I hope we can turn off the "unsafe download" thing. I download files every day that I know are perfectly safe, precisely because the file will only ever be downloaded once, by me, because I just built it in Gitlab.
Firefox 93
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Re: Firefox 93
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Whats the problem with uBlock Origin as an extension? https://ublockorigin.com/
It's yet another thing to install & configure manually. For a browser that boasts about privacy at every possible opportunity I'd expect something as standard & essential (in this day and age) to be included.
To each their own I guess. I like to manually add/remove things based on my use case.
Re: Firefox 93
#73Re: Firefox 93
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Whats the problem with uBlock Origin as an extension? https://ublockorigin.com/
It's yet another thing to install & configure manually. For a browser that boasts about privacy at every possible opportunity I'd expect something as standard & essential (in this day and age) to be included.
> It's yet another thing to install & configure manually.
Once. Coming up on 5 years ago now for me. Every time since, I log into sync, and it appears with all of the proper configurations already set up to my preference.
Re: Firefox 93
#75When available system memory is critically low, Firefox on Windows will automatically unload tabs based on their last access time, memory usage, and other attributes. This should help reduce Firefox out-of-memory crashes. Switching to an unloaded tab automatically reloads it.
This is why I can't switch to firefox, chrome is better at this, doesn't wait until 'system memory is critically low' and supports all platforms not just windows.
Re: Firefox 93
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
A MitM (e.g. an untrusted WiFi network) could replace a download by a malicious version.
In that case the html text of the page could be replaced by the attacker so the download link points to an https link.
Firefox already aggressively alerts if you're not on an SSL secured page. They didn't for downloads.
Re: Firefox 93
#77Awesome, after reading through the first time contributions I can see my first albeit pretty minor patch is included in this release!
Overall contributing has been very pleasant and the people on Mozilla's matrix channels have been helpful getting me on track. But better than taking my word for it, you should try contributing for yourself :)
Re: Firefox 93
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
>"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.
Edge is a chrome skin. They don't have engineers working on a browser, they have engineers working on a _theme_.
It's more than a skin. Microsoft put some effort into optimization, like using a segmented heap allocator.
Re: Firefox 93
#79Anyone 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...
It seems like both that and "Introducing a new referrer tracking protection in Strict Tracking Protection and Private Browsing" link to blog posts that are supposed to exist but maybe haven't been switched to "published" status?
Maybe they will show up eventually in the list of security-related blog posts? https://blog.mozilla.org/security/category/security/
EDIT: Looks like that link works now
Re: Firefox 93
#80I am currently trying Ubuntu for the first time in a long while and it comes with Firefox as the default browser. My problem is that Firefox has a "snapping" scroll behavior that I find very annoying. When I move my fingers on the touchpad of my laptop, that does not immediately move the page. Instead, it waits until I moved a certain distance and then moves in one big swoosh. Starting Firefox from the command line l…
You can make it "permanent" by editing the .desktop file your Firefox is launching from when you click it in Ubuntu. You can change the Exec= line to be Exec=MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1 firefox, or maybe Exec=env MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1 firefox
Thanks, the "env" version works!
Although the scroll is more fine grained now, it looks kinda wobbly. Almost as if there is a raster interrupt at play, lol. As if the screen gets repainted mid scroll and then needs another round until the whole screen is updated.