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Re: Firefox 74

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Post by StavrosK »

sylens wrote: post #108
stavros wrote: post #14

The Facebook container is great, but I wish there was an option for the built-in Multi-Account containers to work this way. I've been doing what the Facebook Container extension does, but with built-in containers, and the experience is very clunky. The two biggest issues are that I can't give the container a list of domains beforehand and say "everything under google.com should open here". I have to go to each Google…

Do containers sync across devices yet? Having to re-establish all of my container rules on my work and personal computers is tedious

I just opened mine and got a notification that they can now sync, so it appears that they added it recently.

Re: Firefox 74

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Post by tialaramex »

skrowl wrote: post #15

The largest change is disabling TLS 1.0 and 1.1 by default. Chrome following when 81 gets released (currently in beta).

Yes, all the major browsers are on board with this plan.

An IETF Best Common Practice document saying to stop using TLS 1.0 (and TLS 1.1 which was rarely used in practice) will probably be published later this year. I liked this document's original name better but alas it's more important for people to act on correct advice than for the advice to make me smile.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-moriarty-tls-oldversi...

Re: Firefox 74

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Post by mark_l_watson »

TheKnack wrote: post #90
cptskippy wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> whenever I click a link on Gmail that goes to Github, Github opens in the Google container Google intercepts clicks and redirects them through a Google Domain to track clickthru. If you're in Gmail and hover over a link it will show the actual destination but onclick your browser opens a mail.google.com URL that redirects to the destination URL.

This extension removes the URL intercept/redirect on Gmail and many other sites: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/skip-redirect... This one handles the other situation, tracking parameters added to the URL that are intentionally passed to the target site: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/neat-url/

Thanks for the link. I just spent a few minutes looking at this extention’s creator’s github activity. Installing this will be my first todo list activity whenever I first use my laptop today.

That redirect always bugged me.

EDIT: I just noticed on the install page "This is not a Recommended Extension. Make sure you trust it before installing.Learn more" which is annoying.

Re: Firefox 74

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Post by chrisjc »

ape4 wrote: post #80

Even if Facebook is containerized, if you make a purchase on .com they might just tell Facebook (without the browser involved)

Apparently this can be done in a brick-and-mortar (Home Depot, Pavillions, so on) too. And I mean even without ID, members card, ewallet, etc...

There's nothing Mozilla can do about that too.

Re: Firefox 74

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Post by Someone1234 »

genpfault wrote: post #72

Any way to get rid of this "Your browser is being managed by your organization" tomfoolery without nuking the relevant code in EnterprisePolicies.js[1] and rebuilding Firefox? [1]: https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/compo...

If you could then enterprises would use the same mechanism to turn it off too.

Re: Firefox 74

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Post by bluGill »

StavrosK wrote: post #55
cptskippy wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> whenever I click a link on Gmail that goes to Github, Github opens in the Google container Google intercepts clicks and redirects them through a Google Domain to track clickthru. If you're in Gmail and hover over a link it will show the actual destination but onclick your browser opens a mail.google.com URL that redirects to the destination URL.

It doesn't matter though, the tracking domain would run in the container and github outside it.

I don't want google to know that I clicked on the link. That is sensitive.

Re: Firefox 74

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Post by cptskippy »

StavrosK wrote: post #55
cptskippy wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> whenever I click a link on Gmail that goes to Github, Github opens in the Google container Google intercepts clicks and redirects them through a Google Domain to track clickthru. If you're in Gmail and hover over a link it will show the actual destination but onclick your browser opens a mail.google.com URL that redirects to the destination URL.

It doesn't matter though, the tracking domain would run in the container and github outside it.

The browser have to intercept 302 redirects and javascript .location assignments, open safe locations in a different container. Would that be a new window or the same window but with container change?

In the former scenario you'd basically get 2 new tabs, in the later you'd have a tab represent two different containers based on where you navigate in history.

Either way it sounds unsavory.

Re: Firefox 74

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Post by ptx »

"Going forward, only users can install add-ons; they cannot be installed by an application."

Surely that depends on how hard the application wants to try? I suppose they might mean that installing add-ons externally is now unsupported.

Re: Firefox 74

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Post by hencoappel »

AbuAssar wrote: post #85
pgm8705 wrote: post #68

Eagerly awaiting a Firefox release that improves power consumption on Mac to a point where it is at least close to competitive with Safari. That, plus the rumors that iOS will soon allow 3rd party default browsers and I'm all in Firefox for sure.

restricting all browsers to use safari is the single killer feature that made me stick with ios. If I blacklisted a website in control center it is respected in all browsers even in private mode.

> restricting all browsers to use safari is the single killer feature

"killer" is right, "feature" is not. It's very anti-competitive and for those who don't want to use Safari it means iOS is just not an option.

> If I blacklisted a website in control center it is respected in all browsers even in private mode.

This is useful if you're using multiple browsers, but why bother if they're all Safari?

Re: Firefox 74

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Post by StavrosK »

bluGill wrote: post #116
StavrosK wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It doesn't matter though, the tracking domain would run in the container and github outside it.

I don't want google to know that I clicked on the link. That is sensitive.

Switch to an email provider that doesn't want to track you. You can be on Fastmail in an hour if you have your own domain.
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