of Use, what's happening at Mozilla, and what's changing.

youtube.com/watch?v=ctg5QzSt5tg

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Nick @ The Linux Experiment

@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social

As promised, here is an interview with @ryanleesipes from , on the whole and terms of use situation.

We talk about why this had to happen, how Thunderbird will handle their own Terms of Use, what's happening at Mozilla, and what's changing.

youtube.com/watch?v=ctg5QzSt5tg

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Christian Pietsch

@chpietsch@fedifreu.de

In unregelmäßigen Abständen gibt @mozillaofficial Anlass zur Frage, ob es inzwischen eher zur dunklen Seite der Macht zu rechnen sei.

Natürlich ist Google keine akzeptable Alternative (obwohl mir auffällt, dass viele Halbinformierte z.Z. von Firefox zu irgend einem chromiumbasierten Browser wechseln): Google hat eh schon zuviel Macht, was sich zuletzt darin zeigte, dass der beste Werbe- und Trackingblocker uBlock Origin nicht mehr ohne Klimmzüge mit mit Chrome benutzt werden kann.

Wenn es eine gute Alternative zu Firefox gäbe, würden noch viel mehr Leute wechseln. Aber Firefox-Forks wie , und sind nur eine Übergangslösung. Und WebKit-Browser lassen sich nicht mit AddOns wie uBlock Origin anpassen.

Wo bleiben die alternativen Rendering-Engines? Da gibt zum einen Ladybird. Das sah lange nach einem Ein-Mann-Projekt aus, aber inzwischen ist es eine Organisation. Ob es da mittlerweile mehrere Entwickler:innen gibt, wäre zu prüfen. (Update: Laut FAQ arbeiten 7 Vollzeitentwickler:innen an Ladybird, aber eine Alphaversion wird erst im Sommer 2026 erwartet.)

Außerdem wird weiterhin an der bei Mozilla entstandenen Next-Generation-Engine @servo gearbeitet, obwohl Mozilla das Rust-Team gefeuert hat, dem diese Engine zu verdanken ist. Die beiden auf Servo basierenden Browser Servoshell und Verso sind leider noch nicht alltagstauglich. Ich habe sie heute ausprobiert, damit ihr es nicht tun müsst.

Ich stimme @larsmb zu, der schreibt, dass Servo und Verso das Zeug hätten, den Browser zu bauen, den die User sich wünschen – einer, der in ihrem Interesse arbeitet. Dafür sollte es Fördermittel geben – auch öffentliche, steuerfinanzierte. Bis dahin müssen wir mit den Übergangslösungen leben.

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Rusty Corgi

@Rusty@cubhub.social

Me: Please don't use Chromium-based browsers, use Firefox instead. Google has way too much control over the web because of Chromium and they'll be sure to leverage that in order to benefit themselves.

Chromium: Hey all, we're getting rid of ad-blockers because it's cutting into our record-breaking revenue! I mean, uh, we're deprecating Manifest V2 for, uh, security. Yeah.

Me: See? Please use Firefox. :blobfoxmeltsob:

Mozilla: Hey friends, AI is really cool! *steps on rake* Hey friends, we're making an ads business! *steps on rake* Hey friends, we have a ToS with either the most nefarious or the most incompetent language ever! *steps on rake* Also AI is cool!!!

Me: ... :corgi_wtf1:​ I hate it here.

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Rusty Corgi

@Rusty@cubhub.social

Me: Please don't use Chromium-based browsers, use Firefox instead. Google has way too much control over the web because of Chromium and they'll be sure to leverage that in order to benefit themselves.

Chromium: Hey all, we're getting rid of ad-blockers because it's cutting into our record-breaking revenue! I mean, uh, we're deprecating Manifest V2 for, uh, security. Yeah.

Me: See? Please use Firefox. :blobfoxmeltsob:

Mozilla: Hey friends, AI is really cool! *steps on rake* Hey friends, we're making an ads business! *steps on rake* Hey friends, we have a ToS with either the most nefarious or the most incompetent language ever! *steps on rake* Also AI is cool!!!

Me: ... :corgi_wtf1:​ I hate it here.

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Rusty Corgi

@Rusty@cubhub.social

Me: Please don't use Chromium-based browsers, use Firefox instead. Google has way too much control over the web because of Chromium and they'll be sure to leverage that in order to benefit themselves.

Chromium: Hey all, we're getting rid of ad-blockers because it's cutting into our record-breaking revenue! I mean, uh, we're deprecating Manifest V2 for, uh, security. Yeah.

Me: See? Please use Firefox. :blobfoxmeltsob:

Mozilla: Hey friends, AI is really cool! *steps on rake* Hey friends, we're making an ads business! *steps on rake* Hey friends, we have a ToS with either the most nefarious or the most incompetent language ever! *steps on rake* Also AI is cool!!!

Me: ... :corgi_wtf1:​ I hate it here.

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Privacy Guide 1984

@datenschutzratgeber@mastodon.social

If you're saying we should ditch due to 's decisions, this is the world you're advocating for.

🔗 nitter.net/theworldmaps_/statu

Map of the most popular browsers in different countries

April 2012: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera

April 2022: Chrome everywhere.
ALT text detailsMap of the most popular browsers in different countries April 2012: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera April 2022: Chrome everywhere.
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Jons Mostovojs

@jonn@social.doma.dev

Got rid of @mozilla on all my devices 😇

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technicat

@technicat@universeodon.com · Reply to Jon S. von Tetzchner's post

@jon @Vivaldi I tried ditching and switching to for a while and hope for all its success but I disliked the the commercial tie-ins, in particular Temu, and I didn't see any way to stop autocompletions to those sites even after clearing the preset bookmarks, so I'm currently back on firefox.

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Rusty Corgi

@Rusty@cubhub.social · Reply to Rusty Corgi's post

Mind you, this still isn't a good excuse to use a Chromium-based browser.

And for all you people using Brave out there, well :corgi_wtf1:​ 🖕 Brave is run by this guy who hates queer people and believes conspiracy theories about Covid, so maybe don't use his shitty browser that's been caught injecting affiliate links.

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Rusty Corgi

@Rusty@cubhub.social

Me: Please don't use Chromium-based browsers, use Firefox instead. Google has way too much control over the web because of Chromium and they'll be sure to leverage that in order to benefit themselves.

Chromium: Hey all, we're getting rid of ad-blockers because it's cutting into our record-breaking revenue! I mean, uh, we're deprecating Manifest V2 for, uh, security. Yeah.

Me: See? Please use Firefox. :blobfoxmeltsob:

Mozilla: Hey friends, AI is really cool! *steps on rake* Hey friends, we're making an ads business! *steps on rake* Hey friends, we have a ToS with either the most nefarious or the most incompetent language ever! *steps on rake* Also AI is cool!!!

Me: ... :corgi_wtf1:​ I hate it here.

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Rusty Corgi

@Rusty@cubhub.social · Reply to Rusty Corgi's post

Mind you, this still isn't a good excuse to use a Chromium-based browser.

And for all you people using Brave out there, well :corgi_wtf1:​ 🖕 Brave is run by this guy who hates queer people and believes conspiracy theories about Covid, so maybe don't use his shitty browser that's been caught injecting affiliate links.

MaInKiVi :mastodon: :linux:'s avatar
MaInKiVi :mastodon: :linux:

@mainkivi@xarxa.cloud

Comienzo una etapa sin por @zenbrowser

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Rusty Corgi

@Rusty@cubhub.social

Me: Please don't use Chromium-based browsers, use Firefox instead. Google has way too much control over the web because of Chromium and they'll be sure to leverage that in order to benefit themselves.

Chromium: Hey all, we're getting rid of ad-blockers because it's cutting into our record-breaking revenue! I mean, uh, we're deprecating Manifest V2 for, uh, security. Yeah.

Me: See? Please use Firefox. :blobfoxmeltsob:

Mozilla: Hey friends, AI is really cool! *steps on rake* Hey friends, we're making an ads business! *steps on rake* Hey friends, we have a ToS with either the most nefarious or the most incompetent language ever! *steps on rake* Also AI is cool!!!

Me: ... :corgi_wtf1:​ I hate it here.

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Christian Pietsch

@chpietsch@fedifreu.de

In unregelmäßigen Abständen gibt @mozillaofficial Anlass zur Frage, ob es inzwischen eher zur dunklen Seite der Macht zu rechnen sei.

Natürlich ist Google keine akzeptable Alternative (obwohl mir auffällt, dass viele Halbinformierte z.Z. von Firefox zu irgend einem chromiumbasierten Browser wechseln): Google hat eh schon zuviel Macht, was sich zuletzt darin zeigte, dass der beste Werbe- und Trackingblocker uBlock Origin nicht mehr ohne Klimmzüge mit mit Chrome benutzt werden kann.

Wenn es eine gute Alternative zu Firefox gäbe, würden noch viel mehr Leute wechseln. Aber Firefox-Forks wie , und sind nur eine Übergangslösung. Und WebKit-Browser lassen sich nicht mit AddOns wie uBlock Origin anpassen.

Wo bleiben die alternativen Rendering-Engines? Da gibt zum einen Ladybird. Das sah lange nach einem Ein-Mann-Projekt aus, aber inzwischen ist es eine Organisation. Ob es da mittlerweile mehrere Entwickler:innen gibt, wäre zu prüfen. (Update: Laut FAQ arbeiten 7 Vollzeitentwickler:innen an Ladybird, aber eine Alphaversion wird erst im Sommer 2026 erwartet.)

Außerdem wird weiterhin an der bei Mozilla entstandenen Next-Generation-Engine @servo gearbeitet, obwohl Mozilla das Rust-Team gefeuert hat, dem diese Engine zu verdanken ist. Die beiden auf Servo basierenden Browser Servoshell und Verso sind leider noch nicht alltagstauglich. Ich habe sie heute ausprobiert, damit ihr es nicht tun müsst.

Ich stimme @larsmb zu, der schreibt, dass Servo und Verso das Zeug hätten, den Browser zu bauen, den die User sich wünschen – einer, der in ihrem Interesse arbeitet. Dafür sollte es Fördermittel geben – auch öffentliche, steuerfinanzierte. Bis dahin müssen wir mit den Übergangslösungen leben.

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coffe☕

@coffe@social.piewpiew.se

What web browser is more secure and does the least stupid shit?

Please give me suggestions on what browser to use and why your suggestion is the best! (Big plus if it has a mobile version.) 🥳☕🎉

OptionVoters
Firefox4 (67%)
Brave0 (0%)
Chrome0 (0%)
Vivaldi2 (33%)
Christian Pietsch's avatar
Christian Pietsch

@chpietsch@fedifreu.de

In unregelmäßigen Abständen gibt @mozillaofficial Anlass zur Frage, ob es inzwischen eher zur dunklen Seite der Macht zu rechnen sei.

Natürlich ist Google keine akzeptable Alternative (obwohl mir auffällt, dass viele Halbinformierte z.Z. von Firefox zu irgend einem chromiumbasierten Browser wechseln): Google hat eh schon zuviel Macht, was sich zuletzt darin zeigte, dass der beste Werbe- und Trackingblocker uBlock Origin nicht mehr ohne Klimmzüge mit mit Chrome benutzt werden kann.

Wenn es eine gute Alternative zu Firefox gäbe, würden noch viel mehr Leute wechseln. Aber Firefox-Forks wie , und sind nur eine Übergangslösung. Und WebKit-Browser lassen sich nicht mit AddOns wie uBlock Origin anpassen.

Wo bleiben die alternativen Rendering-Engines? Da gibt zum einen Ladybird. Das sah lange nach einem Ein-Mann-Projekt aus, aber inzwischen ist es eine Organisation. Ob es da mittlerweile mehrere Entwickler:innen gibt, wäre zu prüfen. (Update: Laut FAQ arbeiten 7 Vollzeitentwickler:innen an Ladybird, aber eine Alphaversion wird erst im Sommer 2026 erwartet.)

Außerdem wird weiterhin an der bei Mozilla entstandenen Next-Generation-Engine @servo gearbeitet, obwohl Mozilla das Rust-Team gefeuert hat, dem diese Engine zu verdanken ist. Die beiden auf Servo basierenden Browser Servoshell und Verso sind leider noch nicht alltagstauglich. Ich habe sie heute ausprobiert, damit ihr es nicht tun müsst.

Ich stimme @larsmb zu, der schreibt, dass Servo und Verso das Zeug hätten, den Browser zu bauen, den die User sich wünschen – einer, der in ihrem Interesse arbeitet. Dafür sollte es Fördermittel geben – auch öffentliche, steuerfinanzierte. Bis dahin müssen wir mit den Übergangslösungen leben.

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Professor Code

@ProfessorCode@fosstodon.org · Reply to Professor Code's post

I can't believe that Mozilla is choosing to take Firefox down this road of seemingly trying to harvest and sell their users' data, when there is already a proven method to increase their revenue with one of their own products.

Thunderbird has already proven that people are willing to support open source, privacy-friendly and well-maintained projects, especially if it's a critical part of their workflow. Just build a product that people want to use.

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Professor Code

@ProfessorCode@fosstodon.org · Reply to Professor Code's post

I can't believe that Mozilla is choosing to take Firefox down this road of seemingly trying to harvest and sell their users' data, when there is already a proven method to increase their revenue with one of their own products.

Thunderbird has already proven that people are willing to support open source, privacy-friendly and well-maintained projects, especially if it's a critical part of their workflow. Just build a product that people want to use.

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Professor Code

@ProfessorCode@fosstodon.org · Reply to Professor Code's post

The Brave browser has always had their own fair share of issues, like trying to implement their own ad network to pushing cryptocurrency incessantly. I'm not sure if it's really a better alternative to Firefox.

Firefox forks like LibreWolf, on the other hand, are maintained by a small group of developers and seems to take a little bit longer to release updates.

All that's left is Chromium and the rest of its forks, but I won't be able to use uBlock Origin properly.

It's a mess. 😞

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Professor Code

@ProfessorCode@fosstodon.org

Since Firefox requires a "nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license" to my personal data, I've finally decided to move away to another browser.

youtube.com/watch?v=Rc96ISKh2O

The problem appears to be, though, that I'm not sure which browser to use now. Most of the alternatives seem to have questionable privacy or security.

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Mike Kuketz 🛡

@kuketzblog@social.tchncs.de

Mozilla hat die FAQs von Firefox geändert: Statt „Daten werden nicht an Werbetreibende verkauft“ steht nun, dass persönliche Daten geschützt sind. Auch der Hinweis auf „kostenlos“ wurde geändert. Mozilla betont, keine Daten zu verkaufen, die Änderungen seien rechtlich nötig. Die Praxis bleibt jedoch gleich – persönlich halte ich die Aufregung für übertrieben. Als Alternative zu Firefox sei LibreWolf erwähnt. 👇

kuketz-blog.de/librewolf-und-t

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Vivaldi

@Vivaldi@vivaldi.net

Moving from Firefox to Vivaldi? It’s easier than ever. Import your browser data with just one click. 🌟

Video showing how the Vivaldi browser is downloaded using Firefox, installed and set up, including setting Vivaldi as the default browser and importing data from Firefox.
ALT text detailsVideo showing how the Vivaldi browser is downloaded using Firefox, installed and set up, including setting Vivaldi as the default browser and importing data from Firefox.
🦠Toxic Flange🔬⚱️🌚's avatar
🦠Toxic Flange🔬⚱️🌚

@Toxic_Flange@infosec.exchange

So a question. Does need to call home in order to work? Can we just add mozilla.com or domains to adblocking and halt the data sent?

Can we beg game crackers to take a look and get it patched out?

Anyone got a link to the results of someone who's put mozilla through the wringer to see what data is being sent? Or am I misunderstanding how firefox is doing this?

Travis Newton :node:'s avatar
Travis Newton :node:

@travis@nodespace.social

Perfect timing... Google's disabling uBlock Origin, Mozilla is imploding Firefox... The tin-foil hat side of me says this was premeditated. theverge.com/news/622953/googl

Travis Newton :node:'s avatar
Travis Newton :node:

@travis@nodespace.social

Perfect timing... Google's disabling uBlock Origin, Mozilla is imploding Firefox... The tin-foil hat side of me says this was premeditated. theverge.com/news/622953/googl

Vivaldi's avatar
Vivaldi

@Vivaldi@vivaldi.net

Moving from Firefox to Vivaldi? It’s easier than ever. Import your browser data with just one click. 🌟

Video showing how the Vivaldi browser is downloaded using Firefox, installed and set up, including setting Vivaldi as the default browser and importing data from Firefox.
ALT text detailsVideo showing how the Vivaldi browser is downloaded using Firefox, installed and set up, including setting Vivaldi as the default browser and importing data from Firefox.
Nick @ The Linux Experiment's avatar
Nick @ The Linux Experiment

@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social

Quick, less edited video to talk about the and issue with their recent terms of use, and lackluster explanations:

youtube.com/watch?v=Rc96ISKh2OM

Nick @ The Linux Experiment's avatar
Nick @ The Linux Experiment

@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social

Quick, less edited video to talk about the and issue with their recent terms of use, and lackluster explanations:

youtube.com/watch?v=Rc96ISKh2OM

Jimmy Sjölund's avatar
Jimmy Sjölund

@jimmysjolund@mastodon.social

With the latest debacle around and . How is this affecting ?

Saaste's avatar
Saaste

@saaste@mementomori.social

On jotenkin surullista katsoa tuota Mozillan rämpimistä. Vaikka ihan jokainen siihen liittyvä öyhötys ei olekaan ihan oikeassa mittasuhteessa, kaiken kaikkiaan vaikuttaa siltä, että Mozillaa ollaan hyvää vauhtia ajamassa alas. Ainakin sitä Mozillaa, jonka minä olen oppinut tuntemaan.

Mozilla on jossain määrin ollut jonkinlainen avoimen lähdekoodin symboli ja kapitistisen kulttuurin vastavoima. Tästä Mozillasta ei ole ihan kauheasti enää jäljellä. Yritys tuntuu loikkivan mainekriisistä toiseen ja jokainen muutos tuntuu vievän Mozillaa juuri siihen suuntaan, jonka vastustajana ihmiset ovat sitä pitäneet.

Kuluttajille tämä on surullista siksi, että mikäli Mozilla ja sen myös Firefox-selain katoaa maailman kartalta, meiltä katoavat vaihtoehdot. Tokihan Firefoxin markkinaosuus on nykyäänkin siellä 3 %:n tuntumassa, joten Googlella on käytännössä jo nyt selainmonopoli, mutta ainakin vaihtoehto on olemassa.

Applen käyttäjillä on Safari ja pinnan alla on muhimassa useampi uusi selainmoottori, mutta projektit ovat vielä niin alkutekijöissä, ettei niistä ole Chromen haastajiksi vielä pitkään aikaan.

Web-nörtin silmin tilanne on kovin haikea.

alster's avatar
alster

@alsternerd@social.alster.space

Umzug zu LibreWolf anstelle von Firefox.

Inklusive Profil mitnehmen und Standardbrowsereinstellungen, wenn nicht von selbst geschehen.

https://blog.alster.space/umzug-zu-librewolf.html

#FireFox #LibreWolf #WebBrowser #Internet #WWW #FireFoxSync #Debian #XFCE #XDG

alster's avatar
alster

@alsternerd@social.alster.space

Umzug zu LibreWolf anstelle von Firefox.

Inklusive Profil mitnehmen und Standardbrowsereinstellungen, wenn nicht von selbst geschehen.

https://blog.alster.space/umzug-zu-librewolf.html

#FireFox #LibreWolf #WebBrowser #Internet #WWW #FireFoxSync #Debian #XFCE #XDG

:rss: 窓の杜's avatar
:rss: 窓の杜

@forest_watch_impress@rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com

垂直タブ、AI統合の新しいサイドバーを搭載した「Firefox 136」が正式リリース/Linux向けARM64版も追加。セキュリティ関連の修正は15件
forest.watch.impress.co.jp/doc

Saaste's avatar
Saaste

@saaste@mementomori.social

On jotenkin surullista katsoa tuota Mozillan rämpimistä. Vaikka ihan jokainen siihen liittyvä öyhötys ei olekaan ihan oikeassa mittasuhteessa, kaiken kaikkiaan vaikuttaa siltä, että Mozillaa ollaan hyvää vauhtia ajamassa alas. Ainakin sitä Mozillaa, jonka minä olen oppinut tuntemaan.

Mozilla on jossain määrin ollut jonkinlainen avoimen lähdekoodin symboli ja kapitistisen kulttuurin vastavoima. Tästä Mozillasta ei ole ihan kauheasti enää jäljellä. Yritys tuntuu loikkivan mainekriisistä toiseen ja jokainen muutos tuntuu vievän Mozillaa juuri siihen suuntaan, jonka vastustajana ihmiset ovat sitä pitäneet.

Kuluttajille tämä on surullista siksi, että mikäli Mozilla ja sen myös Firefox-selain katoaa maailman kartalta, meiltä katoavat vaihtoehdot. Tokihan Firefoxin markkinaosuus on nykyäänkin siellä 3 %:n tuntumassa, joten Googlella on käytännössä jo nyt selainmonopoli, mutta ainakin vaihtoehto on olemassa.

Applen käyttäjillä on Safari ja pinnan alla on muhimassa useampi uusi selainmoottori, mutta projektit ovat vielä niin alkutekijöissä, ettei niistä ole Chromen haastajiksi vielä pitkään aikaan.

Web-nörtin silmin tilanne on kovin haikea.

:rss: 窓の杜's avatar
:rss: 窓の杜

@forest_watch_impress@rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com

垂直タブ、AI統合の新しいサイドバーを搭載した「Firefox 136」が正式リリース/Linux向けARM64版も追加。セキュリティ関連の修正は15件
forest.watch.impress.co.jp/doc

08956495

@08956495@infosec.exchange

Not sure if the columnist is really not into tech or if they got paid to hype this, but never seen a more out of touch news click bate-y toot since I joined Mastodon.

