Firefox 74 • Hacker News Board

Re: Firefox 74

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Post by StavrosK » Tue, Mar 10, 2020, 3:50 PM UTC

bluGill wrote: post #149

StavrosK wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I have used fastmail for ~10 years. However google still has far too many ways to track me.

Why are you worried about GMail's outgoing links if you're using Fastmail?

Re: Firefox 74

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Post by darkwater » Tue, Mar 10, 2020, 3:52 PM UTC

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…

I also miss the option to choose in which container open a new tab by default. I try to not use at all "container-less tabs" and it breaks keyboard-only usage.

Re: Firefox 74

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Post by franczesko » Tue, Mar 10, 2020, 3:54 PM UTC

The desktop version should be a lower-level priority in the mobile driven world. The Android version of the browser is still annoyingly slow and too complex to be a daily default.

Brave, with it's dead easy setup should be an example to follow.

Re: Firefox 74

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Post by input_sh » Tue, Mar 10, 2020, 3:57 PM UTC

darkwater wrote: post #152

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…

I also miss the option to choose in which container open a new tab by default. I try to not use at all "container-less tabs" and it breaks keyboard-only usage.

Couldn't agree more. Open default links in separate container + delete all data from this container would make the desktop experience like Focus on mobile.

Re: Firefox 74

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Post by pbhjpbhj » Tue, Mar 10, 2020, 4:02 PM UTC

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…

I guess following a link that goes to a different container will break session cookies, and such, which for some/most is going to be annoying.

Re: Firefox 74

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Post by Hitton » Tue, Mar 10, 2020, 4:07 PM UTC

I guess this means that containers still don't work in private mode.

Re: Firefox 74

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Post by Ohn0 » Tue, Mar 10, 2020, 4:07 PM UTC

First item listed under New:

> Your login management has improved with the ability to reverse alpha sort (Name Z-A)

Cool!

Re: Firefox 74

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Post by saberworks » Tue, Mar 10, 2020, 4:08 PM UTC

I don't know what is up with mozilla/firefox. I'm still using firefox but not because I like it, only because the alternatives are worse. I signed up for a firefox account almost right after they were announced. At the time and multiple times since I've unsubscribed from "all" their emails because I'm not interested in them. They just either invent a new list and auto-subscribe me to it or they just ignore my preferences and spam me anyway. Today I got an email from mozilla telling me to "Get the 'F' out." So I did, I reset my password, logged into their service, unsubscribed (again!!) from all their lists, and then deleted my account. Yes, I was forced to reset my password and log in just to unsubscribe.

Not mentioned in the changelog for this release is that in the URL bar, when I start typing and the suggestion list drops down, the first result is now highlighted in an eye-destroying bright green (even in dark mode, which I'm using).

Re: Firefox 74

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Post by gpvos » Tue, Mar 10, 2020, 4:12 PM UTC

comboy wrote: post #46

StavrosK wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's wrong for the browser to give me a way to containerize whatever domain I want?

Absolutely not, but you should be the one choosing the domain.

Facebook Container is an optional extension, not installed by default. And you can write your own extension for different domains. In fact, people have created several such extensions, such as Google Container, Temporary Containers, and others. It's true though that the Facebook Container extension is actively marketed by Mozilla.

Re: Firefox 74

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Post by Ohn0 » Tue, Mar 10, 2020, 4:13 PM UTC

> When a video is uploaded with a batch of photos on Instagram ...

Features just for insta? I thought this was a web browser not an instagram browser. I guess same goes for the facebook container... what's up with building browser features for facebook? Why no reddit container, or google container, or amazon container?