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Re: Firefox 74

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Post by Fnoord »

ycombinator_acc wrote: post #252
Fnoord wrote: post #224

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Going for the high trees instead of low hanging fruit. Why? On average, larger impact. There's Invidation addon to avoid Twitter/YouTube and redirect to Nitter/Invidious, and there's some addons to avoid CDNs such as Cloudflare / Amazon/ Akamai. There's also an addon to remove garbage in URLs such as AMP (I mean, wtf?). If you want to avoid these completely, plus GAFAM, your internet (browsing) experience isn't annoy…

If Baidu, Tencent, Cloudflare etc are "low hanging fruit" then Netflix is an even lower hanging fruit. It's just a streaming service. Even Twitch has a wider audience than them. Which is the reason I was confused why you brought those two up specifically, instead of the bigger players who are way more ubiquitous. Invidition is just a wrapper. Doesn't solve the larger problem which is what's happening on the server. L…

Obviously Netflix is low hanging fruit. Its just that people use the term GAFAN sometimes, and sometimes GAFAM. I don't know the exact logic of why using one or the other, so I did mention Netflix and Microsoft.

Twitch is Amazon.

I'm aware of wrapper usage. I just use youtube-dl from CLI whenever I see a YouTube linked referenced which should interest me.

Re: Firefox 74

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Post by abdullahkhalids »

mkl wrote: post #259
abdullahkhalids wrote: post #257

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Thanks. Reinstalling the extension fixed it.

Did that lose your existing tree structure and flatten everything?

Nope. I did the following steps: (1) uninstall TST (2) restart browser (3) install TST (4) restart browser.

All the tabs were as is. But I also purposefully did not open or close any tabs between (2) and (3). Not sure what the impact of that would be.

Re: Firefox 74

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Post by itwy »

sfink wrote: post #244
itwy wrote: post #166

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Why you keep saying "built-in containers", it's not built-in, it's an add-on.

The core functionality is and must be built in. You can't do very much with it in that state, so Multi-Account Containers is an user interface to configure and access most of the user-facing functionality. Some of that can be enabled just by toggling a couple of about:config settings, though. And as far as I know, though, it doesn't have privileged access to container APIs, so you could replace it with other addons.…

I see, thanks for the clarification. I wonder why Mozilla didn't just ship the add-on. It seems far-fetched to think it was to make the add-on replaceable by another.

Re: Firefox 74

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Post by ken »

OJFord wrote: post #92
seumars wrote: post #17

A new Firefox release, a new reminder that Firefox hasn't implemented native context menus in macOS for 20 years.

I reckon it's the only thing I use on macOS that even has a context menu. What's wrong with it? Or is it just that it doesn't look like those in... whatever you're using that also has them (Numbers.app et al. maybe?)?

Literally every other application on my Mac. I don't know of any Mac applications that don't have a useful context menu.

Even if you ignore Firefox's weird horizontal menu items, it looks wrong, and it acts wrong.

The dividers have a non-standard color. Some menu items have tooltips. One item has an icon, and it doesn't highlight correctly. When dismissed, the menu disappears sharply instead of fading out.

(To add insult to injury, the menu doesn't even use the system language. There's some internal setting that nobody can find which causes it to use Japanese even though my system and Firefox prefs are all set to English.)

The position is wrong, too. I'm used to dragging one pixel to the right, but that's not far enough to highlight the first item in Firefox. Many keyboard shortcuts are missing, e.g., the common ways to jump to the top/bottom item (home/end, cmd-up/down) don't work.

Re: Firefox 74

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Post by dang »

tomaszs wrote: post #228
tomaszs wrote: post #171

Firefox. A story of a best browser that changed into a privacy freak software

Thanks for minuses. You give them but you know i am right

Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News?

Re: Firefox 74

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Post by bad_user »

ohyeshedid wrote: post #226
bad_user wrote: post #190

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I've also signed up for a Firefox sync account ever since it was launched, and the only emails I get are the security notifications about new sign-ins. The Firefox Account has no communication options and does not send promotional emails: https://accounts.firefox.com/settings Not sure what lists you're subscribed to, but they aren't part of this account. What mailing lists have you subscribed to or what service are y…

From that site: https://i.imgur.com/tHTSKXL.png Check the bottom. When you clickthrough the Email preferences link, you're presented with a list of several email lists you can subscribe/unsubscribe from. Edit: I was subscribed to a couple lists I never directly opted-in to receive, though I never received any emails from those lists.

Ah, the problem is that I don't have that option — must be a regional thing:

https://imgur.com/a/BR1ILDe

Re: Firefox 74

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Post by ohyeshedid »

bad_user wrote: post #266
ohyeshedid wrote: post #226

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From that site: https://i.imgur.com/tHTSKXL.png Check the bottom. When you clickthrough the Email preferences link, you're presented with a list of several email lists you can subscribe/unsubscribe from. Edit: I was subscribed to a couple lists I never directly opted-in to receive, though I never received any emails from those lists.

Ah, the problem is that I don't have that option — must be a regional thing: https://imgur.com/a/BR1ILDe

Just happened to catch this, thanks for the response. That's interesting that it's possibly regional, and I'm unsure why. They weren't sales emails, it was just newsletters about various Mozilla bits.

Re: Firefox 74

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Post by richdougherty »

johnisgood wrote: post #243
richdougherty wrote: post #238

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I use Temporary Containers for getting each web page to run in its own container: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con... When I want to stay logged into anything I self-manage and create a named container. (This requires micromanaging but is at least opt-in.) But the default of separate temp containers is great.

Is there a similar extension for Chrome/Chromium?

I don't think so.
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