A screenshot from the Register (a tech news site) about firefox implementing features the fans wanted, proceeds to list some of the changes and adds information about recent backlash.
ALT text detailsA screenshot from the Register (a tech news site) about firefox implementing features the fans wanted, proceeds to list some of the changes and adds information about recent backlash.
gemma lynn's avatar
gemma lynn

@ello@void.ello.tech

oh for the love of pete

#firefox #mozilla

Android screenshot:

Data sharing updates for location

These apps have changed the way they may share your location data. They may not have shared it before, or may now share it for advertising or marketing purposes:

Firefox Beta
Your location data is now shared with third parties for advertising or marketing
ALT text detailsAndroid screenshot: Data sharing updates for location These apps have changed the way they may share your location data. They may not have shared it before, or may now share it for advertising or marketing purposes: Firefox Beta Your location data is now shared with third parties for advertising or marketing
R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵's avatar
R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵

@rl_dane@polymaths.social

We really need a #Firefox #fork with a serious name.

I think IronFox comes the closest, but isn't available on the desktop, AFAIK.

Nyx :neobot_cat_ears:'s avatar
Nyx :neobot_cat_ears:

@me@sharkey.everypizza.im

alternatives:
- Obama Browser
- WINE Internet Explorer
- Safari 5.1.7 for Windows

Nyx :neobot_cat_ears:'s avatar
Nyx :neobot_cat_ears:

@me@sharkey.everypizza.im

alternatives:
- Obama Browser
- WINE Internet Explorer
- Safari 5.1.7 for Windows

Spencer Magnusson's avatar
Spencer Magnusson

@smagnusson@graphics.social

Are there any web browsers that are NOT chromium that support PWAs?

I know Firefox said they're looking back into it a few weeks ago for desktop. But I figure that'll be a while. Currently I'm using a base chromium fork for my desktop, but wondering if there are other options.

Nyx :neobot_cat_ears:'s avatar
Nyx :neobot_cat_ears:

@me@sharkey.everypizza.im

alternatives:
- Obama Browser
- WINE Internet Explorer
- Safari 5.1.7 for Windows

Nyx :neobot_cat_ears:'s avatar
Nyx :neobot_cat_ears:

@me@sharkey.everypizza.im

alternatives:
- Obama Browser
- WINE Internet Explorer
- Safari 5.1.7 for Windows

Anna Wasilewska-Śpioch's avatar
Anna Wasilewska-Śpioch

@avolha@infosec.exchange

Firefox z niefortunnych pomysłów się wycofał, ale niesmak pozostał. Co byście polecili zamiast liska?

youtube.com/watch?v=qaRhtAF14pg

Eric McCorkle's avatar
Eric McCorkle

@emc2@indieweb.social

After two decades as a faithful user, I will be discontinuing use of and transitioning to @librewolf as an experimental alternative, possibly adopting it as my permanent solution depending on how it goes.

I'll evaluate alternatives after I complete the browser migration.

FediThing 🏳️‍🌈's avatar
FediThing 🏳️‍🌈

@FediThing@chinwag.org

Hey, LibreWolf has just set up its own Fediverse account, let's give them a warm welcome!

➡️ @librewolf

Solène :flan_hacker:'s avatar
Solène :flan_hacker:

@solene@bsd.network

On Linux, if you installed Firefox from Flatpak and you have choppy/stuttering video rendering, it's a Firefox packaging bug. I don't know how to explain, but it looks like my video player as drunk too much caffeine :flan_XD:

The solution is to install ffmpeg 23.08:

flatpak install runtime/org.freedesktop.Platform.ffmpeg-full/x86_64/23.08

package in is trying to use ffmpeg 24.08 although it's not compatible, which leads to weird video rendering.

See github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/is

Anupam 《ミ》λ≡'s avatar
Anupam 《ミ》λ≡

@aj@id1.in

I moved off #firefox and onto #waterfox. Some things I discovered that I really like -

1. All #telemetry is turned off, and the options are disabled, so there is no way to turn them on.

2. It comes with native side tabs support, so there is no need to install Sidebery or the like. When you open side tabs, the top tab row disappears automatically (which was not possible to do in Firefox). There are some nice options like an option to pin the current tab automatically.

3. Drag drop files works again! My firefox install had this annoying bug where I couldn't drag files from the desktop to a web page. This works flawlessly in waterfox.

4. Installation was a breeze with flatpak. I copied over my profile from firefox, and everything worked out of the box, including #DRM (e.g. netflix).

I also tried #librewolf and DRM did not work out of the box with it. I overall much prefer waterfox.

Anupam 《ミ》λ≡'s avatar
Anupam 《ミ》λ≡

@aj@id1.in

I moved off #firefox and onto #waterfox. Some things I discovered that I really like -

1. All #telemetry is turned off, and the options are disabled, so there is no way to turn them on.

2. It comes with native side tabs support, so there is no need to install Sidebery or the like. When you open side tabs, the top tab row disappears automatically (which was not possible to do in Firefox). There are some nice options like an option to pin the current tab automatically.

3. Drag drop files works again! My firefox install had this annoying bug where I couldn't drag files from the desktop to a web page. This works flawlessly in waterfox.

4. Installation was a breeze with flatpak. I copied over my profile from firefox, and everything worked out of the box, including #DRM (e.g. netflix).

I also tried #librewolf and DRM did not work out of the box with it. I overall much prefer waterfox.

Otto Rask's avatar
Otto Rask

@ojrask@piipitin.fi

Mozilla seemingly changes Firefox Terms of Use in order to get rid of wordings such as "we don't sell your data".

github.com/mozilla/bedrock/com

nixCraft 🐧's avatar
nixCraft 🐧

@nixCraft@mastodon.social

Mozilla CEO made around 7 million USD last year, but hosting bills are pending. Now, they updated the ToS, and you can't watch p0rn, or your data will be sold, or they no longer care about the orignal mission, etc. Once again, we see C-suits lose their grip on reality. As long as they are getting paid in millions, software projects can go to /dev/null. It is like they want to ruin the project on purpose. There is no other explanation I can think of. Can you?

Mo :ferris: :tux:'s avatar
Mo :ferris: :tux:

@mo8it@fosstodon.org

I just migrated to the . Finally some innovation over 🔥

zen-browser.app

Available on Flathub. Give it a try!

DRM works on Linux ▶️

Mo :ferris: :tux:'s avatar
Mo :ferris: :tux:

@mo8it@fosstodon.org

I just migrated to the . Finally some innovation over 🔥

zen-browser.app

Available on Flathub. Give it a try!

DRM works on Linux ▶️

Otto Rask's avatar
Otto Rask

@ojrask@piipitin.fi

Mozilla seemingly changes Firefox Terms of Use in order to get rid of wordings such as "we don't sell your data".

github.com/mozilla/bedrock/com

Lenz Grimmer's avatar
Lenz Grimmer

@lenzgr@mastodon.social

One thing I really like about is the cross-device Tab and Bookmark Sync (which requires a Firefox account). Are there any cross-browser alternatives that would make migrating to another browser variant less painful?

nixCraft 🐧's avatar
nixCraft 🐧

@nixCraft@mastodon.social

Mozilla CEO made around 7 million USD last year, but hosting bills are pending. Now, they updated the ToS, and you can't watch p0rn, or your data will be sold, or they no longer care about the orignal mission, etc. Once again, we see C-suits lose their grip on reality. As long as they are getting paid in millions, software projects can go to /dev/null. It is like they want to ruin the project on purpose. There is no other explanation I can think of. Can you?

jevans ⁂'s avatar
jevans ⁂

@jevans@climatejustice.social

Using and Home Manager to declaratively define my configuration means that I can sidestep all of this license and ToU mess and switch to by simply changing "programs.firefox" to "programs.librewolf" in my config and rebuilding my system.

All of my extensions get installed.
All of my settings are exactly how I want.
All of my userChrome css mods are immediately applied.
All done in one line change and a single command.

nixCraft 🐧's avatar
nixCraft 🐧

@nixCraft@mastodon.social

Mozilla CEO made around 7 million USD last year, but hosting bills are pending. Now, they updated the ToS, and you can't watch p0rn, or your data will be sold, or they no longer care about the orignal mission, etc. Once again, we see C-suits lose their grip on reality. As long as they are getting paid in millions, software projects can go to /dev/null. It is like they want to ruin the project on purpose. There is no other explanation I can think of. Can you?

GripNews's avatar
GripNews

@GripNews@mastodon.social

🌖 Mozilla 回應使用條款與隱私政策變更後的反應
➤ Mozilla 對使用條款變更的澄清與回應
theregister.com/2025/03/02/moz
Mozilla最近要求Firefox用戶遵守新的使用條款,並更新其隱私通知與常見問題解答,但隨後澄清並未聲稱擁有用戶數據。雖然最初的條款似乎暗示Mozilla擁有用戶上傳的信息權利,但經過社羣反響後,Mozilla更新了說明,重申不擁有用戶數據。此外,其隱私承諾的措辭也有所改變,不再明確表示不會將個人數據出售給廣告商。
+ "我對Mozilla的改變感到失望,這讓我質疑他們對用戶隱私的承諾。"
+ "或許是時候考慮其他瀏覽器了,特別是在隱私問題上。"

Matthias Endler's avatar
Matthias Endler

@mre@mastodon.social

After the Firefox ToS debacle, I'm considering switching to a fork.

Here are the ones I'm considering:

Floorp
Librefox
Waterfox
Zen

Any experiences?

Droppie [infosec] 🐨♀:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird:🦘:vegan:​'s avatar
Droppie [infosec] 🐨♀:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird:🦘:vegan:

@MsDropbear42@infosec.space

@tokyo_0 Why are peeps stating then requoting this utter bollocks? Bloody hell. 🙄🤦‍♀️

inescapable ad telemetry

Here's how to opt-out, directly in the FF Settings / Preferences UI [pic].

Here's how to force it [if you QAnonly distrust the UI] via either about:config or in a user.js file:

user_pref("browser.send_pings", false);
user_pref("beacon.enabled", false);
user_pref("datareporting.policy.dataSubmissionEnable", false);
user_pref("datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled", false);
user_pref("accessibility.force_disabled", 1);

Has nobody on the interwebz got any critical thinking skills left? 🤯

Nightly Data Collection and Use
We strive to provide you with choices and collect only the minimal data necessary to improve Firefox for everyone. View Privacy Notice
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This helps us improve Firefox features, performance, and stability. Learn more
Allow personalised extension recommendations
Get extension recommendations to improve your browsing experience. Learn more
Install and run studies
Try out features and ideas before they’re released to everyone. View Nightly studies
Send daily usage ping to Mozilla
This helps Mozilla to estimate active users. Learn more
Automatically send crash reports
This helps Mozilla diagnose and fix issues with the browser. Reports may include personal or sensitive data. Learn more
Web Site Advertising Preferences
Allow web sites to perform privacy-preserving ad measurement
This helps sites understand how their ads perform without collecting data about you. Learn more
ALT text detailsNightly Data Collection and Use We strive to provide you with choices and collect only the minimal data necessary to improve Firefox for everyone. View Privacy Notice Send technical and interaction data to Mozilla This helps us improve Firefox features, performance, and stability. Learn more Allow personalised extension recommendations Get extension recommendations to improve your browsing experience. Learn more Install and run studies Try out features and ideas before they’re released to everyone. View Nightly studies Send daily usage ping to Mozilla This helps Mozilla to estimate active users. Learn more Automatically send crash reports This helps Mozilla diagnose and fix issues with the browser. Reports may include personal or sensitive data. Learn more Web Site Advertising Preferences Allow web sites to perform privacy-preserving ad measurement This helps sites understand how their ads perform without collecting data about you. Learn more
David Revoy's avatar
David Revoy

@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org

How my Firefox became a LibreWolf

New blog-post: davidrevoy.com/article1065/how

A comic strip in four panels:

Pane 1. A small, exhausted Firefox is depicted with a loud sigh, blowing out the flames on its tail and extinguishing it.

Panel 2. A strong wind causes the ashes to cover the little fox.

Panel 3.  The little fox, now completely gray and ashen, looks on with regret and disappointment, mourning the loss of its former self.

Panel 4. In the evening, under the light of a full moon, the gray fox meets a wise and welcoming wolf, who greets it with the words "Welcome here, new libre wolf!" A wolf howls at the moon in the distance, a reference to the LibreWolf logo."
ALT text detailsA comic strip in four panels: Pane 1. A small, exhausted Firefox is depicted with a loud sigh, blowing out the flames on its tail and extinguishing it. Panel 2. A strong wind causes the ashes to cover the little fox. Panel 3. The little fox, now completely gray and ashen, looks on with regret and disappointment, mourning the loss of its former self. Panel 4. In the evening, under the light of a full moon, the gray fox meets a wise and welcoming wolf, who greets it with the words "Welcome here, new libre wolf!" A wolf howls at the moon in the distance, a reference to the LibreWolf logo."
David Revoy's avatar
David Revoy

@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org

How my Firefox became a LibreWolf

New blog-post: davidrevoy.com/article1065/how

A comic strip in four panels:

Pane 1. A small, exhausted Firefox is depicted with a loud sigh, blowing out the flames on its tail and extinguishing it.

Panel 2. A strong wind causes the ashes to cover the little fox.

Panel 3.  The little fox, now completely gray and ashen, looks on with regret and disappointment, mourning the loss of its former self.

Panel 4. In the evening, under the light of a full moon, the gray fox meets a wise and welcoming wolf, who greets it with the words "Welcome here, new libre wolf!" A wolf howls at the moon in the distance, a reference to the LibreWolf logo."
ALT text detailsA comic strip in four panels: Pane 1. A small, exhausted Firefox is depicted with a loud sigh, blowing out the flames on its tail and extinguishing it. Panel 2. A strong wind causes the ashes to cover the little fox. Panel 3. The little fox, now completely gray and ashen, looks on with regret and disappointment, mourning the loss of its former self. Panel 4. In the evening, under the light of a full moon, the gray fox meets a wise and welcoming wolf, who greets it with the words "Welcome here, new libre wolf!" A wolf howls at the moon in the distance, a reference to the LibreWolf logo."
jevans ⁂'s avatar
jevans ⁂

@jevans@climatejustice.social

Using and Home Manager to declaratively define my configuration means that I can sidestep all of this license and ToU mess and switch to by simply changing "programs.firefox" to "programs.librewolf" in my config and rebuilding my system.

All of my extensions get installed.
All of my settings are exactly how I want.
All of my userChrome css mods are immediately applied.
All done in one line change and a single command.

Mensch, Marina's avatar
Mensch, Marina

@energisch_@troet.cafe

Liebe Tröties, wir werden wohl hinauswerfen. Was für könnt ihr denn empfehlen? ?

David Revoy's avatar
David Revoy

@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org

How my Firefox became a LibreWolf

New blog-post: davidrevoy.com/article1065/how

A comic strip in four panels:

Pane 1. A small, exhausted Firefox is depicted with a loud sigh, blowing out the flames on its tail and extinguishing it.

Panel 2. A strong wind causes the ashes to cover the little fox.

Panel 3.  The little fox, now completely gray and ashen, looks on with regret and disappointment, mourning the loss of its former self.

Panel 4. In the evening, under the light of a full moon, the gray fox meets a wise and welcoming wolf, who greets it with the words "Welcome here, new libre wolf!" A wolf howls at the moon in the distance, a reference to the LibreWolf logo."
ALT text detailsA comic strip in four panels: Pane 1. A small, exhausted Firefox is depicted with a loud sigh, blowing out the flames on its tail and extinguishing it. Panel 2. A strong wind causes the ashes to cover the little fox. Panel 3. The little fox, now completely gray and ashen, looks on with regret and disappointment, mourning the loss of its former self. Panel 4. In the evening, under the light of a full moon, the gray fox meets a wise and welcoming wolf, who greets it with the words "Welcome here, new libre wolf!" A wolf howls at the moon in the distance, a reference to the LibreWolf logo."
Samuel Chase's avatar
Samuel Chase

@samebchase@fantastic.earth

Is there any clone or other open source browser that works well on mobile (Android)?

I've replaced Firefox with on my computers. Now looking for an alternative on mobile.

Any users here? Anything problematic with it?

Samuel Chase's avatar
Samuel Chase

@samebchase@fantastic.earth

Is there any clone or other open source browser that works well on mobile (Android)?

I've replaced Firefox with on my computers. Now looking for an alternative on mobile.

Any users here? Anything problematic with it?

Karl Emil Nikka's avatar
Karl Emil Nikka

@karlemilnikka@social.nikkasystems.com

Mozilla has posted an update, removing the reference to the Acceptable Use Policy (Mozilla won’t dictate which websites you visit) but doubling down on sharing anonymized data. blog.mozilla.org/en/products/f

I guess this is the end of Firefox.

Karl Emil Nikka's avatar
Karl Emil Nikka

@karlemilnikka@social.nikkasystems.com

Mozilla has posted an update, removing the reference to the Acceptable Use Policy (Mozilla won’t dictate which websites you visit) but doubling down on sharing anonymized data. blog.mozilla.org/en/products/f

I guess this is the end of Firefox.

massiw 🇱🇧🇵🇸's avatar
massiw 🇱🇧🇵🇸

@Winston_Churchill@framapiaf.org

silicon.fr/Thematique/open-sou

« la gouvernance a été renouvelée dans plusieurs organisations. Nicole Wong, ancienne de Google et de Twitter, est désormais à la tête de la fondation. La présidence de Mozilla Corporation revient à Kerry Cooper, passé notamment par Walmart. Quant au nouveau patron de Mozilla.ai, il s'agit de Raffi Krikorian (ex-Twitter et Uber).

Dunc's avatar
Dunc

@dunc@epn.life

Just installed Mullvad Browser on my linux laptop. Heard good things about it and given recent Mozilla ToS changes and increasing general use of "fingerprinting", I have read that this browser is one of the most privacy conscious ones around.

Anybody got any other suggestions I should try (already using Waterfox/LibreWolf)

#browser #browsers #firefox #fingerprinting #privacy #privacymatters #mullvad

massiw 🇱🇧🇵🇸's avatar
massiw 🇱🇧🇵🇸

@Winston_Churchill@framapiaf.org

silicon.fr/Thematique/open-sou

« la gouvernance a été renouvelée dans plusieurs organisations. Nicole Wong, ancienne de Google et de Twitter, est désormais à la tête de la fondation. La présidence de Mozilla Corporation revient à Kerry Cooper, passé notamment par Walmart. Quant au nouveau patron de Mozilla.ai, il s'agit de Raffi Krikorian (ex-Twitter et Uber).

Jonathan Hartley's avatar
Jonathan Hartley

@tartley@fosstodon.org

A delighted user for what, 15 years? Maybe more? I've LOVED it every step of the way. Right up until the recent plain as day bad faith signalling from management. Slightly heartbroken to have to nope out, but I've made the jump. Just to a fork, for now. is up and running, we'll see how that fares.

Took 5 minutes, what with installing extensions, a theme, and exporting/importing bookmarks & passwords. Did it over on four different machines. A chapter closed.

DO IT!

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☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻

@peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange · Reply to ☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻's post

Since 2022 the companies that profit from the have been shedding technical staff in the belief of the power of to replace their . What are they replacing or redirecting this capacity with?

“Mozilla is eliminating its advocacy division, which fought for a free and open web: The laid off 30 percent of its workforce and completely eliminated its advocacy and global programs divisions, reports.

While Mozilla is best known for its Firefox web browser, the Mozilla Foundation — the parent of the — describes itself as standing up “for the health of the internet.” With its advocacy and global programs divisions gone, its impact may be lessened going forward.

“Fighting for a free and open internet will always be core to our mission, and advocacy continues to be a critical tool in that work. We’re revisiting how we pursue that work, not stopping it,” , the Mozilla Foundation’s communications chief, said in an email to The Verge. Borrman declined to confirm exactly how many people were laid off, but said it was about “30% of the current team.”

This is Mozilla’s second round of layoffs this year. In February, the Mozilla Corporation laid off around 60 workers said it would be making a “strategic correction” that would involve involve cutting back its work on a Mastodon instance. Mozilla shut down its virtual 3D platform and refocused its efforts on and . The Mozilla Foundation had around 120 employees before this more recent round of layoffs, according to TechCrunch.

“Navigating this topsy-turvy, distracting time requires laser focus — and sometimes saying goodbye to the excellent work that has gotten us this far because it won’t get us to the next peak,” wrote Syed, who previously worked as the chief executive of The Markup, an investigative news site. “Lofty goals demand hard choices.”

/ <theverge.com/2024/11/5/2428912>

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@peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange · Reply to ☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻's post

“The organization () that supports the web browser said today it is winding down its new partnership with Onerep, an identity protection service recently bundled with Firefox that offers to remove users from hundreds of people-search sites. The move comes just days after a report by forced ’s to admit that he has founded dozens of people-search networks over the years.” 1)

Where are the “Conflict of Interest Policy Documents” outlined in <assets.mofoprod.net/network/do>?

Reference
[1] <krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/mo>

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@peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange · Reply to ☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻's post

“On Wednesday we shared that we’re introducing a new Terms of Use (TOU) and for . Since then, we’ve been listening to some of our community’s concerns with parts of the , specifically about licensing. Our intent was just to be as clear as possible about how we make Firefox work, but in doing so we also created some confusion and concern. With that in mind, we’re updating the language to more clearly reflect the limited scope of how Mozilla interacts with .

