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Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by bubblethink »

kbenson wrote: post #327
bubblethink wrote: post #199

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Yes, I can still reproduce it on 64. I'm on linux though.

Pretty sure I figured this out, since I was able to reproduce it as well. It has to do with caching and something Whatsapp is doing to restore the page from local data most likely, as once you clear the local data for web.whatsapp.com, it correctly requests redirecting to the correct container. If I had to guess, I suspect that Firefox triggers the container switch dialog on the first network request, and that page i…

I had a look at the github issue, and what worked was this comment: https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/8...

You can try this if it affects you.

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Post by fooblat »

cpeterso wrote: post #221
move-on-by wrote: post #147

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I've pretty much made the same changes. I was luke-warm on the switch from chrome to Firefox until I started using containers and CookieAutoDelete with those containers. I have a 'Google' container that preserves google cookies for when I log into gmail (transition in progress)- but otherwise google cookies get automatically deleted. There are a handful of other sites I wish to stay logged into - like github, slack,…

You like the "Temporary Containers" extension. It automatically creates a new container for every site that doesn't already have an assigned container. The temporary container (cookies, etc) get deleted 30 minutes after you close the last tab for the container's site. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...

I just found my new fave FF extension. Thank you for sharing this!

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by vanderZwan »

seabrookmx wrote: post #360
vanderZwan wrote: post #306

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The latter might also be due to extensions

I could see that. Not the issue in my case though.. I don't use any extensions on my mobile browsers.

Heh, maybe it's the opposite then! Like an accumulation of shitty trackers, because you don't use uBlock or privacy badger or the like. That would be pretty ironic

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by throwaway77384 »

zanmat0 wrote: post #265
pselbert wrote: post #179

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Not the original poster, but I would recommend to anybody that they move to Fastmail.

another vote for Fastmail from me

I'd be careful with that one, due to recent developments in Australia, more or less banning encryption (and legalising subverting employees of companies without the company's knowledge, to break their encryption schemes secretly). Until we know more, not a single Australian product can be trusted and even Australian employees of companies working overseas can't be trusted anymore. It's horrific.

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Post by rcMgD2BwE72F »

tarabanga wrote: post #346
lugg wrote: post #100

Recently switched from chromium to Firefox. Very pleased with its performance. Android Firefox demolishes chrome too but probably just because I no longer need to download and render all the ads (thanks ublock.) While I was at it I also took the chance to migrate passwords out of Google land into Bitwarden. Session restore is amazing, my .cache is tmpfs but it still manages to instantly recover all my tabs on reboot.…

> Passwords managed by bitwarden Is there a specific reason you don't use Firefox' password manager? (Read: Do I have reason to migrate out of it?)

To log into mobile apps, for Wifi passwords, file passwords, etc.

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Post by zapzupnz »

Shivetya wrote: post #142
yuchi wrote: post #87

> Support for Handoff on macOS: Continue browsing across devices. Pick up where you left off with iOS (via Firefox or Safari) on Firefox on Mac. OH YES! Finally!

I tried both Safari and Chrome of macOS but went back to Firefox for one simple reason. When watching streaming content if the browser was not in the foreground it would reduce the quality of the streamed content which could take almost ten seconds to revert back when focus was given. Firefox doesn't seem to know/care if its not top window

Safari user, always play videos in a background window, never seen this. I suspect it’s not the browser’s video playback but perhaps more to do with how it handles spikes and drops in connection quality?

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Post by zapzupnz »

Tomte wrote: post #288
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #201

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I didn't realize Handoff was even possible for third party apps!

I suppose there is no way to make it work with Firefox on Windows and iOS? That would be awesome!

The architecture for Handoff isn’t available on Windows (and it would be much more complex than a simple library since so much of the networking and Bluetooth stacks are entirely different between platforms), so no. I think Windows has its own, similar thing but, of course, iOS wouldn’t know how to communicate with it.

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by zaarn »

ekianjo wrote: post #352
zaarn wrote: post #257

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If telemetry was off by default, Mozilla would be blind to what the users are doing, to common sources of crashes and to what features are not being used. Mozilla needs that information to be able to make a decision on where to focus. Same for ads, default off ads defeats the entire purpose. Mozilla is a privacy-aware and even -focused corporation and I will assume that the defaults of the browser are good for the co…

mozilla needs to ask before collecting data. What is difficult about that?

They need to ask if they collect personal data as per GDPR or the US Data Privacy laws. If the data collected is not of private nature they don't need to ask.

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by zapzupnz »

sigjuice wrote: post #83
vishnu_ks wrote: post #46

I don't understand why Firefox doesn't include an option to download the .deb package instead of tar file for Ubuntu and Debian during release announcements. The market share is already shrinking and why make it harder for people to install or upgrade Firefox? Chrome does it. Why can't Firefox do that as well?

Untar anywhere you like and run it from there. I recommend the home directory. You don’t even have to become root. This copy of Firefox should also update itself automatically.

It would be fantastic if this were more like .app bundles on macOS. It’s a special, self-contained folder that GUIs treat as the application binary (double click to launch, etc) but that power users can open as a folder or navigate inside of using a shell.

Then again, I though AppImage was supposed to be something like this?

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