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Re: Firefox 76

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Post by lucb1e »

narag wrote: post #3

Anybody using Firefox password manager that can comment on it? Is it considered safe enough? Are the passwords stored remotely if you have multi-device profiles? Edit: I asked because I see that some of the updats are related.

> Anybody using Firefox password manager that can comment on it? Is it considered safe enough?

Have been for >10 years now. It feels kinda icky because of how close the passwords are to every website I visit, but the convenience of having passwords auto-fill enables me to auto-delete cookies of most sites (reduced tracking without compromising on convenience) and not hesitate to use a strong password. I've heard of way more bugs in third party auto-fillers than in Firefox' own, but that notion is of course not scientific proof.

I do think that if you want real security, you need to have the passwords on a separate device (for example on a phone) since malware has been known to keylog and steal password databases. Keylogging is not really possible on a phone unless you grant the offending app some very odd permissions. Whether a separate device is worth the hassle for you depends on how big you judge the risk for the accounts you'd store in there. Not using autofill or browser integration also helps in case there is some security issue in that, but I'm not sure how much that really helps (most browser bugs are aimed at running code on the host anyway) and how much it's just a nuisance.

Re: Firefox 76

#102

Post by chimen »

There are 2 things I miss from switching to FF:

Right click on a picture -> search google for image Right click -> Translate page

Everything else seems smooth enough.

Re: Firefox 76

#103

Post by kibwen »

antisocial wrote: post #89

I just switched to Safari - to be able to set time limits to websites on my mac, as I am consuming too much news these days. This is not possible with Firefox as far as I know.

Extensions fill this role for Firefox. I have used LeechBlock previously and can recommend it: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/leechblock-ng...

Re: Firefox 76

#104

Post by ConsiderCrying »

chimen wrote: post #102

There are 2 things I miss from switching to FF: Right click on a picture -> search google for image Right click -> Translate page Everything else seems smooth enough.

I sorely miss the ability to make my homepage a layout of the sites I visit daily. On Chrome I had this grid of most frequented sites that I set up myself, fine-tuned so I could launch Chrome and immediately open up any mail, read the news, check some of the blogs I read, etc. On Firefox, I've been using bookmarks but that's not as effective.

Re: Firefox 76

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Post by lucb1e »

baal80spam wrote: post #90
narag wrote: post #3

Anybody using Firefox password manager that can comment on it? Is it considered safe enough? Are the passwords stored remotely if you have multi-device profiles? Edit: I asked because I see that some of the updats are related.

Maybe it sounds silly but make sure you have access to the email associated with your Mozilla account. I learnt the hard way after reinstalling Windows that Mozilla sends a confirmation email to this address when you set up Sync on a new system. It turned out that I had no access to this email anymore since the provider went out of business. I was told it's impossible to access my sync data. Thankfully I did not use…

Wait but, you had no backups? I don't mean email access or sync access, but simply a backup of your system with your photos, documents, application data (including firefox' password database), none of that?

Re: Firefox 76

#106

Post by simonklitj »

leeoniya wrote: post #66

i just want to say, Firefox is seriously fast now, while Chrome continues to get slower [1]. my 10M datapoint uPlot benchmark runs in half the time, for both pure js (fake data gen) and canvas workloads (chart rendering). check out the console in [2]. however, i'm still waiting for the performance assessment in devtools to improve so i can get an easy summary as i can in Chrome. also, better default form input stylin…

Would love to see how Safari handles your benchmark! I find it pretty fast, but maybe that's just bias because it treats my battery nice.

Re: Firefox 76

#107

Post by uallo »

chrismorgan wrote: post #38
AndrewDucker wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You always want to be on the latest one, because that's where the security fixes are. And if you care about what's in it just read the release notes.

But in real life as a developer, not all of your users are using the latest one. If you depend on a certain feature, it’s a pain after looking up the version that started supporting it, to then have to look up what time that number corresponds to. (e.g. “that’s last month’s browser” is a bit different from “that got fixed in the browser two years ago, please update”).

In real life, developers use https://caniuse.com which tells you exactly what features are supported in what version and when that was released.

Re: Firefox 76

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Post by skykooler »

leeoniya wrote: post #66

i just want to say, Firefox is seriously fast now, while Chrome continues to get slower [1]. my 10M datapoint uPlot benchmark runs in half the time, for both pure js (fake data gen) and canvas workloads (chart rendering). check out the console in [2]. however, i'm still waiting for the performance assessment in devtools to improve so i can get an easy summary as i can in Chrome. also, better default form input stylin…

It seems that it's faster on every website I use except Gmail, Google Voice, and Youtube. I wonder whether Google is using some sort of Chrome-specific javascript to make those sites run faster in their own browser?

Re: Firefox 76

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Post by asadotzler »

ConsiderCrying wrote: post #104
chimen wrote: post #102

There are 2 things I miss from switching to FF: Right click on a picture -> search google for image Right click -> Translate page Everything else seems smooth enough.

I sorely miss the ability to make my homepage a layout of the sites I visit daily. On Chrome I had this grid of most frequented sites that I set up myself, fine-tuned so I could launch Chrome and immediately open up any mail, read the news, check some of the blogs I read, etc. On Firefox, I've been using bookmarks but that's not as effective.

I could be missing something but in case I'm not. You can enable Top Sites and customize them to your liking by removing ones you don't want and pinning the ones you do.

Re: Firefox 76

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Post by amartya916 »

Thank you to the Firefox team, this seems like a really nice release. I am very happy about the "If you don’t have a master password set up for Firefox, Windows and macOS now requires a login to your operating system account before showing your saved passwords." change. It might seem like a small change, but it's one of those friction points (another password to remember!) that will lead to (hopefully) more people using the built-in password autofill. Thank you again!

Anyone with a security background or someone who has thought through this more: what are the implications of making the OS level authentication the default, and then only ask to make a master pwd if there are no OS level login pwds? Is one or the other more secure?

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