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Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by pluc »

wlesieutre wrote: post #72
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…

> “‘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 that we can make the world better, on the internet and beyond.” Hooli is about people. Hooli is about innovative technology that makes a difference, transforming th…

I love Firefox but the hubris is takes to think a few themes for your app is a betterment for the world is hard to fathom

Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by zamubafoo »

To give some perspective, Microsoft is doing better with VS Code than Mozilla is doing with Firefox.

* There are no sponsored ads every time I use common functionality (like opening a new tab)

* At least VS Code has a easily available settings page to turn off telemetry

To do something half way similar, Firefox requires you to venture into `about:config` where you get a "Here be dragons" message to scare users away from touching settings. Not only that, none of the settings are documented anywhere.

Do I trust either of them? No, but at least Microsoft doesn't market "privacy".

Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by Ayesh »

traveler01 wrote: post #102

I want to like and use Firefox. Seriously, I really do. But when will they fix the performance of the browser? They're spending devs time on useless crap instead of being improving the engine, which clearly needs improvements. For example, I wanted to send some thousands of pictures to Proton Drive (doesn't have a sync App yet) and tried doing it in Firefox. It literally started to take all the computer RAM (my compu…

I don't know the technical details behind this, but Firefox always felt slower in file upload front. It was very late to the directory upload feature that Chrome had (in mostly non-standard ways I don't doubt).

It doesn't bother me to a point that I can't use Firefox, but for those who regularly upload files, I can totally see Firefox being a subpar experience.

Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by TonyTrapp »

For anyone else being annoyed that private windows now switch their chrome into dark mode by default, completely rendering black favicons (or the toggle icon of the TreeStyleTabs extension) invisible: You can set browser.theme.dark-private-windows to false.

I don't want dark mode, period. Who decided that privacy must equal to dark mode, and that there is no easy switch in settings to turn it off?

Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by s_ting765 »

emptyparadise wrote: post #93
s_ting765 wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Why don’t you give power users at the very least in about:config an option to disable ALL phoning home by Firefox upon launch and exit. Biggest reason I refuse to use Firefox no matter how bad Chromium is. I sometimes use Firefox Focus for doing searches on my phone and the thing is always pinging mozilla services. Some of them location related. No way to turn any of these off on what is supposed to be an incognito…

I find it hard to believe Chromium pings any less than Firefox. Would love to get more info on this.

Believe it. Firefox is kind of unbeaten in this regard.

There was a study carried out on what kinds of data leaks on browsers during launch [0] but Chromium specifically wasn't measured. I can only infer Safe browsing to be a leak point available on Chromium since it is shipped by default but I have it turned off (never needed it anyway) so I have not observed any pings related to it personally.

[0] https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf

Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by Ayesh »

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…

If it's isolation you are really after, you can just use built-in Containers feature. It isolates session/cookie data, and there are extensions that you create temporary containers for highly configurable boundaries.

Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by mminer237 »

capableweb wrote: post #88
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.

Vivaldi does have something approaching tree style tabs: https://vivaldi.com/features/tab-management/

Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by bityard »

forsythe_ wrote: post #45
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…

Counter argument: is it actually worth getting this upset over themes? Yes, the marketing behind it is stupid because it attempts to correlate some deeper symbolic meaning to the act of choosing colors for your web browser. But as a fellow Firefox advocate, I would rather Mozilla plays around with these sort of corny marketing concepts as a way of gaining market share rather than rely on Google's patronage ad-infinit…

I would rather Mozilla put their time and money into actually improving on the things they _used to_ to better than Chrome and IE, like building a vibrant and diverse community, listening to their users, focusing on giving the user control over their own browsing experience, and being first to market with privacy features.

It feels to me like they just ran out of either the will or the engineers to do the hard innovative stuff and are just trying to turn Firefox into their own UX art project at this point.

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