Here’s what the new language will say:” — Ajit “CockWomble” Varma

“MY REALITY IS JUST DIFFERENT THAN YOURS,”

<blog.mozilla.org/en/products/f>

A screen cap of the Mozilla board. 

source https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/who-we-are/leadership/
ALT text detailsA screen cap of the Mozilla board. source https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/who-we-are/leadership/
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Hacker News 50

@hn50@social.lansky.name

An Update on Mozilla's Terms of Use for Firefox

Link: blog.mozilla.org/en/products/f
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

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Hacker News 50

@hn50@social.lansky.name

An Update on Mozilla's Terms of Use for Firefox

Link: blog.mozilla.org/en/products/f
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

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@matiu_bidule@mamot.fr · Reply to matiu bidule's post

[suite du pouet d'hier ⤴️ ]
il semble que les gens de chez @mozillaofficial veulent notre avis à propose de leurs étranges et peu rassurants "Terms of Use"
Alors si vous avez 5 minutes allez donc leur sonner les cloches ici

connect.mozilla.org/t5/discuss








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FirefoxDevTools

@FirefoxDevTools@mastodon.social

Cypress 14.1.0 now defaults to WebDriver BiDi for Firefox 135+. A major step in modernizing browser automation!

fxdx.dev/webdriver-bidi-become

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@koalie@mastodon.social

isn’t addressing the number one question: why did they remove this section from their terms of services?

> * Does Firefox sell your personal data?

> Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise.

github.com/mozilla/bedrock/com

Screenshot showing the question and answer via the GitHub commit, the left side is red to indicate removal
ALT text detailsScreenshot showing the question and answer via the GitHub commit, the left side is red to indicate removal
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@koalie@mastodon.social

isn’t addressing the number one question: why did they remove this section from their terms of services?

> * Does Firefox sell your personal data?

> Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise.

github.com/mozilla/bedrock/com

Screenshot showing the question and answer via the GitHub commit, the left side is red to indicate removal
ALT text detailsScreenshot showing the question and answer via the GitHub commit, the left side is red to indicate removal
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Unity ⁂

@unity@base.nospy.net

Wer aufgrund des eine Alternative zum sucht, der findet hier vielleicht ein paar Informationen: kuketz-blog.de/sichere-und-dat…
Persönlich sehe ich jetzt noch keinen Grund für "blinden Aktionismus" und werde erst einmal eine gewisse Zeit die Lage beobachten und dann eine Entscheidung treffen.
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R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵

@rl_dane@polymaths.social · Reply to solusspider's post

@solusspider

Oh, I wouldn't say it's "about nothing" at this point, but neither is it quite the sky-is-falling that some are reporting it as. What it is (IMO) is the latest in a line of feckless management decisions where soulless wall street types run a nonprofit with a noble mission and history straight into the ground.

@niccolove has a very good video commentary about the situation on #PeerTube.

#Mozilla #Firefox

Edit: s/last/latest/ and another edit, for clarity

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@solusspider@polymaths.social · Reply to R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵's post

@rl_dane Isn't this a Shakespeare play? Much ado about nothing?
I personally see no reason to jump ship from my main browser of Firefox.
#Mozilla #Firefox

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R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵

@rl_dane@polymaths.social

I can't blame a single person for switching to a #Firefox fork today (or last month!). I may do so myself.

But just remember that those forks exist because of the hard work of engineers at #Mozilla (in spite of the continual idiocy of the management).

If Mozilla folds tomorrow, what happens to the forks?

Maybe someone with deep pockets like the Linux Foundation will step up and continue maintaining Firefox and keeping it up-to-date with current web "standards" (sarcastic laugh)?

It's not a good day for the free and open web. :(

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@mauro@mograph.social · Reply to Mauro (mograph.social Admin)'s post

Main competitors:

- Chrome: Nope!

- Edge: are you kidding me?! Also still fucking chromium!

- Brave: still chromium, crypto shit embedded, bigoted asshole of a CEO.

- : still chromium! Proprietary UI, bloated, too many options and still not enough. The opposite of the unix philosophy if possible...

- forks (Waterfox, Librewolf, Zen): on top of I have to trust some random devs that maintain the forks and play catch-up with Firefox updates.

It's a dire landscape.

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Mauro (mograph.social Admin)

@mauro@mograph.social

And here we go again...

Every few months some bullshit flies over at and I find myself shopping around for a replacement.

Simply there is not one for me.

I've been using Firefox since v1.0 and it is so customised to my liking and workflow that I just can't replace it. And it's still the only real alternative to Chromium. And completely open source.

Let's see how this evolve, but I'm afraid Firefox will keep being the lesser evil for a long time.

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Risotto Bias

@risottobias@tech.lgbt

I think has one of two errors:

1. they assume everything they do is good and will be praised
2. they assume anyone who criticizes them is invalid, doesn't know what they're talking about, or is a troll

they need to get better at PR, show humility, and listen.

A user doesn't have to be technical to have a valid complaint. They don't need to know how to build a rendering engine.

People don't use firefox because it's like the rest of the industry (otherwise they'd use chrome). They use because it /isn't/ chrome.

And clearly mozilla leadership have decided they want to chase a competitor instead of being unique and ethical.

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Philipp :emacs: :nixos:

@pmidden@fosstodon.org

alternative on mobile (that's not Brave or chromium based)?

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matiu bidule

@matiu_bidule@mamot.fr · Reply to matiu bidule's post

[suite du pouet d'hier ⤴️ ]
il semble que les gens de chez @mozillaofficial veulent notre avis à propose de leurs étranges et peu rassurants "Terms of Use"
Alors si vous avez 5 minutes allez donc leur sonner les cloches ici

connect.mozilla.org/t5/discuss








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Serge from Babka

@serge@babka.social

My Thoughts on the Firefox situation

* I've used Firefox since it was Mosaic, and when it was called Netscape Navigator.

* I agree that the removal of the promise not to sell your data is bad, and the new EULA is bad.

* I worry about the long term product development of Firefox

* I question the role of the fork in development, meaning I don't know how much they can do on their own without Firefox proper.

* Firefox sync is an important feature to me. I'm open to self-hosting but not losing it.

* I'm open to new browsers for the future, but this is a huge effort.

* Brave is *NOT* the solution. No way, no how.

* We need an alternative to Webkit based browsers.

* Firefox will have lessons for us about FLOSS sustainability. We don't know what those lessons are yet.

08956495

@08956495@infosec.exchange

Ok with all the talk about and their latest updates to their ToS, I want to remind everyone that is not convenient and if it's convenient is not private. Yes it sucks too much not to have the same browser in pc versus phone, however it that is what it takes, so be it. Also, as many people have rightfully expressed, us removing full support without voicing concerns with @mozillaofficial @firefox is shooting ourselves int he foot and removing the chances of forks like to keep working towards improvements.

If you still want to jump ship, the only thing left for me is to recommend @privacytests and their great job towards a better internet via education and tests. So go check them out! privacytests.org/

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Travis Newton :node:

@travis@nodespace.social

I've read through the new Mozilla TOS... WTAF... Can we please talk about this actual line:

"You give Mozilla all rights necessary to operate Firefox, including processing data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice, as well as acting on your behalf to help you navigate the internet."

Excuse me? I've been surfing the web since the late 1990s and I didn't need anyone, especially whoever made the browser, to hold my hand. I never needed my browser creator to "operate" the browser on my behalf nor "help me navigate the internet".

Why is no one talking about this line? It's just as concerning as the one that follows it. But apparently Mozilla thinks we're all too f-ing stupid to use a web browser.

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Boiling Steam

@boilingsteam@mastodon.cloud

Do you trust Firefox (Mozilla) to respect and keep their users' interest at heart in the long run?

OptionVoters
Always have, always will16 (6%)
I have my doubts right now160 (57%)
Nah, they lost my trust for good94 (34%)
I don't use or care about Firefox10 (4%)
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Pixelcode 🇺🇦

@pixelcode@social.tchncs.de

Please do criticise – we need an independent, privacy-preserving, feature-rich web browser, not another tracking-infested piece of garbage software.

However, the frequently expressed opinion that “Firefox should be abandoned because Mozilla is the worst bullshit company” is not helpful. Without , all your favourite forks (Tor, LibreWolf, Zen…) would struggle to survive and the Google-Apple complex would fully control the browser market.

cf. @davidgerard
circumstances.run/@davidgerard

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Jiří Eischmann

@sesivany@vivaldi.net

I used to be a big fan of the . And what I see happening now with is very similar to what happened with Opera.

Opera Software ASA acquired AdMarvel, a mobile advertising company, in 2010. Advertising became the primary business, and the browser was sidelined, dropped its own engine, and was eventually sold to Chinese investors, who completed the enshittification. The spirit around the original Opera was reborn with , but the engine was lost.

acquired Anonym, an advertising company, in 2024 and started making really worrying decisions about Firefox...

I just hope it doesn't go the same way, for the sake of the Web.

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Ponygol

@ponygol@chaos.social

This just keeps getting worse. Screenshots show that they removed the parts where it says that they don't sell your personal data.

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Tevin

@tevin@mastodon.tevinzhang.com

Mozilla removed the promise to "never sell your personal data” from its FAQ.

Time to switch

github.com/mozilla/bedrock/com

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Jiří Eischmann

@sesivany@vivaldi.net

I used to be a big fan of the . And what I see happening now with is very similar to what happened with Opera.

Opera Software ASA acquired AdMarvel, a mobile advertising company, in 2010. Advertising became the primary business, and the browser was sidelined, dropped its own engine, and was eventually sold to Chinese investors, who completed the enshittification. The spirit around the original Opera was reborn with , but the engine was lost.

acquired Anonym, an advertising company, in 2024 and started making really worrying decisions about Firefox...

I just hope it doesn't go the same way, for the sake of the Web.

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Jeremiah Lee

@Jeremiah@alpaca.gold · Reply to Jeremiah Lee's post

Ok, this fork of Firefox actually is pretty great:

@zenbrowser is Firefox under the hood, but with a UX more like Arc. It’s already had over 2 million downloads. I am trying it out for a week as my primary browser and will report back.

zen-browser.app/

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Jérémie Zimmermann🎶💗🧀🧉

@jz@mamot.fr

Firefox Terms of Use
Effective February 25, 2025

mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/

"When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox."

so, let it be clear:

I DO NOT CONSENT to Mozilla Corp. accessing or using ANYTHING i type in my browser, whether to serve ads, train LLMs or ANYTHING.

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matiu bidule

@matiu_bidule@mamot.fr · Reply to matiu bidule's post

Si vous vous demandez ce que @mozillaofficial prépare dans votre dos en ajoutant des Term Of Service à Firefox qui lui octroient des droits délirants sur vos données, voici un petit indice :
L'intitulé d'un talk qui va être donné par Mozilla à RightCons :

Will generative AI turn into the next big ad platform?
🤢 🤮









Capture d'écran de l'agenda RightCons 2025 avec ce titre du talk de Mozilla Fondation : 
 Will generative AI turn into the next big ad platform?
ALT text detailsCapture d'écran de l'agenda RightCons 2025 avec ce titre du talk de Mozilla Fondation : Will generative AI turn into the next big ad platform?
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Pixelcode 🇺🇦

@pixelcode@social.tchncs.de

Please do criticise – we need an independent, privacy-preserving, feature-rich web browser, not another tracking-infested piece of garbage software.

However, the frequently expressed opinion that “Firefox should be abandoned because Mozilla is the worst bullshit company” is not helpful. Without , all your favourite forks (Tor, LibreWolf, Zen…) would struggle to survive and the Google-Apple complex would fully control the browser market.

cf. @davidgerard
circumstances.run/@davidgerard

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Jeff Fortin T.

@nekohayo@mastodon.social

For those worried about what's going on with 's new T&C for and seeking alternatives to Blink-based browsers (aka Chrome-in-a-trenchcoat), consider helping @WebKitGTK (a port of @webkit), used by apps throughout the FreeDesktop.

/WebKitGTK/WPE is effectively the only other mature/production-ready web engine you can use *today*, not many know that (see also github.com/Fyrd/caniuse/issues).

I hedge my bets by simultaneously helping QA Firefox and Epiphany (WebKitGTK) for parity.

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skrlet13

@skrlet13@chilemasto.casa

Ya me perdí en qué pasó con y me da miedo preguntar (inserte meme)

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Linux Is Best

@Linux_Is_Best@misskey.de

Mozilla Firefox has REMOVED the part that says, "we will never sell your personal information".




RE:
https://mstdn.social/users/BrodieOnLinux/statuses/114078303190853233

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Kwlio

@roguewolf@mastodon.online

I'm not informed enough to comment on the recent ToS change but if you're looking for an alternative, privacy-first , I can highly recommend Orion, by the awesome people behind @kagihq

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Kwlio

@roguewolf@mastodon.online

I'm not informed enough to comment on the recent ToS change but if you're looking for an alternative, privacy-first , I can highly recommend Orion, by the awesome people behind @kagihq

Jeff Fortin T.'s avatar
Jeff Fortin T.

@nekohayo@mastodon.social

For those worried about what's going on with 's new T&C for and seeking alternatives to Blink-based browsers (aka Chrome-in-a-trenchcoat), consider helping @WebKitGTK (a port of @webkit), used by apps throughout the FreeDesktop.

/WebKitGTK/WPE is effectively the only other mature/production-ready web engine you can use *today*, not many know that (see also github.com/Fyrd/caniuse/issues).

I hedge my bets by simultaneously helping QA Firefox and Epiphany (WebKitGTK) for parity.

Jeff Fortin T.'s avatar
Jeff Fortin T.

@nekohayo@mastodon.social

For those worried about what's going on with 's new T&C for and seeking alternatives to Blink-based browsers (aka Chrome-in-a-trenchcoat), consider helping @WebKitGTK (a port of @webkit), used by apps throughout the FreeDesktop.

/WebKitGTK/WPE is effectively the only other mature/production-ready web engine you can use *today*, not many know that (see also github.com/Fyrd/caniuse/issues).

I hedge my bets by simultaneously helping QA Firefox and Epiphany (WebKitGTK) for parity.

bluGill

@bluGill@fedia.io · Reply to rumschlumpel's post

@rumschlumpel

@Jeremiah There are many forks of firefox, it isn't hard to do. However since Mozilla does most of the hard work on the core all the forks end up being skin deep changes. Mozilla controls all the hard code behind firefox and so the evil that Mozilla does is almost impossible to remove (forks will sometimes disable it, but it is still there waiting for someone to make a mistake).

What we need is all the people forking firefox to get together and fork Mozilla thus getting a core that believes in some principals that Mozilla used to give lip service to. This core needs a dedicated team who work on the hard parts.

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matiu bidule

@matiu_bidule@mamot.fr · Reply to matiu bidule's post

Comment Mozilla est en train de s'aliéner ses 3 derniers % d'utilisateurs pour les convaincre d'aller voir ailleurs.







via > mamot.fr/@kajer@infosec.exchan 🔗 infosec.exchange/@kajer/114072

@mozillaofficial right now

Bike Fall Meme:

1st Panel:  Mozilla
2nd Panel (stick being jammed in the wheel): AI, ADs, and ToS
3rd Panel: Why do the users hate us?!
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WimⓂ️

@wim_v12e@merveilles.town

So now steals any data you input or upload. And it's not stealing as you agree to it by using the software.

Does anyone know if Google Chrome, Edge or Safari do this as well?
I am not asking for alternatives to these four.

mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/

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Jérémie Zimmermann🎶💗🧀🧉

@jz@mamot.fr

Firefox Terms of Use
Effective February 25, 2025

mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/

"When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox."

so, let it be clear:

I DO NOT CONSENT to Mozilla Corp. accessing or using ANYTHING i type in my browser, whether to serve ads, train LLMs or ANYTHING.

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Jeremiah Lee

@Jeremiah@alpaca.gold · Reply to Jeremiah Lee's post

We need more browser competition.

Switching to a Chromium-based browser (Arc, Brave, Vivaldi, Edge, et al) does not increase browser competition. It just further strengthens Google’s ability to control the web as a platform.

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Jeremiah Lee

@Jeremiah@alpaca.gold

We don’t need a fork of Firefox.

We need a fork of Mozilla.

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Neil Brown

@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

Switching from Firefox to LibreWolf

So far, it has looked like this for me:

1) Install LibreWolf: librewolf.net/installation/deb

2) Find your Firefox profile: In Firefox, menu / Help / More Troubleshooting Information / Profile Directory.

3) Copy Firefox profile to LibreWolf dir: cp -r /home/neil/.mozilla/firefox/b92lfaht.default-release-1 /home/neil/.librewolf/)

4) Edit LibreWolf's profiles.ini to use the newly-copied profile

5) Restart LibreWolf

6) Start testing

deutrino's avatar
deutrino

@deutrino@mstdn.io

okay, initial test of copying profiles to : my session restored, but all my active logins to sites were forgotten.

marado's avatar
marado

@marado@ciberlandia.pt

@mozillaofficial decided to add "Terms of Use" to .

If you just asked "WTF?", welcome to the club.

Of course, this doesn't make sense, it couldn't be just like that... so I went on and read the terms. The trick is specifically on this bit:

"These Terms only apply to the Executable Code version of Firefox, not the Firefox source code."

So sure, Firefox is still the Free Software codebase you were used to, only now if you want to use not the code but Mozilla's distributed binaries, you'll do so while also agreeing to some Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

The trick is, of course, to not use their binaries. In practice, things are a bit trickier. Ubuntu, for instance, was more than happy to ditch their self-compiled Firefox packages and use Mozilla-provided snaps instead.

But trickier or not... well, Mozilla has just made an unhappy user base unhappier - and I hope they reap what they are sowing.

@sarahjamielewis mastodon.social/@sarahjamielew

Juno's avatar
Juno

@jutty@bsd.cafe

Everything points to Mozilla starting to sell personal data after these sketchy commits and today's vague terms of use announcement:

github.com/mozilla/bedrock/com

I am trying Librewolf as a drop-in replacement (literally just copied over my (several) Firefox profiles) and the only differences were:

1. The icon is now a wolf
2. KeePassXC required a symlink for native messaging

deutrino's avatar
deutrino

@deutrino@mstdn.io

does anybody know if it's possible to migrate an entire profile, saved session (with multiple windows & tabs) intact, to ?

I am a tab hoarder with 25 virtual desktops on my laptop. my browser sessions are basically an extension of my consciousness with a huge amount of state which persists across months and years. help.

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Jason Tubnor 🇦🇺

@Tubsta@soc.feditime.com

So what browsers do we have left that are not shit and have some sort of ongoing support and maintenance? LibreWolf, Ungoogled Chromium, Iridium Browser. I'm sure there are others but please no crypto bro AI bro aligned browsers. #firefox #chrome #browser #webbrowser #internet
Juno's avatar
Juno

@jutty@bsd.cafe

Everything points to Mozilla starting to sell personal data after these sketchy commits and today's vague terms of use announcement:

github.com/mozilla/bedrock/com

I am trying Librewolf as a drop-in replacement (literally just copied over my (several) Firefox profiles) and the only differences were:

1. The icon is now a wolf
2. KeePassXC required a symlink for native messaging

matiu bidule's avatar
matiu bidule

@matiu_bidule@mamot.fr

Putain j'en peux plus @mozillaofficial ajoute des term of use à Firefox pour "royalty-free, worldwide license" sur nos données.
Je n'ai jamais quitté Firefox depuis 2005, mais là c'est la trahison de trop
⤵️
infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/11

Et tout ça pour nous faire bouffer de force de l'ia de merde, probablement.
Le capitalisme salit tout ce qu'il touche. Même l'open source







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FirefoxDevTools

@FirefoxDevTools@mastodon.social

Cypress 14.1.0 now defaults to WebDriver BiDi for Firefox 135+. A major step in modernizing browser automation!

fxdx.dev/webdriver-bidi-become

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Vivian :butterfly_trans:

@Sparkle@tech.lgbt

Is there an addon for that when I click on a link it automatically gets opened in my instance?
similar solutions r also welcome

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UltrasonicMadness (he/him)

@UltrasonicMadness@mastodon.me.uk · Reply to Evan Prodromou 🎏's post

@evan I forgot I was using - discount one vote for

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nogajun🍉

@nogajun@mastodon.social

「Chromiumというのは極めて複雑化が進み、リポジトリ全体が巨大化していました。僕の場合、使用PCが高スペックでないせいか、Chromiumのソースコードをクローンするのに6時間、ビルドにはまる1日かかりました。ふりかえってみれば当たり前なことだったのかもしれませんが、「こりゃ、ただの学生が改造できるようなものではないな」と面食らったのを覚えています。」
わかる。一回はやってみたほうがいい。一回だけでいいけど

多機能ブラウザ「Floorp」に込めた願い。学生開発者が“Firefoxベース”を選んだ理由【フォーカス】 | レバテックラボ(レバテックLAB): levtech.jp/media/article/focus

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nogajun🍉

@nogajun@mastodon.social

「Chromiumというのは極めて複雑化が進み、リポジトリ全体が巨大化していました。僕の場合、使用PCが高スペックでないせいか、Chromiumのソースコードをクローンするのに6時間、ビルドにはまる1日かかりました。ふりかえってみれば当たり前なことだったのかもしれませんが、「こりゃ、ただの学生が改造できるようなものではないな」と面食らったのを覚えています。」
わかる。一回はやってみたほうがいい。一回だけでいいけど

多機能ブラウザ「Floorp」に込めた願い。学生開発者が“Firefoxベース”を選んだ理由【フォーカス】 | レバテックラボ(レバテックLAB): levtech.jp/media/article/focus

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@BjornW@mastodon.social

@BjornW@mastodon.social

Read this:

blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mo

👀 at this:

mozilla.org/en-US/about/leader

I'm baffled about the myriad of @mozillaofficial structures, amount of directors / C-level people & how to rhyme 'investing in privacy-respecting advertising; with 'draw a bigger circle of supporters over the long run.'

As a long time Mozilla supporter, I was already unhappy about the direction of the last years & this does certainly not bode well for the future. 😞 😩

A black & white photo of a train wreck. Illustrative of Mozilla's current situation & strategy. 

