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Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by traceroute66 »

What I want to know is have Firefox fixed the show-stopper bug with their implementation of Private Windows yet ?

In Firefox, if I login to something in one Private Window, and open a second Private Window, my session is maintained (e.g. login to Protonmail on one, I open a second private window and I'm already logged in). So I assume Firefox is sharing cookies and whatnot between Private Windows.

Brave doesn't do this. If I login in one Private Window in Brave, the new Private Window presents me (correctly) with the login screen.

I've been through my Firefox settings with a fine-tooth comb and cannot identify anything that might be causing this. Hence I assume it is a bug.

(And yes, I mean new window, not a new tab)

Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by andrepd »

standup wrote: post #7

The "privacy" provided by so-called private browsing mode is just a smokescreen considering how much device fingerprinting is going on. And widespread surveillance of the Internet backbone not just by intelligence agencies but now private organisations like Team Cymru. It would be better if we spent the resources on a next generation anonymity network to replace Tor, or some kind of alternative data transport like ra…

Firefox includes anti-fingerprint measures, and uBlock origin + advanced mode + all scripts blocked by default helps a lot. Also first-party isolation.

Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by ris58h »

traceroute66 wrote: post #51

What I want to know is have Firefox fixed the show-stopper bug with their implementation of Private Windows yet ? In Firefox, if I login to something in one Private Window, and open a second Private Window, my session is maintained (e.g. login to Protonmail on one, I open a second private window and I'm already logged in). So I assume Firefox is sharing cookies and whatnot between Private Windows. Brave doesn't do th…

> Hence I assume it is a bug.

You probably should report it to Mozilla https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/

Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by causi »

hbn wrote: post #9

> Last year we launched Firefox Colorways, a new desktop feature that allowed our users to express their most authentic selves and bring joy while browsing the web > “‘Independent Voices’ are the voices of the past and present that create a better future,” said Keely Alexis. “I chose this [analogy] as my inspiration for the collaboration because it feels authentic to me but it also aligns with Firefox and the vision…

Jesus, can you just say "we've got themes?" No one is going to remember Firefox as the next MLK Jr because they let you turn the window chrome orange.

Meanwhile Firefox Android is still a slow, unstable garbage pile. How many years now since Mozilla began developing exclusively for headline writers instead of their users?

Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by mehlmao »

kotlin2 wrote: post #17

One privacy feature I’d really like is kind of like HTTPS everywhere, except it’s TLS 1.3 w/ SNI encryption everywhere.

Firefox does offer an HTTPS only-mode, which tries to upgrade HTTP to HTTPS and warns you before connecting if it's not enabled.

Settings > Privacy & Security > HTTPS-Only Mode

As far as I know, there are still no practical attacks against TLS 1.2.

Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by marcodiego »

NayamAmarshe wrote: post #44
marcodiego wrote: post #12

I have to repost it aagain: Firefox: the last remaining mostly independent, maintained and reasonably popular browser. Even if it were inferior in any aspect to other options, I'd still use it for the above mentioned reasons.

The truth is, people using Firefox just to 'stick it to the big bad corpo' is getting us nowhere. Firefox is losing not because of Chrome but because of its own incompetence or inability to keep the users happy. Firefox is losing userbase a lot faster than some other browsers are gaining it, is that Firefox users' fault or Firefox's? I use Firefox because I think the sync service it provides is great and that some of…

> people using Firefox just to 'stick it to the big bad corpo' is getting us nowhere.

Don't underestimate the power of small contributions. You could say the same about people using konqueror 20 years ago, it brought KHTML which brought us webkit. You could say the same about people using firefox at the same time. You could say the same about people using linux in middle 90's, the same about GCC... I could go on showing more examples.

Simply using a software is a form of contribution: at the least it improves statistics. People making small contributions are important; small donations to wikipedia, bug reports, translations, fixing a small bug, improving a feature you need, talking with devs to guarantee a device works... I personally made many of these small contributions and although most of them didn't ended up on the "market leader project", it certainly made them good enough for people to keep using them and to encourage other people to contribute too.

Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by rjzzleep »

forsythe_ wrote: post #49
dylan604 wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Why on God's green earth was this done instead of You are not alone. I'm starting to think something is wrong with me because I don't give an iota of a damn about any of this. I have watched people just get sucked into the rabbit hole of browsing for themes for the their browser while accomplishing exactly nothing after being overwhelmed and paralyzed by the choices. (Kinda like trying to find something to watch on…

I think the entire point is that Mozilla has depended on people "like you" to stay relevant for years and knows that's not a great long-term growth strategy compared to appealing to the general populace who cares about things like customizable themes.

Chrome isn't the most common browser on the planet because of its identity politics. It's actually addressing real needs(i.e. a default browser on common computing device - used to be reason for antitrust but w/e), rather than a loud vocal subsection of a handful of societies, so I don't think that that growth strategy works.

Given that a huge number of Chrome users probably come from societies that actively despise this kind of stuff, it might actually backfire.

Lucky for them I guess most people outside of HN probably never even read that marketing material, so I think it's more of a circle jerk for the marketing dpt.

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