Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade

Post by acheron » Tue, Oct 18, 2022, 9:05 PM UTC

Spivak wrote: post #156

stoplying1 wrote: post #148

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So Mozilla is chasing Nike shoe trends to advocate for their browser via colorschemes. I'm not even saying you're wrong, and I guess I'm not even sure that's an absolutely bad idea but Christ if that's "our" play for the future of browsers and privacy, I need to start building that shed ASAP!

I get you dude, Firefox got popular because IE stagnated and Mozilla capitalized on it, Chrome ate the world because Google made a significant technical improvement at just the right time neither of which can be replicated again so long as Google keeps up their frankly ridiculous development pace. Safari only lives because a popular platform requires it. Mozilla angling for a cultural victory in the browser war is we…

Post by perlgeek » Tue, Oct 18, 2022, 9:11 PM UTC

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/

Post by SAI_Peregrinus » Tue, Oct 18, 2022, 9:19 PM UTC

asdff wrote: post #253

ericpauley wrote: post #241

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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.

I love treestyle tabs and being able to autohide it until I mouse over, but I can't get containers to ever work as expected. I would expect when I click a link to e.g. ebay it would open in my ebay container in a new tab, and when I google something it puts me in a google container, and when I click a reddit link it puts me into the reddit container. Instead I am often still in the ebay container. Temporary container…

Post by b3nji » Tue, Oct 18, 2022, 9:23 PM UTC

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…

Post by soundnote » Tue, Oct 18, 2022, 9:37 PM UTC

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…