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Re: Ask HN: Is your Firefox blocked by Cloudflare in recent weeks? (e.g., Gitlab)

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Post by CommitSyn »

egberts1 wrote: post #29
ThePowerOfFuet wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I've stopped visiting couple of sites because of CloudFlare. I keep using old Firefox with no scripts or ocassionally with uMatrix. Why do you use an out-of-date browser?

BECAUSE Firefox is the most configurable and the most privacy-secured web browser that also gave fork to SilverFox, Tor Browser, LibreWolf, WaterFox, PaleMoon, GNU IceCat, Mull, KMeleon, Dot Browser, Basilisk, MyPal and IceRaven. Something that Chrome is unwilling to support.

They're asking why you use an outdated version of Firefox, not why you use Firefox.

Edit: I assume you're using it in the "Good 'ole Firefox" sense?

Re: Ask HN: Is your Firefox blocked by Cloudflare in recent weeks? (e.g., Gitlab)

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Post by thro1 »

ThePowerOfFuet wrote: post #27
thro1 wrote: post #22

I've stopped visiting couple of sites because of CloudFlare. I keep using old Firefox with no scripts or ocassionally with uMatrix.

> I've stopped visiting couple of sites because of CloudFlare. I keep using old Firefox with no scripts or ocassionally with uMatrix. Why do you use an out-of-date browser?

Every time I use newer version I'm losing something, context or results of what I do, and earlier or later browser will try to be smarter and behave not as expected, ignore my configurations etc. - morover to extensions which I need not working and removed functionality (no need for most of new fancy stuff - but a bit of it I'm missing). I think I will be stuck at 68esr for a while because of XBL which I like and see useful - then I'm not sure if I can afford that effort of possibly rewriting a lot to avoid surprises and make the browser working *for me* without need to fight him.

Re: Ask HN: Is your Firefox blocked by Cloudflare in recent weeks? (e.g., Gitlab)

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Post by thro1 »

CommitSyn wrote: post #31
egberts1 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

BECAUSE Firefox is the most configurable and the most privacy-secured web browser that also gave fork to SilverFox, Tor Browser, LibreWolf, WaterFox, PaleMoon, GNU IceCat, Mull, KMeleon, Dot Browser, Basilisk, MyPal and IceRaven. Something that Chrome is unwilling to support.

They're asking why you use an outdated version of Firefox, not why you use Firefox. Edit: I assume you're using it in the "Good 'ole Firefox" sense?

same as uTorrent version 2.2.1 - the latest complete without bloat

Re: Ask HN: Is your Firefox blocked by Cloudflare in recent weeks? (e.g., Gitlab)

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Post by thro1 »

CommitSyn wrote: post #31
egberts1 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

BECAUSE Firefox is the most configurable and the most privacy-secured web browser that also gave fork to SilverFox, Tor Browser, LibreWolf, WaterFox, PaleMoon, GNU IceCat, Mull, KMeleon, Dot Browser, Basilisk, MyPal and IceRaven. Something that Chrome is unwilling to support.

They're asking why you use an outdated version of Firefox, not why you use Firefox. Edit: I assume you're using it in the "Good 'ole Firefox" sense?

That would be even older Firefox til version 53 to browse ALL file, media, document formats (as well not free - so it's gone) using plugins of your choice..

Re: Ask HN: Is your Firefox blocked by Cloudflare in recent weeks? (e.g., Gitlab)

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Post by seanhunter »

jonathantf2 wrote: post #26
mgr8 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry for going off topic, but what exactly is an "Enterprise Browser"? Does it limit what sites can be accessed, what extensions can be installed if any, and what features are available to used by the websites? I guess it will provide capabilities to add AD's group policy object like mechanisms to the browser.

Bit confused by this since Firefox and Chrome already have available GPOs you can apply limiting stuff like this.

I'm sure they do. Island wasn't my idea, just since I've been asked to test it it's literally the only browser I use other than firefox and I was making the point that firefox works fine on cloudflare sites in general so there must be some kind of gitlab-specific problem.

Re: Ask HN: Is your Firefox blocked by Cloudflare in recent weeks? (e.g., Gitlab)

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Post by [deleted] »

bacchusracine wrote: post #24

All the time. How the hell did the world decide to elect this company gatekeeper of what was supposed to be the world wide web? How did this corporation suddenly assume powers to block what was supposed to be the most open communications medium of all time? ...odd isn't it?

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