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Post by ranguna »

cookiengineer wrote: post #292
the_gipsy wrote: post #287

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> I am still busy forking webkit into retrokit and it's a shitload of work to remove these tracking features. Why not fork Firefox? Or just disable the tracking?

> Why not fork Firefox? > Why not fork Electron/Chromium/nwjs? Tried it and gave up. It's impossible. Repotools, manifests and submodule fatigue and other things make it close to impossible to host all the code yourself and build it, because many parts of the build toolchain and codebase contain includes via git/https URLs these days. That's why I went with WebKit, because there I clone a single repo, install the dep…

You don't have to do it alone. Checkout librewolf.

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Post by iRobbery »

OrlandoHakim wrote: post #193
thyrox wrote: post #161

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You know I let a lot of important things in Firefox slide (like the poor Webspeech API support, bad text-to-speech, some missing extensions and a lot of other things) but I still make it a habit to use it over Chrome (and recommend it to everybody) as somewhere in my mind it feels like a small revolt against the giant evil Google corp. But stuff like this and other shenanigans in the past (like Mr.robot, misuse of fu…

I switched to Brave - no regrets

little snitch pops up more here for updates checks and others i assume for brave (idle, not browsing) than chrome does.

Re: Each Firefox download has a unique identifier

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Post by kgonza »

OrlandoHakim wrote: post #193
thyrox wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You know I let a lot of important things in Firefox slide (like the poor Webspeech API support, bad text-to-speech, some missing extensions and a lot of other things) but I still make it a habit to use it over Chrome (and recommend it to everybody) as somewhere in my mind it feels like a small revolt against the giant evil Google corp. But stuff like this and other shenanigans in the past (like Mr.robot, misuse of fu…

I switched to Brave - no regrets

Lol; this isn't something you should boast about.

Re: Each Firefox download has a unique identifier

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Post by kgonza »

abandonliberty wrote: post #174
car_analogy wrote: post #62

Suppose you want to do something anonymously. 1. Download installer from Mozilla from your home network - Mozilla now has your home IP and installer ID. 2. Transfer it via USB key to a secure, anonymous computer - one not linked to you, on a network not associated with you, such as public WiFi. 3. Install Firefox using that installer on said computer. It transmits the installer ID to Mozilla, which matches the one gi…

I can't believe the apologists commenting on this. Firefox put a lot of effort into tracking download to install behavior. Maybe this is the only violation you know about. There's no reason to continue to believe in Mozilla's good faith. They've been captured, and are 90% dependent on Google revenue. Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28954390 Firefox is dead. It's time to move past denial. It does…

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Post by Slartie »

jiriro wrote: post #268
car_analogy wrote: post #62

Suppose you want to do something anonymously. 1. Download installer from Mozilla from your home network - Mozilla now has your home IP and installer ID. 2. Transfer it via USB key to a secure, anonymous computer - one not linked to you, on a network not associated with you, such as public WiFi. 3. Install Firefox using that installer on said computer. It transmits the installer ID to Mozilla, which matches the one gi…

> 1. Download installer from Mozilla from your home network - Mozilla now has your home IP and installer ID. The Apple’s icloud private relay should prevent Mozilla knowing the IP.

Great! And what about all those non-Apple users? Or all those Apple users not on a paid iCloud plan?

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Post by jamjamjamjamjam »

nemosaltat wrote: post #283
wyclif wrote: post #277

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I did, too. All I can tell you is that when I have Brave running on an M1 with four tabs open, it's consistently using 240MB of memory. When I fire up Firefox Developer Edition with the same tabs open, it starts at 660MB and quickly balloons up to 1.05GB of memory usage.

My experience also. I’ve slowly edged away from Firefox and have primarily been using Brave and Safari for the last 6mos or so. Brave just feels snappier, and it’s close enough to Chrome that most work required websites aren’t broken.

Ive made the opposite switch, many sites were broken in brave (eg google docs, google sheets) and aren’t in firefox

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Post by zeepzeep »

sellerie wrote: post #308
OrlandoHakim wrote: post #193

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I switched to Brave - no regrets

People complain about firefox doing shady stuff and then use Brave lmao. Just leaving these here: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/19125#issuecom... https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/16611#issuecom...

> Steps to Reproduce

> 1. Open Brave

This is way too funny for me.

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Post by eps »

blibble wrote: post #22

how does this get through the MS smartscreen and authenticode checks?

There is a way to add random data to signed executables without invalidating the sig. Data, not code.

Smartscreen is bypassed by using EV sig, which gives the exe an instant reputation boost.

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Post by michalstanko »

gitrog wrote: post #293
wyclif wrote: post #277

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I did, too. All I can tell you is that when I have Brave running on an M1 with four tabs open, it's consistently using 240MB of memory. When I fire up Firefox Developer Edition with the same tabs open, it starts at 660MB and quickly balloons up to 1.05GB of memory usage.

How are the devtools in Brave?

Same as Chrome
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