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@xy..
it's a problem if I use #firefox 🤮, with #brave it works fine


Pourquoi Firefox est sous perfusion financière de Google


Je l'ignorais totalement, et ce que j'ai lu dans l'article n'est pas rassurant. :/

#internet #web #navigateurs #Firefox


https://lifehacker.com/tech/why-you-should-disable-firefox-privacy-preserving-ad-measurements
https://blog.zgp.org/turn-off-advertising-features-in-firefox/

Firefox for Android info:
https://exquisite.social/@thomholwerda/112795429303595558

#Firefox #mozilla #meme #tech


In case you're using Firefox on mobile - so myself and like four others - disabling Firefox' new Facebook data collection feature is quite a bit harder than on desktop, but it can be done:
  1. Go to chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml
  2. Use the search field to find the entry for aboutConfig and enable it
  3. Go to about:config
  4. Search for dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled and set it to false

Done. This only works on Android, because Firefox on iOS is just a Safari skin.


Photo of Mozilla Firefox plushie in a small white box with black background, arrow pointing at the plush with following text: 

THIS CUTE SILLY LITTLE FIREFOX IS SHARING YOUR AD DATA WITH ADVERTISERS AND BASICALLY, YOU SHOULD DISABLE THAT

HOW? JUST OPEN PREFERENCES, SCROLL DOWN, AND UNCHECK WEBSITE ADVERTISING PREFERENCES.


uBlockOrigin & uBlacklist Huge AI Blocklist

A huge blocklist of sites (~950) that contain #AI generated content, for the purposes of cleaning image search engines (Google Search, DuckDuckGo, and Bing) with uBlock Origin or uBlacklist.

https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

For #Firefox & #Chrome etc.


After checking about:config, "Hide weather on New Tab" sets the config value "browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.showWeather" to "false", but leaves "browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.weatherfeed" as the default of "true". So, my suspicion was correct, #Firefox is still sending your location off every 30 minutes to get the weather in the background by default even if you disable this new widget: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/components/newtab/lib/WeatherFeed.sys.mjs #infosec #privacy
a screenshot of Firefox's about:config after hiding the weather widget, showing weatherfeed unmodified as true and showWeather modified to false.


So that's that: Firefox is now the only useful browser in the world.

Meanwhile, Google controls nearly the entire web browser market, far more than Microsoft ever did at the height of the original browser wars.

Using Chromium based products makes you less safe.

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/browsing/google-pulls-the-plug-on-ublock-origin

edit: to flesh this out a bit more, here is gorhill's FAQ for UBOL https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-asked-questions-(FAQ)

#chrome #chromium #manifestv3 #firefox


Ever found modern fancy scrollbars in #Firefox inaccessible?

about:config and:

widget.gtk.overlay-scrollbars.enabled → false

keeps them fully visible while not however.

widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.override

can be used to make them thicker (I've set 24).

#accessibility


Im not using #friendica, but #DarkReader on #firefox, cool to read, that other one use DarkReader.

So thats not totally nerdy, to use DarkReader.


!Friendica Support Anyone out there using Friendica with mobile #Firefox on #Android? Tried it again for a while this weekend but eventually gave up (again) because, in the web UI on my device, Friendica / frio became almost unusable while trying to "@" - mention some user. Either loading or displaying suggestions / completions seems incredibly slow here. Is this just me? Any other experiences?


Hmm... this is kinda gross @mozilla... Why does this #firefox feature even exist and why did you enable it by default?

#alpinelinux

https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/15827


Dear @mozilla
Please, please, please put the RSS indicator back in Firefox.

People need to know about this technology which empowers users over greedy, controlling corporations.

Update: As many have pointed out, you *can* use @thunderbird as an RSS feed reader, and there are many #firefox add-ons to restore the RSS indicator (one of which I'm already using). But my point is that Firefox needs to lean into RSS as an answer to all the crap that is the modern web, and help educate users about it


#Mozilla asks for donations to reach half of their CEO's yearly salary, while people are getting laid off. Seems to me that the solution is simple.

[edit] Okay, this has gotten a lot of buzz, and I'm happy people respectfully weighed in with arguments and counterarguments. I'm not giving up on #Mozilla and #FireFox, nor on other initiatives for a better web. I am, however, going to be muting this now.

The yearly salary of the Mozilla Foundation Chairwoman is twice that what they ask in yearly donations.


@Adam Kaliszewski 🌱
Jak ktoś używa w przeglądarce pluginów pilnujących prywatności to w ogóle może zapomnieć o używaniu.
U mnie wygląda to tak ( #firefox, plugin #ghostery ):
screenshot - widok wątku na threads.com - nieprawidłowe wyświetlanie kiedy włączony jest plugin ghostery


Firefox survey

When using Firefox which of the following do you do?

See Esther's post for article about Firefox being at only 2.2% use per Google Analytics for US government sites:

https://mastodon.social/@estherschindler@hachyderm.io/111536411958417952

Feel free to boost for visibility

#Firefox #InternetPrivacy #WebPrivacy #DigitalPrivacy #GoogleAnalytics #InherentlyBoostable

  • use a DNS blackhole to block Google Analytics (31%, 49 votes)
  • use browser add on to block Google Analytics, ad b (86%, 133 votes)
  • don't block Google Analytics in any way (4%, 7 votes)
  • Pepper&Carrot ( see results w/o participating ) (5%, 8 votes)
154 voters. Poll end: 1 year ago



#Google: Here’s a new and easy way for you to share your browsing interests with advertisers.

