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Right. Well I'm referring to always turning it off, and the option very specifically is: media.autoplay.default if 0, then it's on. if 1, then it's off. 2, I'm not sure.
pref("media.autoplay.default", 2); // 0=Allowed, 1=Blocked, 2=Prompt https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/app/p...
Kind of a niche thing to comment on, but this release lands a commit I made that enables XDG desktop portals support in Firefox. If you're on KDE Plasma, you can run Firefox with the environment variable `GTK_USE_PORTAL=1` set and it will use KDE file selection dialogs.
Every new release of Firefox makes the experience better and better. I'm glad Mozilla has started focusing on the browser again, not just as an "open alternative to chrome" but as the "best possible browser", which I truly believe Firefox today is :) Every new release reminds me of this comic: http://www.stickycomics.com/computer-update/ As a tweet I read today[1] : "Mozilla seems to be under the assumption that ther…
Why aren't they working on Firefox then?
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I "wanted" Mozilla to win, in the last two years we've had the Cliqz and Looking Glass controversies, and a number of security reports based on decade-old bugs. Firefox is a great browser, but Looking Glass was enough for me to switch back to Chrome. I want Mozilla to do well, but like the author has said, their marketing team seems to have strange ideas of how to win, and it goes completely against the perception of…
So you switched to Chrome ?! Where the analytics stuff is not just a single fuck-up (followed by an apology) but built-in? Where all of a sudden "delete cookies" means "delete cookies except for those by Google"? I don't get it. Criticizing Mozilla for those things is fair, but switching to Chrome as a reaction to them doesn't make sense to me.
With Firefox, it's a breach of trust. The analytics stuff was a major fuck-up, and I would've accepted that apology if they didn't then align themselves with a TV company to run a promotion in my browser.
I could understand all of it if the code base was amazing, but when your flagship product receives exploits from bugs raised over a decade ago, before Chrome even existed, it's hard to trust Mozilla to be able to compete with Google.
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Doesn’t Safari prevent videos from auto-playing?
Not in my experience, although I thought it was supposed to.
It's a binary plist, but you can view the content using:
plutil -p ~/Library/Safari/SitesAllowedToAutoplay.plistKind of a niche thing to comment on, but this release lands a commit I made that enables XDG desktop portals support in Firefox. If you're on KDE Plasma, you can run Firefox with the environment variable `GTK_USE_PORTAL=1` set and it will use KDE file selection dialogs.
Would someone mind explaining how to set this for a user (ahem, myself), who've not set environment variables in firefox? A Kubuntu user.
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I understood your post until the last line. The new versions of Firefox have almost the same plugin interface as Chromium. If you're satisfied with it, then why aren't you satisfied with it?
I'm now using cVim[0] plugin on Chromium. When I've switched from Firefox a year ago there was no real alternative to keysnail[1]. Backwards compatibility between Firefox releases began to break beginning of 2017. mooz, the developer of keysnail, managed to do some heroics and bring back the usability of the plugin on the never versions. Finally, Firefox 57 put the nail in the coffin and keysnail was declared dead on…
There's also a menagerie of Vimperator alikes for Firefox: Tridactyl, Vim Vixen, Surfingkeys, Vimium-FF, VVVimpulation. Most of them have improved substantially since September 2017.
Disclaimer: lots of Tridactyl's jank is my fault.
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I use Panorama View, it's a clone of the old tab groups functionality. Multiple windows is hard to save as a session. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/panorama-view...
I endlessly miss tab grouping
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Also being able to save them as a session would be a nice touch.
I just found this yesterday, for saving sessions. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/session-sync/ It has the advantage that it just saves to a special spot in bookmarks, so these sessions sync across devices too: open source too: https://github.com/ReDEnergy/SessionSync