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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 cpeterso »

yitosda wrote: post #22
jacquesm wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting. Thanks for the tip, I'll give that a shot. Hardware differences are negligible, in fact the machine where FF is noticeably slower is the faster machine. Especially start-up is super slow, takes a couple of minutes at times.

Try to create a new profile to compare nondestructively: "firefox --ProfileManager" I can confirm both that newer firefox is notably more responsive than old, and that I (or an extension, though I don't have many) managed to get a ff profile into a state where it had inexplicably bad performance, esp. unpredictable long freezes.

You can also create and manage Firefox profiles using the about:profiles page.

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by TylerE »

mschuster91 wrote: post #144
cortesoft wrote: post #129

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Same could be said of the phone, right? A zero day on the phone would circumvent the 2FA. Really, the SMS part is the actual weak link in the chain. Easier to hijack SMS than own a computer or phone.

> Easier to hijack SMS than own a computer or phone. That depends on the country, in Germany it's way more difficult.

Why would you say that? All it takes is one telco employee taking a bribe or screwing up some configuration or...

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by luckman212 »

nuclear_eclipse wrote: post #134
fallenatreus wrote: post #130

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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.

Better choice would be Bitwarden. https://bitwarden.com

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by Klonoar »

pault wrote: post #58
PatrolX wrote: post #34

I've dumped Chrome altogether since FF 67 was released. My only gripe is they still aren't blocking ALL ads, but regardless it's a way better user experience now than it ever was. Firefox 67 feels like a whole new beast compared to their older versions. If you haven't tried FF for a while I recommend doing so and I suggest trying it across multiple devices. The tab management, syncing, pinning and sending etc. across…

I'll second the multi device functionality. I use Firefox on desktop and iOS and all of my history, autocomplete, and tabs follow me and everywhere. It's incredibly convenient.

For Mac users, this is... not great. Firefox on Mac continues to be an oddball in comparison to how it runs on Windows/Linux.

I'll keep using Safari, which also gives me that wonderful cross-device syncing.

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by rukshn »

Unpopular opinion on HN - Majority regular net users don't care about tracking and the FF focus on privacy will not give them the browser landscape they are losing daily.

They should be focused on giving a better smooth UI, make it faster, remove unwanted extensions like pocket, make all the sites work.

Let's see how valid this comment is in couple of years.

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by imcoconut »

mraison wrote: post #88
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…

It’s nice to see a bit of Safari love around here. Some sites occasionally break, but I really like the macOS/iOS integrations. SMS code autofill on desktop Safari (via Mac iPhone communication) is pretty awesome.

I noticed this the other day and was very pleased.

Also, if you have touchID then you can use it on safari to autofill login credentials. I just wish safari had an active plugin ecosystem like firefox (or chrome) does.

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by bzbarsky »

brymaster wrote: post #61
pcwalton wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I took over a month away from other work I have to do to develop the planeshift crate [1] to solve this exact problem. On the WebRender side, tiling work is advancing quickly as well. OS compositing in WR hasn't landed yet, mostly because work has to be done on the legacy Gecko side to wrangle the Cocoa widgets properly, but it's not true that nobody cares. [1]: https://github.com/pcwalton/planeshift

Thank you for your dedication on this. Now on the subject of energy use, how about the patch for the following critical macOS bug landing in a Firefox 67 point release? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1551990

Like the bug comments there say (comment 19 in particular), once it's verified that the fix works it will be uplifted to the release branch.

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by m45t3r »

rukshn wrote: post #155

Unpopular opinion on HN - Majority regular net users don't care about tracking and the FF focus on privacy will not give them the browser landscape they are losing daily. They should be focused on giving a better smooth UI, make it faster, remove unwanted extensions like pocket, make all the sites work. Let's see how valid this comment is in couple of years.

Firefox is fast enough for most people, it has a UI as good as Chrome (that maybe is shit for some people, however most people don't care), most people don't care if Pocket is included or not (it is not like Firefox keeps nagging you to use it either). The only point I concur with you is that all sites should work, however the majority of times I see a site broken in Firefox is because of the developer not testing in other browsers and not a Firefox fault (it would be the same if the developer just develop on Firefox and didn't test on Chrome).

Firefox is not as popular as Chrome thanks to the intense Google advertising some time ago. Even nowadays Google still advertises "this sites runs best on Chrome", kinda like Coca Cola still advertises its products even if they are already the leaders in the segment.

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by victor9000 »

rukshn wrote: post #155

Unpopular opinion on HN - Majority regular net users don't care about tracking and the FF focus on privacy will not give them the browser landscape they are losing daily. They should be focused on giving a better smooth UI, make it faster, remove unwanted extensions like pocket, make all the sites work. Let's see how valid this comment is in couple of years.

They're using privacy to differentiate themselves from Chrome, which will be a sharp contrast once Google cripples adblocking. It seems to be the same move that Apple is pulling with their anonymous login functionality.

Re: Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

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Post by ken »

rukshn wrote: post #155

Unpopular opinion on HN - Majority regular net users don't care about tracking and the FF focus on privacy will not give them the browser landscape they are losing daily. They should be focused on giving a better smooth UI, make it faster, remove unwanted extensions like pocket, make all the sites work. Let's see how valid this comment is in couple of years.

Agreed (except for those specific examples). User experience is the gateway drug. As long as the standard keyboard shortcuts and preferences panel don't work right in Firefox, it doesn't matter how fast or standards-compliant the HTML rendering engine is.

Privacy is vegetables -- I know I should eat more, but I'm not going to go out of my way for it.

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