The photo is taken from Flickr Commons (https://flic.kr/p/2q9qQ7G) & was uploaded by the State Library of Queensland. You can find the original at the State Library of Queensland (http://hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/59637)

The metadata states:

Train accident at Alpha Creek, 1941

Creator: Unidentified.
Location: Alpha, Queensland.
Description: This incident occurred on 08 April 1941 at Alpha on the Central Railway, inland from Rockhampton. The bridge across Alpha Creek was under repair at the time and collapsed as the second division of the train went across. The crash killed the driver, George Condon, and the fireman, Ernie Yanke.
The locomotive was no. 147 of the C16 class and its weight was 80.5 tons. Before salvage work could be undertaken the creek flooded and the locomotive collapsed into the water, being later recovered and taken to Rockhampton where it was repaired and put back into operation.
ALT text detailsA black & white photo of a train wreck. Illustrative of Mozilla's current situation & strategy. The photo is taken from Flickr Commons (https://flic.kr/p/2q9qQ7G) & was uploaded by the State Library of Queensland. You can find the original at the State Library of Queensland (http://hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/59637) The metadata states: Train accident at Alpha Creek, 1941 Creator: Unidentified. Location: Alpha, Queensland. Description: This incident occurred on 08 April 1941 at Alpha on the Central Railway, inland from Rockhampton. The bridge across Alpha Creek was under repair at the time and collapsed as the second division of the train went across. The crash killed the driver, George Condon, and the fireman, Ernie Yanke. The locomotive was no. 147 of the C16 class and its weight was 80.5 tons. Before salvage work could be undertaken the creek flooded and the locomotive collapsed into the water, being later recovered and taken to Rockhampton where it was repaired and put back into operation.
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@BjornW@mastodon.social

@BjornW@mastodon.social

Read this:

blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mo

👀 at this:

mozilla.org/en-US/about/leader

I'm baffled about the myriad of @mozillaofficial structures, amount of directors / C-level people & how to rhyme 'investing in privacy-respecting advertising; with 'draw a bigger circle of supporters over the long run.'

As a long time Mozilla supporter, I was already unhappy about the direction of the last years & this does certainly not bode well for the future. 😞 😩

A black & white photo of a train wreck. Illustrative of Mozilla's current situation & strategy. 

The photo is taken from Flickr Commons (https://flic.kr/p/2q9qQ7G) & was uploaded by the State Library of Queensland. You can find the original at the State Library of Queensland (http://hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/59637)

The metadata states:

Train accident at Alpha Creek, 1941

Creator: Unidentified.
Location: Alpha, Queensland.
Description: This incident occurred on 08 April 1941 at Alpha on the Central Railway, inland from Rockhampton. The bridge across Alpha Creek was under repair at the time and collapsed as the second division of the train went across. The crash killed the driver, George Condon, and the fireman, Ernie Yanke.
The locomotive was no. 147 of the C16 class and its weight was 80.5 tons. Before salvage work could be undertaken the creek flooded and the locomotive collapsed into the water, being later recovered and taken to Rockhampton where it was repaired and put back into operation.
ALT text detailsA black & white photo of a train wreck. Illustrative of Mozilla's current situation & strategy. The photo is taken from Flickr Commons (https://flic.kr/p/2q9qQ7G) & was uploaded by the State Library of Queensland. You can find the original at the State Library of Queensland (http://hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/59637) The metadata states: Train accident at Alpha Creek, 1941 Creator: Unidentified. Location: Alpha, Queensland. Description: This incident occurred on 08 April 1941 at Alpha on the Central Railway, inland from Rockhampton. The bridge across Alpha Creek was under repair at the time and collapsed as the second division of the train went across. The crash killed the driver, George Condon, and the fireman, Ernie Yanke. The locomotive was no. 147 of the C16 class and its weight was 80.5 tons. Before salvage work could be undertaken the creek flooded and the locomotive collapsed into the water, being later recovered and taken to Rockhampton where it was repaired and put back into operation.
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@BjornW@mastodon.social

@BjornW@mastodon.social

Read this:

blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mo

👀 at this:

mozilla.org/en-US/about/leader

I'm baffled about the myriad of @mozillaofficial structures, amount of directors / C-level people & how to rhyme 'investing in privacy-respecting advertising; with 'draw a bigger circle of supporters over the long run.'

As a long time Mozilla supporter, I was already unhappy about the direction of the last years & this does certainly not bode well for the future. 😞 😩

A black & white photo of a train wreck. Illustrative of Mozilla's current situation & strategy. 

The photo is taken from Flickr Commons (https://flic.kr/p/2q9qQ7G) & was uploaded by the State Library of Queensland. You can find the original at the State Library of Queensland (http://hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/59637)

The metadata states:

Train accident at Alpha Creek, 1941

Creator: Unidentified.
Location: Alpha, Queensland.
Description: This incident occurred on 08 April 1941 at Alpha on the Central Railway, inland from Rockhampton. The bridge across Alpha Creek was under repair at the time and collapsed as the second division of the train went across. The crash killed the driver, George Condon, and the fireman, Ernie Yanke.
The locomotive was no. 147 of the C16 class and its weight was 80.5 tons. Before salvage work could be undertaken the creek flooded and the locomotive collapsed into the water, being later recovered and taken to Rockhampton where it was repaired and put back into operation.
ALT text detailsA black & white photo of a train wreck. Illustrative of Mozilla's current situation & strategy. The photo is taken from Flickr Commons (https://flic.kr/p/2q9qQ7G) & was uploaded by the State Library of Queensland. You can find the original at the State Library of Queensland (http://hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/59637) The metadata states: Train accident at Alpha Creek, 1941 Creator: Unidentified. Location: Alpha, Queensland. Description: This incident occurred on 08 April 1941 at Alpha on the Central Railway, inland from Rockhampton. The bridge across Alpha Creek was under repair at the time and collapsed as the second division of the train went across. The crash killed the driver, George Condon, and the fireman, Ernie Yanke. The locomotive was no. 147 of the C16 class and its weight was 80.5 tons. Before salvage work could be undertaken the creek flooded and the locomotive collapsed into the water, being later recovered and taken to Rockhampton where it was repaired and put back into operation.
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The New Oil

@thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

Is Reviving

discuss.techlore.tech/t/firefo

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SpiderMonkey

@SpiderMonkey@mastodon.social

Temporal is now enabled by default in @firefoxnightly!

bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.

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SpiderMonkey

@SpiderMonkey@mastodon.social

Temporal is now enabled by default in @firefoxnightly!

bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.

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SpiderMonkey

@SpiderMonkey@mastodon.social

Temporal is now enabled by default in @firefoxnightly!

bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.

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mirrorless gamera

@ruben@friendship.quest

I spent some more time adjusting my user chrome.

- Input sans compressed squeeze some more characters out of the tabs
- 10x10 favicons are about the smallest where I still felt they were recognizable
- 42px total chrome size.

I'm not sure how much smaller I can go, the location bar didn't feel usable using the same font as the tabs. Maybe also reducing the icon size. I don't really every click on them.

definitely more usable in tighter tiling layouts

A screenshot of firefox using 10px × 10px icons, and 10px Input Sans Compressed, reducing the size of the tab bar and url bar combined to 42px
ALT text detailsA screenshot of firefox using 10px × 10px icons, and 10px Input Sans Compressed, reducing the size of the tab bar and url bar combined to 42px
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Tech News

@echo_xc@mastodon.social

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Tech News

@echo_xc@mastodon.social

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GENKI

@nibushibu@vivaldi.net

エンジンを捨てなければ、その先にこういう展開はあったかもしれないし、そんなにメジャーにならずとも、この よりもうまくやれたかもしれない…という妄想をした

ichioshi.smt.docomo.ne.jp/arti

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Mike Kuketz 🛡

@kuketzblog@social.tchncs.de

- Tipp14:
Verabschiede dich von Google Chrome und wechsle zu einem Browser, der mehr Wert auf deine Privatsphäre legt, wie Firefox oder Brave. Beide blockieren/erschweren Tracking und bieten zusätzliche Funktionen, die verhindern, dass deine Surfgewohnheiten gesammelt und ausgewertet werden.

Eine Matrix, die Browser wie Firefox, Brave etc. in unterschiedlichen Kategorien vergleicht.
ALT text detailsEine Matrix, die Browser wie Firefox, Brave etc. in unterschiedlichen Kategorien vergleicht.
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Mike Kuketz 🛡

@kuketzblog@social.tchncs.de

- Tipp14:
Verabschiede dich von Google Chrome und wechsle zu einem Browser, der mehr Wert auf deine Privatsphäre legt, wie Firefox oder Brave. Beide blockieren/erschweren Tracking und bieten zusätzliche Funktionen, die verhindern, dass deine Surfgewohnheiten gesammelt und ausgewertet werden.

Eine Matrix, die Browser wie Firefox, Brave etc. in unterschiedlichen Kategorien vergleicht.
ALT text detailsEine Matrix, die Browser wie Firefox, Brave etc. in unterschiedlichen Kategorien vergleicht.
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txt.file

@txt_file@chaos.social

dear
I want a faster web browser and not easier access to climate changing !

who at thought that firefox should get a keyboard shortcut to access AI?

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txt.file

@txt_file@chaos.social

dear
I want a faster web browser and not easier access to climate changing !

who at thought that firefox should get a keyboard shortcut to access AI?

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Linux Is Best

@Linux_Is_Best@misskey.de

"Why not Mozilla Firefox?"
Because I value my privacy.

Mozilla, if you did not know, has gone dark-side. If you were to use a managed DNS, you would notice Firefox now calls out more than Microsoft Edge does. It is bundled with spyware, adware, and AI. That is because Mozilla is now an ad company.

The browser wars are over, and Firefox, lost. Mozilla kept making mistake after mistake, until they even sold out. There is no principle in struggling with web and service compatibility to a dying browser, that does not even respect the reason why people used it.

Vivaldi browser calls out only to check for updates, report crashes, and media codecs (Widevine). I think it calls out 2x in a day, as opposed to Mozilla that calls out 4x every hour or so.

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𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬

@dirk@gts.0x7be.net

I wonder if it is an issue with @elk or with @gotosocial that I cannot turn on push notification. Latest #GtS RC announced push notifications support and according to the documentation, #Elk also supports it.

Tried in latest #Firefox on #Linux and #Android and at work in #Chrome on #Windows.

Anyone any ideas?

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Jake in the desert

@jake4480@c.im

EXCELLENT writeup by @cynical13 about Firefox vs. Vivaldi browsers. I agree with everything he says here. This is a great analysis on what are really two of the better browsers out there right now, and an in-depth look at the pros and cons of each.

cynical13.vivaldi.net/2025/02/

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Jake in the desert

@jake4480@c.im

EXCELLENT writeup by @cynical13 about Firefox vs. Vivaldi browsers. I agree with everything he says here. This is a great analysis on what are really two of the better browsers out there right now, and an in-depth look at the pros and cons of each.

cynical13.vivaldi.net/2025/02/

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JR東日本運賃値上げのパブリックコメントは12/23まで

@hadsn@mstdn.nere9.help

にミュートで参加しているんですが、これのオーディオアイコンは正しい表示なんだろうか?

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mirrorless gamera

@ruben@friendship.quest

I spent some more time adjusting my user chrome.

- Input sans compressed squeeze some more characters out of the tabs
- 10x10 favicons are about the smallest where I still felt they were recognizable
- 42px total chrome size.

I'm not sure how much smaller I can go, the location bar didn't feel usable using the same font as the tabs. Maybe also reducing the icon size. I don't really every click on them.

definitely more usable in tighter tiling layouts

A screenshot of firefox using 10px × 10px icons, and 10px Input Sans Compressed, reducing the size of the tab bar and url bar combined to 42px
ALT text detailsA screenshot of firefox using 10px × 10px icons, and 10px Input Sans Compressed, reducing the size of the tab bar and url bar combined to 42px
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Jeff Forcier

@bitprophet@social.coop

Shuddering at the thought of not being able to customize CSS for arbitrary websites. Can you fucking imagine?

Having to see all those noisome sidebars, deal with some asshat's decision that body text should be way smaller than everything else, or that the article should occupy a 100px-wide sliver of the middle of the screen? 😱

EDIT: I should make this more of a learning experience for today's lucky 10,000, so: github.com/openstyles/stylus - available for , , , probably more!

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Niavy :bearn: :verified:

@niavy@masto.bike

Questions niveau...

Facile : Y a-t-il par ici des utilisateurs de Zen Browser ?
Moyen : Zen Browser sur Linux ?
Difficile : Zen Browser sur Linux sur un ordinateur à écran tactile ?

...Je n'arrive pas à configurer le défilement d'une page web au toucher. Sur Firefox j'y arrive après quelques recherches (commande terminal "automatisable" : env MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1 firefox) mais je n'arrive pas à transposer ça sur Zen Browser

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Niavy :bearn: :verified:

@niavy@masto.bike

Questions niveau...

Facile : Y a-t-il par ici des utilisateurs de Zen Browser ?
Moyen : Zen Browser sur Linux ?
Difficile : Zen Browser sur Linux sur un ordinateur à écran tactile ?

...Je n'arrive pas à configurer le défilement d'une page web au toucher. Sur Firefox j'y arrive après quelques recherches (commande terminal "automatisable" : env MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1 firefox) mais je n'arrive pas à transposer ça sur Zen Browser

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boredsquirrel

@Rhababerbarbar@tux.social · Reply to Mozilla's post

@mozillaofficial

Finally! This will allow better process , and make the and app finally an option?

bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.

bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.

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@kubikpixel@chaos.social · Reply to 𝕂𝚞𝚋𝚒𝚔ℙ𝚒𝚡𝚎𝚕™'s post

uBlockOrigin & uBlacklist Huge AI Blocklist

A huge blocklist of manually curated sites (1000+) that contain AI generated content, for the purposes of cleaning image search engines (Google Search, DuckDuckGo, and Bing) with @ublockorigin or uBlacklist. Also works on mobile (iOS, iPadOS, Android) via uBlacklist, as well as pihole/adguard.

github.com/laylavish/uBlockOri

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Jeremiah Lee

@Jeremiah@alpaca.gold · Reply to Jeremiah Lee's post

Oh happy day!

Firefox 134.0.2 fixed the annoying emoji keyboard shortcut issues that macOS Sonoma introduced into a bajillion apps.

bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.

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Tomáš

@prahou@merveilles.town

scientific operations: the bare minimum firefox configuration guide:

sciops.net/information/technol

(by @khm )

ema ventures into scientific operations inside about:config in firefox
ALT text detailsema ventures into scientific operations inside about:config in firefox
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Georgiana Brummell

@dandylover1@friendica.world

I tried to post this to the Friendica support forum, but it kept timing out when I entered my information. I am now attempting to subscribe to their e-mail list. However, I thought I would write this here so that those who know coding, etc. might be able to offer a solution, or at least, to pass this on to the developers.

I joined Friendica in October of 2024, when Facebook decided to shut down their Basic Mobile site (not app). I am totally blind, and their main page is a nightmare to use with a screen readre (NVDA in my case). I chose Friendica because of the huge character limit, the ability to edit and delete posts, local posting, extensive profiles with keywords, and the ability to connect with all sorts of accounts in the Fediverse. For the most part, I am enjoying my time here. However, I am noticing a lot of inaccessibility on the Friendica page. I am not a programmer, but I'm guessing this is at the core of the software and is not due to the instance I'm using (friendica.world). I am also guessing that the page is not written in HTML5 and does not follow WCAG guidelines, though I may be wrong about that. If not, I strongly urge the developers to review them and implement them if possible. If so, perhaps, some changes can still be made that would make this a more screen reader-friendly site. Note that I tried this with Firefox and Supermium (a direct fork of Chrome).

Mostly, I use TweeseCake to access the site, but there are some things I can't do with that client. All of the following refer to the site itself.

  1. There is a list of links at the top of the page that acts like a menu. This causes many problems while trying to perform basic tasks, particularly editing posts and handling notifications. I can't always activate said links/menu either.

1A. I can't stress how frustrating editing posts is. It sometimes takes over ten minutes. The "edit" option is a link/menu, and it can only be found via another menu. Once I finally find and activate it, I hear the sound indicating that I have entered focus Mode. Usually, this means that I am in an edit box and can type. However, in this case, I am taken back to the main page, as if I never entered the option to edit my post. Using e to try to find an edit box doesn't help, as it just sends me to the replies to different comments. So I am forced to find the post, and start all over again. The only way I can do this successfully is to try to tab through the links/menu at the top of the page (when it works), then through other posts, until, finally, I am placed in an edit box where I can type.

1B. When I go to the Notifications" link, I have to tab to "Mark all System Notifications as Seen". This isn't even a regular link, as I can't copy and paste the text from it. Once I tab to and out of that, I can then read my notifications. But here is what I have to do if I want to see follow requests.
1. Try to get the notifications link to work, then click on it.
2. Tab to marking notifications.
3. Perform a search for the word follow.
4. Click on the link of the notification that someone wants to follow me. I open this in a new window, to try to keep the original one available.
5. Make my choice as to whether to approve that notification, then close that window.
6. Return to the main window. Only now, I am not where I left off. Instead, I am placed back at the beginning of the page and the Notifications menu is not open.
7. Repeat steps 1 through 3.
Ideally, I should be able to go to a normal notifications link, perform steps 3 through 5, then return back to the link, and perform steps 3 through 5 again, as many times as necessary, without having to repeat 1 through 3.

  1. I can't just go to the site and enter an edit box to post. I must go through a menu to find the link to do so. Yet there is an edit box for searching for content, tags, etc.
  2. Some pinned posts don't always read properly. I can see my name, when I posted, that it's pinned, a public message, tags (if applicable), buttons for resharing, etc., and the number of comments. But I cannot simply read the post itself. ""Comments" is also a button, not a link. Even when I expand them, I still can't see my post, and finding the button again to close them takes a lot of time, as posts also have their own buttons. Note that unpinned posts are read properly.
  3. While the process of editing my profile is completely accessible, finding the edit option might be slightly confusing for new users, as it requires entering yet another link/menu, this time with the user name as the title..
  4. If I go to a profile of someone not on Friendica (usually Mastodon) and wish to reply to a post, after I enter my credentials, it takes me back to my profile, not to the relevant post. It only worked once.
  5. The Friendica app for Windows is basically the site itself. I don't understand this at all.

If you want to see a truly accessible site, try this link. I don't work for them, though I do have an account there.

dreamwidth.org

Please, if any changes can be made, I urge you to do so. The site is otherwise a pleasure to use, but my frustration at not being able to easily perform such basic tasks is increasing.

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Georgiana Brummell

@dandylover1@friendica.world

I tried to post this to the Friendica support forum, but it kept timing out when I entered my information. I am now attempting to subscribe to their e-mail list. However, I thought I would write this here so that those who know coding, etc. might be able to offer a solution, or at least, to pass this on to the developers.

I joined Friendica in October of 2024, when Facebook decided to shut down their Basic Mobile site (not app). I am totally blind, and their main page is a nightmare to use with a screen readre (NVDA in my case). I chose Friendica because of the huge character limit, the ability to edit and delete posts, local posting, extensive profiles with keywords, and the ability to connect with all sorts of accounts in the Fediverse. For the most part, I am enjoying my time here. However, I am noticing a lot of inaccessibility on the Friendica page. I am not a programmer, but I'm guessing this is at the core of the software and is not due to the instance I'm using (friendica.world). I am also guessing that the page is not written in HTML5 and does not follow WCAG guidelines, though I may be wrong about that. If not, I strongly urge the developers to review them and implement them if possible. If so, perhaps, some changes can still be made that would make this a more screen reader-friendly site. Note that I tried this with Firefox and Supermium (a direct fork of Chrome).

Mostly, I use TweeseCake to access the site, but there are some things I can't do with that client. All of the following refer to the site itself.

  1. There is a list of links at the top of the page that acts like a menu. This causes many problems while trying to perform basic tasks, particularly editing posts and handling notifications. I can't always activate said links/menu either.

1A. I can't stress how frustrating editing posts is. It sometimes takes over ten minutes. The "edit" option is a link/menu, and it can only be found via another menu. Once I finally find and activate it, I hear the sound indicating that I have entered focus Mode. Usually, this means that I am in an edit box and can type. However, in this case, I am taken back to the main page, as if I never entered the option to edit my post. Using e to try to find an edit box doesn't help, as it just sends me to the replies to different comments. So I am forced to find the post, and start all over again. The only way I can do this successfully is to try to tab through the links/menu at the top of the page (when it works), then through other posts, until, finally, I am placed in an edit box where I can type.

1B. When I go to the Notifications" link, I have to tab to "Mark all System Notifications as Seen". This isn't even a regular link, as I can't copy and paste the text from it. Once I tab to and out of that, I can then read my notifications. But here is what I have to do if I want to see follow requests.
1. Try to get the notifications link to work, then click on it.
2. Tab to marking notifications.
3. Perform a search for the word follow.
4. Click on the link of the notification that someone wants to follow me. I open this in a new window, to try to keep the original one available.
5. Make my choice as to whether to approve that notification, then close that window.
6. Return to the main window. Only now, I am not where I left off. Instead, I am placed back at the beginning of the page and the Notifications menu is not open.
7. Repeat steps 1 through 3.
Ideally, I should be able to go to a normal notifications link, perform steps 3 through 5, then return back to the link, and perform steps 3 through 5 again, as many times as necessary, without having to repeat 1 through 3.

  1. I can't just go to the site and enter an edit box to post. I must go through a menu to find the link to do so. Yet there is an edit box for searching for content, tags, etc.
  2. Some pinned posts don't always read properly. I can see my name, when I posted, that it's pinned, a public message, tags (if applicable), buttons for resharing, etc., and the number of comments. But I cannot simply read the post itself. ""Comments" is also a button, not a link. Even when I expand them, I still can't see my post, and finding the button again to close them takes a lot of time, as posts also have their own buttons. Note that unpinned posts are read properly.
  3. While the process of editing my profile is completely accessible, finding the edit option might be slightly confusing for new users, as it requires entering yet another link/menu, this time with the user name as the title..
  4. If I go to a profile of someone not on Friendica (usually Mastodon) and wish to reply to a post, after I enter my credentials, it takes me back to my profile, not to the relevant post. It only worked once.
  5. The Friendica app for Windows is basically the site itself. I don't understand this at all.

