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Re: Firefox 74

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post #38

Switched to Firefox nightly and preview recently; it's great once you enable webrender and mess with a few other about:config options. Lockwise on Android is the only issue, it doesn't always suggest my saved passwords.

Which about:config options specifically would you recommend?

I have a blog post in my drafts folder that documents it.

Re: Firefox 74

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After updating Firefox opens this page (using Google trackers) https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/74.0/whatsnew/all/ with a huge banner for Facebook container. Notably Mozilla hasn't made or advertises a Google container (probably has nothing to do with their heavy use of Google analytics or the search deal they have with Google).

Re: Firefox 74

#63
post #27

I wish Firefox had a good multi-account support like Chrome has. That, and the fact that iOS 14 might allow to set your default browser would make me move to use Firefox everywhere.

Containers are a vastly superior experience to profiles, at least for my use. I still have all my history, bookmarks etc., just different cookies&stuff for the things I open in the various containers I use.

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post #14

The Facebook container is great, but I wish there was an option for the built-in Multi-Account containers to work this way. I've been doing what the Facebook Container extension does, but with built-in containers, and the experience is very clunky. The two biggest issues are that I can't give the container a list of domains beforehand and say "everything under google.com should open here". I have to go to each Google…

I wish every domain could automatically be opened in an individual container. I don't even need to know about them.

Re: Firefox 74

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post #14

The Facebook container is great, but I wish there was an option for the built-in Multi-Account containers to work this way. I've been doing what the Facebook Container extension does, but with built-in containers, and the experience is very clunky. The two biggest issues are that I can't give the container a list of domains beforehand and say "everything under google.com should open here". I have to go to each Google…

I wish every domain could automatically be opened in an individual container. I don't even need to know about them.

That would break a lot of stuff, though. And then I don't just mean "bad" tracking, but normal auth flows etc

Re: Firefox 74

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post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is this tantamount to deciding which companies are good and bad? Mozilla have simply identified an extremely common way people are tracked online and are doing their best to contain it.

Same rules should apply to everybody. You should be able to decide some rules, even heuristics that can catch tracking across multiple sites and suggest user to disable it rather than pointing to entity and applying different rules to it than to everybody else.

You can set up containers for every domain you like. Facebook just comes as a predefined option because 90% of users are going to choose that domain anyway.

Re: Firefox 74

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post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is this tantamount to deciding which companies are good and bad? Mozilla have simply identified an extremely common way people are tracked online and are doing their best to contain it.

Same rules should apply to everybody. You should be able to decide some rules, even heuristics that can catch tracking across multiple sites and suggest user to disable it rather than pointing to entity and applying different rules to it than to everybody else.

FYI the facebook container is an addon one has to download and enable, it's not built-in.

Re: Firefox 74

#68
Eagerly awaiting a Firefox release that improves power consumption on Mac to a point where it is at least close to competitive with Safari. That, plus the rumors that iOS will soon allow 3rd party default browsers and I'm all in Firefox for sure.

Re: Firefox 74

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post #2

It's interesting that the patch notes seem to have references to a specific site. Did they really make changes to Firefox that only target Instagram?

I was recently reading through the input handling code for firefox on windows. Turns out that some input method editors insert a special character that facebook then deletes, breaking input handling. So they have a special case fix for facebook where they turn that character into a different one.

I guess when you don't have enough market share to force extremely popular websites to fix themselves, you're forced to fix them yourself.

Re: Firefox 74

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post #14

The Facebook container is great, but I wish there was an option for the built-in Multi-Account containers to work this way. I've been doing what the Facebook Container extension does, but with built-in containers, and the experience is very clunky. The two biggest issues are that I can't give the container a list of domains beforehand and say "everything under google.com should open here". I have to go to each Google…

I wish every domain could automatically be opened in an individual container. I don't even need to know about them.

There is a temp container extension that does exactly this.
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