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Re: Firefox 90

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Post by [deleted] »

WorldMaker wrote: post #81
ducktective wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Obviously not as much as HTTP(s) but still there are FTP links which show up after a google search from time to time...I guess now I have to context switch to the file explorer...Thunar is OK but does Windows Explorer even support FTP?

Windows' File Explorer briefly flirted with WebDAV (and still sort of supports it for backward compatibility reasons, but using it is harder than ever for new things and the buggy WebDAV implementation is mostly frozen with its early oughts idea of WebDAV quirks). It never supported FTP, because it skipped FTP for WebDAV. Now that File Explorer has a 9p file server (from Plan 9) built in for WSL1/2 support, I wonder…

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Re: Firefox 90

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Post by fgonzag »

tapoxi wrote: post #5

I think Firefox has ~5% of our user base. It's hard to justify running separate tests for it anymore. I wish they'd just become a privacy-focused Chromium fork because I don't see them crawling back to a meaningful marketshare at this rate. (Yeah I know multiple implementations and all that, but we don't have many people running FreeBSD just to give Linux some competition.)

Were you around during the IE and ActiveX days? Because that's what happens when a single vendor gets to dictate web standards.

Re: Firefox 90

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Post by historyloop »

deregulateMed wrote: post #55
vbezhenar wrote: post #31

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Safari is the real alternative keeping web open. Firefox does not serve that role anymore.

A closed browser with limited features made by a unethical company is keeping the web open? I'll take FOSS chromium variants before I give my data to Apple(and by proxy, the US and Chinese government).

> unethical company

Unless there's a mathematical definition of "ethical" that we can rely on for objective assessment, that's basically everyone and no one based on how you feel any particular day.

Re: Firefox 90

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Post by metalliqaz »

dblohm7 wrote: post #73
metalliqaz wrote: post #72

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The key here is "while Firefox is not running." They have a maintenance service now that can check for updates when the browser is closed. Personally, I wish they hadn't done that. First, because my browser is always open. But also because I don't need another service.

That's not how it works, actually. The checks are done by a scheduled task.

Are you sure? The OP links to https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-mozilla-maintenanc...

Re: Firefox 90

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Post by sp332 »

johnchristopher wrote: post #56

> The "Open Image in New Tab" context menu item now opens images and media in a background tab by default. Learn more Ahaaaa ! Yes ! I could have sworn it had been the default behavior and it got changed at some point but I never bothered to track that down. Can anyone confirm ?

If you held ctrl, it would open in a new tab. But now, holding ctrl does not open the image in the current tab.

Re: Firefox 90

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Post by dblohm7 »

metalliqaz wrote: post #94
dblohm7 wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not how it works, actually. The checks are done by a scheduled task.

Are you sure? The OP links to https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-mozilla-maintenanc...

The maintenance service is used to avoid UAC prompts during upgrades. That feature has been around for over a decade now.

The background update stuff uses the Windows task scheduler to schedule update checks, not the maintenance service.

(I used to work on the team that at the time owned this stuff)

Re: Firefox 90

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Post by heresie-dabord »

fsflover wrote: post #60
dopu wrote: post #32

Excited that there's more progress being done in implementing proper site isolation. Would be great to not feel like I'm losing something in sticking with FF over Chromium-based browsers.

If you need real security through isolation, try Qubes OS.

For isolation within a Linux instance:

firejail, firetools

apt-cache search firejail

Re: Firefox 90

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Post by jules-jules »

This might get lost but figure if someone knows about it it's here. Old Firefox allowed to double-click between two words and both would get highlighted. This has been removed in the newer versions. Does anybody know if it's possible to manually configure this?

Re: Firefox 90

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Post by est31 »

Avery3R wrote: post #82
pseudalopex wrote: post #68

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The default was the same tab until Firefox 88. They changed it to a new tab to match Chrome. And removed the same tab option because they couldn't imagine why anyone would want it.[1] [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1699128#c3

If you middle clicked the view in same tab button it would open the link in a background tab instead of the same one.

Yeah I did that all the time and the recent change was a regression to me. Now with Firefox 90 I can finally comfortably open things in a background tab again.

Re: Firefox 90

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Post by tgsovlerkhgsel »

ducktective wrote: post #14
btgeekboy wrote: post #4

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It’s a terrible protocol not built for the modern internet. It’s been a while since I’ve seen a URL containing “ftp” that isn’t prefixed by http://

Lots of university file dumps are served on FTP...

With no HTTP alternative? Most FTP servers that I saw also had HTTP support.
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