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Firefox 95 Released

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Re: Firefox 95 Released

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Post by ajxs »

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?

A large reason why I have not moved on from Firefox is that Gecko remains the only independent full-featured browser-engine. If Firefox were to be discontinued by Mozilla, Google would gain even more control over web standards than it already has. I'm aware that there are other independent, open-source browser-engines available, I'm not aware of any others that are equally usable as an everyday browser for ordinary users though. This fact alone has remained enough for me to continue using it in the face of a continually declining quality, and Mozilla's totally misguided corporate leadership.

Re: Firefox 95 Released

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Post by RF_Savage »

Nextgrid wrote: post #4
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...

I wonder why they bother with user-agents in the first place. It's more of a fingerprinting vector than anything else, especially considering Firefox's browser marketshare. Just hardcode it to Chrome's once and for all.

Heh, user-agents have been like that since the start. Almost all modern browsers start their user-agent with "Mozilla/", so we are back to the beginning in that regard. And naturally it is for the same reasons too!

Re: Firefox 95 Released

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Post by hpoe »

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?

Biggest advantage for me is the container tabs. One clicka nd I can be logged into the same service as 3 different users (regular account, test account, admin account) plus puts a firewall between work stuff and personal stuff.

Really love the container tabs.

Re: Firefox 95 Released

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Post by KennyBlanken »

Someone1234 wrote: post #3

Nice iterative release with mostly cross-platform security and MacOS specific performance improvements. I wonder if there is any benefit to Windows Store Vs. installer setups (e.g. does the update process change)?

System-wide tools like Homebrew and Chocolatey are nice because they allow you to decide to update everything on your system when you've fucked off and it doesn't cost you any time while your machine chews away - without the loss of control and rights "stores" represent.

Also, agreed - the MacOS performance improvements will be most welcome (I'm waiting on a de-Mozilla'd derivative to update.)

Re: Firefox 95 Released

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Post by aeturnum »

> reduced the power usage of software decoded video on macOS

Oh nice - tho Firefox is lower-power than Chrome for me it was noticeably bad on some video sites.

Re: Firefox 95 Released

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Post by newsbinator »

This is silly, but one of the main things I like about Firefox is being able to drag a sizable JSON file on top of it and getting that JSON in treeview, with a search filter. It's convenient out-of-the-box functionality.

Re: Firefox 95 Released

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Post by kingcharles »

prohobo wrote: post #18
stavros wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This.

Re: Firefox 95 Released

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Post by curt15 »

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?

Does Brave have the resources to maintain a fork of Chromium once upstream moves to Manifest v3 (which would kneecap uBlock origin)?
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