I'm using Firefox with uBlock Origin on both android and windows. I'm finding more and more sites that are very slow to load, or won't load at all. Yet when I open them in Chrome they work fine. I'm assuming the sites are just failing because of the privacy protection features of ff+ubo, and I'm happy enough to just avoid these shitty sites in general. But - I'm just checking to see - is this expected behaviour, might I have configuration issues?

Say NO to AI in the #Firefox browser - have your say here;

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/share-your-feedback-on-the-ai-services-experiment-in-nightly/td-p/60519

I am quite happy they added the borders, but I know some people use high-contrast themes as a base for their own theming and don't want this, in this case, add this to your userChrome.css:

:root {
  --toolbarbutton-outline: none !important;
}

https://github.com/Abev08/VolumeControlExtension

That's two longstanding items on my firefox wishlist taken care of by an extension: Actual working volume controls on the built-in media player, and a volume control for other crappy web players that don't have them.

#firefox

#Linux Weekly Roundup for September 8th, 2024: #Firefox 130, #GNOME 47 Release Candidate, #QEMU 9.1 improves #ARM and #RISCV support, #KDE #Slimbook Plasma VI laptop arrives at #Akademy2024, Firefox 131 enters beta testing with text fragments and temporary site permissions, #Nitrux 3.6.1, #Audacity 3.6.2 brings back legacy effects, and more https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-september-8th-2024

#OpenSource #FOSS

I’m trying to set containers for some websites on a shared windows terminal with multiple users under the same login. We use some cloud software and each user has their own log in. Manually opening websites in container manager allows this, but I’m struggling to do so for opening in container for the home page.

Each log in just launches in the default container (unassigned). I’ve tried using bookmark tree, which seems to support containers, but I can’t get it to work. Assigning a site to always open in a container doesn’t seem to work either as it’s the same site for multiple users (which seems to be the purpose of multi account container), so if it always opens in container A, person B still needs to manually open in their container.

#firefox #chrome #ublockOrigin

Finally, #Mozilla #Firefox for #Linux scales correctly depending on the OS setting instead of it being huge. This had been an issue since they removed the “Density: Compact” option.

version: 131.0b1

#Mozilla #Firefox 131 Enters Public Beta Testing, Improves Translations and Adds Temporary Site Permissions https://9to5linux.com/firefox-131-beta-improves-translations-adds-temporary-site-permissions

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Linux

#Mozilla #Firefox 130 Open-Source Web Browser Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New https://9to5linux.com/mozilla-firefox-130-is-now-available-for-download-heres-whats-new

#FreeSoftware #Linux

Dwa pytania do osob korzystajacych z #Linux.a, #Firefox.a i najlepiej z wtyczki #Sidebery (bo o nia tu glownie chodzi)

1. Nad paskiem z zakladkami / tabami wyswietla mi sie taki "tytul" - nie pamietam, zebym w wersji Windowsowej to mial i musial usuwac, w necie znalazlem instrukcje jak usunac to wpisem w pliku css, ale nic to nie dalo jak widac

2. Sidebery z uporem maniaka otwiera mi linki z zakladek ciagle w tej samej karcie przegladarki, jak go zmusic, zeby robil to w nowych kartach? W ustawieniach wtyczki nie widze nic co by za to odpowiadalo

#help #pomoc #FediPomoc #software #przegladarka

Im Mai 2024 habe ich Mozilla über einen Datenschutzverstoß in Firefox (Android) informiert. Ohne Zustimmung des Nutzers wurden Daten an Adjust übermittelt. In der Version 129.0.2 (Android, iOS) wurde Adjust nun entfernt - vermutlich als Reaktion auf meine Analyse. Ich werde aber noch einmal nachhaken. 👇

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1913363

https://www.kuketz-blog.de/firefox-datenschutzverstoss-bei-der-android-version/

#mozilla #firefox #adjust #tracking #dsgvo #tdddg

#Linux Weekly Roundup for August 25th, 2024: Linux's 33rd birthday, #LibreOffice 24.8, #NVIDIA 560 hits stable, #KDE Gear 24.08 improves your favorite KDE apps, #GNOME 47 enters public beta testing, #SerpentOS alpha is around the corner, #ArchLinux installer gets COSMIC desktop support, #PipeWire default for camera handling in #Firefox on #Fedora Linux 41, #fwupd improves support for #Dell systems, and more https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-august-25th-2024

#OpenSource #FOSS

New #Dillo plugin to sync bookmarks with #Firefox Sync.

https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo-plugin-ffbm

It uses the ffsclient tool to access Firefox Sync data: https://github.com/Mikescher/firefox-sync-client

An update on Mozilla's PPA experiment and how it protects user privacy while testing cutting edge technologies to improve the open web.

I look left and right, and I'm the only one who…

TL;DR: Firefox used to have a great extension mechanism based on the XUL and XPCOM. This mechanism served us well for a long time. However, it came at an ever-growing cost in terms of maintenance for both Firefox developers and add-on developers. On one side, this growing cost progressively killed any effort to make Firefox secure, fast or to try new things. On the other side, this growing cost progressively killed the community of add-on developers. Eventually, after spending years trying to protect this old add-on mechanism, Mozilla made the hard choice of removing this extension mechanism and replacing this with the less powerful but much more maintainable WebExtensions API. Thanks to this choice, Firefox developers can once again make the necessary changes to improve security, stability or speed. During the past few days, I’ve been chatting with Firefox users, trying to separate fact from rumor regarding the consequences of the August 2020 Mozilla layoffs. One of the topics that came back a few times was the removal of XUL-based add-ons during the move to Firefox Quantum. I was very surprised to see that, years after it happened, some community members still felt hurt by this choice. And then, as someone pointed out on reddit, I realized that we still haven’t taken the time to explain in-depth why we had no choice but to remove XUL-based add-ons. So, if you’re ready for a dive into some of the internals of add-ons and Gecko, I’d like to take this opportunity to try and give you a bit more detail.

#Firefox 129.0.2 is out now to fix an issue with screen readers prompting "Alert" when hovering over tabs and an issue where drag-and-drop operations would not work as expected with extensions that rely on this functionality.

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Linux #Mozilla

Perhaps one day the internal browser wars will subside, my transit history will persist a single cache, my settings and extensions and preferences will export to a single file...

One can dream... instead there's...

Firefox
LibreWolf
Chromium
Ungoogled-Chromium
Iridium
Otter
Brave (via linuxulator)
Vivaldi (via ^^)

The first four receive an approximate equal share of my attention. Loader scripts for multi-profile non-Singleton-Locked states, alterations to pixel/dpi scale, de-clutterization, dark-plugins, blockers, ooooooh make it stop

#webdev #htmlfuuuuu #browser #firefox #chromium #developer #tech #migraine

Google ramps up its campaign against ad blockers on Chrome.

I changed emails on my Mozilla account, and then trying to log in again with it, it prompted me to create a new account. I made a Firefox support post 2 weeks ago but got no responses.

A Mozilla employee recently released a Firefox addon to change the user agent to Chrome on sites the user enables it on.

• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-mask/
• https://reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1eic7bj/chroe_mask_makes_firefox_wear_a_mask_to_look_like/