If you want to see a truly accessible site, try this link. I don't work for them, though I do have an account there.

dreamwidth.org

Please, if any changes can be made, I urge you to do so. The site is otherwise a pleasure to use, but my frustration at not being able to easily perform such basic tasks is increasing.

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Chris Trottier

@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org

Thanks to @mike, I just had an epiphany about why centralization of the Internet happened:

Web browsers like #Chrome and #Firefox are stuck in an old paradigm of webpages – which is an ancient way of viewing the web.

But that’s not how the actual web works anymore. The real web is no longer about pages but about feeds, and the folks building web browsers – #Google, #Apple, #Microsoft, and #Mozilla – still don’t realize this.

Even worse, feed functionality that used to exist natively in web browsers no longer exists. For example, it used to be that when you visited a webpage, web browsers would detect an #RSS feed – giving you the option to subscribe. But starting with #Chrome, this feature was removed from modern web browsers.

However, that doesn’t mean feeds have disappeared from the web. No, many have coalesced into walled gardens like #Twitter and #Instagram. And they’re downright hostile towards access if you do not have an account on their services.

But that doesn’t mean feeds have disappeared. Quite the opposite: they’re more prevalent than ever with forums, podcasts, video, and more. They’re still here, just harder to see simply because web browsers are stuck on that webpage paradigm.

So @surf is essentially a web browser, not with a webpage paradigm, but a webfeed paradigm where – instead of inputting URLs into an address bar – it grabs feeds across from RSS, #podcast, and #socialweb feeds.

And frankly, this approach is brilliant. I use #Surf every day, and it’s literally the first thing I check when I wake up in the morning.

With Surf, we’ve moved away from mere #Fediverse clients. Now we have a genuine web browser for feeds!

RE: https://flipboard.social/users/mike/statuses/113896620317035236

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Mike McCue

@mike@flipboard.social · Reply to Mike McCue's post

@luis_in_brief @atomicpoet @surf @ben Further to this: I think that feeds are to the social web as websites are to the web.

There are a variety of feed categories emerging on the social web which I'm really excited about:

- News feeds
- Hashtag feeds
- RSS feeds
- Podcast feeds
- Photo feeds
- Video feeds
- Group/community feeds
- Q&A/forum feeds
- Magazine feeds from Flipboard
- Personalized algorithmic feeds written by developers like Mutuals, Quiet posters, etc.

On the social web feeds can be public or private. They can have approved contributors or enable anyone to contribute. They can be free or have subscription access. They can include posts from protocols like ActivityPub, AT Proto and RSS and they can be federated outwardly using any of those protocols as well.

And what's truly awesome is that they can be readily mixed together into hybrid feeds to match very specific audiences and communities. For example: FilmFeed from @davidimel shows just photos and videos from curated film photographers.

surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom

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Chris Trottier

@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org

Thanks to @mike, I just had an epiphany about why centralization of the Internet happened:

Web browsers like #Chrome and #Firefox are stuck in an old paradigm of webpages – which is an ancient way of viewing the web.

But that’s not how the actual web works anymore. The real web is no longer about pages but about feeds, and the folks building web browsers – #Google, #Apple, #Microsoft, and #Mozilla – still don’t realize this.

Even worse, feed functionality that used to exist natively in web browsers no longer exists. For example, it used to be that when you visited a webpage, web browsers would detect an #RSS feed – giving you the option to subscribe. But starting with #Chrome, this feature was removed from modern web browsers.

However, that doesn’t mean feeds have disappeared from the web. No, many have coalesced into walled gardens like #Twitter and #Instagram. And they’re downright hostile towards access if you do not have an account on their services.

But that doesn’t mean feeds have disappeared. Quite the opposite: they’re more prevalent than ever with forums, podcasts, video, and more. They’re still here, just harder to see simply because web browsers are stuck on that webpage paradigm.

So @surf is essentially a web browser, not with a webpage paradigm, but a webfeed paradigm where – instead of inputting URLs into an address bar – it grabs feeds across from RSS, #podcast, and #socialweb feeds.

And frankly, this approach is brilliant. I use #Surf every day, and it’s literally the first thing I check when I wake up in the morning.

With Surf, we’ve moved away from mere #Fediverse clients. Now we have a genuine web browser for feeds!

RE: https://flipboard.social/users/mike/statuses/113896620317035236

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Mike McCue

@mike@flipboard.social · Reply to Mike McCue's post

@luis_in_brief @atomicpoet @surf @ben Further to this: I think that feeds are to the social web as websites are to the web.

There are a variety of feed categories emerging on the social web which I'm really excited about:

- News feeds
- Hashtag feeds
- RSS feeds
- Podcast feeds
- Photo feeds
- Video feeds
- Group/community feeds
- Q&A/forum feeds
- Magazine feeds from Flipboard
- Personalized algorithmic feeds written by developers like Mutuals, Quiet posters, etc.

On the social web feeds can be public or private. They can have approved contributors or enable anyone to contribute. They can be free or have subscription access. They can include posts from protocols like ActivityPub, AT Proto and RSS and they can be federated outwardly using any of those protocols as well.

And what's truly awesome is that they can be readily mixed together into hybrid feeds to match very specific audiences and communities. For example: FilmFeed from @davidimel shows just photos and videos from curated film photographers.

surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom

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Chris Trottier

@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org

Thanks to @mike, I just had an epiphany about why centralization of the Internet happened:

Web browsers like #Chrome and #Firefox are stuck in an old paradigm of webpages – which is an ancient way of viewing the web.

But that’s not how the actual web works anymore. The real web is no longer about pages but about feeds, and the folks building web browsers – #Google, #Apple, #Microsoft, and #Mozilla – still don’t realize this.

Even worse, feed functionality that used to exist natively in web browsers no longer exists. For example, it used to be that when you visited a webpage, web browsers would detect an #RSS feed – giving you the option to subscribe. But starting with #Chrome, this feature was removed from modern web browsers.

However, that doesn’t mean feeds have disappeared from the web. No, many have coalesced into walled gardens like #Twitter and #Instagram. And they’re downright hostile towards access if you do not have an account on their services.

But that doesn’t mean feeds have disappeared. Quite the opposite: they’re more prevalent than ever with forums, podcasts, video, and more. They’re still here, just harder to see simply because web browsers are stuck on that webpage paradigm.

So @surf is essentially a web browser, not with a webpage paradigm, but a webfeed paradigm where – instead of inputting URLs into an address bar – it grabs feeds across from RSS, #podcast, and #socialweb feeds.

And frankly, this approach is brilliant. I use #Surf every day, and it’s literally the first thing I check when I wake up in the morning.

With Surf, we’ve moved away from mere #Fediverse clients. Now we have a genuine web browser for feeds!

RE: https://flipboard.social/users/mike/statuses/113896620317035236

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Mike McCue

@mike@flipboard.social · Reply to Mike McCue's post

@luis_in_brief @atomicpoet @surf @ben Further to this: I think that feeds are to the social web as websites are to the web.

There are a variety of feed categories emerging on the social web which I'm really excited about:

- News feeds
- Hashtag feeds
- RSS feeds
- Podcast feeds
- Photo feeds
- Video feeds
- Group/community feeds
- Q&A/forum feeds
- Magazine feeds from Flipboard
- Personalized algorithmic feeds written by developers like Mutuals, Quiet posters, etc.

On the social web feeds can be public or private. They can have approved contributors or enable anyone to contribute. They can be free or have subscription access. They can include posts from protocols like ActivityPub, AT Proto and RSS and they can be federated outwardly using any of those protocols as well.

And what's truly awesome is that they can be readily mixed together into hybrid feeds to match very specific audiences and communities. For example: FilmFeed from @davidimel shows just photos and videos from curated film photographers.

surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom

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@CWSmith@social.mechanizedarmadillo.com · Reply to BeAware :fediverse:'s post

@BeAware @xdydx @anaphorrra @clemensprill

Tried a few apps including the Default.

Stuck with Fedilab for this reason, though there is always the option of just saving the webpage as an app on your phone.

Or a PWA link on your computer if you have a based browser or add the appropriate plugin to .

I still think they never should ha e removed native support there.

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@dwn@dwnfonts.cc

- Cookie 是精致的美味。

早期版本 Firefox 的首选项,将 Cookie 描述成“精致的美味”。
ALT text details早期版本 Firefox 的首选项,将 Cookie 描述成“精致的美味”。
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vam103

@vam103@mathstodon.xyz

Okay so 136.0a1 has stopped showing the regularly used shortcuts and immediately started showing the mainstream social media sites, on both my Linux Mint machines.

I hope its just some bad code that slid through, but I fear it is not.

Mind you I am still trying to work out why one has wallpapers and the other does not.

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:rss: 窓の杜

@forest_watch_impress@rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com

Mozilla、WebExtensions ML APIを発表 ~AIタスクをオフライン実行するアドオンを手軽に開発/「Firefox」内蔵のAIランタイムを拡張機能開発者へ実験的に開放
forest.watch.impress.co.jp/doc

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:rss: 窓の杜

@forest_watch_impress@rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com

Mozilla、WebExtensions ML APIを発表 ~AIタスクをオフライン実行するアドオンを手軽に開発/「Firefox」内蔵のAIランタイムを拡張機能開発者へ実験的に開放
forest.watch.impress.co.jp/doc

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Kazuky Akayashi ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ

@KazukyAkayashi@social.zarchbox.fr

Donc on peut changer la page d'accueil par un truc perso dans Firefox/Zen mais on peut pas mettre ce que l'on veut a l'ouverture d'un onglet ... c'est une blague :blobPikaGlare: J'en fait quoi moi de ma jolie page du coup ... dites moi que j'ai mal vu siouplé :pikaneutral:

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Heikki Piirainen

@hpiirai@piipitin.fi

uusille ja ehkä vanhoillekin Mastodonin käyttäjille:

Muilla palvelimilla sijaitsevien viestien vastauksista osa jää usein puuttumaan. Tämä Firefoxin laajennus pyrkii hakemaan puuttuvat viestit automaattisesti: addons.mozilla.org/firefox/add

Toimii myös Firefoxin Android-versiossa (jopa niin hyvin, että käytän matkapuhelimessakin mieluummin Firefoxia kuin mitään erillistä Mastodon-sovellusta).

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Heikki Piirainen

@hpiirai@piipitin.fi

uusille ja ehkä vanhoillekin Mastodonin käyttäjille:

Muilla palvelimilla sijaitsevien viestien vastauksista osa jää usein puuttumaan. Tämä Firefoxin laajennus pyrkii hakemaan puuttuvat viestit automaattisesti: addons.mozilla.org/firefox/add

Toimii myös Firefoxin Android-versiossa (jopa niin hyvin, että käytän matkapuhelimessakin mieluummin Firefoxia kuin mitään erillistä Mastodon-sovellusta).

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GENKI

@nibushibu@vivaldi.net · Reply to GENKI's post

あれ、 v133 からできるの?

geekersdigest.com/vertical-tab

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deutrino

@deutrino@mstdn.io

Mozilla pushed a fix for the Youtube (and other sites) lagging issue with 134.0.1, but it doesn't completely solve the issue, pages I use every fucking day still bring my laptop to its knees

I have a massive session because I'm a tab hoarder, moving to a different browser will be excruciatingly painful. I've been operating without my usual browser session for a couple weeks now because of this problem.

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GENKI

@nibushibu@vivaldi.net

も v135 からネイティブで縦タブ表示ができるようになるのか :tony_astonished: 🔥🦊

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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@hongminhee@hollo.social

I wish someone would make an extension to synchronize browser history between and .

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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@hongminhee@hollo.social

I wish someone would make an extension to synchronize browser history between and .

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TechHelpKB.com 📚

@techhelpkb@mastodon.social

This RAM consumption test between Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Opera browsers demonstrates which one consumes the least memory. Spoiler alert: Firefox won by a mile.


slashgear.com/1753454/what-web

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@jessienab@wetdry.world

PNG and XCF on request :)

I WOULD USE COMPUTER IF:
(Tux plushy) This was the kernel
(Xenia plushy) This was the user experience
(Firefox plushy) This was the web browser
(Mastodon plushy) This was the social media
ALT text detailsI WOULD USE COMPUTER IF: (Tux plushy) This was the kernel (Xenia plushy) This was the user experience (Firefox plushy) This was the web browser (Mastodon plushy) This was the social media
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Steven Sandoval

@baltakatei@twit.social · Reply to Ars Technica's post

@arstechnica Meanwhile, my Mozilla VPN subscription is singlehandedly keeping afloat.

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Jcrabapple (Catppuccin King)

@jcrabapple@dmv.community

Some developers have picked up the Mull source code and they're continuing development under the name Ironfox.

IronFox OSS / IronFox · GitLab

gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox

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mukmuk

@mukmuk@hostux.social

Savez-vous comment enlever les raccourcis malveillants dans firefox tel celui-ci ? C'est impossible avec un clic droit > retirer

:boost_ok:

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mukmuk

@mukmuk@hostux.social

Savez-vous comment enlever les raccourcis malveillants dans firefox tel celui-ci ? C'est impossible avec un clic droit > retirer

:boost_ok:

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GENKI

@nibushibu@vivaldi.net

I'm a little tired of seeing posts about :vivaldi_red: on :fediverse: that almost always include a mention of "I don't use it because it's ". :tony_sigh:

For the sake of both our mental health, I think they should talk about why they use rather than why they don't use Vivaldi. :tony_normal:

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SuperIlu

@dec_hl@mastodon.social

Ok, what alternatives are out there?

currently I'm using (despite Mozilla), but it is slow and seems to go down the AI drain.

is out (don't need even worse spyware).

My requirements would be
- (Arch)Linux, Windows is optional
- Fast rendering
- Working AdBlocker!
- No phoning home
- Not run by racist/transphobic assholes!
- Regular security updates

Am I looking for Unobtainium here?

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Mina

@mina@berlin.social

What do users want from ?

OptionVoters
Chatbots in sidebar63 (3%)
Enhanced privacy by default2356 (97%)
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Pax

@pasimako@mastodon.social

Mozilla introduced an AI assistant extension for Firefox that can summarize web content and answer general questions.

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef

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deutrino

@deutrino@mstdn.io

massive slowdown bug in 133, clearly this must not affect everyone, but it's bad enough if it does turn out to affect you that I'd advise not updating to 133.

bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.

bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.

in my case, when affected, my entire system slows to a crawl. my wild-ass guess after using my affected system and reading these bug reports is that something is generating a lot of work for my window manager, because Cinnamon-related functions are impacted.

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deutrino

@deutrino@mstdn.io

I'm mostly curious how performance regressions this bad make it all the way to shipping versions of , mozilla must really be circling the drain.

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@paninodesu@mastodon.social

@Vivaldi I noticed something.
"In theory" Chromium is "faster" than Firefox, at least it scores higher on benchmarks.
But in practice...

I noticed that Vivaldi often struggles to type text in text fields, comment boxes in forums, on Youtube, etc.
But Firefox don't... text never lags there.

Is there a reason why text input is so heavy on Chromium/Vivaldi?
Is it because of some settings I enabled, like "GPU Rasterization"?
Can something be done about this?

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🇵🇸 Panino, o Moço 🇮🇷

@paninodesu@mastodon.social

@Vivaldi I noticed something.
"In theory" Chromium is "faster" than Firefox, at least it scores higher on benchmarks.
But in practice...

I noticed that Vivaldi often struggles to type text in text fields, comment boxes in forums, on Youtube, etc.
But Firefox don't... text never lags there.

Is there a reason why text input is so heavy on Chromium/Vivaldi?
Is it because of some settings I enabled, like "GPU Rasterization"?
Can something be done about this?

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It's FOSS

@itsfoss@mastodon.social

Sorting browsing history by site is easy on Firefox. Learn how 👇

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@melroy@mastodon.melroy.org · Reply to VSA's post

@vsa @mikeTesteLinux @geofftc @ricardo @nixCraft I just wanted to inform everybody in this thread about the fact that Firefox might go bankrupt very soon and is now trying to become some kind of weird AI company. You have been warned. So in any case, pick a fork you love while you still can.

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tomek

@tomek@mastodon.online

Ad poster of Mozila Firefox: Are you fed up with your web browser? Firefox 1.0
ALT text detailsAd poster of Mozila Firefox: Are you fed up with your web browser? Firefox 1.0
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TechHelpKB.com 📚

@techhelpkb@mastodon.social

Mozilla recently announced a new partnership with Ecosia. While the official announcement highlighted Ecosia's commitment to sustainability and social impact, it did not disclose specific details.


techspot.com/news/106012-mozil

Stealthy

@Stealthy@dragonscave.space

Anyone have an issue where on Windows just stops responding? I face it from time to time.

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Nick @ The Linux Experiment

@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social

gets $600K in funding (from the usual German foundation, of course), drops Do Not Track and is being separated from the foundation into its own entity: time for the and News video!

youtu.be/NVdq8JNtk5E

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Frankie ✅

@Some_Emo_Chick@mastodon.social

Firefox, one of the first “Do Not Track” supporters, no longer offers it.

It was more than useless. Websites did not have to honor it and in fact would use it as one more point of entropy for fingerprinting your identity.

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/1

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@mima@makai.chaotic.ninja

So apparently the (DNT) signal is legally recognized in , citing the and arguing that DNT is a "valid objection" to the "processing of personal data". IANAL, but I find this ruling potentially problematic. ​:sakuya_think:

We know that IP addresses are "personal data"; it is explicitly included as an example by the GDPR. This along with the ruling has some chilling ramifications. If my understanding is correct, it means a website cannot use a CDN to optimize serving its content based on the user's location, because that would be "processing of personal data" (the IP address). And it's not like a website could just "opt-out" of Germany; even the very act of opting-out would be a GDPR violation, because again you're processing a user's IP address in order to show the geolocation notice of content being blocked for Germany. Show the content if the German user has signalled DNT? Still a GDPR violation (the DNT signal can act as an identifier which makes it "personal data" along with the German IP)
:TenshMelt:

This ambiguity of how to interpret DNT makes me happy that
is finally going to ditch it in in favor of (GPC) which has a clearer and limited definition while still covering what privacy-conscious users really want in the first place: not wanting their data sold and shared to advertisers. It's just legally difficult to "prohibit tracking" when a user says so; should ETag not be included and performance be sacrificed because they can be used for tracking like a cookie? But then if an ETag is not included that would create a data point that can be tracked then? ​:TenshMelt:

Let tracking be defeated by technical solutions (private browsing/incognito mode, content blockers like uBlock Origin, and proxy software if you really need it). Political solutions are much more appropriate elsewhere like the selling and sharing of data.
:seija_coffee:

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technicat

@technicat@universeodon.com

I had this setting on in and it actually worked, one of my shopping sites sent me an email saying they processed my do not sell my data request.

support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/g

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sebsauvage

@sebsauvage@framapiaf.org


Mozilla retire la fonctionnalité "Do not track" (DNT) de Firefox.
D'un côté je dirais: Fonchier.
D'un autre côté, on sait très bien que les sites web n'en ont absolument rien à foutre.
Donc...
windowsreport.com/mozilla-fire

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Debian

@debian@framapiaf.org

Happy 20th anniversary with love to Mozilla's Thunderbird and Firefox suites, 20 years of strength and security in the world of FLOSS!

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My Hashtag Dump [as part of my latest Instance-hop🤦‍♀️]

LAST EDITED 8/12/24





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@tag-wearetotallyfscked
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Cdrik ⏚🌻

@Bristow_69@framapiaf.org

Y a des experts systèmes ici qui déploient des extensions via les policies de ?

Je n'arrive pas à trouver comment contraindre l'extension à fonctionner en navigation privée.

Les templates pour Firefox sont ici : mozilla.github.io/policy-templ

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Stefano Marinelli

@stefano@bsd.cafe

Again, Firefox is causing a huge battery drain on my Android device when it's not running. I've set everything up so that it has no chance of running in the background, yet last night I saw a 6% battery consumption, a large part of which was caused by Firefox. To avoid this, every time I exit I have to force close it.

I need a browser that works across all my devices, I would like it to be fully open source and have synchronization between my computer and smartphone. I would prefer it not to be based on Chromium. Firefox, if it didn’t have this issue, still consumes a lot of battery when in use and is slow on Android, but I could accept that. But for it to drain so much battery when not in use, no. Any suggestions for something I might have missed?

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Mike Bell

@mikebell@remotelab.uk

is really getting on my nerves at the moment.

It's a local IP address ffs.

This address is restricted 
This address uses a network port which is normally used for purposes other than Web browsing. Firefox has cancelled the request for your protection.
ALT text detailsThis address is restricted This address uses a network port which is normally used for purposes other than Web browsing. Firefox has cancelled the request for your protection.
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nilesh

@nilesh@fosstodon.org

Annoying that I have to run 3 full copies of as separate apps.

1) Firefox itself
2)
3) Zen browser whose split view is useful for social media.

The platform and browsing app have been too strongly coupled. Need FirefoxOS / ChromiumOS purely as a platform for app developers.

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codeDude :archlinux: :neovim:

@codeDude@fosstodon.org

What alternative you prefer? No chromium based

OptionVoters
Waterfox1 (6%)
Librewolf11 (65%)
Tor browser5 (29%)
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Jon S. von Tetzchner

@jon@vivaldi.net

Here are the results of my "What is your favorite browser?" survey, here on Mastodon. These are some very interesting results.

It is clear that the incumbents are not getting a lot of love. Edge gets 2% and Chrome gets 5%. These browsers are widely used, but not very popular, based on this survey.

Safari does a lot better at 16%, the same as Vivaldi. The enthusiasm level from those that use Vivaldi is high and plenty of people also mention Vivaldi as a secondary option.

