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Awesome but i really really want "I don't care about cookies". Please please let us have it (without having to jump through strange hoops)
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Ah yes, an addon whitelist. How very community friendly of Mozilla... And they wonder why their market share plummets the way it does, making such extremely user hostile decisions like that.
Playing devil's advocate here, don't they need to protect their users from nefarious add ons that could steal data?
A surprising amount of them comes with unlisted and uncontrollable connections to snooping services like Google Analytics or Sentry, I've seen unexpected redirects / tab hijacks - mostly to advertise the developer's new other extension, even fetching and executing external scripts and other resources from various CDNs is not uncommon... essentially everything their extension policies disallow.
All these violations are hardcoded into the extensions' source and rather easily scanned for automatically mind you, it almost takes more effort to not notice them.
I've stopped reporting the ones I encountered, they were never taken down, never lost their recommended badge, and all the violations remained in every next version that I checked.
Awesome but i really really want "I don't care about cookies". Please please let us have it (without having to jump through strange hoops)
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Wait, how do you use a bookmarklet like that on mobile Firefox? I have two that do this: https://web.archive.org/web/submit?url=%s javascript:void(location.href=' http://web.archive.org/save/'+document.location.href) But neither of them work on mobile because it opens a new tab first before evaluating the bookmarklet.
Is that void(...code...) syntax a good way to execute bookmarks? Also, your code is not urlencoded? I use javascript:(function(){...code...})() and urlencode the whole thing. I maintain this bookmarklet editor to easily convert code to bookmarklets: https://www.gibney.org/bookmarklet_editor
Greasemonkey was the good one and then something happened with it and it was no longer the best choice. I'm not sure what. The same repeated with Tampermonkey. It now has telemetry built into it, at one time w/ no privacy policy. https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/6hs59w/tampermonke... The good one now is Violentmonkey. Has been for some time. Does Mozilla have an allowlist for these? If so I don't like it.
For Android, yeah, they have a short list of allowed addons. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/search/?promoted=re... You can get past it if you're willing to run Nightly and jump through these hoops: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extensio...
One of the bigger reasons to use Fennec instead (the old Firefox Android browser, still maintained as a community fork) for me has been the fact that you can also load in the XPI files yourself, which is needed for a few FOSS extensions that aren't submitted to the Firefox Add-On Store due to one reason or another.
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A big thing for me is that Tampermonkey is not open source. And yes, Firefox on Android has an allowlist of "known working good" extensions, the reason given being that Firefox for Android doesn't implement everything the Desktop version implements and IIUC, want to a avoid users blaming the browser when something breaks because of it.
Ah yes, an addon whitelist. How very community friendly of Mozilla... And they wonder why their market share plummets the way it does, making such extremely user hostile decisions like that.
Greasemonkey was the good one and then something happened with it and it was no longer the best choice. I'm not sure what. The same repeated with Tampermonkey. It now has telemetry built into it, at one time w/ no privacy policy. https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/6hs59w/tampermonke... The good one now is Violentmonkey. Has been for some time. Does Mozilla have an allowlist for these? If so I don't like it.
What exactly is better in ViolentMonkey? Just want to know because I keep working with userscripts and after GreaseMonkey's collapse TamperMonkey has been my default userscript manager.
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Ah yes, an addon whitelist. How very community friendly of Mozilla... And they wonder why their market share plummets the way it does, making such extremely user hostile decisions like that.
Playing devil's advocate here, don't they need to protect their users from nefarious add ons that could steal data?