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Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by detaro »

soft_dev_person wrote: post #27
soft_dev_person wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you can't get it back? I usually use Chrome, I never lose my session no matter what I slip up to do.

Thanks for the downvote, whomever. I always consider switching to Firefox, as I think Chrome needs competition, but Firefox has just never been up to par in usability (especially developer usability) whenever I've tried to switch. Things like "losing your work" for no good reason (don't Firefox have "Re-open closed Window"?) is just another thing I would add to the list of reasons not to switch, so feel free to clari…

To quote from the initial comment:

> (regardless of whether you have automatic session restore enabled for restart).

It also already has an optional check if you want to close a window ("you're closing a window with 10 tabs. sure?"), and a list of recently closed windows to restore.

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by numbsafari »

I wish Mozilla started to compete with Google on ChromeOS. Just make it the browser and leverage containers to keep things locked down. There’s a total business here and Mozilla could make it happen, without the entanglements of the ads business. Real missed opportunity to help promote open standards at the services level as well.

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by andy_ppp »

vezycash wrote: post #23
NamTaf wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was hoping to see this pushed out by default because I agree that it's the best 'new' feature I've found in the browser in some time. You can change it in about:config, searching for 'media.autoplay'. I've changed the following: 1) Set 'ask permission' to true 2) Set 'block webaudio' to true 3) Set default to 2, which is 'ask per domain'. As I understand, the default of 0 is 'autoplay', 1 is 'block' and 2 is 'ask'…

Why don't they write it as Block, Ask, Allow? Much easier this way.

I’m sure pull requests or bug reports are welcome from Mozilla if you feel strongly about it.

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by gsnedders »

oosjc9a5 wrote: post #3

A question regarding the advertisements they show on the home page: https://www.neowin.net/news/firefox-640-is-now-showing-a-boo... Are these ads introduced with these updates, or does Firefox include a backdoor so the Mozilla Corporation can show whatever they want on your home page?

> Are these ads introduced with these updates, or does Firefox include a backdoor so the Mozilla Corporation can show whatever they want on your home page?

The snippets are just a web page fragment fetched over HTTPS, AFAIK.

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by oosjc9a5 »

ekianjo wrote: post #22
oosjc9a5 wrote: post #3

A question regarding the advertisements they show on the home page: https://www.neowin.net/news/firefox-640-is-now-showing-a-boo... Are these ads introduced with these updates, or does Firefox include a backdoor so the Mozilla Corporation can show whatever they want on your home page?

Firefox as an organization does not get branding at all. They claim to be the champions on privacy and user freedom yet they keep breaking that image over and over again with unwanted ads, telemetry, and services you can't disable. I still use Firefox as my main browser, but I can't fathom how they come up with such poor decisions every single time.

Firefox is being sabotaged from the executive level, I'm 100 % sure of this. Tech-wise, solid. Administration, a complete disaster.

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by AdmiralAsshat »

soft_dev_person wrote: post #14
AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, it is much appreciated. Can't tell you how many times my finger has slipped and hit Ctrl+Q instead of Ctrl+W. Oh well! I didn't need all that work...

So you can't get it back? I usually use Chrome, I never lose my session no matter what I slip up to do.

Well, if I were, say, typing up a forum post, that would be lost. More often, however, I simply lose all my tabs. Which are not impossible to restore, given Firefox's "Restore Previous Session" button. But since I have the Cookie AutoDelete extension[0], all my sites get logged out. So I have to re-authenticate with my password manager, log back into all the sites, half of which require me to pull out my 2FA token...

It only takes about a minute total to get back up and running on everything. It's just a nuisance when it happens.

[0]https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode...

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by vezycash »

numbsafari wrote: post #32

I wish Mozilla started to compete with Google on ChromeOS. Just make it the browser and leverage containers to keep things locked down. There’s a total business here and Mozilla could make it happen, without the entanglements of the ads business. Real missed opportunity to help promote open standards at the services level as well.

They had FirefoxOS remember? Doubt think they'll want to do it again soon.

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by daleharvey »

sambe wrote: post #4

I feel like I've been waiting a long time for autoplay blocking - does this keep being pushed back or have I missed a feature cancellation/config setting/extension announcement?

We implemented 2 versions ago, however we wanted to do some user testing to make sure it wasnt going to break too many websites and annoy too many users (We ended up changing the behaviour based on those tests).

It will ship and be enabled by default in Firefox 66, it will not have a whitelist of allowed websites but autoplay on all websites will be disabled by default (configurable obviously), if autoplay is blocked there will be a small notification in the url bar to tell you and give you the chance to enable it for that site only if you so wish

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