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Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture

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Re: Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture

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Post by arprocter »

agumonkey wrote: post #11
download13 wrote: post #2

Multiple PiP is a great idea

For some odd reason I don't get the PiP icon on the firefox demo video. It works well on different youtube videos though :)

By default the button only shows on videos over 45 secs long

You can change the default in about:config media.videocontrols.picture-in-picture.video-toggle.min-video-secs

Re: Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture

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Post by [deleted] »

foofoo4u wrote: post #20
corobo wrote: post #17

And ads in the address bar search results. https://twitter.com/CohanRobinson/status/1364172683118866433 E: saved you a click on my own link. In about:config you can disable this by setting the following to false browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsored browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsoredTopSites

I make monthly donations to Mozilla to support their cause. I will stop my donations and migrate to a different browser if they continue down this path.

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Re: Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture

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Post by nathancahill »

elktea wrote: post #16
scrooched_moose wrote: post #15

Is there a possibility sites just begin blocking Firefox? It's only ~8% of the desktop market share and ~4% across all devices. It doesn't seem inconceivable sites just give up supporting it if they're not getting the ad revenue.

technically impossible, firefox would be forced to pretend to be another browser.

What, you mean like this? (from Chrome)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/78.0.3904.108 Safari/537.36

Re: Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture

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Post by pentagrama »

I find useful the Picture-in-Picture feature when was introduced, but find it really annoying that the icon has to be visible on every video (on mouse hover), and I disable it.

Hope they introduce an option to show a PiP icon on the address bar when a video is on the tab, which is less intrusive, like the Reader View icon/feature.

Re: Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture

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Post by agilob »

corobo wrote: post #17

And ads in the address bar search results. https://twitter.com/CohanRobinson/status/1364172683118866433 E: saved you a click on my own link. In about:config you can disable this by setting the following to false browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsored browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsoredTopSites

I can't reproduce that. How do I reproduce that?

Re: Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture

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Post by corobo »

agilob wrote: post #25
corobo wrote: post #17

And ads in the address bar search results. https://twitter.com/CohanRobinson/status/1364172683118866433 E: saved you a click on my own link. In about:config you can disable this by setting the following to false browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsored browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsoredTopSites

I can't reproduce that. How do I reproduce that?

Apparently it's an A/B test thing. I was a lucky winner. All I did was update (Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS)

To confirm I disabled all plugins immediately to ensure it was bog standard Firefox (which is why I was so irritated at the time, proper threw off my day).

Bonus it had the Amazon tracking code "admpdesktopuk-21", which if you do a search reveals a bunch of plugins that went rogue.

E: apologies I can't track down the source where I saw it was an ab test

Re: Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture

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Post by agilob »

ronjouch wrote: post #9
ducktective wrote: post #7

Good to see that in last few releases, no needless UI changes were introduced (which were causing dramas in the past).

Brace yourself: major UI revamp coming around Firefox 89, https://google.com/search?q=firefox%20proton

oh no, the megabar is still there

Re: Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture

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Post by stunt »

[deleted] wrote: post #22
foofoo4u wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I make monthly donations to Mozilla to support their cause. I will stop my donations and migrate to a different browser if they continue down this path.

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You can disable it. It isn't actually ads, it's sponsored link and the sponsor isn't tracking you (at least not until you click..)

browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsored

browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsoredTopSites

Re: Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture

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Post by gcthomas »

foofoo4u wrote: post #20
corobo wrote: post #17

And ads in the address bar search results. https://twitter.com/CohanRobinson/status/1364172683118866433 E: saved you a click on my own link. In about:config you can disable this by setting the following to false browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsored browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsoredTopSites

I make monthly donations to Mozilla to support their cause. I will stop my donations and migrate to a different browser if they continue down this path.

We get the browser for free and these are just ads, not trackers - they are not stealing our data like Chrome, FB, and the rest.

I have nothing against straight ads.

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