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Re: Extensions in Firefox 59

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Post by sundarurfriend »

kibwen wrote: post #4

Happy to see that Mozilla was serious about their intentions to extend the WebExtensions API in post-57 Firefox. I'm also happily surprised at the section about user notification of extension overrides; having a nice UI for this sort of thing is a difficult yet worthwhile problem (and I'm also a big fan of the new Preferences tab in general, it works far better than the old popup window). Hopefully some of this will…

> though I don't see anything that will satisfy the vimperator users, I'm encouraged by the new mouse gesture APIs

Yep, me too. I switched to Waterfox for the time being because of how important FireGestures is to me. If full-fledged mouse gestures extensions become available in Fx again, that would be a big step towards making the new Firefox usable for me.

Since you mentioned vimperator, another major issue for me is the lack of a VimFx style extension - that one is much simpler than vimperator or pentadactyl, and has other new attempts at alternatives, but 'Saka keys' is the one that seems to come closest (and makes this less of an issue than the mouse gestures one) and that's still kinda buggy and years behind VimFx in terms of features.

I would have missed Tab groups though it's not that big of a deal to me, but I'm glad we'd have that feature again. And another minor issue in that league is the lack of a good Speed Dial extension with a decent UI and set of features (which none of the "replacements" had last time I tried them out).

Re: Extensions in Firefox 59

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Post by sundarurfriend »

imiric wrote: post #167
kibwen wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In my defense, one of my own housemates is one of those who has refused to update for want of vimperator. :P

Same here. I've tried alternatives like Waterfox and Pale Moon, but Waterfox is incompatible with some sites, and Pale Moon is dog slow, so I reverted back to Firefox 56. Not upgrading a browser is a scary situation to be in, but I just can't sacrifice the usability of Vimperator.

> I've tried alternatives like Waterfox and Pale Moon, but Waterfox is incompatible with some sites

Oh, I haven't experienced that in a few months of usage. What kind of incompatibilities did you come across?

I was initially reluctant about trying Waterfox and made several backups of my then-Firefox profile, but it's been a smooth sail and an easy switch so far.

Re: Extensions in Firefox 59

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Post by soapdog »

auxbuss wrote: post #173
soapdog wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have been using patchwork[1] as my main social network client for scuttlebutt. In my current experience, the fact that messages are not removable makes me more careful when writing and has led to much better and more meaningful interactions on the network. Also remember that a message being in the feed doesn't mean it is displayed. Scuttlebutt is quite flexible, there are clients that have support for "chess messag…

Erasure of data, on demand, is a requirement of GDPR[0], which becomes law in Europe on 25 May 2018. Note that erasure of the data is required, not just its display. IANAL, but the above appears to be contrary to GDPR. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...

I am not a lawyer either, but doing a quick read on the scope, I found in first phrase:

  "The regulation applies if the data controller (an organization that collects data from EU residents) or processor (an organization that processes data on behalf of data controller e.g. cloud service providers) or the data subject (person) is based in the EU."
And this might not apply as there is no data controller, organization or company. You data is on your computer and it replicates that data to friends and friends of friends. There is no cloud or service involved, it is from one machine to the other, I believe someone that has real knowledge of legal matters and p2p should chime in. I am also a bit lost regarding this.

Re: Extensions in Firefox 59

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Post by rplnt »

jay-anderson wrote: post #76
swang wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

don't bother to link to jwz from hn since he redirects you to (what i guess is) a nsfw image

To get around this you can disable the inclusion of the referrer. In firefox set `Network.http.sendRefererHeader` to `0` in about:config. Of course this only lets you avoid it. But, yeah, I agree. That's pretty rotten behavior and worth avoiding linking there.

I was under the impression browser doesn't send referrer when using https. Was it always like this?

Re: Extensions in Firefox 59

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Post by gkgicccj »

cstdr wrote: post #186
gkgicccj wrote: post #160

I'm still annoyed by some fx changes that are purely out of chrome jealousy. The address bar suggestions used to be 2-lines and were so readable until someone just blindly copied the unreadable version of chrome.

You mean like this " rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/6ZXAchD.png> ? You can get the old look back via userChrome.css. Relevant styles from mine: #PopupAutoCompleteRichResult .ac-separator { page-break-before: always; width: 47px; } #PopupAutoCompleteRichResult .ac-separator-text { display: none !important; } #PopupAutoCompleteRichResult richlistitem { display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; align-items: center; height: au…

Yes, thank you!

Re: Extensions in Firefox 59

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Post by rmc »

soapdog wrote: post #194
auxbuss wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Erasure of data, on demand, is a requirement of GDPR[0], which becomes law in Europe on 25 May 2018. Note that erasure of the data is required, not just its display. IANAL, but the above appears to be contrary to GDPR. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...

I am not a lawyer either, but doing a quick read on the scope, I found in first phrase: "The regulation applies if the data controller (an organization that collects data from EU residents) or processor (an organization that processes data on behalf of data controller e.g. cloud service providers) or the data subject (person) is based in the EU." And this might not apply as there is no data controller, organization o…

Surely that means that the people who replicate it from your ("your friends" and "your friends of friends") would be required to delete the (personal) data?

Re: Extensions in Firefox 59

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Post by lol768 »

rplnt wrote: post #195
jay-anderson wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To get around this you can disable the inclusion of the referrer. In firefox set `Network.http.sendRefererHeader` to `0` in about:config. Of course this only lets you avoid it. But, yeah, I agree. That's pretty rotten behavior and worth avoiding linking there.

I was under the impression browser doesn't send referrer when using https. Was it always like this?

The default referrer policy is "no-referrer-when-downgrade", so it won't send a Referer header to a "less" secure destination (HTTPS -> HTTP), but it will send one to an "equally" secure destination (HTTPS -> HTTPS).

Websites can override this though. For example, HN could send a "no-referrer" directive to prevent any Referer header being sent.

More information: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Re...

Re: Extensions in Firefox 59

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Post by jovdg »

rmc wrote: post #197
soapdog wrote: post #194

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am not a lawyer either, but doing a quick read on the scope, I found in first phrase: "The regulation applies if the data controller (an organization that collects data from EU residents) or processor (an organization that processes data on behalf of data controller e.g. cloud service providers) or the data subject (person) is based in the EU." And this might not apply as there is no data controller, organization o…

Surely that means that the people who replicate it from your ("your friends" and "your friends of friends") would be required to delete the (personal) data?

So I could require anyone inside the EU to delete any mail they received from me? (I'm in the EU)

Re: Extensions in Firefox 59

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Post by oblio »

baby wrote: post #183
severine wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think so, what makes you say that?

I'm waiting for them to include something like tree-style tabs by default in a future version :o

That'll never happen. Some casual users are confused by tab bars. And casual users understand trees even less.
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