Firefox
- Multi-Account Containers extension is looking for more contributorsold.reddit.com Opportunity to contribute to Multi-Account Containers extension
Hello everyone! Multi-account containers (MAC) is looking for more contributors and we are asking for your help! Multi-account containers is an...
> Hello everyone! > >Multi-account containers (MAC) is looking for more contributors and we are asking for your help! Multi-account containers is an open-source Firefox extension that enhances your browsing experience by enabling color coded custom tab configurations. For more information on what you can do with MAC, check out this article. > >MAC improvements heavily rely on our core community. There are currently 516 open issues on MAC's GitHub repository. These issues consist of bugs and feature requests. > >A guide to setting up your local repository and starting to contribute can be found here. > >Tips for contributing: > >1. Choose an issue that you would like to work on. >2. Fork the repository and follow the instructions for setting it up locally. >3. Run the add-on locally and try reproducing the issue. >4. Debug add-ons by clicking the “Settings” icon in about:addons, and then clicking “Debug Add-ons” >5. Click “Inspect” on the MAC add-on to open developer tools for the popup extension (see this documentation for more information) >6. Once you have a fix ready, commit your changes with the following commit message template: “Fix #<insert issue id #>: ” > 7. Push your changes and open a pull request for review. > >Have any questions? Head over to the Q&A section on our GitHub discussions.
- I can't disable the right click menu from Firefox - dom.event.contextmenu.enabled
Hi guys! I'm trying to disable Firefox' menu that shows when you right click. Sometimes, depending on context (ie, right click on a youtube video) you might get a webpage menu. But Firefox places their right click menu on top of the web's menu, blocking everything. I want to disable this, so the website/extension takes precedence, and the menu doesn't show in this case.
I see on some pages the option should be:
dom.event.contextmenu.enabled
, which should be set toTRUE
in order to let webs or apps take precedence. It is already set to true, and yet FF keeps placing their menu on top of the website's. What else can I check?EDIT: Just in case, there seems to be also an
services.sync.prefs.sync.dom.event.contextmenu.enabled
, which might be synced from my mozilla account? Not sure how this one should be set. - Mozilla hit with privacy complaint over Firefox user tracking
https://noyb.eu/en/firefox-tracks-you-privacy-preserving-feature
- Is there a way to migrate to LibreWolf from Firefox?
Hello! Im trying to get going on LibreWolf with as minimal inconvenience as possible. Is there a way I can migrate all of my data from firefox into librewolf so its almost just as if It didnt change? I guess the biggest thing is saved passwords and their associations which im going to be migrating into BitWarden really soon.
- From ESR to Address Bar – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 168blog.nightly.mozilla.org From ESR to Address Bar – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 168 – Firefox Nightly News
Highlights ESR115 EOL was extended for Win 7-8.1 and macOS 10.12-10.14 to March 2025. See the firefox-dev post for more details. This doesn’t impact next month’s planned migration to ...
- Is the Gecko engine the only reason Mozilla still exists?
Most of Mozilla's money of course comes from Google to make them the default search engine on Firefox. And of course its a way for Google to ensure there's at least one alternative browser engine. Reading about how Texeira was recently fired and how executives have been pushing for AI features for a long time, Mozilla certainly loves chasing trends and then forgetting them, like how Google kills lots of products. It seems like the company can't stand on its own two feet without Google's funding and is poorly run.
What happened to Mozilla over the years? How much effort did they put in to trying to be a successful tech company? because it hasn't been until the past few that I really started following Firefox and Mozilla news.
I wonder if Mozilla could've been Proton, years before Proton AG existed, making their own comprehensive suite of privacy-friendly tools, since Mozilla makes privacy their brand. And they were late to the smartphone game with Firefox OS. If they were smart, they would've ensured their long term survival with an actual business, to continue funding development of their privacy and FOSS software like Firefox, without large funding sources like Google.
- Mozilla’s brand update gives its old T-Rex logo a fresh new lookwww.theverge.com Mozilla’s brand update gives its old T-Rex logo a fresh new look
The new flag logo transforms into a roaring, retro dinosaur.
