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Firefox 95 Released

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Re: Firefox 95 Released

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Post by cottager2 »

bovermyer wrote: post #6

I can't remember why I moved from Firefox to Brave. I'm curious if I should move back again. Can anyone sell me on/off this idea?

I use Firefox. Honestly, some sites are broken, like my brokerage account and Zillow. Having uBlock work at blocking 100% of known-bad requests is worth it to me. Chrome only blocks something like 60% due to the asynchronous nature of the extension API.

Re: Firefox 95 Released

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Post by LeoPanthera »

bovermyer wrote: post #6

I can't remember why I moved from Firefox to Brave. I'm curious if I should move back again. Can anyone sell me on/off this idea?

Well it hides website ads, which is fine, but has an option to then show its own ads instead, which is not.

It has a history of injecting its own affiliate codes into your URLs.

It has a history of accepting "donations" for people who cannot claim them, and pretending to represent those people.

Many of their more egregious issues have been "fixed", but the pattern is clear. Their CEO provided institutional support to the proposition 8 campaign (to ban same-sex marriage), and they get consistent placements on the far-right's pet hardware projects.

I'm not here to promote Firefox (indeed, I use Safari and, on Linux boxes, Falkon), but no-one should be supporting Brave.

Re: Firefox 95 Released

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Post by shmerl »

frankjr wrote: post #2

> We’ve added a User Agent override for Slack.com, which allows Firefox users to use more Call features and have access to Huddles. So now `window.navigator.vendor` returns "Google Inc." if your URL matches ` ://app.slack.com/ `. LOL. https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/eea0fac2cb8cae1e5a...

Slack is very nasty in how they refused to support proper WebRTC.

Re: Firefox 95 Released

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Post by input_sh »

bovermyer wrote: post #6

I can't remember why I moved from Firefox to Brave. I'm curious if I should move back again. Can anyone sell me on/off this idea?

It's simple, do you want to contribute to the Webkit dominance or would you like to support the last remaining engine not in the hands of Google (or Apple if you happen to use their hardware)?

For me the answer will be Firefox as long as it's a thing and I have no intention of switching to any Chromium derivatives.

Re: Firefox 95 Released

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Post by perihelions »

frankjr wrote: post #2

> We’ve added a User Agent override for Slack.com, which allows Firefox users to use more Call features and have access to Huddles. So now `window.navigator.vendor` returns "Google Inc." if your URL matches ` ://app.slack.com/ `. LOL. https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/eea0fac2cb8cae1e5a...

There's a list of UA overrides and other hardcoded website patches in about:compat.

Re: Firefox 95 Released

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Post by prohobo »

stavros wrote: post #8
kingcharles wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can't make this shit up O_O

What's so unbelievable about faking something to get an app that works perfectly fine on your browser to stop refusing to work on your browser?

I think he's talking about the fact that they had to do that at all.

Re: Firefox 95 Released

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Post by solarkraft »

frankjr wrote: post #2

> We’ve added a User Agent override for Slack.com, which allows Firefox users to use more Call features and have access to Huddles. So now `window.navigator.vendor` returns "Google Inc." if your URL matches ` ://app.slack.com/ `. LOL. https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/eea0fac2cb8cae1e5a...

Kind of interesting that they don't even mention talking to Slack about just removing the check ...

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1727100

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