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Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by aikah »

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…

The mere fact that login into Google logs me in Chrome as well made me decide to switch to another browser. It's as simple as that. Google doesn't care about user's privacy.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by Ygg2 »

DyslexicAtheist wrote: post #461

2 grave security/privacy issues in Firefox right now (both are still open after more than 1 year): Firefox Installs non-free binaries from Cisco and Google again https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=915582 firefox: Safe Browsing updates fail due to insufficient quota on the Google API key https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=895147 Just recently I discovered DoH was activated by default now…

Is this related to Firefox DRM implementation?

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by thrwaway69 »

thrwaway69 wrote: post #412
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…

Both Chrome and Firefox doesn't work for me. I am sad how tab management isn't given priority on both. Chrome is especially annoying with it hiding the tabs after certain number of them and Firefox takes too much space and crashes often. There is no tab stacking, auto closing, sorting, filtering and multi previews built in. I switched to vilvadi last year and it has been a breeze. On mobile, I don't have any preferen…

explain the downvotes? I think I am missing something here.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by DyslexicAtheist »

Ygg2 wrote: post #472
DyslexicAtheist wrote: post #461

2 grave security/privacy issues in Firefox right now (both are still open after more than 1 year): Firefox Installs non-free binaries from Cisco and Google again https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=915582 firefox: Safe Browsing updates fail due to insufficient quota on the Google API key https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=895147 Just recently I discovered DoH was activated by default now…

Is this related to Firefox DRM implementation?

no. see this post which has meanwhile hit the frontpage for better discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21990505

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by smichel17 »

skrebbel wrote: post #418
andrewkdinh wrote: post #364

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe you’re talking about metomic. Best cookie notice I’ve seen yet. https://metomic.io/

If this is the gold standard, the our standards are very low. It should be just as easy for me to say "no" as it is to say "yes", and Metomic has the same dark pattern as everybody else that saying "no" requires a lot of clicking and careful reading, while click "yes" is easy. Seriously, in Metomic it's even multiple panels! And every single one has multiple paragraphs I have to read! Whereas "yes" is a single click…

Fandom (wikia) is pretty good. It's a big popup in the center of the page, with Yes and No buttons at the bottom, styled with equal importance. One click and it's out of my way, just as easy to decline as allow.

Of course, the gold standard is no tracking and no popup.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by mikl »

DyslexicAtheist wrote: post #461

2 grave security/privacy issues in Firefox right now (both are still open after more than 1 year): Firefox Installs non-free binaries from Cisco and Google again https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=915582 firefox: Safe Browsing updates fail due to insufficient quota on the Google API key https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=895147 Just recently I discovered DoH was activated by default now…

Some rather sensationalist claims there. Other than infringing on the DFSG, I don’t really see the problem with those binaries.

If you’re downloading compiled software from anyone, you’re trusting them to not have put nasty things in the binary. There could be lots of interesting things injected to the binaries that are not part of the open source code.

As for the safe browsing thing, that looks to be a bug specific to Debian’s Firefox-distribution, not FF itself.

And as for DoH, it’s not exactly a secret, it’s been widely reported on and featured in the release notes. If you’re technically competent to play around with `/etc/hosts`, you should be capable of reading the release notes, too.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by Dylan16807 »

Normal_gaussian wrote: post #384
tpmx wrote: post #178

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That's probably a pretty unusual scenario, generally speaking. On Mac I can see it making sense. Makes me curious to try out this browsing workflow...

I don't think it is. Whilst there are the "every tab in o e window open forever" people, there are plenty of "window for task" people. Personally, I have been a window for task person 'since forever' (tabs are context depth in said task, hence "close tabs to right" being one of the most useful features).

"window for task" is not the same thing as "tend to open links in new windows"

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by irrational »

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…

Ironically, I mainly use Firefox at work because of the Firefox Dev Tools. I guess we just prefer what we are used to.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by irrational »

deith wrote: post #441
nathancahill wrote: post #437

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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...

You can completely disable animations in accessibility settings.

Do you mean "Reduce Motion" under Display?
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