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Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by hn92726819 »

kotlin2 wrote: post #19
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 at least tries to restrict fingerprinting. For instance, you can force websites to require permissions to access canvas data.

I haven't used chrome in years..does chrome really not allow limiting canvas data?

Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by dividedbyzero »

dylan604 wrote: post #40
stoplying1 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does it still have the cursed text with it that says "going away in (some month soon)". It's so stupid and confusing and baffling that I want to rage quit Firefox with this as the absolute last straw. Like wtf, you're gonna take back my color in a few months? Just pull the upsell for it? Why the hell am I having to wonder about any of this? Why on God's green earth was this done instead of spending any effort getting…

>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 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

When done in the physical world this is called decorating, I guess theming is just a digital version of hanging a print from Ikea on the wall. When I do this sort of thing, I usually do accomplish something, because I like looking at pretty things, doing so makes me happier, making my things prettier helps me feel a bit happier when I look at them. Whether that has value depends on perspective, though I feel if it doesn't then that perspective is a pretty dismal one. It's also a way to make an abstract and alien thing feel a bit more familiar and "one's own", and computers are plenty alien and intimidating for a lot of people.

Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by yewenjie »

> 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.

I wonder whether people who write this kind of press-releases even use Firefox as their primary browser. If you care so much about actually letting users customizing the look and feel of Firefox please just support userstyles as a first-class feature.

Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by LinuxBender »

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…

I don't know the answer to your question but the work-around I found was to use an add-on [1]

[1] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...

Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by coldpie »

freediver wrote: post #79
coldpie wrote: post #48

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> As it stands even with all telemetry off Firefox is extremely chatty and I’ve had Mozilla developers tell me they have no intention to fix this. What data is being communicated? What about that data is harmful to you? (Genuinely asking for more information, not trying to convince you you're wrong.)

All telemetry at the very least transfers your IP address which is legally considered personal information. A browser can not therefore be considered privacy-respecting if it has telemetry turned on by default. Respecting users' privacy at a fundamental level is important for a tool that is our most intimate window to the web (a web browser) even if you personally have 'nothing to hide'.

Can you please describe a theoretical attack on your privacy by Mozilla learning that your IP address launched a Firefox instance?

Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by sabellito »

causi wrote: post #55
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?

I use FF Android every day, including watching videos, and haven't noticed the "unstable garbage pile". Are you being hyperbolic?

Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by steve_adams_86 »

dylan604 wrote: post #43
reitanqild wrote: post #35

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Firefox used to be so extensible that what is developer tools in every browser today started in Firefox as an extension, Firebug (yes, I am aware it is slightly more nuanced, but it is close enough for this argument.) Also for a long while one of my preferred FTP programs was just a Firefox extension. Yes, I think Google must be punished harsher for Chrome than Microsoft was for IE, but Mozilla couldn't have done muc…

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How else would you deploy your k8s cluster?

Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by capableweb »

encryptluks2 wrote: post #53

God this marketing is exactly why I still use Chromium. Not only is it faster but it is just as secure and private as Firefox without all the BS and cult.

I'd love to be able to use Chromium/Chrome/anything Blink-based but the lack of Tree Style Tab makes it unbearable every time I try it.

This one extension is the only reason I'm still using Firefox... And the profiler sometimes works better than Chromium's as well, but seldom I use it.

Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by btdmaster »

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.

Does anything support Encrypted Client Hello given its draft status?

I got it back as unsupported when testing (yes, I would prefer to test on something other than Cloudflare but I couldn't find any): https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl/encrypted-sni/

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