> Mozilla has overhauled its branding to pay homage to its Netscape roots and better distinguish the wider organization from its Firefox web browser. The most notable change is to the company’s logo: what was previously a sans-serif wordmark styled as “Moz://a” has been updated to correctly spell out the Mozilla name, featuring a new customized typeface and an M-shaped flag.
> According to Mozilla, the flag symbolizes the brand’s “activist spirit.” That fits with the image that the Mozilla Foundation, which is leading the company, is attempting to build: describing itself as “a non-profit organization that promotes openness, innovation, and participation on the Internet” and regularly releasing privacy reports that investigate tech companies’ policy and security practices.
- [SOLVED] Applications remain open after their tabs are closed
I have recently realized that I will occasionally hear notification sounds from applications that I had previously opened but no longer has any active tabs (email client, discord, etc.). I'm assuming this means they are allowed to keep some sort of connection in the background until I close all Firefox windows. Is this a bug or a "feature"? How do I turn it off? I don't want any application running at any capacity except when I have tab(s) open for them.
Solution:
> Hm, Discord didn't have anything registered there. After some digging, I found
about:debugging#workers
which does list Discord stuff under "Other Workers". It's unsettling to see there's no way to force confirmation and/or disable these stuff. I use Discord when I have to every once in a while. I don't want their code running all the time in my browser.. > > edit: you can disable service workers withdom.serviceWorkers.enabled = false
but this has no effect on Other Workers. > > edit2: uBlock can disable Other Workers by setting the filter||$csp=worker-src 'none'
inMy Filters
and enablingSuspend network activity until all filter lists are loaded
inFilter lists
. It funny how this "trick" is written for Chromium-based browsers with the note that Firefox allows global disabling of service workers when the sites can just register a different type of worker with no way of disabling them. I am sure the api is less powerful than service workers bla bla bla, let me decide what runs on my browser without needing third party tools, please. - Firefox on Nobara (Fedora) only shows as v121
Hi guys! Just...this. Whenever I search for firefox on the software installation app, or via dnf, I can see the only available version is v121...or I can update via flatpak to a newer one. How come the repo version is so old? How can I get the v130 officially?
Thanks!
- Mozilla has fired Chief Product Officer Steve Teixeira after cancer diagnosismastodon.social Steve Teixeira (@stevetex@mastodon.social)
With just a few days’ notice, Mozilla terminated my employment this month after leaving me hanging on leave without explanation for several months. My discrimination case against them therefore enters a new phase after this wrongful termination. https://mastodon.social/@stevetex/112780506720122370
sigh
- Why Did Mozilla Remove XUL Add-ons?yoric.github.io Why Did Mozilla Remove XUL Add-ons?
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 a...
An old article but provides a detailed view on the choice of removing the old XUL addons
- Testing the Firefox alternativestommorris.org Testing the Firefox alternatives
Let’s try LibreWolf, Floorp and Zen until Mozilla decides they want to make a browser again
> Let’s try LibreWolf, Floorp and Zen until Mozilla decides they want to make a browser again
- Help select new Firefox Recommended Extensions — join the Community Advisory Boardblog.mozilla.org Help select new Firefox Recommended Extensions — join the Community Advisory Board – Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog
Firefox Recommended Extensions comprise a collection of featured content that’s been curated with extensive community involvement. It’s time once again to form a new Recommended Extensions Community Advisory Board and ...
- [2023] Mozilla and Gary Vee fund cryptocurrency company Webacywww.coindesk.com Crypto Wallet Security Layer Webacy Raises $4M
Investors included entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk and Mozilla Ventures.
Gary Vee is a notorious
grifterNFT salesman with a checkered past.Webacy is a cryptocurrency wallet "technology layer" that "provides security features" like password backup, "digital wills", etc.
- I had a low expectations from Mozilla, but holy shit.www.mozilla.org Mozilla Careers — All open positions at Mozilla
We have a mighty mandate, serving hundreds of millions of people. Add a culture of exploration, and there is always a new way to learn and grow here.
At that stage they are not hiding that they are a ads and AI company anymore.
- Warning to mobile Fediverse commenters
I've been experimenting with going without the suggestion strip on my Android keyboard because I tend to hit that row (and a random unwanted word) occasionally on my relatively new Moto when thumb typing. This can cause problems in FF as it did for me today when I was writing a long-ish comment and accidentally hit the reading mode button in the right of the address bar (I have my address bar at the bottom) and of course flushed my comment to hell. It was a perfect storm of shit haha.
