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[1] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/11/firefox-sync-privacy/
[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
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Can you elaborate on the Mozilla corporate weasel part? As far as I can tell, they are just a) poorly managed and b) desperately trying to diversify revenue away from search prioritization contracts.
True but they are looking in all the wrong places. Including pocket "featured headlines", vpn services that are just a resell, just lowhanging fruit that does nothing but annoy the users that still care about them. Meanwhile they try to make the browser as mainstream friendly, not understanding that the mainstream has long given up on them and they only have the last remaining bastion of hardcore privacy users left.…
But still love Firefox.
Agreed, and I would add that I have been keeping my bookmarks & tags synced on all devices using Firefox Sync for several years now without any issues. It's just great. Same for passwords. There is a in-depth article about the privacy features of their design [1]. If you add containers[2], then there is really no reason to use Chrome. [1] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/11/firefox-sync-privacy/ [2] https://addons.mozi…
If only it synced with my vpn so each container got its own ip.
My biggest complaint with Firefox is the upgrade nag. I get it, I need to upgrade, why can't they just put a reminder in the corner instead of insisting I click a dismiss button every hour.
there's an easy way to fix this problem: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customizing-firefox-usi... firefox supports a policy.json to turn off upgrade nagging via the `ManualAppUpdateOnly` key: { "policies": { "ManualAppUpdateOnly": true } }
I tried to like Firefox, I really do, I tried to use it as primary browser, but it's just noticeable less snappy and slower than anything Chromium based, so I always return back to Chromium (now Brave). Not to mention that I always hit some glitches in sites or some things not working in Firefox because developers didn't even bother to test on Firefox or just plainly refuse to support it.
Will say as well that Brave is much, much better out of the box for privacy than Firefox. Even with uBlock Origin and other privacy-friendly extensions, Firefox doesn't offer much in the way of anti-fingerprinting.
Brave on Android is also best Android browser I used.
I don’t intend to diminish the article itself, since yes ditching chrome and Google is a win for personal privacy. But I can’t ignore the irony of this article loading dozens of trackers. Like, is the cognitive dissonance that bad in web publishing? Do the teams writing the content not know about the way the publisher presents the data? Is this just pure hypocrisy? I’m at a loss.
I feel this sort of black-and-white thinking about morality is responsible for a lot of problems. Short of moving into the desert and becoming some sort of Hesychastic hermit, it's difficult, near impossible to lead a life where you do no evil. The conclusion many draw from that is not to even bother trying. I think the better conclusion is to be forgiving of the failings of others, because they too struggle with thi…
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I feel this sort of black-and-white thinking about morality is responsible for a lot of problems. Short of moving into the desert and becoming some sort of Hesychastic hermit, it's difficult, near impossible to lead a life where you do no evil. The conclusion many draw from that is not to even bother trying. I think the better conclusion is to be forgiving of the failings of others, because they too struggle with thi…
Black and white? Or is the publisher + author being a hypocrite? Feels like the latter. "Do as I say, not as I do" is rarely forgivable. One or two lingering trackers? Maybe. But that's not the case here.
The one thing that keeps me from switching from Safari to Firefox is that I cannot customize tab switching. In every macOS program I use, I use the same key binding to switch between tabs. Because there is no "Next tab" or "Previous tab" menu item in Firefox, I cannot assign this function to a key with the macOS keyboard shortcuts in System Preferences.
I've looked in Firefox's setting and searched online and haven't found anything that helps. Though, to be honest, I'd prefer it to be part of the system native options so that it can follow me during upgrades.
At this point, I'm willing to consider employing BetterTouchTool, if that's a solution. But again, I'd rather go native.
I've switched from Firefox to Safari for most of my browsing, and Chrome for anything that needs devtools. Why? Battery. Efficiency. On the new M1 Macbooks I can run Safari and be unplugged all day long. The increased power consumption and battery drain is noticeable when using FF and I can't make it all the way through the day. As far as extensions go, I have 1Blocker and it works well, it does block YouTube ads. Th…
My favorite part about Safari is how, because I don't own an Apple device, I have next to no options for testing and fixing the issues that get filed with regards to my web application not working in Safari. Probably 2/3rds of the bugs I get are specifically related to Safari while the other 1/3rd are just general issues that affect every browser. It's insane to me that they provide no way to possibly resolve this wi…
=> https://WebKit.org/downloads
They’re not marketed as “Safari” because Safari is part of macOS, but it’s an official build of the same rendering engine.