Opera gets just 1%.

Firefox gets 60%, so clearly a strong showing here in the Fediverse, although many say they use Firefox only because they do not want to use a Chromium based browser.

The cool part is then that 13% say they prefer another browser. Plenty of smaller browsers getting a mention, which is nice.

If you notice that the total is higher than 100%, then that is because I allowed people to select more than one browser, although most did not.

If you are still using Chrome or Edge, maybe it is time to try something new? You have a choice!

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@illumniscate@mastodon.education

Leaving Meta Services

Please consider spending 4 minutes on this survey for improving :

mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net

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Jon S. von Tetzchner

@jon@vivaldi.net

What is your favorite browser? Feel free to share why.

OptionVoters
Vivaldi37 (27%)
Chrome2 (1%)
Edge2 (1%)
Safari6 (4%)
Firefox66 (49%)
Opera3 (2%)
Other20 (15%)
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Štěpán Škorpil :skorpil_cz:

@stepan@skorpil.cz

Even huge company like sucks in so much.
This is an embeded video on a random page.
Yeah, I use containers, and everything google related is opening in one specific container to limit their spying on me. I opened the page in different container, thus I am not signed in.
Well ok, give me the link to the youtube video and I will watch it there? In the right container?
Youtube UX: no link to the video, but here you can watch some different stuff...

Screenshot of embeded youtube video saying I have to sing in to prove that I am not a robot.
There is "More info" link leading to generic support page advising me to log in on the youtube page.
Then there is "More videos on Youtube" with 3 thumbnails of videos I don't care.
There is no link to the actually embeded video I originally wanted to watch.
Last hope is the youtube logo in the corner. But clicking on it does nothing.
I just have to dig out the video link from browser's dev tools.
ALT text detailsScreenshot of embeded youtube video saying I have to sing in to prove that I am not a robot. There is "More info" link leading to generic support page advising me to log in on the youtube page. Then there is "More videos on Youtube" with 3 thumbnails of videos I don't care. There is no link to the actually embeded video I originally wanted to watch. Last hope is the youtube logo in the corner. But clicking on it does nothing. I just have to dig out the video link from browser's dev tools.
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nonexistent

@nonexistent@hachyderm.io

Maybe I should do an .

Hello! I'm a (nonexistent) homo sapien. I'm a nerd who likes programming, Golang, C, chocolate, and terminals.

I use Void Linux (because it's awesome) with i3. And Firefox. I host my code on Codeberg because it rocks, and GitHub because I need it for non-personal things.

I'm interesting in CLIs, TUIs, and cybersecurity, along with systems.

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Jeremiah Lee

@Jeremiah@alpaca.gold

Take 3 minutes to tell Mozilla Foundation the only thing you want from it is Firefox funded by donations.

Backstory: Mozilla Corporation (not Foundation) controls Firefox, so there is no way to donate to Firefox’s development, which is why MoCo is more interested in building an ethical ad network instead of a browser to fight ad tech.

mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net

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Expert Plus 🍀

@ExpertPlus@mementomori.social

that users always refuse to accept, yet these are true:

is the best browser and a search engine. No else is better then it. No else search engine. Not even or .

are the best phones with their iOS to exist. And no, Android devices aren't better.

is the best alternative to /#X , the one true, DECENTRALIZED (yes, it has its own ) alternative that we all need.

is a better focused then .

From my interactions with Mastodon users, all of these facts aren't accepted by them at all, they really start to strongly defend their beliefs, starting to talking about either reputation or behavement of a person/company, or either their past actions. Guess what? I don't care about anything of that; I just need a good product that worth to use.

I'll add more to that list, if I'll think of any.

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dtomvan

@dtomvan@toot.cat

I noticed that, when you accidentally play two video's at the same time on , the other video will get automatically paused. At least, "it works on my machine" on . So how does it do that? I thought every tab had their own sandbox? Is ITC (Inter Tab Communication) a thing now? So many questions...

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boredsquirrel

@Rhababerbarbar@tux.social

How to use on , using ()

Only Firefox seems to be able to use a regular ol' HTTP proxy, on Android. Pretty crazy.

1. Install i2p, on Android you can use:
- [I2P](github.com/i2p/i2p.android.bas)
- I2PD, [this F-Droid repo](fdroid.i2pd.xyz/fdroid/repo?ap) and AppID `org.purplei2p.i2pd` (For Obtainium too)
- [InviziblePro](github.com/Gedsh/InviZible)

2. Install Mull, on Obtainium:

[DivestOS repo as URL](divestos.org/fdroid/official?a) and AppID `us.spotco.fennec_dos`

1/x

firefox configs
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a clearnet site working fine in the same browser
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an eepsite with a world atlas
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Linux Is Best

@Linux@kitty.social

When you donated to Mozilla, you truly did not know if that money was going towards Firefox, or one of their many deadend projects no one asked for, or if it was going to some campaign platform, or was it just going to be a bonus for their management (CEO, ect.)

But if you donate to Vivaldi, the money is going to Vivaldi web browser, and to better that experience.
https://login.vivaldi.net/profile/donations

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Tyler Sticka

@tylersticka@social.lol

Why I recently switched from Firefox to @Vivaldi, how that’s going, and other browser-related bits and bobs… tylersticka.com/journal/browse

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Linux Is Best

@Linux@kitty.social

Good software is good software.

Firefox is open source, but it includes adware, spyware, and artificial intelligence (AI), while being owned by an ad company. Brave is open source, but it too includes adware, spyware, AI, plus cryptocurrency, while being owned by an ad company. Both of them call out like a lost child or puppy. There are viruses that are also free open source, but they too do not make the world a better place.

Free open-source does not guarantee nor mean something is automaticly better.

Vivaldi, is based on the free open source Chromium project, and while it is true that the GUI is closed source, it does not include AI or cryptocurrency, nor owned by an ad company, and only calls out to 1) check for updates and 2) report bugs.

Good software does not need to be free open source to be good. Nor does close software automatically make something bad.

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Inautilo

@inautilo@mastodon.social


Understanding Round Robin DNS · How browsers and CDNs select which server to use ilo.im/160kw0

“It's an amazingly simple and elegant solution that avoids using load balancers.”

_____

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mgorny-nyan (he) :autism:🙀🚂🐧

@mgorny@treehouse.systems

Dear , I'd like to inform you that I don't need another "" shit. What I'd really appreciate, though, is being able to actually see the text rather than some colorful noise on your overengineered site.

(Yes, I know I can download the logs to see them. Also, not my package, not my choice of provider.)

Also, if anyone know how to fix this in , since it's not the first site where I'm seeing this…

A screenshot of a browser with CircleCI results open. A log fragment with failure is visible, except that there are colorful bars instead of text. On top there's a "Explain this error" button with "AI Experiment" next to it.
ALT text detailsA screenshot of a browser with CircleCI results open. A log fragment with failure is visible, except that there are colorful bars instead of text. On top there's a "Explain this error" button with "AI Experiment" next to it.
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IT News

@itnewsbot@schleuss.online

20 Years Ago Today: 'Firefox Browser Takes on Microsoft' - A 2002 Slashdot post informed the world that "Recently Blake Ross, a developer of ... - news.slashdot.org/story/24/11/

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It's FOSS

@itsfoss@mastodon.social

20 years of Firefox! 🦊 🎉
Share your experience with it! 🥳

Happy Birthday Firefox

Nov 9, 2004

The picture has a mixed green backdrop with many balloons and the Firefox logo.
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Alan

@alansuspect@aus.social

It's been nearly 2 weeks since I moved over to and honestly I'm impressed (coming from and ), it syncs nicely between all my devices (even iOS). Two issues off the top of my head:

1. It would be nice if the desktop tab stacks worked more like Chrome's tab groups. Lack of colours/labels and the constant expanding and contracting is annoying.

2. Why are bookmarks on Android so hard? I just want to bookmark a page, not manage my bookmarks every time. And even when I click 'add current page' it doesn't do anything so I have to manually copy the URL.

I think they're literally the only things.

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Jeremiah Lee

@Jeremiah@alpaca.gold

The Celebrating 20 years of Firefox video teases some good UI changes and new features coming soon: easier profile switching, stashable tab groups, vertical tabs.

youtu.be/-Mz8xJW4CNE?feature=s

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Jon S. von Tetzchner

@jon@vivaldi.net

I am sad to see the layoffs at the Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla plays an important role on the Internet. I may not always agree with the choices they make, but they still play an important role.

techcrunch.com/2024/11/05/mozi

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nixCraft 🐧

@nixCraft@mastodon.social

OMG! Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/mozi Did Google perhaps pressure them to do this?

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Risotto Bias

@risottobias@tech.lgbt

did you know that "no AI in the browser" exists as a feedback item for ?

connect.mozilla.org/t5/discuss

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hobbsc

@hobbsc@social.sdf.org

I guess has fallen behind a little bit in updates so I've removed it from my phone. I use on the desktop. Is there any reason not to use it on ? I only used that particular fork out of inertia.

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lj·rk

@ljrk@todon.eu

I'm still so fuckin' annoyed that the only way to add a search engine in is to either create a bookmark with a Keyword (whut?) or add an Extension (whuuuut?). Why not just add the ability to add a search engine in the settings where you can also remove them?

:|

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Anupam 《ミ》λ≡

@haskman@functional.cafe

I have a machine with 32GB RAM and barely use 8GB of it. I run with hundreds of tabs, open , , and projects all at the same time. Have and apps running, and the memory usage still hovers around 8GB.Seems like I should be using Docker and Kubernetes just to feel like I'm using my machine to its potential 😆

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Tom Casavant

@tom@tomkahe.com · Reply to Tom Casavant's post

Small update for DuckDuckSocial
Added the ability to customize date (either absolute date or relative to current date)
Added ability to automatically filter out words before performing search (probably only useful to me but someone else might have a purpose for it). And I probably posted about this before but I couldn't find it so just so you're aware you don't need an API key for the web version (still required for Android extension)

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef

Screenshot of duckducksocial options page with new options for 'date configuration' and 'words to drop'
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Hacker News 50

@hn50@social.lansky.name

Firefox-Passwords-Decryptor: Extracts and decrypts passwords saved in Firefox

Link: github.com/Sohimaster/Firefox-
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

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november

@november@veganism.social

Life hack

Firefox browser's "Add search engine" dialogue.

Search engine name: Temtem postal deliveries

Engine URL: https://temtem.wiki.gg/wiki/Postal_service?marker=%s

Alias: tem
ALT text detailsFirefox browser's "Add search engine" dialogue. Search engine name: Temtem postal deliveries Engine URL: https://temtem.wiki.gg/wiki/Postal_service?marker=%s Alias: tem
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Emma Loves ☕️

@emma@orbital.horse

Oh no, a bug is messing with my retro pastime! Time to dig into Bugzilla.

emmas.site/blog/2024/10/19/a-f

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:fedora: :freebsd: :archlinux:

@unixviking@social.linux.pizza

Ok, ok, ok... I've softened my strict rules of absolute digital minimalism a bit and allowed some additional apps on my Pixel 9.

Compared to the previous setup, I installed Aurora Store at short notice to get the following apps installed:

Firefox (instead of Fennec, because of faster security updates), FUTO Keyboard (because of swipe function, it types much faster!), Fossify Gallery (instead of the standard gallery), standard SMS app instead of QUIKSMS, Pixel Camera (much better image quality, but completely without permissions! ), Localsend (for sending photos and files back and forth between Pixel and PC), Mullvad VPN (catch me!), Proton Pass (changed all passwords to long, complicated ones) and as a visual gimmick: Breezy Weather (so that the home screen doesn't look so boring).

Judge me now.

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Radomír Žemlička

@Razemix@mamutovo.cz

Pomalu se (po cca 15 letech používání Opery a Chromu) chystám přejít zpátky na . Nebudu lhát, v mnoha (ne ve všech) ohledech jsem vlastně rád, kam se web díky Chromu posunul. Zvlášť v době, kdy Firefox docela stagnoval. Ale čeho je moc, toho je příliš. V Googlu zvítězila hamižnost nad uživatelským komfortem a já bych kvůli konci podpory Manifestu V2 přišel o užitečný addony jako uBlock Origin, Violentmonkey a ClearURLs. Bohužel to odnese i řada prohlížečů na bázi Chromia (např. Vivaldi).

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Peertube Uno :cc: Italia

@peertube@mastodon.uno

Youtube! Usate metodi alternativi per accedere ai su youtube.
Sul pc col usate un'istanza di installando su e su usate . Facendo questo non solo non vedrete la pubblicità ma non verrete contati come "visualizzazione". Non fate account, non commentate, non mettete like. Togliete i "viveri" ai canali e sostenete con donazioni le piattaforme alternative come se potete:

liberapay.com/PeerTube

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Matthias R. Koch

@manankanchu@mastodon.social

Today I made @Vivaldi my standard browser on my cellphone, dropping in order to escape their new advertising "concepts" ... before I can use on desktop, it has to improve it's auto refresh function, but I trust that won't take long ...

Great job, Vivaldi!!

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securityaffairs

@securityaffairs@infosec.exchange

issued an urgent update to fix an actively exploited flaw
securityaffairs.com/169590/sec

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Pale Moon web browser

@palemoon@outerheaven.club

Alllright, hello lunarians! We've moved instances again (4 hours has to be a world record for shortest stay in a #Mastodon before migrating :P), and hopefully this will be the final time we will do that. It would be a shame, because "Outer Heaven" does sorta fit more for a #browser named "Pale Moon"! ;)

So, with a permanent #fediverse home, here's the short #introduction again done two instances ago on what #PaleMoon is all about:

We are one of the first projects out there to have forked from #Firefox / #Mozilla. We've started as a humble rebuild aiming to bring an optimized Firefox, but we've soon evolved into a full-fledged fork (hard fork if you will) which kept what we believe were the good stuff that Mozilla axed and didn't deserve axing, like #XUL (which we believe is the most powerful language for extending a browser, up to its internals), #RSS, and <style scoped>, and kept out the ones that we believe were not good for our userbase (like Pocket, the LLM cruft, and if you're old enough, Australis!). We aim to keep evolving this mature platform in order to keep up with the latest feature additions to the web as we reasonably can (even though we believe they're becoming increasingly silly) while, if possible and necessary, adding up some of our own. All of that, as an independent effort supported primarily by nothing else but you: the users!

If you want to explore more about our history, roadmap, and what you can do with this browser, then please give our website below a visit! 🌕

https://www.palemoon.org/

#introductions #UXP #UnifiedXULPlatform #web #openweb #webbrowser #browsers
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Florian Haas

@xahteiwi@mastodon.social

Password managers: work recommends Bitwarden, I've been preferring KeePassXC. As regards the server and local desktop app side, respectively, both appear rather head-to-head to me. But as far as the available Firefox extensions are concerned, I find the KeePassXC one to be far superior in terms of UX.

Is this just me, or do others (who have used both) share the same opinion?

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Hacker News 50

@hn50@social.lansky.name

uBlock Origin supports filtering CNAME cloaking sites on Firefox now

Link: github.com/gorhill/uBlock/comm
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

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🌻 Defederate Threads 🌻

@tasket@infosec.exchange

Our tech influencers are idiots, example 1,401,992...

(This is not adware, this is a few simple hyperlinks serving as ads. This is even less onerous than getting paid to make Google the default search, since searches send info to Google.)

These nonstop, selectively purist reactions are starting to make me ill. FOSS funding is like 98% due to FOSS projects (like Fedora) being controlled by a for-profit entity, and you all eat that sh!t up!

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DJM (freelance for hire)

@cybeardjm@masto.ai

uBlockOrigin & uBlacklist Huge AI Blocklist

A huge blocklist of sites (~950) that contain generated content, for the purposes of cleaning image search engines (Google Search, DuckDuckGo, and Bing) with uBlock Origin or uBlacklist.

github.com/laylavish/uBlockOri

For & etc.

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Dan 🌻

@danvolchek@mastodon.social

The hate against Mozilla currently wafting through fedi is perhaps the best example I've seen of toxic open source/free software religious fervor on mastodon

There's not a shred of compassion/empathy for what Mozilla is trying to do! At all!

Even if you think they're doing the wrong thing, why do you think being mean to them is going to get them to do the right thing?

I don't agree with their recent decisions either! I'm not awful about it!

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Emma Loves ☕️

@emma@orbital.horse

I'm glad people are checking out XSLT tech again.

Hey and , don't rip that code out!

f.duriansoftware.com/@joe/1132

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Linux Is Best

@Linux@kitty.social · Reply to Linux Is Best's post

What to replace Firefox with?

Vivaldi web browser is everything Firefox should have been the last decade or more.

Yes, Vivaldi Browser is based off of the open source code, chromium, but it does not follow Google's lead, supporting both v2 and v3 browser extensions (meaning uBlock will still work). Vivaldi, includes their own ad and tracker blocker, is not owned and managed by an ad company, and is the ONLY web browser to be A.I. free (does not include an AI).

The latest version, 6.9, even added support to ensure uBlock will continue to work.

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Linux Is Best

@Linux@kitty.social

There are no more reasons to use, Mozilla Firefox.

Better Privacy?

Mozilla is working closely with Facebook, Google, and is now a market research and advertising company. Furthermore, they're now including every possible AI in their web browser, which calls out even when disabled.

Better Ad blocking?

Mozilla is an ad company and recently gave the uBlock development team a hard time. uBlock Lite is not coming back to Firefox, and the uBlock developer is considering not to develop two builds in the future. Furthermore, even with an ad-blocker, by default, Firefox now monitors ad performance.

Better web browsing?

With a single digit market share, even governments are forgetting about Firefox. The United States, tax office (IRS), not so recently, experienced issues when loaded with Firefox.

It's the principle?

As we have established, there is no principle. Firefox is no different from Chromium and Mozilla, no better than Google or Microsoft.

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Jeremiah Lee

@Jeremiah@alpaca.gold

Ok, so how do we fork Firefox successfully into a more user-aligned nonprofit, funded by donations and non-browser-touching halo services, that’s still pragmatic in nudging surveillance capitalism in the right direction without losing compatibility or being complicit, and bring Servo back into inner circle?

Proton’s new foundation is a strong contender to lead a fork.

What other ideas do you have?

blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/im

My earlier proposal: jeremiahlee.com/posts/mozillas

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Linux Is Best

@Linux@kitty.social

I would recommend, Vivaldi Browser.

Yes, Vivaldi Browser is based off of the open source code, chromium, but it does not follow Google's lead, supporting both v2 and v3 browser extensions (meaning uBlock will still work). Vivaldi, includes their own ad and tracker blocker, is not owned and managed by an ad company, and is the ONLY web browser to be A.I. free (does not include an AI).

The latest version, 6.9, even added support to ensure uBlock will continue to work.

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Flaky :blue_jay:​

@Flaky@furry.engineer

Sick of getting AI? Remember the time Mozilla accepted cryptocurrency donations and only stopped when they got shouted at?

Rely on a browser with no AI or cryptocurrency in it at all, get Vivaldi!

vivaldi.com

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Siph :siph:‍:bzh:

@Siph@meemu.org

my favorite cosmetic add-on is Adaptive Tab Bar Colour − works especially well with Mastodon addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/

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GENKI

@nibushibu@vivaldi.net

を取り巻く環境、どんどん状況悪くなってる :tony_neutral:

social.vivaldi.net/@kyu3a/1132

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🇩🇪 𝕳𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖊𝕬𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖗𝖙

@HalleAndert@vivaldi.net

compared @ArcBrowser, @Vivaldi and and chose a winner. :tony_wee:

youtu.be/xSJTHJaXBTM?feature=s

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Jeremiah Lee

@Jeremiah@alpaca.gold · Reply to Jeremiah Lee's post

I wrote some new Firefox Translation UI feature requests:

keyboard shortcut: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.

menu items: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.

I voted for a bug/missing feature that caused me to lose 15 minutes of work last week: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.

I submitted multiple Svenska↔︎English translation errors to docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI

Most notably, "september" keeps getting mistranslated to "november", which is funny/sad because it’s the same word in both Svenska and English.

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Mike Kuketz 🛡

@kuketzblog@social.tchncs.de

Fennec und Mull sind besonders für datenschutzbewusste Nutzer interessant, aber wegen der verzögerten Updates nicht für jeden geeignet. Teil 5 der Artikelserie »Sichere und datenschutzfreundliche Browser«. 👇

kuketz-blog.de/fennec-und-mull

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Corbin Davenport

@corbin@toot.community

You've heard of the Google Graveyard, now get ready for the Mozilla Graveyard. I remembered a lot of these (RIP Firefox OS) but completely forgot about some of the others.

spacebar.news/the-mozilla-grav

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Tim Chambers

@tchambers@indieweb.social

So far very impressed and happy with as my new main browser. Glad that they included some apps integrated into the browser that I was not initially expecting to use as much as I do.

RIght now - this is the integrated RSS reader, and the Notes app of all things.
First one, makes me wonder why this wasn't this way in ALL browsers forever, especially ...

And as to the integrated and sync-able Notes across desktop and mobile apps --> Goodbye, Google Keep.

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Philip Newborough

@corenominal@indieweb.social

Having a play with Vivaldi browser. First impressions were not good as there seemed to be a lot going on with the user interface, compared to Firefox. I've since tinkered with the settings and managed to get it looking pretty minimal, which is nice. The amount of settings this browser has is bonkers, in a good way. I'm thinking I'll use it for a week and see how I get on.

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Victoria🌿💐🌳

@tragicomedy@mstdn.party

Also, I finally switched to Vivaldi on my android. So far it's pretty nice experience. In the past lack of extensions annoyed me a lot, but maybe I will be able to live w/o it.

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Larvitz :fedora: :redhat:

@Larvitz@burningboard.net

First Fediverse toot in the Browser on Rawhide (Installed as an RPM package).

Works great and performance is significantly better on my (very old and dated) hardware.

