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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 zo1 »

dmckeon wrote: post #83
paulryanrogers wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's great to have an out. But are those synchronized? Because I find the increasing number of tweaks difficult to remember. Tyranny of the default is real.

Put any preferred tweaks in a user.js file in the profile directory, // commented with meanings and reasons, and save wetware memory.

Oh they're trying to remove that ability as well:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1543752

It's a slow and steady advance, not something that happens overnight.

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

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Post by Vinnl »

ycombinete wrote: post #95

What do people use Picture in Picture for? I have still never found a use for it, on any of the devices I have that support it.

I most often use it when reading a news article that has a short clip, to be able to scroll down to read the rest of the article while playing the clip so I can keep an eye on when the interesting part comes.

Also for keeping covid press conferences open while I do other stuff. I could move the tab to a new window and then resize it to only show the video, but this is far less effort.

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

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Post by rakoo »

stunt wrote: post #37
msk20 wrote: post #28

Is there any privacy benifit to use containers now with the new isolations built into firefox? I'm using cookie autodelete + Containers, So now its either isolate and keep them or Isolate and delete them. I quite like this.

Containers aren't going to give you additional protection against third-party cookies with this feature. But, you still have other useful benefits like having different sessions open on the same websites using containers, or just grouping websites by forcing them into specific containers (Work/Personal/Random etc..).

I'm not the one who asked the question but am in the same position. All third-party content is off, I'm using a long-term container for stuff where I need to be logged, and temporary containers and no first-party cookies for everything else. I do have some bugs with the interaction of both so I'm happy if I can have the same think with stock Firefox

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

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Post by CodeGlitch »

berkes wrote: post #122
TheRealPomax wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You realise how weird this sounds, right? Presumably you donate because you care about the Mozilla mission, and those ads are there because donations alone aren't enough, and relying purely on Google's money is also not a great strategy. What do you want them to do, invent money out of thin air? And it's still Firefox: if you're upset enough to consider "migration to a different browser", why not instead get upset en…

> invent money out of thin air? This is the exact businessmodel of Brave. So apparently is is not that strange a suggestion.

I meant what is 'money' anyway? :)

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

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Post by Lio »

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.

As an example, Slack doesn't support audio calls in Firefox on Linux.

That just means I tell my colleagues I can't receive Slack audio calls and we use an alternative tool for that.

There is momentum in a choice like that though and even if Slack were to add Firefox support tomorrow we probably wouldn't switch to using them for audio.

They do offer an election based app for Linux but I'm not interested in that over head when I can just keep a browser tab open for Slack chat.

For me you either support open standards or you don't get used.

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

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Post by alex_duf »

shpongled wrote: post #85
cassepipe wrote: post #36

I was wondering : What is the purpose of picture in picture? I don't have any use case for it and was curious about who does.

I LOVE the picture in picture feature. It's nice for multitasking - I can pull up a video and put it on top of any other full-screen app or webpage.

It's kinda baffling me, I can't do two things at the same time. At best I listen to music, but any words (podcast) or visual distraction totally pulls me off of what I was doing.

Same goes with using a chat feature while in a different meeting.

So the whole picture in picture to me is more distraction.

I'm glad to see some people find it valuable because I was failing to find its usefulness.

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

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Post by Lio »

dbg31415 wrote: post #92
drunner wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is what happens when apple forces browsers to use Safari's rendering engine. Could it be better, sure. Use an OS that allows Firefox to use its own renderer if it bugs you that much.

So it's a Webkit issue? Honestly haven't got a clue what caused it. Just wish they'd fix it. Love all the privacy features of Firefox... but I have no inherent love for Gecko. Like that's all behind the scenes stuff. Does it matter, from a privacy perspective? Any insight into the aversion to using Webkit? Chrome uses Webkit on MacOS and Blink on Windows, yeah? Seems like the way to go. I want my Mac Hardware, it fee…

> So it's a Webkit issue?

It's not a Webkit issue. The parent comment is confusing iOS with macOS and the rendering engine used by Firefox on macOS.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

nabeelms wrote: post #86
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

Looks like they mentioned this here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/sponsor-privacy It's apparently being trialed to a limited subset of users.

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

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Post by npteljes »

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.

Even if technically impossible, by simply not supporting it - which is already happening - FF will just lose additional market share. I'm at a point where I keep an additional Chromium installed along with my nicely configured FF, because of how many sites doesn't work.

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

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Post by izacus »

ycombinete wrote: post #95

What do people use Picture in Picture for? I have still never found a use for it, on any of the devices I have that support it.

Listening / watching YT video essays while doing something else. Having a borderless floating video is preferrable to having issues with getting a full browser window to float on top.

(Especially on tablets.)

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