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?
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#63I 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.
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#64The 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…
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#65The 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.
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#66Earlier 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.
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#67Earlier 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.
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#69It'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 guess when you don't have enough market share to force extremely popular websites to fix themselves, you're forced to fix them yourself.
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#70The 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.