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Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by sfink »

nyanpasu64 wrote: post #171
sabellito wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

On Firefox Nightly, I randomly get tabs that break and show an interactive version of the previously switched-to tab until you restart the browser, dragging a text handle to the left of a Hacker News comment crashes the entire browser, etc.

Sounds like you're having problems with WebRender? Maybe it's unhappy with your graphics card or something. Definitely worth filing a bug and attaching your about:support.

I used to have much more minor issues that are somewhat similar to what you describe, but they've been fixed for the last year or so. (I run Nightly all the time, on Linux, and generally have remarkably few issues with it.)

Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by Macha »

Nextgrid wrote: post #27
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…

I remember being able to add a background to Firefox' UI a decade ago. Maybe they've removed it and are now celebrating it as a new feature despite it actually being a casualty of the browser's never-ending devolution.

They actually still support legacy themes, persona themes and colorways themes last I checked, so three generations of themes. I'm surprised with how much they like to deprecate stuff

Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by daveoc64 »

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…

Chrome and Edge behave the same way as Firefox.

You should think of it as a private session, not a private window.

I doubt Firefox would want to change from the behaviour shared by other browsers.

Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by rasz »

pluc wrote: post #111
wlesieutre wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> “‘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

Not hard at all when you look at salaries and allocation of funds.

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 aasasd »

mdaniel wrote: post #167
aasasd wrote: post #123

My small wish is that FF on Android supports an intent that opens a URL in a new private tab. That way I'd be able to selectively open pages from HN, Reddit or other apps in private tabs—by the way of Tasker or Automate. I looked a bit through FF code, and there's an intent to open an empty private tab, but not an address. Alas, with my lack of knowledge about data flow in an Android app, I'm not of much help so far.

I'm super cognizant of the /dev/null that is bugzilla, but have you opened an issue about that? My stance is that I don't have influence over whether they ignore me, but I have more righteous indignation if I did, in fact, open a ticket and then they ignored me

The Android Firefox, formerly known as Fenix, has a separate tracker on Github. However I wouldn't say that it's radically divergent in habits—more of a different take on the same problem that Mozilla has very limited resources and its own vision, whereas the hordes of users have thousands of their own wishes. E.g. the Fenix' tracker finally clears out stale bugs, at least occasionally, instead of letting them ferment for many years.

Anyway, personally I came to terms with the fact that open-source devs aren't my bitches, and just accept with gratitude what they offer to the world, while abstaining from polluting the trackers even further. However, I'm not above a hopeful whisper into the noosphere.

Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by causi »

zeppelin101 wrote: post #198
causi wrote: post #189

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I still use Firefox for high-risk browsing like porn or piracy, but for regular browsing the adblocking built into Vivaldi or Brave works just fine.

Interesting that you'd bring up Vivaldi. I think I tried it on my phone a few years back and it worked OK. But on a PC or Mac, it's the most bloated and slow piece of software I've seen. Which is a damn shame, because it has a lot of unique features.

I agree fully. It's quite nice on mobile, though. I especially like being able to automatically hide the status bar while in landscape mode to maximize vertical space. There's also the advantage that, as a Chromium-based browser, the Assistant command "read aloud" works.

Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by capableweb »

mminer237 wrote: post #117
capableweb wrote: post #88

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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/

Seems to not be tabs in the style of a tree, which is exactly what I'm using Tree Style Tab for ;) Vivaldi just does grouping which is not enough for me. Also should be on the side rather than keeping the tabs below/above the content.

See the following image for an example of a tree of tabs: https://imgur.com/a/fEWp9h0

Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by dylan604 »

insanitybit wrote: post #187
yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #181

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> 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. I'm pretty sure Chrome is the most common browser on the planet because Google abused its…

Mozilla could have gone to OEMs like Dell and said "We'll pay you to pre-install Firefox" but they didn't, Google did. I wonder if that would have cost more or less than the yearly bonuses the CEO takes?

Has any non-ad driven piece of software ever used this inorganic growth hack? Admittedly, it has been a long long time since I've suffered using an OS burdened with this kind of malady, but it was definitely where I learned about how apps are not as "free" as one might be led to believe. It was these types of apps and the damn browser toolbar installs that were dark-UI/hidden installed when installing a completely different app.

Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by bhearsum2 »

coldpie wrote: post #184
perlgeek wrote: post #173

I've long wondered why there wasn't a command-line option to open an URL in a new, private window. Hope this comes with this new desktop button.

The following worked for me on macOS. Found it at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/CommandLineOptions firefox -private-window https://google.com/

This should work, and has been there a very long time!
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