Cool, but when will they release a feature that makes it so I can run a Zoom call without turning my MBP into a toaster hot enough to melt diamonds?
Zoom is a different software, so I don't really see a connection to Firefox. Am I missing something?
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#32And ads in the address bar search results. https://twitter.com/CohanRobinson/status/1364172683118866433 E: saved you a click on my own link. In about:config you can disable this by setting the following to false browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsored browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsoredTopSites
I like to support Mozilla and I know they need funds... But don't mess with my interface. This is a bad bad move.
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#33Cool, but when will they release a feature that makes it so I can run a Zoom call without turning my MBP into a toaster hot enough to melt diamonds?
Zoom is a different software, so I don't really see a connection to Firefox. Am I missing something?
Zoom calls in Firefox -- a lot of people don't download the software but just run it in browser.
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#34Is there a possibility sites just begin blocking Firefox? It's only ~8% of the desktop market share and ~4% across all devices. It doesn't seem inconceivable sites just give up supporting it if they're not getting the ad revenue.
technically impossible, firefox would be forced to pretend to be another browser.
With fingerprinting it's not impossible. Quoting a recent Webkit thread[1] in which Google blocked all sign in from non-Safari WebKit browsers:
> But if Google does this properly and uses more sophisticated browser fingerprinting techniques, Epiphany is done for. This could be an existential threat for non-Safari WebKit browsers. Nobody is going to be interested in using a browser that doesn't support Google websites. Google's expressly-stated goal is to block embedded browser frameworks and non-supported browsers from signing into Google accounts. The blog post says: "This block affects CEF-based apps and other non-supported browsers." It says: "We do not allow sign-in from browsers based on frameworks like CEF or Embedded Internet Explorer."
[1] https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2020-November/...
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#35Good to see that in last few releases, no needless UI changes were introduced (which were causing dramas in the past).
Brace yourself: major UI revamp coming around Firefox 89, https://google.com/search?q=firefox%20proton
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#36I was wondering : What is the purpose of picture in picture? I don't have any use case for it and was curious about who does.
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#37Is there any privacy benifit to use containers now with the new isolations built into firefox? I'm using cookie autodelete + Containers, So now its either isolate and keep them or Isolate and delete them. I quite like this.
Containers aren't going to give you additional protection against third-party cookies with this feature. But, you still have other useful benefits like having different sessions open on the same websites using containers, or just grouping websites by forcing them into specific containers (Work/Personal/Random etc..).
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't reproduce that. How do I reproduce that?
Apparently it's an A/B test thing. I was a lucky winner. All I did was update (Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS) To confirm I disabled all plugins immediately to ensure it was bog standard Firefox (which is why I was so irritated at the time, proper threw off my day). Bonus it had the Amazon tracking code "admpdesktopuk-21", which if you do a search reveals a bunch of plugins that went rogue. E: apologies I can't track down the so…
I am seeing it in my Windows firefox install.
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#39I was wondering : What is the purpose of picture in picture? I don't have any use case for it and was curious about who does.
I haven't used it much, but it does allow you to not have to pull a tab out for youtube or the like if you want to watch something on the side while doing something else, and it does it with zero extra interface, which is nice (it's always annoying when I want to resize a video in the window to take almost all the window size and there's useless padding I can't easily bypass).
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#40I was wondering : What is the purpose of picture in picture? I don't have any use case for it and was curious about who does.
I've used it when I am multitasking (watching something fun while "working") or while taking notes on the video.