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Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by ericpauley »

hayst4ck wrote: post #225

I am extremely surprised by all the negative Firefox sentiment here. I switched from Chrome as soon as manifest v3 was announced and I have been almost completely happy with it. In all the ways I'm unhappy with it, chrome is even worse.

Whenever all the negative comments come up I mostly just assume there is a silent majority that continues to be happy with Firefox and doesn't say anything. I've been using it for years with basically 0 issues.

And I'm not using it to "stick it to Google" either. Containers and tree-style tabs are a huge productivity win.

Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by chowells »

smesla wrote: post #124
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…

> bring joy while browsing the web Why am I seeing people using the word "joy" everywhere lately? And why is theming a web browser bringing it to anyone?

Blame Marie Kondo. It's just modern self-help vocabulary.

Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by VancouverMan »

coldpie wrote: post #85
freediver wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

The last half of your comment describes such a scenario.

Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by WallyFunk »

oortcloud42 wrote: post #228
WallyFunk wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Who decided that privacy must equal to dark mode It's a visual cue to remember what context you are in. I always done that anyway. I have a Pink theme when surfing NSFW sites :)

Out of curiosity, how did you configure it?

I have a dedicated Firefox profile for NSFW stuff. You can add a Pink theme for that profile only. Here's one I use:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pink/?utm_sou...

You can configure themes here:

about:addons

Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by proactivesvcs »

cptskippy wrote: post #150
proactivesvcs wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Priorities like mentioning PDF editing before sickly doublespeak about...theming.

Do people think it's one person implementing Theming, PDF editing, and Privacy Mode protects; and that he just needs to re-prioritize his backlog? Why can't developer of difference capabilities contribute in different ways? I'm a competent developer but I will never be kernel module, crypto, or netcode competent; does that mean I should just forgo contributing to anything?

I think that someone wrote the entire spiel about the life-changing aspects of changing some colours of a program without realising how plastic it sounds, when they could have written it to be read by real people, and have a grasp of perspective. Visuals and aesthetics do play an important role but people want their software to do its job: be a useful tool.

Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by soundnote »

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 spontaneously developed cancer and projectile vomited in an impressive arc on reading their marketing copy for this stuff. Easy theming is nice, but holy fuck. Talk about saccharine.

Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by soundnote »

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

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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…

The moronic thing about these new "colorways" is that the company still refuses the sane default: Mostly grayish or very, very lightly tinted UI with a decently dark, contrasting tab bar. All these new themes have a lot of color outside the tab bar, but credit to Mozilla that the "soft" ones still manage more experienced contrast than their white-on-white abomination of a light theme.

Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by coldpie »

rhn_mk1 wrote: post #240
coldpie wrote: post #162

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Surely that same information is made available by visiting any website, no?

Yes, except the attacker gets it without visiting the attacker's web site.

You lost me. Why can an attacker do this to Firefox's telemetry, but not when I visit https://google.com/?

Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by dylan604 »

0x457 wrote: post #214
dylan604 wrote: post #137

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You sure that you're not confusing SFTP and FTPS? FTPS is absolutely FTP. Also, FTP is still used a lot, unfortunately.

So you're telling me that if I enter ftp://blah to something expecting a secured connection that it'll work just fine no problems? Then I have to ask what the point of the 'S' really is.

>Also, FTP is still used a lot, unfortunately.

Um, like, yup. Please see my original comment on my feeling on this.

Re: Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

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Post by morsch »

The titular upgrade to private browsing is that you can now launch the application directly in that mode and private browsing mode is displayed in dark theme by default. Oh and private browsing mode has a new logo. Exciting stuff.
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