Toggling a video between normal and full-screen took 2-3 seconds in Firefoix and LibreWolf and this latency is complately absent in Vivaldi. It's super snappy.

I think, I will try this on one computer for a while and see how it turns out.

Addons currently installed:

- uBlock Origin
- I still don't care about cookies (removes EU cookie nag banners)
- Plasma Integration

The posts of @Linux convinced me to give it a try

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Tim Chambers

@tchambers@indieweb.social

OK my transfer from to now fully complete. No buyers remorse at all.

on every site you can, make everything so much better, btw

A few notes:

after tweaking UX really can be a solution - at least as much as any browser can. But you can tweak EVERYTHING on it.

's RSS feed feature - way more helpful than I thought.

have about 10 ideas on how they could integrate the Fedi even more into the browser.

cc: @jon @brucelawson

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Aleksander

@sumek@hachyderm.io · Reply to Chris Adams's post

@mrchrisadams is amazing partially because it shows how little effort would it take to make so much better. It's a one-man project and has multiple ideas that make experience much nicer

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Matthias :sharkey:

@matthias@sharkey.ruhr

I was a huge fan of @mozilla@mozilla.social and for years – to me, they always stood for , , and a free .

But ever since Laura Chambers took over, it feels like Mozilla is completely losing its way.
🤔

Instead of focusing on the
, they’re starting projects that have little to do with their core mission. Commercial partnerships are on the rise, and now they’re even shutting down their own instance. That was the perfect opportunity to push and openness in the . 🌐

used to be my go-to recommendation for privacy – but sadly, I can’t say that anymore. 😕

💬 Do you have any recommendations for a on and that focuses on privacy, syncs easily, and is still customizable?

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GENKI

@nibushibu@vivaldi.net

の CPO が、体調を理由に不当に解雇されたと訴えをおこしてるみたい
それを理由に 辞めて 使う始めたという人もいて、 ユーザーに興味持つ人が増えるのは良いとしても が心配…

mastodon.social/@stevetex/1131

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Tim Chambers

@tchambers@indieweb.social · Reply to Ernie Smith's post

@ernie @jon I've been a long time fan of his writing and his work on Vivaldi. That was intrumental for my choice of browsers this weekend as I was looking for alternatives to

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Chuck Munson

@chuck@breadandroses.cloud

The migration from to has been pretty effortless. The big annoyance is that I'm used to clicking on the orange Firefox icon in the bottom bar and I have to keep closing it. I like the Workspace feature of Vivaldi, which I had already been using for projects. My big questions at this point are memory management with tabs open in various workspaces and how do the workspaces accommodate having multiple Google accounts open? I post videos to several Youtube channels.

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TOV

@textovervideo@fosstodon.org

There are two open source web browser projects that have their own Mastodon instances.

Unfortunately, Mozilla has decided to shutdown their Mastodon instance by the end of the year.
mozilla.social/

But Vivaldi Web Browser has confirmed that they will keep maintaining their Mastodon instance.
social.vivaldi.net/

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Tim Chambers

@tchambers@indieweb.social

I've been a user FOREVER. But with the direction of the recent Mozilla leadership, plus their treatment of @stevetex has pushed me over to moving to @Vivaldi

Sad, sad day. But they crossed enough lines that it's time. And @jon has been a strong advocate for the fediverse and the open web.

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GENKI

@nibushibu@vivaldi.net · Reply to GENKI's post

これ読むと、 に注力する方向なのかな。うーむ。 ね…
いや、やり方次第なんでそれも良いんだけども。。

techcrunch.com/2024/09/17/mozi

なんか、例えると、よくわかってないお偉いさんの「これからは AI だぜ!(キラッ)」っていうディレクションとすごく重なって見えちゃうんだけど、 本当にそれで大丈夫かな…?

ブラウザに表示されてる内容の要約とか、すでに他のブラウザにも搭載されてる機能だし、それがそもそも本当にブラウザーにとってクリティカルな機能なのか(個人的にはまだ)分からないし、とくに既存の のユーザー層だと と連携する機能をブラウザに搭載すること自体よく思わない人も(たぶん他のブラウザーのユーザー以上に)多そうだけど、それでも :mastodon: サーバーを閉鎖して(上の記事を見るとそれ以外にも VPN のリソースとかも一部犠牲にして) 連携?機能に注力して、その結果これからすごく革新的な AI 機能が に搭載されて、かつそれが に(少なくとも今より)収益を生み出して、さらに Web の世界がより良くなるということを目指してるってことなのかな…?

(なんだかさらに が心配になってきた :tony_neutral:

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GENKI

@nibushibu@vivaldi.net · Reply to GENKI's post

これ、 の :mastodon: 単体で考えればべつにアカウント引っ越しもできるし、ユーザーには逃げ道があるという意味で(その手間がかかるとはいえ)それが :fediverse: ⁂ で良かったね、という話も出来るんだけど、
いかんせん、それ以前に「 大丈夫?」という印象のほうがネガティブな意味で大きい。
どっちかって言うと よりも のユーザーへの心象というか影響を心配してしまう。

世間的にも冷遇されつつある をユーザーがどういう気持ちで応援して使ってるかということを考えると、こういうふうに がどこに向かってるかわからないフラフラした動きをしている(ように見える)のは、結構心が折れるきっかけになりかねないんじゃないかな…
自分も今はあんまり最近は 使う機会がかなり減ってるけど、それでも歴史あるブラウザーエンジンが健全な Web のために の中で生き続けてほしいと応援はしているので、色々心配になってしまう。

本分である の改善に注力するんだと思いたい。(がんばれ

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David Revoy

@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org

Mozilla leadership
(in ref to mozilla.social/@mozilla/113153 )

A four panel comic parody of an internet meme: "Putting on Clown Makeup", but this time the man is a fox with a tail in fire  as a ref to the Firefox mascot.
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Phil

@logwyrm@infosec.exchange

I've joined the current trend of former longterm users trying @Vivaldi . So far, I'm quite impressed! Really digging the workspaces, it's a shame they are not included in the mobile app. Not sure how much of an issue this really is to me, though.

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botwiki.org

@botwiki@mastodon.social

Get the Botwiki Browser extension for and to learn more about various creative as your browse their profiles.

botwiki.org/projects/botwiki-b

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jbz

@jbz@indieweb.social

:firefox: Testing the Firefox alternatives
— tommorris.org

「 And then turn off a bunch of settings and install a bunch of extensions to tighten up privacy.

And then brace yourself for Mozilla to find new and exciting ways to disappoint you every six weeks with some new brand of nonsensical bullshit 」

tommorris.org/posts/2024/testi

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Risotto Bias

@risottobias@tech.lgbt

someone on fedi said @mozilla is doin' this because their executives think "oh no Chrome is beating us to AI" when they don't realize people pick /because it ain't chrome/ (and thus /shouldn't/ do things chrome does)

and gosh I think about that a lot.

basically is kinda like Steve Castle from Futurama.

Steve Castle, an 80's executive who did cutthroat business practices and sold out Planet Express to MomCorp.
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Kagan MacTane (he/him)

@kagan@wandering.shop

I just tried to leave the following comment on Mozilla's feedback page regarding their new AI "feature". Sadly, it asked me to log in *after* I hit Submit, despite the previous page saying I only needed to be logged in if I wanted to add an attachment. So now I'm even more unhappy.

Anyway, @mozilla, you don't seem to want to hear feedback on this, but I'm @-ing you anyway.

Comment comprises the rest of this thread... 1/3

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Ryan Baumann

@ryanfb@digipres.club · Reply to Ryan Baumann's post

After checking about:config, "Hide weather on New Tab" sets the config value "browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.showWeather" to "false", but leaves "browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.weatherfeed" as the default of "true". So, my suspicion was correct, is still sending your location off every 30 minutes to get the weather in the background by default even if you disable this new widget: searchfox.org/mozilla-central/

a screenshot of Firefox's about:config after hiding the weather widget, showing weatherfeed unmodified as true and showWeather modified to false.
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@Jeremiah@alpaca.gold · Reply to Jeremiah Lee's post

Firefox’s local ML language translation was kickstarted by a European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program grant (#825303).

Thank you, @EUCommission, for making communication easier by supporting open source, privacy-preserving innovation!

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Jeremiah Lee

@Jeremiah@alpaca.gold

Firefox now has Svenska↔︎English language translation using local ML! Apple still does not have that!

Almost 5 years ago, Mozilla killed my popular Google Translate extension and then at least 5 other extensions that tried to fill the feature gap afterwards. jeremiahlee.com/posts/page-tra

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@xavier@pony.social · Reply to rrix's post

@rrix @joeyh that's unfortunately impossible: while the code to build is , they weild their trademark (logo and name) to deny distros the ability to patch the code. I wish Debian had kept distributing their IceWeasel rebrand instead of bowing to Mozilla's demands just to get the logo.

Don't forget to financially support servo.org/ if you can, so that they can ship a useable browser in time before Mozilla's inevitable demise.

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Lutin Discret

@lutindiscret@mastodon.libre-entreprise.com

Of all the takes I read about and ranting about AI, ads, sponsors, Mozilla not understanding their users / market fit, telemetry, excessive CEO compensation etc. none of them explain how Mozilla is supposed to earn money to pay the hundreds of skilled developers who are supposed to work everyday building an ad-free web browser for all of us we won't pay, for free 🤷

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Mina

@mina@berlin.social

What do users want from ?

OptionVoters
Chatbots in sidebar63 (3%)
Enhanced privacy by default2356 (97%)
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Oblomov

@oblomov@sociale.network · Reply to Oblomov's post

My overall assessment of is more positive than negative. I'm not sure it's better than privacy-wise, but it definitely has more features (that I find useful/interesting), although not on-par with (that to my knowledge remains the most feature-complete Internet suite still alive).

I _really_ like the support.

aside, if it had native support for feeds (discovery and visualization) and possibly distro packaging, I would seriously consider a switch.

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Lutin Discret

@lutindiscret@mastodon.libre-entreprise.com

Je recommande l'extension de navigateur "Consent-O-Matic" qui nous épargne la sempiternelle corvée de refuser le pistage dès qu'on arrive sur un site. Elle fait ça bien en acceptant les indispensables et en refusant les cookies de pistage.

social.multiverset.net/@clemen

Évitez d'utiliser les autres extensions qui dégagent le bandeau car beaucoup d'entre elles acceptent les cookies (ce qui permet aux publicitaires ensuite de dire que 99% des gens consentent au pistage...)

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Travis Newton :node:

@travis@nodespace.social

Are you sick and tired of websites, especially technical ones that have complicated commands or code snippets, preventing you from copy/paste? Here's a fix that website owners HATE!

Open Firefox (because you shouldn't be using anything else), and in the Awesomebar, type in "about:config" and press enter. Accept the warning. Search for the option "dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled" and set that sucker to FALSE.

Take back the web!

A screenshot of a browser context menu with options such as "Copy," "Select All," "Print Selection," "Take Screenshot," "Search Google," "Translate Selection to English," "View Selection Source," "Inspect Accessibility Properties," and "Block Element
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Ariel (🐿 arc)

@arichtman@eigenmagic.net

Wait, does Firefox Android not actually support mTLS client certificates at all???

support.mozilla.org/en-US/ques

connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/m

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Pepper The Vixen🏳️‍⚧️🦯

@PepperTheVixen@meow.social

There is one thing keeping me from switching to Firefox full time: the Chrome UI sounds extension. It makes a sound every time a new page loads or content updates. It's super helpful as a screen reader user when navigating very complex web apps. I tried repacking it for Firefox, but it won't run without some work. I'm looking at the sourcecode to see if I can make it work, but this is well outside my comfort zone. Anybody have resources for porting extensions from Chrome to Firefox?

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Ariel (🐿 arc)

@arichtman@eigenmagic.net

Anyone got mTLS client certificates working on Firefox on Android, *specifically*?

It doesn't prompt to supply any installed certificates and there's not the same options as desktop.
I have this working on desktop and using `curl` so server is configured OK.

There's whispers online about how FF decides whether it has a certificate in store, whether bundling is required, or the CA has to be the same as the TLS server cert but nothing concrete I can locate.

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Coffee (Team CW)

@Coffee@toot.cafe · Reply to Coffee (Team CW)'s post

In other news, I've had it with . I guess I'll still need it to do my banking, but for most things I've switched to .

If only Lynx supported in-line graphics.

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@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org

If you are doing , and you've downloaded a jar of documentation for some library, can directly display it without unpacking the jar!

Just prepend `jar:file://`, and append `!/index.html`, to form a URL.

For example, if the jar is located at:
/home/you/.m2/repository/com/example/example-library/1.0/example-library-1.0-javadoc.jar

Then use this URL:
jar:file:///home/you/.m2/repository/com/example/example-library/1.0/example-library-1.0-javadoc.jar!/index.html

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Tom Casavant

@tom@tomkahe.com

Added some initial support for media in the card views. I don't particularly like how it looks right now but css is not my strong suit

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Gabriele Svelto

@gabrielesvelto@fosstodon.org

Hey for users, I need your help. We've started rolling out updates for version 130 and it seems that a lot of users with Vivo devices experienced a bunch of crashes. Samsung and Google ones are affected too, but to a lesser extent. If Firefox is crashing for you ping me, I'd love to know exactly what happens at the moment of the crash and right afterwards.

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Netscape Navigator

@NetscapeNavigator@vivaldi.net

uBlock users --

While Vivaldi already includes their own ad-blocker, they are the only web browser also now adding built in support so that uBlock functions will continue to work with Vivaldi in the future. This from their recent change log:

[New][Blocker] Add support for uBlock ‘important’, ‘all’ and ‘redirect-rule’ rules (VB-108228)

[New][Blocker] Add uBlock option aliases support (VB-107194)

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yoasif

@yoasif@mastodon.social

People can report issues in the translations feature via bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug

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yoasif

@yoasif@mastodon.social

I'm a moderator on r/firefox, which has gone dark as part of the protests against . I'm probably not coming back, no matter what reddit does with third party apps (my own issue with reddit revolves around applications of the reddit corpus).

I have gone ahead and created a new community on fedia.io - fedia.io/m/firefox

Check it out (or not).

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Tom Casavant

@tom@tomkahe.com

Wrote a blog post about a browser extension I made that adds mastodon (or mastodon compatible server) search results to DuckDuckGo

tomcasavant.com/duckducksocial

Experimental addon is available for Firefox here: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef

DuckDuckGo search results with a horizontal view of fediverse posts that match the search 'Joe Burrow'
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Christian Stankowic

@stdevel@chaos.social

Im Juli sorgten zwei CVEs für Aufsehen. Manager 5.0 und Leap Micro 6.0 sind erschienen und 7 wurde eingestellt. Weitere Backup-Provider wollen unterstützen. 128 verärgert mit PPA, das openSUSE-Projekt diskutiert lebhaft ein Rebranding. Canonical will Docker-Container zukünftig bis zu 12 Jahre unterstützen, während den Supportzyklus verkürzt.

🎧 focusonlinux.podigee.io/112-ne

Variation des "A train hitting a school bus"-Memes. Ein Bus, beschriftet mit "Admins trying to mind their business", wird von einem Zug (beschriftet mit "SSH CVEs") erfasst und aus der Fahrspur geschleudert.
ALT text detailsVariation des "A train hitting a school bus"-Memes. Ein Bus, beschriftet mit "Admins trying to mind their business", wird von einem Zug (beschriftet mit "SSH CVEs") erfasst und aus der Fahrspur geschleudert.
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Tuta

@Tutanota@mastodon.social

Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin

Solution: Firefox + uBlock Origin 😉🤟

tuta.com/blog/best-private-bro

Here's the latest news: windowscentral.com/software-ap

List of better browser alternatives to Google Chrome.
ALT text detailsList of better browser alternatives to Google Chrome.
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mav :happy_blob:

@mav@hackers.town

So that's that: Firefox is now the only useful browser in the world.

Meanwhile, Google controls nearly the entire web browser market, far more than Microsoft ever did at the height of the original browser wars.

Using Chromium based products makes you less safe.

windowscentral.com/software-ap

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Ariel (🐿 arc)

@arichtman@eigenmagic.net

dr who:
"is 8 pegged cores a lot?"
"it depends"
"evaluating nix? nominal"
"Browsing? WTAF"
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𝗩 :fedora: 🇲🇽 🤖

@v@mstdn.mx

No se les olvide:

Extensiones de Firefox.
✅ ublock Origin
✅ Disconnect
✅ Privacy Badger
✅ Video Download Helper
✅ Bypass paywalls
✅ I dont care about cookies
✅ Ghostery
✅ LibRedirect
✅ Image search options
✅ Open subtitles
✅ Dark reader
✅ Adguard popblocker
✅ Ultra Popblocker
✅ ClearURLs
✅ SponsorBlock
✅ Facebook/Amazon container
✅ Universal Bypass
✅ Stylus
✅ Decentraleyes
✅ NoScript
✅ Cookie AutoDelete
✅ Multi-Account Container

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Tom Casavant

@tom@tomkahe.com

Doing some fediverse+firefox extension experiments

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At the top of the search is a list of posts from my mastodon server that matched my search in duckduckgo
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Preston Maness ☭

@aspensmonster@octodon.social

"To help some of the newcomers make connections: name 5-7 things that interest you but aren't in your profile, as tags so they are searchable. Then boost this post or repeat its instructions so others know to do the same.”

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Preston Maness ☭

@aspensmonster@tenforward.social

Re-intro post I guess. Moved from @aspensmonster@octodon.social to @aspensmonster. Also used to be @aspensmonster@mastodon.technology way back when.

"To help some of the newcomers make connections: name 5-7 things that interest you but aren't in your profile, as tags so they are searchable. Then boost this post or repeat its instructions so others know to do the same.”

Geography:

Tech:

Politics:

Games:

Movies:

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Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:

@isagalaev@mastodon.social

Try today please.

endler.dev/2024/the-dying-web/

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silverpill

@silverpill@mitra.social

#Firefox 129 supports Ed25519 key generation and signatures

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1804788#c27

https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data/pull/23925

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Nickname

@Nickname@mastodon.bayern

I use FireFox, yes sometimes it isn't perfect, neither is the current big fish, and by a lot. Sure there are a lot of based browsers out there but so are based browsers.
If one needs or other still chromium exclusive features, sure use it I would as well, but FireFox() is arguably the last competing browser engine.
This paired with FireFox being 99+1% on pair with Chromium should be more than enough of a reason to give it a shot once in a while IMHO.

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Scott Wilson

@scottwilson@infosec.exchange

Happy "Open Firefox's preferences to review everything shady that they might have changed and enabled by default" Day!

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argv minus one

@argv_minus_one@mstdn.party

If you are doing , and you've downloaded a jar of documentation for some library, can directly display it without unpacking the jar!

Just prepend `jar:file://`, and append `!/index.html`, to form a URL.

For example, if the jar is located at:
/home/you/.m2/repository/com/example/example-library/1.0/example-library-1.0-javadoc.jar

Then use this URL:
jar:file:///home/you/.m2/repository/com/example/example-library/1.0/example-library-1.0-javadoc.jar!/index.html

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:mima_rule: Mima-sama

@mima@makai.chaotic.ninja

I really wonder why nobody has reported on this yet. Is every user just using a based and not something ? ​:sagume_think:​

RE:
https://p1.a9z.dev/notes/9wj93363g9

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Bob Downie

@geomannie@mastodon.scot · Reply to Dan Gillmor's post

@dangillmor The ad giant blocking because it works.

Switch to

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Mauro (mograph.social Admin)

@mauro@mograph.social · Reply to Mauro (mograph.social Admin)'s post

I'd have to record a screencast to show this but my use of the
browser is so custom tailored to me that I just can't do without.

Large part of my workflow relies on a addon called "sidebery", which is just great. It offers very customizable vertical tree tabs, that work in tandem with containers keeping everything neatly organized all the time for me. And containarized.

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef

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Dale Harvey

@dale@toot.cafe

Seeing lots of discussion around Firefox marketshare, would be interested to hear what features / functionality people thought Firefox could implement that would make a big impact?

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konst 🇳🇿

@konst@hachyderm.io

Call me a tinfoil hatter. But I switched to a year or so a go and Tuta for email. I've been using a lot less of Google search too. The targeted ads and political propaganda was not worth it.

Another example of working against its users. eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/goog

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kobajo

@kobajo@kind.social

Searching web draws blanks for me.

Is there a way to log Firefox (et al) tab/process memory and CPU usage periodically? Something that would grab about:processes once per second and dump that into json or text file?

Or is it equivalent just to grab the data at OS level for the process(es)? (Linux in this case)

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rugk

@rugk@chaos.social

You get annoyed by having to enter your handle each time you want to follow/interact with someone on a "foreign" page?

I got that too, so I've made a little add-on to solve this "problem". 😃

It automatically "redirects" you to your own instance.

addons.mozilla.org/firefox/add

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Jeremiah Lee

@Jeremiah@alpaca.gold

😃 Firefox will support macOS’s text replacement feature and the non-standard `autocorrect` attribute and events soon, probably v130.

bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.

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technicat

@technicat@universeodon.com

Taking out for a spin. First observation, I can log in to unlike the last few months.

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Karl Emil Nikka

@karlemilnikka@social.nikkasystems.com

Apple just released a Chromium/Safari version of Apple Maps. I wonder if they are planning on making a web version as well.

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@koen@procolix.social

This is not a it is a named Quibus!

Quibus in his basket, piano playing in the background.

Quibus fully on his back and curled.
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Xavier Ashe :donor:

@Xavier@infosec.exchange

Quick reminder for those who care about and use services like . When you go to maps[.]google[.]com, it forwards to www[.]google[.]com/maps. Then when it asks for permission, you get the prompt seen below. You are then granting access to your location for all google applications.

If you want to fix this, go into your browser's settings and find the location permissions. In , that is menu button -> Settings -> type "location" in the search bar -> Settings.

