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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 cortesoft »

jeena wrote: post #77
hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #69

It appears this would block pretty much all the major analytics tracking cookies (e.g. Google analytics, mixpanel, etc.) based on the linked Disconnect list, https://disconnect.me/trackerprotection . While I realize that's kind of the point, in my mind there is somewhat of a difference between "the site I'm on is tracking me to figure out how I use their site" vs. "any site I visit is essentially aggregated data beca…

They could ask me how I use their site, instead of giving the data about every step I do to 3rd parties.

You mean like those survey pop ups that come up halfway through an article? I hate those. Those have caused more suffering for me than 3rd party tracking.

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by cortesoft »

chris_wot wrote: post #101
creato wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People that respond to such questions surely are a very biased sample of the overall user base.

So let's make more people respond to such questions. The answer is not to say "it's biased" but to fix the core issue.

No. I hate those questions and don't want to answer them. Just let me use your site and figure out what works from there.

You can still have analytics with this Firefox change, you just have to use your own domain for the cookies.

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by nuclear_eclipse »

fallenatreus wrote: post #130
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…

This looks perfect way to solve the current dilemma of choosing a "daily driver", but isn't it convenient to have stored all of passwords or details in profile in one browser or is there a way to keep everything in sync. I definitely would like to give a try to Safari.

Use something like 1Password and you can have your passwords in every browser or app, on desktop and mobile.

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by gavindean90 »

xfitm3 wrote: post #108
Jonanin wrote: post #103

I like these updates just as much as everyone else, but I can't help but think they seem a little bit like biting the hand that feeds you. What will they do when Google decides against renewing their Firefox search contract? Mozilla is highly dependent on the hundreds of million of dollars this contract provides. The politics of this situation are interesting for sure.

Mozilla's #1 priority is not to piss off Google, so I'm sure there was a conversation before this happened. Besides, when it comes to money, Google profits many times over whatever payout they give Mozilla.

It was a few years ago that the default search engine for Firefox was Yahoo. I would think that Google would be happy to see Firefox fighting back at them. You don't have a monopoly if Firefox is going strong.

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by jillesvangurp »

eikenberry wrote: post #64

Starting to look forward to July when the next ESR will be out. Really tempted to just go ahead and upgrade to FF67 now but have grown fond of the stability of the ESR releases.

I've been on the Beta channel for the last few years. I can't remember the last time it crashed. It's just not a thing with Firefox these days. But then, they do push out new betas every few days so I end up restarting the browser quite often. Either way, stability is fine even with the Betas. I'm pretty sure there are quite many beta users so by the time a release comes out of beta, it has already survived many weeks of testing in the field by gazillions of real users abusing it on all kinds of platform and hardware combinations.

So, stable should be perfectly fine for day to day use if you feel less adventurous. It's basically the release intended for world+dog. The only people actually using ESR probably are enterprises that for whatever reason actually care about which version of Firefox they are using and third party software integrators that just don't want to deal with major changes every minor release. Tor browser is a good example.

I'll click the update button after clicking reply. It seems I missed a few updates. Zero issues that I noticed with this one: 68.0b4.

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by PikachuEXE »

tagawa wrote: post #82
arohner wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Brave is great for those "it only works in Chrome" sites

Or Vivaldi.

I love Vivaldi due to vertical tab bar But I use Palemoon (Firefox fork with XUL) with Tab Kit for vertical tabs too

I think Vivaldi (based on Chromium) is great for one time browsing (open -> close) But I got a bunch of sites I visit daily so I got them opened in Palemoon and open them when I need With another extension you can also unload tabs (manaual or auto, config it as you like) in Palemoon like Vivaldi (called hibernate in V)

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by dexterdog »

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.

I use Firefox for meet calls every day

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by mevile »

miguelmota wrote: post #73

The only thing preventing me from completely switching over to Firefox is the developer aren't as good as Chrome's which is faster and less clunky for debugging.

I have not found this to be the case at all. The dev tools are amazing. I have not yet had the chance to use them with a webworker or websockets so I don't know about it compares with some aspects of chrome's dev tools.

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by kylek »

chii wrote: post #121
baroffoos wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Using tabs as bookmarks is just so much easier that I find I don't use bookmarks anymore. Perhaps there should be a way to passivate tabs so that they don't take up memory when they are not used for a while.

Wanted to point out that there are a few different firefox addons that allow you to suspend tabs which does unload them. I believe there is at least one with a timer to automatically suspend tabs as well. (sorry can't point out examples now)
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