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Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by majewsky »

peteretep wrote: post #356
Fnoord wrote: post #354

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On that of that, a lot of websites do not allow the user to use the website if they do not give consent to allow the non-functional cookies. Which is against the GDPR.

How many of those have you reported?

I heard a talk by Ulrich Kelber, the German federal data protection officer, two months ago. He admitted that it does not make much sense right now to encourage more people to report GDPR violations. As it stands, data protection agencies are already drowning in reports and most of them are horrendously underfunded. (Especially in EU countries that are not Germany. Germany has had strong data protection laws for a long time, so the staffing situation in our data protection agencies is slightly better.)

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by zelly »

icebraining wrote: post #212
fauigerzigerk wrote: post #84

Here's my Firefox wishlist: - Open new windows more quickly. Firefox feels sluggish (on Mac) even though it isn't, simply because it opens new windows far more slowly than Safari or Chrome. - Use the platform native key store. I don't want my passwords stored unencrypted on disk. But I don't want to enter a separate master password either. I do want to use fingerprint/face unlock on mobile to reveal passwords. - Give…

Regarding the native key store, why not just use full disk encryption? The session-specific encryption never made much sense to me, unless you share the computer with others. How many processes do you really have that are not running under your user or root?

You are more likely to lose your data while the computer is on and drives decrypted than when it is off. The threat model for FDE is thieves or government physically stealing your drive. Much more people get pwned in software than physically. I mean you don't just leave root shells laying around do you?

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by SmellyGeekBoy »

gombosg wrote: post #426

I've been using Firefox for the last 10 or so years. (Used the "new Chrome-Opera" for a while but went back soon) These recent developments are awesome. As a frontend developer, I also find the devtools absolutely competitive with Chrome's. The default ad- and tracker blocking is nice, I only need to use uBblock Origin for Youtube (whitelisting only that), since Youtube became nearly unusable due to the massive amoun…

> I only need to use uBblock Origin for Youtube (whitelisting only that), since Youtube became nearly unusable due to the massive amount of ads.

Depends how much you're using it, but as it's pretty much become the primary source of entertainment in our household I decided the most practical and ethical option was to just pay for it.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by SmellyGeekBoy »

coldfire wrote: post #376

As a long time Chrome user, and someone who (admittedly) said to a FF fan about an year ago, that it's too late for FF to catch up to Chrome now. I gave FF another shot about 6 months ago, and I'm liking it more every month since then. It has been my primary browser outside of work, the major reason I use Chrome now is for Chrome Dev Tools. Also, some websites don't behave well in FF and I find that most of the time…

> it's too late for FF to catch up to Chrome now

As someone who's been using FF since the Netscape Navigator days, I remember when people were saying similar things about Chrome and IE. Never say never.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by sharmi »

saagarjha wrote: post #406
Caspy7 wrote: post #404

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> 'switching to Firefox' isn't something anyone actually has to do. Just start using it for one thing or another and any complete change will happen naturally This is going to vary with different people. Have you heard the phrase "Default is destiny"? This is especially true for less technical people (the majority of web users). Personally I'm not going to dabble, rather keeping to the safe and familiar, so I have to…

Chrome isn't the default on a lot of platforms.

It is on chrome notebooks. And every search on google.com prompts you to install chrome for 'a better user experience'. Soon, just by plain nagging, it ends up becoming default

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by icebraining »

zelly wrote: post #432
icebraining wrote: post #212

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Regarding the native key store, why not just use full disk encryption? The session-specific encryption never made much sense to me, unless you share the computer with others. How many processes do you really have that are not running under your user or root?

You are more likely to lose your data while the computer is on and drives decrypted than when it is off. The threat model for FDE is thieves or government physically stealing your drive. Much more people get pwned in software than physically. I mean you don't just leave root shells laying around do you?

The question was whether the keychain really protects from those software attacks. I wondered mostly because I know that Windows will allow any process running as a certain user to decrypt data stored by any other process (at least if it's stored using the Data Protection API, like Chrome does for its passwords), so it only really protects your data from other users and their malware.

It seems that macOS authenticates each process, so that might provide some extra security.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by nathancahill »

makecheck wrote: post #170
fauigerzigerk wrote: post #84

Here's my Firefox wishlist: - Open new windows more quickly. Firefox feels sluggish (on Mac) even though it isn't, simply because it opens new windows far more slowly than Safari or Chrome. - Use the platform native key store. I don't want my passwords stored unencrypted on disk. But I don't want to enter a separate master password either. I do want to use fingerprint/face unlock on mobile to reveal passwords. - Give…

The window-opening animation might be a factor (applies across all of macOS). You can disable it for all windows in all applications using a terminal command: defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool NO You might need to restart apps to see this change.

Oh that's very nice. In iOS 7 we had a jailbreak tweak called NoSlowAnimations[0]. It was amazing how much a simple thing increased the perceived speed and responsiveness of the OS.

[0] http://cydia.saurik.com/package/com.marcosinghof.noslowanima...

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by OskarS »

rtpg wrote: post #394
marcosdumay wrote: post #219

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I don't understand why browsers would ever not lie about this.

"Why are my notifications for Slack not working?"

"Because you've declined to get notifications for Slack"

This does not seem like a reasonable complaint to me.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by deith »

saagarjha wrote: post #406
Caspy7 wrote: post #404

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 'switching to Firefox' isn't something anyone actually has to do. Just start using it for one thing or another and any complete change will happen naturally This is going to vary with different people. Have you heard the phrase "Default is destiny"? This is especially true for less technical people (the majority of web users). Personally I'm not going to dabble, rather keeping to the safe and familiar, so I have to…

Chrome isn't the default on a lot of platforms.

The default browser on Windows sucks and when you get online and go to Google you get an ad to download Chrome. That sorta makes it the default.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by goodguy1234 »

I still dont get why firefox is 1 to 2 seconds slow doing everything.

We already have uorgin block and https everywhere and privacy beaver.

They just want to make their browser even more bloated.

And lets not even talk about linux distro. On my xubuntu its even slower than chromium or chrome.

Here is my advice: Invest everything on speed. Your user already know about privacy and stuff. That why less than 9% of us are left.

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