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Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by zepearl »

shawnz wrote: post #39
zepearl wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It truly is the new IE Funny, and true at least in the company I'm working for (officially supported browsers are primarily IE11 and optionally Chrome). A colleague told me a few months ago that Firefox was not supported because it did not support some Windows "policies" (Windows or Active Directory? Not sure, no clue about that stuff) but that Firefox was going to support them soon... .

Likely they did indeed mean Group Policy in the Active Directory sense, although that's been supported in Firefox for over a year now

Thx!

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by zepearl »

jacquesm wrote: post #33
zepearl wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just for my understanding, any special reason to have 100's of tabs open? Meaning: I basically have a mindset which as a programmer would say: "shall I spend effort trying to optimize my app for users that have 200 tabs open? Naaaa, I don't see a usecase for that to happen."

Yes, sure. I do technical due diligence for a living and when researching a particular company every time I come across another interesting link that hasn't changed color yet I open another tab. Then I just keep reading until there are no more tabs open, and no more interesting notes to take. It's part of my workflow (and one of the reasons why the scrapbook add-on is essential to me, another reason I do my work on t…

Oohh, ok, I think that I got it (you keep opening new/unknown links in additional tabs and once you have them all you go through them) - thx.

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by zepearl »

weberc2 wrote: post #32
zepearl wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just for my understanding, any special reason to have 100's of tabs open? Meaning: I basically have a mindset which as a programmer would say: "shall I spend effort trying to optimize my app for users that have 200 tabs open? Naaaa, I don't see a usecase for that to happen."

Optimize for the user who has 100s of tabs open or the user who has 10 tabs but one is Slack.

This is funny - here in Switzerland & Germany I have never, ever heard anybody mentioning "Slack". I read about it the first time when I was reading docs & posts about the chat riot.im/matrix some months ago (maybe in connection with the Matrix "bridges") and from time to time here on HN but I never payed much attention to it.

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by arendtio »

jacquesm wrote: post #7

I have two main computers. One has for continuity reasons the old version of Firefox, the other the new one. The old version is so much more usable that I find myself using that computer much more frequently. It is rock solid with 100's of tabs open, all my extensions work and without silly restrictions on what they can and can not do and it uses a lot less memory. It's measurably faster too. I'm all for progress and…

Something is probably wrong with your newer version.

While I agree with you that the whole addon migration was a disaster and the wounds are healing just very slowly, I don't have the impression that recent Firefox versions had any performance issues (at least on my machines).

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by TeMPOraL »

zepearl wrote: post #29
jacquesm wrote: post #7

I have two main computers. One has for continuity reasons the old version of Firefox, the other the new one. The old version is so much more usable that I find myself using that computer much more frequently. It is rock solid with 100's of tabs open, all my extensions work and without silly restrictions on what they can and can not do and it uses a lot less memory. It's measurably faster too. I'm all for progress and…

Just for my understanding, any special reason to have 100's of tabs open? Meaning: I basically have a mindset which as a programmer would say: "shall I spend effort trying to optimize my app for users that have 200 tabs open? Naaaa, I don't see a usecase for that to happen."

An alternative and pretty useful point of view is: optimizing for 100s of tabs essentially creates new use cases that weren't possible before.

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by cpeterso »

komali2 wrote: post #28
iaml wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google meet works in firefox (at least dev edition).

It didn't today for us.

I think there is an issue where Google Hangout meetings created a long time ago don't support Firefox, but new meetings do.

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by deca6cda37d0 »

o10449366 wrote: post #18
whizzkid wrote: post #4

It is funny how my browser preferences has changed over last 5 years. 2014 me as a developer had Chrome as number 1 browser for both development and all rest. Firefox once a month just to check cross browser compatibility. And Safari was just installed without me using it. 2019 me uses Safari for everything except development. Excellent power consumption and UX. Firefox for development. And lastly Chrome for all web…

I sorely want to switch to Safari but I can't port all of my Chrome extensions over.

Which ones are you missing?

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by arthurfm »

zepearl wrote: post #26
shrikant wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most Google apps only just about "work" on Firefox. They're clearly optimised for Chromium and it shows. I use Firefox for all my browsing needs except for Google apps, for which I keep an install of Vivaldi around. I only really fire up Chrome if some stupid internal workplace app refuses to work on anything else. It truly is the new IE.

> It truly is the new IE Funny, and true at least in the company I'm working for (officially supported browsers are primarily IE11 and optionally Chrome). A colleague told me a few months ago that Firefox was not supported because it did not support some Windows "policies" (Windows or Active Directory? Not sure, no clue about that stuff) but that Firefox was going to support them soon... .

Firefox 60 was the first release with official Group Policy support [1]. Starting from version 64 you could also configure Firefox for macOS using configuration profiles [2].

Both the ADMX templates for Windows and preference .plist for macOS are available from GitHub [3]. The full list of configurable preferences can be found on SearchFox.org [4].

As of Firefox 67 there are quite a lot of settings that can be managed now. Certainly enough for Firefox to be deployed in enterprise environments.

There was also a really interesting talk at MacADUK 2019 by Mike Kapley on the work Mozilla has done so far to support enterprise deployment [5].

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1433136

[2] https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/master/mac/...

[3] https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates

[4] https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/compone...

[5] https://youtu.be/jB_5h4ihih4

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by paulryanrogers »

arendtio wrote: post #42

Does anybody have experience setting up and running a custom FF Account/Sync server? https://mozilla-services.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howtos/run...

I tried Weave back in the day and it was not trivial. The newer Firefox Sync has a FOSS server though it's not as TNO if I recall correctly, likely to allow selective sync and sharing.
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