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Re: Firefox 95 Released

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Post by webmobdev »

up6w6 wrote: post #94

One thing that shocked me was discovering that Firefox encrypts the saved passwords but doesn't (and won't) encrypt the cookies database at all. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1259652

Firefox is now also an Ad-Ware and Spyware:

> “When contextual suggestions are enabled, Firefox Suggest uses your city location and search keywords to make contextual suggestions from Firefox and our partners, while keeping your privacy in mind,” the support post reads. The “relevant suggestions” from “trusted partners” appear at the bottom of the usual search suggestions pulled from your bookmarks, browser history, and open tabs — a less intrusive version of a search ad, but technically still an ad.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/7/22715179/firefox-suggest-...

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I've now switched to Tor Browser - it's a privacy hardened Firefox browser with all the crap removed. (Disabling and removing Tor, which is integrated with it, is a slight pain, but doable).

Re: Firefox 95 Released

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Post by cottager2 »

foepys wrote: post #70
cottager2 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use Firefox. Honestly, some sites are broken, like my brokerage account and Zillow. Having uBlock work at blocking 100% of known-bad requests is worth it to me. Chrome only blocks something like 60% due to the asynchronous nature of the extension API.

> Chrome only blocks something like 60% due to the asynchronous nature of the extension API. Let's not kid ourselves. This is clearly a 100% deliberate design decision, aimed at making content blockers less effective. This has nothing to do with the API being asynchronous. It is just the excuse Google went with.

I didn’t express an opinion on the motivation for the API, I just mentioned why uBlock doesn’t work as well.

Re: Firefox 95 Released

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Post by fleaaaa »

bovermyer wrote: post #6

I can't remember why I moved from Firefox to Brave. I'm curious if I should move back again. Can anyone sell me on/off this idea?

Probably mentioned here but its UI customization is pretty much limited to your css skill. You can go dense as much as you want or elegant with much paddings as usual. I tried almost every chromium variants but can't bear the touch friendly paddings and scaling.

Re: Firefox 95 Released

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Post by NelsonMinar »

TimTheTinker wrote: post #60
NelsonMinar wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, what a collection of hacks. It reminds me of the efforts Microsoft goes to so that old programs keep working on Windows.

I think in both cases it was less hack and more getting around browser sniffing code that makes outdated or incorrect assumptions. Please don't browser-sniff, use feature detection instead. The web platform is standards-driven, not browser-driven -- let's keep it that way :)

I'm sympathetic to the need to do this, just admiring the kludges. It's not just user agent spoofing; some of the compatibility hacks seem to be modifying CSS of websites.

Re: Firefox 95 Released

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Post by Glench »

> We’ve also reduced the power usage of software decoded video on macOS, especially in fullscreen. This includes streaming sites such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.

Thank god. This has been a real problem.

Re: Firefox 95 Released

#106

Post by splatzone »

usrlocal1023 wrote: post #84
splatzone wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm very confused - if it's working on Firefox with the Chime SDK, what good reason is there for Slack to block the feature on Firefox? Is there some political reason for them to disadvantage Firefox that I'm not aware of?

When Slack launched video calls, it was using Chrome's own implementation of WebRTC which is called Plan B. So it worked in both their app which is electron based and Chrome. Not sure if it worked with chromium derivatives like Brave, Vivaldi, etc. Firefox rolled out the standard based WebRTC implementation and chrome eventually did as well, but companies like Slack and various others didn't migrate instead just thre…

Thank you

Re: Firefox 95 Released

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Post by invalidname »

webmobdev wrote: post #101
up6w6 wrote: post #94

One thing that shocked me was discovering that Firefox encrypts the saved passwords but doesn't (and won't) encrypt the cookies database at all. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1259652

Firefox is now also an Ad-Ware and Spyware: > “When contextual suggestions are enabled, Firefox Suggest uses your city location and search keywords to make contextual suggestions from Firefox and our partners, while keeping your privacy in mind,” the support post reads. The “relevant suggestions” from “trusted partners” appear at the bottom of the usual search suggestions pulled from your bookmarks, browser history,…

You can disable that with a chckbox. Calling it adware is a stretch, calling it spyware is diminishes the word.

Re: Firefox 95 Released

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Post by claviska »

newsbinator wrote: post #28

This is silly, but one of the main things I like about Firefox is being able to drag a sizable JSON file on top of it and getting that JSON in treeview, with a search filter. It's convenient out-of-the-box functionality.

This is fantastic. I’ve always wondered why browsers don’t show HTML, CSS, and JS source with syntax highlighting, bracket matching, and other basic dev tools features. You are, after all, viewing the source.

Re: Firefox 95 Released

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Post by mech422 »

wenc wrote: post #33
bovermyer wrote: post #6

I can't remember why I moved from Firefox to Brave. I'm curious if I should move back again. Can anyone sell me on/off this idea?

I moved from Chrome to Firefox a year ago, because: 1) Multi-account containers - open each tab in an isolated container with its own session cookies etc. Use case? Login to multiple Google/Azure/AWS/etc accounts at the same time on different tabs. This is a game-changer if you have to login to multiple cloud accounts because you work for a multinational and each subsidiary you support is on a different tenant. 2) Fi…

>>1) Multi-account containers - open each tab in an isolated container with its own session cookies etc.

I also like having separate profiles for stuff like banking, browsing, shopping, gmail, etc. You can combine this with containers and 'force open in container' setting.

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