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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 nisuni »

iscrewyou wrote: post #85
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 would love to switch to safari. What do you use for ad-blocking?

You could also try ublock origin.

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

iscrewyou wrote: post #85
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 would love to switch to safari. What do you use for ad-blocking?

UBlock Origin supports Safari: https://safari-extensions.apple.com/details/?id=com.el1t.uBl...

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by j-conn »

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…

Personal use aside, I've been meaning to try out firefox for development after seeing some of their release announcements here. Any tips for people like me who are accustomed to chrome devtools? Are there some things you can do in firefox that you can't in chrome, and vice versa?

I do look forward to the chrome devtools release videos, always learn something new.

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by propogandist »

All this does is cause advertisers to look at more advances mechanisms to track users and make it 'mainstream' -- like browser fingerprinting. These are also not explictly governed by existing legislation, so they can also worry about things like cookie laws and there's little to no defense.

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by icxa »

propogandist wrote: post #95

All this does is cause advertisers to look at more advances mechanisms to track users and make it 'mainstream' -- like browser fingerprinting. These are also not explictly governed by existing legislation, so they can also worry about things like cookie laws and there's little to no defense.

Speaking from experience, Safari seems to be very good at defeating current fingerprinting techniques

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by ludston »

frenchman99 wrote: post #56

The article starts with: "It’s been several weeks since I was promoted to Senior Vice President of Firefox, responsible for overall Firefox product and web platform development." How is this relevant? Did Dave Camp's SVP appointment trigger these changes? Honest question, because this is the first sentence of the article and I'm having a hard time understanding why. Tracking protection is great though. I hope Firefox…

He's probably feeling pretty chuffed about it and just wants to share :)

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by sombremesa »

j-conn wrote: post #93
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…

Personal use aside, I've been meaning to try out firefox for development after seeing some of their release announcements here. Any tips for people like me who are accustomed to chrome devtools? Are there some things you can do in firefox that you can't in chrome, and vice versa? I do look forward to the chrome devtools release videos, always learn something new.

It depends on what you do on a daily basis. There are definitely things you can't do in Firefox - chrome://inspect, for example, which is how a JS dev can debug their Jest tests (though for these workflows you can just pop Chrome or Chromium open for a moment).

Otherwise, Firefox has the better API for add-ons and a more 'open' approach in general, so there are a lot more things you can't do on Chrome that you can in Firefox than vice versa. I have yet to see a decent tree tabs extension for Chrome, for example. (They exist, but none compare to the one available for Firefox).

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by baroffoos »

propogandist wrote: post #95

All this does is cause advertisers to look at more advances mechanisms to track users and make it 'mainstream' -- like browser fingerprinting. These are also not explictly governed by existing legislation, so they can also worry about things like cookie laws and there's little to no defense.

Firefox has a setting you can enable to resist fingerprinting. It must do something because every anti abuse measure on the internet flags you as a bot once you turn it on.

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by baroffoos »

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."

It happens when you use tabs as bookmarks. The solution is to use bookmarks.
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