Notices tagged with firefox, page 2

lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-May-2021 23:56:36 EDT lnxw48a1
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Also: #Chromium based browser #Brave disables #Google’s #FLoC https://brave.com/why-brave-disable-floc/ [brave com]

https://nu.federati.net/url/281049 [www theverge com] notes that #Mozilla #Firefox currently has no plans to implement #FLoC and that #DuckDuckGo is already working to block FLoC.

#Microsoft #Edge and #Apple #Safari issued somewhat evasive answers, but it is expected that Apple will be 100% no on FLoC.
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1. Nobody is flying to join Google’s FLoC
  
  from The Verge
  
  The future of the web is at stake
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 04-Jan-2021 18:02:03 EST lnxw48a1

Angry Sheep Blog > Rants > #Firefox 77+ URLbar https://rejzor.wordpress.com/2020/06/05/firefox-tweaker-and-dealing-with-firefox-77-url-bar/ [rejzor wordpress com]

I haven't noticed the giant URLbar issue, even on Windows. I have noticed that they removed the ability to turn off URL formatting, so now everything is an almost unreadable light-gray, except the main part of the domain. I understand that is meant to protect users against sites named www.google.com.somelongname.badsite.com, but it doesn't need to be unreadable.
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1. File without filename could not get a thumbnail source.
  
  Firefox Tweaker and dealing with Firefox 77 URL bar
  
  By RejZoR from Angry Sheep Blog
  
  Mozilla annoyed all of us with introduction of idiotic new oversized URL bar in Firefox 75 browser. But we found a “browser.urlbar.update1” switch for it in about:config and while stupid, it was a matter of flipping a switch and puff, that dumb shit was gone. I even made Firefox Tweaker for this very purpose so even most clueless users who just want browser work their way can do it easily. Fast forward to Firefox 77 release and Mozilla in all their wisdom (or lack of it) decided to kill the “browser.urlbar.update1” switch and now we are stuck with that oversized, twitching annoying fuckery of an URL bar they introduced. Guess what’s the new method of disabling that annoying URL bar? You need to learn to code fucking CSS. And flip ANOTHER switch in about:config because custom userChrome.css are disabled by default. This is the kind of shit that made me stop donating to Mozilla months ago. I’m not gonna support an organization that keeps on throwing such fuck you shit at users without giving us simple and clear way of controlling it through god damn settings. No one asked for this dumbass new URL bar, they cooked it in their dumb thick skulls because all they fucking do is sit in front of telemetry stats like absolute morons and cook up shit based on that. And results are dumb shit like this new URL bar. I’ve seen their MO long ago how they literally don’t give a shit what users say or complain about and it’s yet again obvious if you look at the Firefox subreddit. Bunch of fanboys extinguishing the rage of annoyed users. Telemetry is Mozilla’s holy grail and they’ll do everything based on that.
  
  And even if I’d somehow believe an oversized URL bar is a must, because it somehow brings attention to users (I don’t know, I’m already clicking on it, I don’t need fucking more attention from it), do it fucking properly at least. Instead of doing cheap increase in size, how about keeping the size we had before and use GLOW effect around the URL bar. You know, a fucking soft, semi transparent glow that doesn’t just cover other elements and looks like someone who just started coding threw it in. The glow would look professional and pleasant to the eyes. It could also be displayed gradually instead of instant popup in size like current URL bar does. Or just make the edge double the thickness in a shade of blue and leave it at fucking that, not adding 8 fucking pixels on every side of it. Not to mention getting rid of fucking oversized URL bar can only be done now by clicking into webpage area of the browser. Clicking anywhere on tabs, empty tabs section, toolbar or bookmarks bar doesn’t get rid of it.
  
  It’s literally like they put zero fucking thought into it and just smacked it into a fucking stable channel and 2 versions later enforced it by hardcoding it to a point you need to write a fucking custom CSS to override it. And then I’m the annoying one for complaining over it. Do your fucking job properly and no one will be angry and shit you implement will actually function and look nice. Not be this butt ugly half ass implementation that looks like something I’d only dare to release as “prototype”. Yet it’s here in a stable final version.
  
  Deep inhale. I’ve released Firefox Tweaker 2.4 today which now has to fucking shuffle userChrome.css around in order to override this god damn new URL bar. It’s a hack and it will suck if you’re already using tweaks in userChrome.css, but at least I managed to hack this shit so you can turn off the damn thing with just ONE checkbox. Just imagine if Mozilla gave users that one fucking checkbox to control it in settings. Instead, some fucking randoms on interwebs have to make hacks to fix their fuckups. Year 2020 really is a fucking gem and we’re only half way into it…
  
  Go to Firefox Tweaker micropage to grab version 2.4:
  
  https://rejzor.wordpress.com/firefox-tweaker/
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 03-Dec-2020 17:18:07 EST lnxw48a1

#Aptoide unofficial repo for #Andoid software

> More than 20,000,000 accounts from Aptoide were compromised in 2020.

Seen when visiting https://en.aptoide.com/ in #Firefox. https://nu.federati.net/attachment/278638

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 21-Nov-2020 16:27:05 EST lnxw48a1

https://nitro.horse/@andreas/105249830532698872

"Sponsored sites" in the #Firefox 83 URL bar? No, #Mozilla, just no.