#Firefox: *rolls out a TLS extension to hide the websites you visit from your ISP and anyone else sniffing your traffic*

See the difference? Choose wisely.

#privacy #googleChrome


LibreWolf: Custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security & freedom
https://librewolf.net
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37431474

* HN discussion of some interest: back and forth ... mainly regarding forks and trust vs. companies (Mozilla; others) and trust ... [transparency ...]

LibreWolf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreWolf
* free OS web browser; fork of Firefox w. emphasis on privacy & security

#WebBrowsers #OpenSource #Firefox #LibreWolf #privacy #surveillance #Linux #Mozilla

LibreWolf

Main Features

* No Telemetry. No experiments, adware, annoyances, or unnecessary distractions.

* Private Search. Privacy-conscious search providers: DuckDuckGo, Searx, Qwant and more.

*Content Blocker Included. uBlock Origin is already included for your convenience.

* Enhanced Privacy. Hardened to maximize privacy, without sacrificing usability.

* Fast Updates. LibreWolf is always built from the latest Firefox stable source, for up-to-date security and features along with stability.

* Open Source. Everyone can participate in the development of LibreWolf. Join us on GitLab, Codeberg and Matrix.

Source: https://librewolf.net/


"Did any user in the world want a user tracking and ad platform baked directly into their browser? Probably not, but this is Google, and they control Chrome, and this probably still won't make people switch to Firefox."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome/

I stick to #Firefox


If you’re switching to #Firefox, remember Firefox is not private by default. Consider the #LibreWolf fork, which is. Otherwise, go into your settings and adjust its tracking features (like having #Google as the default search engine), turn off telemetry, “experiments”, etc.

(Also, if you all switch and Google goes bankrupt, #Mozilla will go bankrupt too because they exist thanks to half a billion dollars a year from Google. So remember Google must survive for Mozilla to survive.)

#chrome


Since I've seen a lot of chatter about people switching to #Firefox as Google ramps up the enshitification of #Chrome, let me tell you about a killer feature for people who (a) need multiple accounts on the same websites (eg. devs) or specifically (b) have to use multiple Google accounts.

Firefox has an official addon called Multi Account Containers that lets you trivially set up color coded tabs that have separate sets of cookies. Log into your dev account in one, and your test account in another. Log into your personal #gmail in one and have another tab next to it with your work Gmail. I'm actually not signed in to any Google accounts in most my tabs, I just have containers for the specific tasks I do on Google products.

It'll take you 30 seconds to set up.

Add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/

Mozilla's explanation: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers


The OS upgrade was an opportunity for #Ubuntu to once more saddle me down with a #snap install of #Firefox, removing my hand-installed apt version.

And I get all the funny little horrors back. Just now after a sudden Firefox crash, I now have the hand mouse pointer on any URL link.. that is completely BS and unworkable.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1299009/the-hand-pointer-mouse-cursor-changed-after-a-snap-refresh-how-do-i-change-it-b


Best RSS reader: #reeder
Best desktop #Mastodon client: @icecubes
Best audio service: #spotify
Best Browser: #firefox
Best VPN: #wireguard
Best code editor: #sublimetext
Best file transfer client: #openssh
Best gaming platform: #playstation

What's in your best list?


:ms_exclamation_mark_red: The news is old, from 2020, but the point stands.

Looks like the browser that forked the browser that a browser made by the largest ad vendor in the world is based on in order to be able to serve different ads had legally threated a browser that forked it in order to remove said ads
https://bitgrum.com/2020/09/11/brave-browser-fork-changes-name-after-legal-threats/

Do yourself a favor and just use #Firefox instead.


With all the #Firefox talk lately, Android users should know add-ons like uBlock Origin work on Firefox mobile. Mobile web is almost unusable without it or an equivalent.


A list of recent hostile moves by #Google's #Chrome team; handy for sharing with your entourage, to explain why they should stop using #Chromium / #GoogleChrome and use #Firefox or #Epiphany as their main #web #browser :

* The "Manifest v3" sabotage of content blocking extensions: https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/10/23131029/mozilla-ad-blocking-firefox-google-chrome-privacy-manifest-v3-web-request
* The attempted sabotage of #JPEGXL: https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/chrome-banishes-jpeg-xl-photo-format-that-could-save-phone-space/
* #WebEnvironmentIntegrity a.k.a. #DRM for whole websites would hurt the web, #opensource browsers and OSes: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web/


I will only access #Google products when I must, and then only in a dedicated container in the desktop version of #Firefox


I'm a moderator on r/firefox, which has gone dark as part of the protests against #reddit. I'm probably not coming back, no matter what reddit does with third party apps (my own issue with reddit revolves around #llm applications of the reddit corpus).

I have gone ahead and created a new #firefox community on fedia.io - https://fedia.io/m/firefox

Check it out (or not).


Hello !Friendica Support
when I click a #Fediverse post link in #Firefox it opens in @Fedilab Apps, but it only works to load the post if a Mastodon account is selected and not if a Friendica account is active.

How can we trouble shoot this? @Fedilab Apps what does #Fedilab do with such a link, which API call does it perform to retrieve the post?


Tip for @bitwarden users: if you use the browser addon and have a #TOTP 2nd factor, the current one-time code will be copied to the clipboard as soon as you use autofill. Tried with #Firefox, but I assume it's the same for other addons. Works fine with my #VaultWarden server too. #BitWarden


#Firefox Installation deutsche Rechtschreibung

Erklärend ist das nicht.

Eins davon? Welches? Oder alle? Und warum?