Notices tagged with firefox, page 2

Ricardo (rgbes@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-May-2022 13:10:55 UTC Ricardo

Agregar buscador a Firefox | El Pingüino Tolkiano

https://elpinguinotolkiano.wordpress.com/2022/05/28/agregar-buscador-a-firefox/

#software #firefox
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1. Agregar buscador a Firefox
  
  from RGB-es
  
  Luego de publicar el último artículo hice un descubrimiento asombroso: no todo el mundo usa el escritorio Plasma. Lo sé, es sorprendente, pero cosas más extrañas se dan en esta vida. En fin, hoy te…
Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Mar-2022 18:14:35 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

working in #Firefox again...for now!

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Amber (amber@toot.site)'s status on Sunday, 13-Mar-2022 05:57:24 UTC Amber

Is it possible to get #Firefox to only delete localstorage without removing cookies?
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Sebastian Lasse (sl007@digitalcourage.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Mar-2022 06:09:45 UTC Sebastian Lasse
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- Be
@be
#Firefox wants to help build a better internet.
I doubt a red panda will help.
Only Coca Cola wallpapers can save the web.
#Mozilla

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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 17-Feb-2022 00:48:48 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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- LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
A lot of us are concerned about #Firefox, about #Thunderbird, and about #Mozilla itself. The trouble is, most of the seeds of Moz's current affliction were planted early on, when the #Google search deal was first signed.

They received an unimaginable amount of money, and being good people, they decided to pour it into becoming the Web's advocate and (later on) the Web's privacy advocate.

They built a large organization, with some very high salaries at the top, based on the revenue they received from a single customer. And then that customer launched its own browser, #Chrome, in part because Firefox was going slower than Google desired because so many resources were going into other projects and because Google's plans were not always aligned with what Mozilla believed was best for the Web.

It was always an unsustainable situation, and when things changed due to cooperation being replaced with coopetition, they started a panicked grasping for other revenue sources.

Now, they've cut actual developers, which makes it even more difficult to keep up with Chrome / #Chromium (and the many browsers derived from it). And because they need to find other revenue sources, they keep looking for ad deals ... which runs crosswise with its core users, who want to block ads.

So, yeah, I don't see a way out that leaves them as anything other than a niche product produced by a small team of mostly volunteers.

I do think _personalization_ as a differentiator is going to flop, if they're thinking about color schemes and superhero logos. A big chunk of what people did with XUL (the former technology, and what made it so customizable) was produce ad blockers, script blockers, embedded-media blockers, pop-up blockers, cookie and tracking blockers, proxy tools, and web development tools (webdev toolbars, xml toolbars, json tools, css and xsl tools, sqlite tools). I just don't think that the ability to make your browser look like the Spiderman t-shirt you bought last week is going to win over a lot of people who are using Chrome/Chomium/Edge/Opera/Vivaldi/Brave/Iron.

Now, maybe if they make it the most secure and private browser right out of the box, with ad blocking, script blocking, and so on, plus make it faster than the Chromium family while consuming less RAM and crashing less often, then adding the ability to dress the browser up as Dora the Explorer will total enough advantages to make a difference.

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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Feb-2022 23:23:30 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://www.wired.com/story/firefox-mozilla-2022/
Yeah, a lot of us are concerned about #Firefox, and about #Mozilla in general.
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1. Is Firefox OK?
  
  from Condé Nast
  
  Mozilla’s privacy-heavy browser is flatlining. What it does next is crucial for the future of the web.
Mehrad :kde: :emacs: :rstats: (mehrad@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jan-2022 10:12:19 UTC Mehrad :kde: :emacs: :rstats:

Reading some of the discussions about the most recent #Firefox version on #HackerNews, and found this piece:
"What's going on at Mozilla is probably what's going to happen for Linux once Linus is out.
Both these pieces of open source software are way too big to be replicated now by a dude or a bunch of dudes and also way too big to be maintained by people on their free time. They require resources and organization which itself corrupt the original spirit."
Opinions?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29918052

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Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Dec-2021 18:39:24 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

unclear why this would cause my repeated #Firefox issues with this site, but idk, it caught my eye.

➜ BoringSSL Rejects JSSE TLS 1.3 HTTPS Connections When status_request Extension Is Disabled

BoringSSL is an SSL library deployed on some popular websites such as those run by Google/YouTube. An interoperability issue with the BoringSSL library can lead to a connection failure if TLSv1.3 is presented as the only enabled protocol in the ClientHello message and the certificate status_request extension is disabled. Enabling the certificate status_request extension by setting the jdk.tls.client.enableStatusRequestExtension system property to true will provide mitigation in such scenarios.

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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Jun-2021 18:26:09 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

I've seen a couple of people grumbling about a new redesign in #Firefox 89.

#Firefox_89

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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 09-May-2021 03:56:36 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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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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2. Nobody is flying to join Google’s FLoC
  
  from The Verge
  
  The future of the web is at stake
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 04-Jan-2021 23:02:03 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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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  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/
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 03-Dec-2020 22:18:07 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

#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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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 21-Nov-2020 21:27:05 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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

"Sponsored sites" in the #Firefox 83 URL bar? No, #Mozilla, just no.
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Nov-2020 17:06:00 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 26-Oct-2020 00:40:59 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
- mangeurdenuage
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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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 08-Oct-2020 01:57:56 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
- mangeurdenuage
@mangeurdenuage I've been using #KeepassXC and its extensions for #Firefox and #Chrome / #Chromium.

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Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 25-Sep-2020 13:34:45 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield
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- LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 24-Sep-2020 17:20:34 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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- Douglas A. Whitfield
@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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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 24-Sep-2020 01:51:13 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Aug-2020 08:04:41 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

An irritant with #Firefox Focus is its propensity for deleting page and history while you’re using the page.

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