Firefox 93 • Hacker News Board

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by sphix0r » Tue, Oct 05, 2021, 2:18 PM UTC

Anyone has information about the details of Smart Block 3.0? The "learn more" URL returns a 404.

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by Nextgrid » Tue, Oct 05, 2021, 2:18 PM UTC

Still no built-in uBlock Origin (or equivalent) despite it being permissively licensed and Mozilla's "commitment" to privacy...

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by noteboom » Tue, Oct 05, 2021, 2:18 PM UTC

Spivak wrote: post #21

noteboom wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mozilla is foolish to buy into Google's bad faith attempt to create barriers to entry for small/old sites and further centralize the web.

Yeah how dare Mozilla force sites to pay for TLS certificates! It’s a racket I tell you! If they’re going to be required in order to be on the internet they should be free Mozilla: Okay, done.

Time is money, I'm sure some users visiting websites that don't have the luxury of being maintained by multinational corporations will experience issues as a result of this change. TLS certificates are also not trivial to set up or renew if you require a wildcard certificate.

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by theothermatt » Tue, Oct 05, 2021, 2:19 PM UTC

Anyone else getting hit with a 404 when trying to visit the 'Learn More' links for SmartBlock 3.0 or the referrer tracking protections?

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/10/05/firefox-93-feat...

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by BitwiseFool » Tue, Oct 05, 2021, 2:21 PM UTC

akie wrote: post #17

Give me a way to pay for Firefox, please, and use the proceeds to hire a full development team that can hopefully catch up and overtake Chrome? Please?

>"hire a full development team that can hopefully catch up and overtake Chrome?"

In an ideal world the best browser would win but marketshare doesn't work that way.

Microsoft has full time development teams working on Edge and it is just barely chipping away at chrome's dominance. And, in no small part because they pester Windows users to make Edge the default at every opportunity.

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by baggy_trough » Tue, Oct 05, 2021, 2:22 PM UTC

theandrewbailey wrote: post #7

> Firefox now supports the new AVIF image format PARTY! I've been waiting for this for a long time. The last big hurdle for this was that color spaces weren't applied correctly. If you haven't taken a look at AVIF, do. You can get a similar looking image in AVIF at half the size as a JPEG. I find AVIF's image artifacts preferable to JPEG's.

https://libre-software.net/avif-test/

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by loxias » Tue, Oct 05, 2021, 2:22 PM UTC

Nextgrid wrote: post #32

Still no built-in uBlock Origin (or equivalent) despite it being permissively licensed and Mozilla's "commitment" to privacy...

Um, I never stopped using uBlock Origin, and generally run beta Firefoxen and haven't seen a problem.

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by samschooler » Tue, Oct 05, 2021, 2:22 PM UTC

Nextgrid wrote: post #32

Still no built-in uBlock Origin (or equivalent) despite it being permissively licensed and Mozilla's "commitment" to privacy...

Whats the problem with uBlock Origin as an extension? https://ublockorigin.com/

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by pm2222 » Tue, Oct 05, 2021, 2:24 PM UTC

FF92 is much better than Chromium on Arch Linux. I look forward to FF93.

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by literallyWTF » Tue, Oct 05, 2021, 2:24 PM UTC

HMH wrote: post #26

huuuz wrote: post #2

How are downloads performed over http "potentially malicious"?

This would be massively annoying for my local network. I trust that I do not mitm myself for malicious reasons and really do not feel like setting up certs on my lan... Talking about certs, nowadays it seems browsers want to make you believe that self signed certs are some diabolical work straight from hell. Using self signed certs with websockets on Firefox is actually nearly impossible [1]. [1]: https://bugzilla.mo…

The push to demonize self-signed certs literally makes me think browsers are in the pocket of BigCert