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Nov-2020 12:06:00 EST lnxw48a1

We wondered how #Mozilla’s layoffs would affect #Servo, the next-gen browser engine code for #Firefox. Answer: the Linux Foundation is taking over Servo development https://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Foundation-Servo [phoronix com]

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Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Nov-2020 08:04:12 EST Brian Ó

Does anyone know of a good extension to bypass news site paywalls in FF?

#firefox #paywalls

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 25-Oct-2020 20:40:59 EDT lnxw48a1
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RE: https://loadaverage.org/conversation/14074142 ... I'm not seeing that issue with #Firefox 82.0 on Debian and Ubuntu family computers.

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 23-Oct-2020 15:26:46 EDT lnxw48a1

No, #Firefox, I do not want to enable #DOH through #CloudFlare. That's why I intentionally disabled it when an update enabled it. Stop asking me after updates whether I'd like to turn it on.

Eventually I will set up my own DOH ( DNS over HTTP ) server, but until that time, I don't want it enabled.

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Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Saturday, 10-Oct-2020 10:07:40 EDT Brian Ó

Sweet. I didn't realize FreeTube had a firefox extension to open youtube links.

#freetube #youtube #firefox

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Oct-2020 21:57:56 EDT lnxw48a1
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@mangeurdenuage I've been using #KeepassXC and its extensions for #Firefox and #Chrome / #Chromium.

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musicman (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 25-Sep-2020 09:34:45 EDT musicman
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fair point. The side-project vs project distinction is not really important. What is important is whether resources are being used properly and the article makes a convincing point that they have not.

I pretty much use #Firefox 100% these days. Safari and Firefox are all I have installed on the primary machine. As long as I am working from home, work machine is going to be primary machine. I'm not going to mess about with changing monitor cables and I don't have USB-C on my personal laptop.

Although, I got (for free!) a couple of new-to-me laptops I haven't even had a chance to boot up. ugh.

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 24-Sep-2020 13:20:34 EDT lnxw48a1
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@musicman I agree about exec pay.

As for side projects, in their new, limited-resource world, every new project takes resources away from #Firefox, #Thunderbird, and #Rust. Sometimes that's worth the cost, sometimes it isn't, but take a look at how many projects they've abandoned (such as their mobile OS).

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Sep-2020 21:51:13 EDT lnxw48a1

http://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html

Starts with a comparison of #Firefox market share and the pay of #Mozilla's top executive

I did not search for it, but around the time they laid off 1/4 of their workforce, I thought I saw something about some pay reductions for their top management.

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/09/this-is-a-pretty-dire-assessment-of-mozilla/

My personal assessment is this: as the browser started picking up share, they also picked up a patron (Google) that seemed to provide unlimited funding. It was during this period that all the "privacy NGO" ideas started, because they had more than enough money for their main projects and decided they'd spend the rest "doing good".

I can't fault them for that. But I do think that Mozilla's current state is pretty closely related to having "grown up" with unlimited money to spend on tangentially related projects.

At some point, Google decided that their interests were better served with an owned-and-controlled browser, and the rest is history.

There's always the hope that Mozilla will open up more Firefox and #Thunderbird development to non-paid programmers and start asking its users to optionally contribute financially. This could help, but there still needs to be a soul-searching that asks whether they are a group that develops a browser and a mail client or some sort of generic web and privacy advocacy group that just happens to develop those applications.

Those are two different roads, and with a much more constrained income stream, they can't be both at once any more.
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1. Firefox usage is down 85% despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up 400%
  
  from calpaterson.com
  
  Mozilla is in an absolute state: high overheads, falling usage of Firefox, questionable sources of revenue and now making big cuts to engineering as their income falls.
2. This is a pretty dire assessment of Mozilla
  
  Firefox usage is down 85% despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up 400% Mozilla recently announced that they would be dismissing 250 people. That's a quarter of their workforce so there are some deep cuts to their work too. The victims include: the MDN docs (those are the web standards docs everyone likes better than w3schools), the Rust compiler and even some cuts to Firefox development. Like
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Friday, 28-Aug-2020 21:05:33 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
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7 #Privacy -Preserving Addons for #Firefox You Should Have http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/141492 #mozilla #freesw #www

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Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Friday, 28-Aug-2020 11:32:41 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
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#Mozilla Leftovers http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/141474 #firefox #www #freesw

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Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Friday, 28-Aug-2020 11:21:33 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
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Tab collections in #Firefox for #Android https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/get-organized-with-firefox-collections/ #mozilla #www
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1. Get organized with Firefox Collections
  
  By M.J. Kelly from The Firefox Frontier
  
  Get organized with Firefox Collections
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Friday, 28-Aug-2020 07:57:40 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
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7 things to know (and love) about the new #Firefox for #Android http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/141459 #mozilla #linux

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Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Thursday, 27-Aug-2020 11:26:25 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
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#Mozilla / #Firefox : #TorBrowser and Firefox 80 on POWER http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/141438 #freesw #www

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Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Thursday, 27-Aug-2020 01:59:17 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
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The #Talospace Project: #Firefox 80 on POWER https://www.talospace.com/2020/08/firefox-80-on-power.html #mozilla #www #ibm
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1. Firefox 80 on POWER
  
  Firefox 80 is available , and we're glad it's here considering Mozilla's recent layoffs. I've observed in this blog before that Firefox is p...
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Aug-2020 16:44:33 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
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#Mozilla : #Firefox 80 and #Enigmail Upgrading in #Thunderbird 78.2 http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/141350

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