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> Now, SmartBlock 2.0 in Firefox 90 eliminates this login problem. Initially, Facebook scripts are all blocked, just as before, ensuring your privacy is preserved. But when you click on the “Continue with Facebook” button to sign in, SmartBlock reacts by quickly unblocking the Facebook login script just in time for the sign-in to proceed smoothly. I wonder how it does that, and if it's open to exploitation by a malic…
Am I reading this right? Firefox now implements special logic just for Facebook?
Firefox by itself is an amazing browser but the company behind it lacks any kind of vision.
Brave has its own search, a better startpage, an ad network. From onboarding to incentivising user, they are doing it all very well.
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Obviously not as much as HTTP(s) but still there are FTP links which show up after a google search from time to time...I guess now I have to context switch to the file explorer...Thunar is OK but does Windows Explorer even support FTP?
There are more mailto: links on the web than ftp: ones, and yet most browsers don't natively do email. Firefox didnt remove the protocol from existence. They just removed a feature nobody uses, which is better handled outside the browser.
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Am I reading this right? Firefox now implements special logic just for Facebook?
Uhm, there's about:compat, edge://compat/, WebKit Quirks ( https://trac.webkit.org/browser/webkit/trunk/Source/WebCore/... ), and Chrome ( https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:con... and https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:com... ).
Site compatibility is a surprisingly broad topic that doesn't tend to fit neatly into our ideal vision of the web.
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I started using Tree Style Tab to manage them, and I like that very much. I agree, a mobile-style manager would be interesting.
Sounds a bit like you'd like Tab Groups. I used Tab Groups extensively until that functionality was ripped out and put into a shitty, poorly maintained, broken add-on. A quick Ctrl+Shift+E and I could organize everything into work/research/gaming/wikis/whatever and quickly search all tabs or within a specific tab group to switch tabs. The add-on kind of works but isn't as feature complete and from my experience was p…
Since you didn't quite say it explicitly: The real insult was that they factored it out into an extension, and then promptly broke the extension by ripping out the API surface it needed.
I think Firefox news is what I comment most on here. I don't know why. Well I guess I do. Web browsers, javascript etc is front and center here - which somewhat means the digital world. All my friends use Chrome, and think I'm weird. I think _they_ are. They care about human rights, at least I think they do. But, having Google, an ad company, dictate how our window to the digital world looks like, is now _way worse_…
Last time I used FF on my Macbook (about 2 or 3 years ago) it had a big issue with battery drain (IIRC it was because of high GPU load even when idle). Did they ever fix that?