Might move to nightly so I can disable the reading mode button, assuming that's still possible. I've been on Android released for the last year or so.
Edit: BTW this happened on the photon front end. Not sure if you could run into this with default Lemmy. Edit #2: In first paragraph, I used both the terms "comment" and "post". I was referring specifically to commenting. Haven't noticed the reading mode button be available when writing a whole new post, but I comment more than I post.
Any other "gotchas" that you guys have encountered on mobile FF?
- Is "copy link without tracking" working for you?
It doesn't seem to be doing anything for me, even on large websites like YouTube or Amazon, it basically just copies the link as-is.
- Mozilla exits the fediverse and will shutter its Mastodon server in Decembertechcrunch.com Mozilla exits the fediverse and will shutter its Mastodon server in December | TechCrunch
Users will be able to download their data or migrate their account to another Mastodon instance, if they choose.
I am shocked. Shocked! /s
- Throwback: 2019 Mozilla-affiliated group asks how to build a queerer CreepAI: a "non-committal sexting bot" emerges.discourse.mozilla.org Queering the Corpus Workshop: AI agents for an internet of kin
This session is facilitated by Emily Martinez, Ben Lerchin Show on schedule About this session Come interact with the first iteration of Queer AI, a conversational chatbot trained on queer literature. The bot currently engages in a variety of conversations around intimacy and relationships, but we...
On Valentine's Day 2024, Mozilla came out with a piece critical of AI chatbots titled "Creepy.exe: Mozilla Urges Public to Swipe Left on Romantic AI Chatbots Due to Major Privacy Red Flags."
But before they found red flags, back in 2019, Mozilla promoted a workshop on a creepy, rainbow-washed, chatbot ecosystem where people identified as "queer" were required to bare their most intimate sexual thoughts.
From the post:
> your... interactions will be recorded... you will occasionally be prompted with random survey questions
What kinds of questions did they randomly ask the people who would "queer the AI"? Creepy stuff like
> Have you ever sexted with a stranger? > Have you ever sexted with a machine? > Do you remember the first time you were aroused by language? > Do you think an artificial intelligence could help fulfill some of these... needs?
The workshop providers guided people into establishing an intimate, sexual connection with the chatbot they could create.
> How might we build trust with an AI? > How might we give it its own sense of desire?
Even the consenting participants in the workshop complained about the AI's creep factor:
> it feels like the A.I. is gas-lighting you. > Seems like a noncommittal sexting bot. It should at least be clear about what it’s trying to do.
The startup that Mozilla fostered for this panel ended up crashing and burning, but its creepier, worse brethren live on inside of Firefox 130, displayed as first-class options within Mozilla's chatbot options. I just thought it would be fun to take a trip down memory lane to see how many creepy red flags AI companies could get within Mozilla's view without ever concerning them.
- Results from the Browser Features Surveyconnect.mozilla.org Results from the Browser Features Survey!
Hellllooo Mozilla Connect! We want to thank those folks (2,852 of you!) who participated in the Firefox User Research survey on feature priorities we posted here last month. If you recall, this survey showed participants multiple sets of 3 random browser features, then had participants pick whether...
- On .LAN domains, how to stop firefox switching to https (when it's not available) and stop complaining about self-signed certificates when it is available ?
I'm just so annoyed of fighting this all the time.
If I can't figure this out I'm going to disable all https redirecting and all certificate errors off so I can have some peace
EDIT: I do not wish to manage certificates I do not want to setup private key infrastructure I don't want to use real internet domain names I don't want to manually install certificates into browsers after fishing them out of my ephemeral virtual machines
I just want to, add exception for *.lan for https auto redirect and auto-accept self-signed certificates as valid. This is not much to ask.
- the popup comes back even after i tell it not to?(android)
https://imgur.com/a/U4u0JA2 Admittedly it is just one site, but it feels suspicious because its asking for permission from port 443?
- Is there an addon that will load the entire page ?
You know those websites that load a little bit of the page as you scroll, I want to search the whole thing !