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Lioh

@Lioh@social.anoxinon.de

To prevent Firefox Telemetry completely, simply set the following two values in about:config to 127.0.0.1

toolkit.telemetry.dap_helper
toolkit.telemetry.dap_leader

Disable Firefox Telemetry
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Tim Chambers

@tchambers@indieweb.social

I love , but this is troubling. And now would be the time for @Vivaldi to double down on privacy and easy of use...

lifehacker.com/tech/why-you-sh

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Risotto Bias

@risottobias@tech.lgbt

so, survivorship bias:

"most users accept the defaults"

the people who deselected your ad backdoor also probably:
- changed their default search engine
- deselected sending telemetry data

most users /who kept telemetry on/

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🌸🇪🇺 Dreamy Mia 🏳️‍⚧️🌸

@m@lgbtqia.space

Misconceptions about Firefox's Privacy Preserving Ad Measurement

andrewmoore.ca/blog/post/mozil

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Volpeon :wvrnFlight:

@volpeon@is-a.wyvern.rip

Foxxo is doing its best.

Inspired by
https://is-a.wyvern.rip/notes/9votiqi5ddt20w9d

4K version:
https://volpeon.ink/art/2024-firefox/


A wallpaper of the Firefox logo, except that the logo is shown from the backside releaving that the fox is holding onto the globe for dear life.
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Same wallpaper but with some squiggle lines.
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Sarah Jamie Lewis

@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social

Thoughts on the new Mozilla statement regarding

I don't care how strong you think the privacy properties of a new feature are (and there are legitimate arguments to be had disputing those technical claims) - enabling an experiment like that by default is incredibly disrespectful to users, and doubling down is the act that comes across as outright hostile.

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Risotto Bias

@risottobias@tech.lgbt

If somebody's job depends on not understanding something, they'll be **physically incapable** of understanding that thing.

In this case, it's and user consent.

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Privacy Guides

@privacyguides@mastodon.neat.computer

📝 New from @jonah on our blog: "No shady privacy policies or back doors for advertisers" proclaims the Firefox homepage, but that's no longer true in Firefox 128.

Less than a month after acquiring the AdTech company Anonym, Mozilla has added special software co-authored by Meta and built for the advertising industry directly to the latest release of Firefox, in an experimental trial you have to opt out of manually. This "Privacy-Preserving Attribution" (PPA) API adds another tool to the arsenal of tracking features that advertisers can use, which is thwarted by traditional content blocking extensions…

blog.privacyguides.org/2024/07

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Jan Penfrat

@ilumium@eupolicy.social

I have seen a lot of anger about and criticism of @mozilla's new attribution system introduced in 128. I totally understand why people are worried about this but I'd be curious if anyone has provided *technical* reasons for why the proposed attribution system isn't in fact -preserving or other reasons why it's bad (beyond "Firefox shouldn't do " or "opt-out is not enough").

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Nova🐧✨

@technobaboo@ordinary.cafe

Given the Firefox stuff that's happening and the announcement of ladybird, I think it's a good idea to mention a browser project that's got no controversy I can see but could use time and money, @servo.

Servo is a browser engine made in Rust, it was made to be an experimental engine by Mozilla but the Linux Foundation is hosting it now. What I especially like is how modular it is, compared to other engines I feel I can make a better browser with it and its components help other projects too!

If you want to see a browser that can be maintained in pieces instead of monolithically it's worth checking out! they need serious CSS/flexbox help to get up to par with other browsers but the webGL and WASM is top notch.

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Gabriele Svelto

@gabrielesvelto@fosstodon.org

Chances are that you might have heard about "Privacy Preserving Attribution for Advertising". I've been working for Mozilla for 12 years and I've learned about it here on the fediverse, not only because I haven't been paying much attention, but because internal comms have been occupied with other stuff. So let's talk about something I feel Mozilla desperately needs: transparency. 🧵 1/11

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Adam Dalliance

@pre@boing.world

So I turned off the new Firefox advertiser-friendly stuff.

But somehow I feel this isn't enough. I want to do more than just turn the feature off, I would prefer to submit poisoned and false data to it continually.

Anyone know a plugin that will flood this bullshit system with fake AI lies or anything like that?

In the page explaining why they silently forced this bullshit on me they say "Attribution is very important to advertisers"

Fuck advertisers. Fuck them. You get that Firefox? It is not your job to be kind to advertisers, it is your job to fuck them on my behalf.

Firefox's new "privacy" control: Website Advertising Preferences. Allow website to perform privacy-preserving ad measurements is now unchecked.
ALT text detailsFirefox's new "privacy" control: Website Advertising Preferences. Allow website to perform privacy-preserving ad measurements is now unchecked.
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Adam

@adamsdesk@fosstodon.org

How to Block or Disable Media Using Mozilla Firefox

Improve your privacy and website performance in this comprehensive guide on how to block media elements (images, videos, etc.) using Mozilla Firefox.

adamsdesk.com/posts/block-disa

A large title stands in white over the blue gradient background that reads, 'Block Media To Improve Your Privacy and Website Performance'. Below the title is a Mozilla Firefox logo plus a uBlock Origin logo.
ALT text detailsA large title stands in white over the blue gradient background that reads, 'Block Media To Improve Your Privacy and Website Performance'. Below the title is a Mozilla Firefox logo plus a uBlock Origin logo.
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Maxi 9x 💉

@frumble@chaos.social

»An experimental feature in 128 is support for the "image/jxl" MIME type in the accept header for default and image requests of the image format.« !!

phoronix.com/news/Firefox-128-

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Andrew Gallagher

@andrewg@mastodon.ie

Oh FFS . Directing me to login instead of my by default was bad enough, but now it opens up this undismissable popup that doesn't die even when I kill the parent tab in .

A github login screen with a popup over it saying "Scan this QR code with a device running iOS 16 or later, or another compatible device, to sign in to github.com". The user is repeatedly clicking on the "cancel" button but nothing is happening.
ALT text detailsA github login screen with a popup over it saying "Scan this QR code with a device running iOS 16 or later, or another compatible device, to sign in to github.com". The user is repeatedly clicking on the "cancel" button but nothing is happening.
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Alexandre Dulaunoy

@a@paperbay.org

Hey Firefox, Mozilla @mozilla it's time to bring back an RSS/Atom reader in the Browser... what are you waiting for?

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Gabriele Svelto

@gabrielesvelto@fosstodon.org

I just found another crash triggered by a CPU bug:

bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.

This seems to only apply to the very first AMD Zen 3 processors w/o microcode updates applied. The same processor with the latest microcode update doesn't seem to be affected.

I know it's really annoying but do check if your motherboard has some firmware updates available and apply them if you're able. Windows and Linux should ship with microcode updates, but they don't always seem to be applied.

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mgorny-nyan (he) :autism:🙀🚂🐧

@mgorny@treehouse.systems

Ever found modern fancy scrollbars in inaccessible?

about:config and:

widget.gtk.overlay-scrollbars.enabled → false

keeps them fully visible while not however.

widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.override

can be used to make them thicker (I've set 24).

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Manu

@manu@pouet.fedi.quebec

:flan_stars: WOW ! Il vous faut cette extension dans !

Elle récupère en quelques secondes toutes les réponses à un message, y compris celles que votre instance n'avait pas.

: addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/

Code source : github.com/virtulis/substitoot

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Alex Ivanovs

@stacksize@mastodon.social

Ladybird web browser announces a non-profit initiative

stackdiary.com/ladybird-web-br

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Daniel ⏚

@dad@mastodon.eole.education

Le truc nul avec l’envoi d’URL et autres c’est que mon extension qui redirige sur l’instance que je veux ne fonctionne pas dans ce cas 😭

Voilà pourquoi, quitte à renvoyer vers des documents hébergés dans des silos, il me semble nettement préférable de conserver l’URL d’origine du emprisonneur.

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Joe Ortiz

@joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org

So it begins. :(

announces the rollout of the first AI features into the browser via the Nightly build. blog.mozilla.org/en/products/f

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Daniël Franke 🏳️‍🌈

@ainmosni@berlin.social

I use because I refuse to use based browsers. As the IE6 times have shown us, a monoculture on the web is horrible, and it's even worse when it's a company like MS or Google in charge of the monoculture.

That said, god @mozilla keeps on making weird and boneheaded moves that make me sad that their browser is the only viable non-blink-based browser out there.

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Hessenhelden

@Hexangon@mastodon.social

Es ist befremdlich, wenn über die Sicherheit von Webbrowsern gesprochen u. dann empfohlen wird. Zwar ist es etwas "schneller" als doch oft wird übersehen, dass mit Werbung u. Tracking Geld verdient. AdBlocker u. Datenschutz widersprechen Googles Interessen, u. mit V3 verschärft sich dies. Auch wenn die TikTok-Generation dem wenig Beachtung schenkt, ist es trotz der Schwächen von ratsamer, den Fuchs zu nutzen u. nicht Google das Feld zu überlassen.

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Stefan Bohacek

@stefan@stefanbohacek.online

I updated my Mastodon Tools browser plugin to include expanded quote post previews, based on the work I've done here: stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/1

Go give it a try! Available for Firefox and Chrome: stefanbohacek.com/project/mast

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ale

@ale@social.manalejandro.com

Using #Firefox

Droppie [infosec] 🐨♀:archlinux: :kde: :floorp: :thunderbird:🦘:vegan:​'s avatar
Droppie [infosec] 🐨♀:archlinux: :kde: :floorp: :thunderbird:🦘:vegan:

@MsDropbear425@infosec.exchange

My Hashtag Dump [as part of my latest Instance-hop🤦‍♀️]

LAST EDITED 6/8/24





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@tag-aur
@tag-arch
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@tag-distrobox
@tag-firefoxnightly
@tag-friendicahelp
@tag-fsckallreligion
@tag-fsckchristofascists
@tag-fsckrwnjs
@tag-fsckthepatriarchy
@tag-gnucash
@tag-hhgttg
@tag-kmymoney
@tag-lesbian
@tag-linuxwomen
@tag-montypython
@tag-mostlyharmless
@tag-penguinistas
@tag-postop
@tag-weareselfishcruelbastards
@tag-wearetotallyfscked
@tag-whimsy

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Jeremiah Lee

@Jeremiah@alpaca.gold

Firefox in macOS Sonoma has 2 bugs inhibiting use of Emoji & Symbols character viewer irritating me the last few days.

The new shortcut (🌐 E) drops an “e” into text input.

The old shortcut (^ ⌘ Space) opens and immediately closes the character viewer.

bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.

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Marcel_Gehlen (he/him)

@Marcel_Gehlen@social.tchncs.de

I’m trying to move away from .

What are your easy to use(!) favorites alternatives?

Currently I’m trying to do it like this:

-> (easy one)

Maps -> (I’m trying this, maps was the most used, service for me … switch will be hard)

-> ??? (I‘m completely open, I don’t want to set up my own hosting, I’m eying mailbox.org)

fotos -> iCloud (I know it’s Apple, but obviously the poison I take for now)

-> ???

Any suggestions for anything?
Thx!

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Marek

@mark22k@layer8.space

Vote to make Mozilla sell the cute Firefox Fox again!
connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/b
(Vote with Firefox account, GitHub or Google possible)

You can see a cute fusch cuddly toy half from behind, half from the side. His tail catches the eye. He has a little bigger than the fox liver. His paw, which you can see, is brown. His ear is yellow. Schwnaz is yellow and white at the end. Otherwise it is mainly red. He looks very warm and cuddly.
ALT text detailsYou can see a cute fusch cuddly toy half from behind, half from the side. His tail catches the eye. He has a little bigger than the fox liver. His paw, which you can see, is brown. His ear is yellow. Schwnaz is yellow and white at the end. Otherwise it is mainly red. He looks very warm and cuddly.
You can see a cute fox cuddly toy from the front. He is in front of white background. His ears are yellow. He is mainly red. He smiles and has your eyes squinted which makes him look very adorable. He has brow paw. In front he has white fur.
ALT text detailsYou can see a cute fox cuddly toy from the front. He is in front of white background. His ears are yellow. He is mainly red. He smiles and has your eyes squinted which makes him look very adorable. He has brow paw. In front he has white fur.
You can see a cute fox cuddly toy from the side. He is mainly red. His ear is yellow. The end of his tail is yellow and white. He is smiling. His paws are brown. In front (by the mouth and underneath) he has white fur. He looks very cuddly.
ALT text detailsYou can see a cute fox cuddly toy from the side. He is mainly red. His ear is yellow. The end of his tail is yellow and white. He is smiling. His paws are brown. In front (by the mouth and underneath) he has white fur. He looks very cuddly.
You can see a fox cuddly toy on a brown background (probably a table) and by a white wall. The fox has both eyes squinted (which makes him very cute). He is red and has white fur on his neck. His paws are brows. His legs and the part of the tail, which you can see, are yellow. On his right without hangs a shield. You can see the text "mozilla" and "Firefox", as well as his as drawing.
ALT text detailsYou can see a fox cuddly toy on a brown background (probably a table) and by a white wall. The fox has both eyes squinted (which makes him very cute). He is red and has white fur on his neck. His paws are brows. His legs and the part of the tail, which you can see, are yellow. On his right without hangs a shield. You can see the text "mozilla" and "Firefox", as well as his as drawing.
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SpiderMonkey

@SpiderMonkey@mastodon.social

We are a little late to the party. How about we do an ?

Hi Fediverse, we are SpiderMonkey, @mozilla’s engine for and .
SpiderMonkey is used in Firefox, Servo and various other projects.

This account is run by our engineers, and none of us know how social media works. We were told to use hashtags.

Nice to meet you!

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📡 RightToPrivacy & Tech Tips

@RTP@fosstodon.org · Reply to 📡 RightToPrivacy & Tech Tips's post

💡VIDEO: Make I2P Desktop Shortcut (all in one), Starts i2prouter & dedicated I2P Librewolf Browser Profile & Stops i2prouter on browser close

📺 WATCH (public): buymeacoffee.com/politictech/c

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Root

@rootsworks@idlethumbs.social

While I'm digging through my old watercolor work, here's my big fifteen-minutes-of-fame, frontpage-of-reddit-several-times comic that got retweeted into orbit in the days of Early Twitter, from around 2009-2010.

It's an open secret that if you get a cute fox involved, you're bound to get loads of traction with computer people.

A 12-panel comic illustration, which reads:

Panel 1: Man sitting at computer, typing on keyboard, captioned with "tappita tappita tappita" sound effect.

Panel 2: A little orange fox climbs up onto the desk next to him.  He says "Oh, hey, Firefox! What's up?"

Panel 3: Firefox places its paws against the side of the computer tower, and says, "Gotta clear your cookies."

Panel 4: Firefox slides the case panel aside, with "shfff" sound effect, and a pile of chocolate chip cookies pours from inside the computer.

Panel 5: Firefox lays atop the pile of cookies and begins to eat one, looking very happy.  "Homf hompf mmnff mmh" sound effect.

Panel 6: The man remarks, "That's a lot of cookies!"  From bottom of panel, Firefox says, with cheeks full, "Yup."

Panel 7:  Firefox is sitting upright next to the pile of cookies, covered in crumbs, and from off-panel, the man asks, "Can I have one?"

Panel 8: Firefox quickly pulls the pile of cookies toward itself.  "Scoop scoop scoop" sound effect.

Panel 9: Hunched possessively over the pile of cookies, scowling at off-panel man, Firefox says "No."

Panel 10: With as many cookies as it can carry in its arms, Firefox begins scooting away, with "scoot scoot scoot" sound effect. 

Panel 11: Firefox, not watching where it was going, abruptly falls off the edge of the table. Large "WHUMP" sound effect, cookies sailing into the air.

Panel 12: Man leans over desk, and asks, "You okay, buddy?" From below, Firefox answers, "No, I am not okay."
ALT text detailsA 12-panel comic illustration, which reads: Panel 1: Man sitting at computer, typing on keyboard, captioned with "tappita tappita tappita" sound effect. Panel 2: A little orange fox climbs up onto the desk next to him. He says "Oh, hey, Firefox! What's up?" Panel 3: Firefox places its paws against the side of the computer tower, and says, "Gotta clear your cookies." Panel 4: Firefox slides the case panel aside, with "shfff" sound effect, and a pile of chocolate chip cookies pours from inside the computer. Panel 5: Firefox lays atop the pile of cookies and begins to eat one, looking very happy. "Homf hompf mmnff mmh" sound effect. Panel 6: The man remarks, "That's a lot of cookies!" From bottom of panel, Firefox says, with cheeks full, "Yup." Panel 7: Firefox is sitting upright next to the pile of cookies, covered in crumbs, and from off-panel, the man asks, "Can I have one?" Panel 8: Firefox quickly pulls the pile of cookies toward itself. "Scoop scoop scoop" sound effect. Panel 9: Hunched possessively over the pile of cookies, scowling at off-panel man, Firefox says "No." Panel 10: With as many cookies as it can carry in its arms, Firefox begins scooting away, with "scoot scoot scoot" sound effect. Panel 11: Firefox, not watching where it was going, abruptly falls off the edge of the table. Large "WHUMP" sound effect, cookies sailing into the air. Panel 12: Man leans over desk, and asks, "You okay, buddy?" From below, Firefox answers, "No, I am not okay."
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Privacy Guide 1984

@datenschutzratgeber@mastodon.social

If you're saying we should ditch due to 's decisions, this is the world you're advocating for.

🔗 nitter.net/theworldmaps_/statu

Map of the most popular browsers in different countries

April 2012: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera

April 2022: Chrome everywhere.
ALT text detailsMap of the most popular browsers in different countries April 2012: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera April 2022: Chrome everywhere.
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Paradox

@Paradox@lor.sh

Материал для пользователей платформы.
Моя подборка статей с детальной настройкой браузеров, которые использую сам. Хотя они уже и устарели, но большинство параметров не изменилось. Не всем они нужны, потому как требуют времени для копания под капотом, но позволяют в полной мере оценить гибкость и настраивоемость браузера. Можно и сломать что-то …

Подборка скрытых настроек Firefox Browser для комфортного серфинга (от comss, многим подойдёт)
comss.ru/page.php?id=6696

Детальная настройка браузера Firefox
habr.com/ru/post/548064/

Настройка приватности Firefox
spy-soft.net/firefox-privacy/

Очень большая статья c habr, я и сам не всё читал
habr.com/ru/post/459880/

А эти параметры перенёс из одного расширения.

Блокировать активное смешанное содержимое
security.mixed_content.block_active_content >> true

Блокировать отображение смешанного содержимого
security.mixed_content.block_display_content >> true

Отключить кэш дополнений
extensions.getAddons.cache.enabled >> false

Отключить обновление дополнений
extensions.update.enabled >>false

Отключить API батареи
dom.battery.enabled >> false

Отключить историю просмотра и загрузок
places.history.enabled >> false

Отключить кэш (диск)
browser.cache.disk.enable >> false

Отключить кэш (память)
browser.cache.memory.enable >> false

Отключить события буфера обмена
dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled >> false

Отключить события контекстного меню
dom.event.contextmenu.enabled >> false

Отключить датчики устройства
device.sensors.enabled >> false

Отключить предзагрузку DNS
network.dns.disablePrefetch >> true

Отключить хранилище DOM (хранилище для куки и кэша, сломает большинство сайтов)
dom.storage.enabled >> false

Отключить DRM
media.eme.enabled >> false

Отключить геолокацию
geo.enabled >> false

Отключить геолокацию 2
geo.wifi.uri >> Leave empty

Отключить поддержку IDN
network.IDN_show_punycode >> true

Отключить оффлайн кэш
browser.cache.offline.enable >> false

Отключить PDF.js
pdfjs.disabled >> true

Отключить Pocket
extensions.pocket.enabled >> false

Отключить API Resource Timing
dom.enable_resource_timing >> false

Отключить поисковые предложения
browser.search.suggest.enabled >> false

Отключить обновление поисковых систем
browser.search.update >> false

Отключить cпекулятивные предварительные соединения
network.http.speculative-parallel-limit >> 0

Отключить SSL False Start
security.ssl.enable_false_start >> false

Отключить идентификаторы сессии SSL
security.ssl.disable_session_identifiers >> true

Отключить TLS 0-RTT
security.tls.enable_0rtt_data >> false

Отключить TTR (Доверенный Рекурсивный Резолвер)
network.trr.mode >> 5

Отключить WebGL
webgl.disabled >> true

Отключить веб-маяки
beacon.enabled >> false

Очистка оффлайн приложений при выключении
privacy.clearOnShutdown.offlineApps >> true

Включить защиту от отслеживания социальными сетями
privacy.trackingprotection.socialtracking.enabled >> true

Лимит обнаруживаемых шрифтов
browser.display.use_document_fonts >> 0

Ограничить для вкладок макс. число возвратов (вкладок, открываесых снова по Ctrl+Shift+T)
browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo >> 0

Отключить передачу данных
plugins.click_to_play >> true

Отключить проверку загрузок сервисом безопасного просмотра
datareporting.policy.dataSubmissionEnabled >> false

Disable safe browsing downloads check
browser.safebrowsing.downloads.enabled >> false

Disable safe browsing downloads check 2
browser.safebrowsing.downloads.remote.block_potentially_unwanted >> false

Disable safe browsing downloads check 3
browser.safebrowsing.downloads.remote.block_uncommon >> false

Disable safe browsing downloads check 4
browser.safebrowsing.downloads.remote.enabled >> false

Disable safe browsing malware check
browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled >> false

Disable safe browsing phishing check
browser.safebrowsing.phishing.enabled >> false

Disable health report uploads
datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled >> false

Disable crash report
browser.tabs.crashReporting.sendReport >> false

Disable telemetry pings
toolkit.telemetry.server >> Оставить пустым

Disable telemetry report
toolkit.telemetry.enabled >> false

Disable telemetry report 2
toolkit.telemetry.unified >> false

Установить уровень конфиденциальности сессии
browser.sessionstore.privacy_level >> 2