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Re: Firefox 84.0

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Post by JoshTriplett »

cortic wrote: post #251
JoshTriplett wrote: post #246

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> The options in config were greyed out in 83. I'm running Firefox 83, and those options are still available. It's critically important that Firefox support disabling telemetry. If you've edited those options via one of the lower-level preference systems, such as autoconfig.js, you may have locked them, which would cause them to show up as greyed out.

about:config and search toolkit.telemetry.enabled I checked on a fresh 83 and its greyed out. You need to create the file firefox.cfg in install Dir and enter lockPref("toolkit.telemetry.enabled", false); To override it And to get that to work you need to create /defaults/pref/autoconfig.js with pref("general.config.obscure_value", 0); and pref("general.config.filename", "firefox.cfg.js"); Its getting harder and hard…

You seem to be diving directly to the low-level settings. I don't know why those would be locked, but the telemetry checkboxes in the UI work just fine, and aren't disabled. And once disabled, they'll stay disabled. Firefox is never going to prevent people from disabling telemetry.

Re: Firefox 84.0

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Post by gpvos »

rascul wrote: post #244
gpvos wrote: post #241

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Yes, but that's only relevant if Firefox were mapping from IP addresses to something. Here it's mapping to an IP address, so 127.0.0.1 is fine (even though, e.g., 127.0.0.42 would also have been fine).

It seems relevant because Firefox ignores that I might have dev.localhost mapped to a valid loopback address that is not 127.0.0.1.

Thanks, this was enlightening.

Re: Firefox 84.0

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Post by ojosilva »

mormegil wrote: post #90
coldpie wrote: post #21

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I'm in the same boat and have the same worries. I give them a monthly donation to support the company, in hopes of showing that there are paying customers they may be able to fall back on in the future. I can't think of anything else I can do to turn back the tide of the advertiser-developed browser. (Yes, I already know the money doesn't go directly to Firefox development today, thanks.)

Thank you for this inspiration, I've created my monthly payment now. I cannot imagine being forced to use anything else than Firefox... (Even though the Android version is barely usable after the rework...)

Two weeks ago I've switched to Iceraven, a FF for Android fork, and it's been fantastic so far.

It's compatible with many add-ons missing from FF on Android and has some additional features that were "lost" in the Fenix release.

https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser

Re: Firefox 84.0

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Post by rhizome »

nerdponx wrote: post #190
rhizome wrote: post #185

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Like, started from the local filesystem? I see they have a "Notebook Server," is that what you mean by "locally," rather than starting it from clicking an e.g. "jupyter.html" file? To their credit, it doesn't seem to use Node, and configuration via .py files tells me maybe they have some lightweight server thing that makes it a bit more manageable as a single-user app than via Node or Electron and friends. Anyway, I…

Yes, Jupyter Notebook (and its successor Jupyter Lab) is a Python program that serves a browser (HTML/CSS/JS) application. It is meant to be used equally well when the Jupyter server is on your local machine or somewhere else on the network. Other tools that use similar architectures: Tabula, Kiwi IRC, The Lounge IRC. The user experience is maybe more "technical", but you don't have Electron involved, just whatever w…

The part that appeals to me is that they're using a smaller than nodejs (and Electron for that matter) local server to do so! CORS means something has to proxy, so seeing the existence of what I'm assuming is a minimum implementation is really helpful. Obviously I'm not hanging out in the right slacks or subreddits. ;)

Re: Firefox 84.0

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Post by mormegil »

eeperson wrote: post #272
mormegil wrote: post #90

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Thank you for this inspiration, I've created my monthly payment now. I cannot imagine being forced to use anything else than Firefox... (Even though the Android version is barely usable after the rework...)

> Even though the Android version is barely usable after the rework... Yeah, the initial launch was pretty bad. However, this has improved quite a bit from the initial launch if you haven't tried it in a while.

Oh, I use it as my daily driver mobile browser. And I agree it has improved quite a bit (so that it is now usable, though with a lot of bugs/missing features/inconsistencies).

Re: Firefox 84.0

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Post by labawi »

Zealotux wrote: post #14

What's the best way to support the browser directly with money? Pay for the VPN?

Organize a non-fork alternate development team, accept crowdfunding for specific goals/features.
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