First it would be something that autoscrolls the page without needing me to keep the page down button pressed down for the entire duration, which can be a lot. I want to do other things while this happens
Second, some websites, like facebook, actually UNLOAD from memory the data as you scroll further, defeating the simple scroll down. So, once the first one is done, I would like something that aggregates the entire page and loads it in a static second tab and/or saves it to a single file ?
Is there anything like that, yet ?
- The poll is over, and the result is clear:
The poll is over, and the result is clear:
\#FireFox users have very little interest for Chatbot integration into their browser.
I am very much aware that the people, who voted in this poll are hardly a representative sample, but more than 2.4K people is a better size than many "professional" opinion polls.
@mozilla & @firefox should take people, who actually care about their #browser choice, seriously.
I still seriously believe that #Mozilla's fate matters,
https://berlin.social/@mina/113102817500429735
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- Firefox trojan false positive (?)
Hello all.
I recently downloaded firefox from the official site as per usual (windows version) and I ran a virustotal check and got a trojan positive.
The md5sum is: 4409905bd4544c6f45e4d5737f130d75
The sha256sum is:
d390bfce3fed1be8c153aebfb9f28043981071b5338745e9207547178f32bf64
Please verify if this file is legitamate.
- Latest Nightly exposed Tab Group in about:config
Go to about:config and type
groups
, it's being actively developed.There's also another API that you can actually use if you're a developer in Browser Toolbox, enable Browser Toolbox and type
gBrowser.addTabGroup
, you can add tabs to group using this API, and if you find a way to append it to Tab Tray you should be able to create something like this image: - Why doesn't Firefox implement Private State Tokens?
As far as my understanding go, Private State Tokens is supposed to be a huge improvement over cookies in terms of security and privacy, which make ask about the reason they are not implemented on Firefox.
- Firefox will consider a Rust implementation of JPEG-XL (with Google's help)github.com Firefox will consider a Rust implementation of JPEG-XL by bholley · Pull Request #1064 · mozilla/standards-positions
Over the past few months, we’ve had some productive conversations with the JPEG-XL team at Google Research around the future of the format in Firefox. Our primary concern has long been the increase...
- Vimium like plugin for firefox with favicon support?
I know vimium works in firefox, however I ran into this 4 year issue: https://github.com/philc/vimium/issues/3674
Is there an alternative that doesn't have that issue?
- UltimaDark - The Fastest Dark Mode Extensionaddons.mozilla.org UltimaDark - The Fastest Dark Mode Extension – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
Download UltimaDark - The Fastest Dark Mode Extension for Firefox. UltimaDark uses agressive & smart techniques to turn even the sunniest websites into realms of darkness. Although it works well, this is so experimental, it makes lab rats look like seasoned professionals. Go ahead, embrace the ...
- Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all desktop users worldwide | It is Firefox’s strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were createdblog.mozilla.org Firefox Rolls Out Total Cookie Protection By Default | The Mozilla Blog
Updated Aug. 28, 2024. Take back your privacy Firefox is rolling out Total Cookie Protection by default to more Firefox users worldwide, making Firefox the
- Firefox Rolls Out Total Cookie Protection By Default | The Mozilla Blogblog.mozilla.org Firefox Rolls Out Total Cookie Protection By Default | The Mozilla Blog
Take back your privacy Firefox is rolling out Total Cookie Protection by default to more Firefox users worldwide, making Firefox the most private and secur
Take back your privacy
Firefox is rolling out Total Cookie Protection by default to more Firefox users worldwide, making Firefox the most private and secure major browser available across Windows, Mac, Linux and Android.
What is Total Cookie Protection?
Total Cookie Protection works by creating a separate “cookie jar” for each website you visit. Instead of allowing trackers to link up your behavior on multiple sites, they just get to see behavior on individual sites. Any time a website, or third-party content embedded in a website, deposits a cookie in your browser, that cookie is confined to the cookie jar assigned to only that website. No other websites can reach into the cookie jars that don’t belong to them and find out what the other websites’ cookies know about you — giving you freedom from invasive ads and reducing the amount of information companies gather about you.
- What font does Firefox use for Helvetica?
Firefox's Reader View seems to me to show a font that is similar to Helvetica. If I try to make it use only Inter, Arial, or "sans-serif", then it changes the font. What font is Firefox using instead? This also happens in Firefox forks.