@FediFollows welcome to the world @iFixit! Know you from my @restartproject days, and thought of you again yesterday, how timely: do you have any recommendations for adapting older hardware to the requirements of today's internet, namely: supported #browsers. Got all my #addons disabled yesterday on #Firefox, as my version of Mac (10.11) is beyond unsupported. Issues with Chrome too.
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I'm switching back to #Firefox engine diversity is more important than legalese. I mean it's still free software
Ich benutze seit Jahren Tabgruppen[1], ein Google Chrome feature. Turns Out: #Firefox kann das seit v133 auch, muss aber manuell in den about:config aktiviert werden. Für mich ein Game-Changer!
[1] https://blog.google/products/chrome/manage-tabs-with-google-chrome/
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I've been inspired by @art to make Bocchi the Firefox !
Please use as you like
#firefox #BocchiTheRock
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Mozillalta varoitus: Päivitä vanhentunut Firefox heti
Mikäli käytössä on Firefox 127 tai sitä vanhempi, on selaimen juurivarmenne vanhentunut. Tästä seuraa tietoturvaongelmia ja mm. lisäosat eivät ole enää luotettavia.
Kehotus koskee Windowsia, Linuxia, macOS:aa ja Androidia.
https://dawn.fi/uutiset/2025/03/15/mozillalta-varoitus-firefox-pitaa-paivittaa-heti
AfterDawn · Firefox pitää päivittää heti tai lisäosat eivät toimi
Nozilla (via @yoasif)
｢ Mozilla reduced granularity into the options for data collection in Firefox, enabled additional data collection by default, and gave itself the ability to use this new data for advertising purposes. Users would have to opt out of this data collection for it not to be used for advertising purposes (a purpose that Mozilla in this iteration is not forthright about) ｣
Youssuff Quips · Mozilla Has Been Sharing Aggregated Firefox Data With Advertisers Since 2017, When it Enabled Telemetry by DefaultTL;DR: With Firefox 56, Mozilla combined Firefox Health Report and Telemetry data into a single setting called “technical and interaction data”, which was then enabled by default. This data was then shared with advertising partners on a de-identified or aggregated basis.
Youssuff Quips · Mozilla Has Been Sharing Aggregated Firefox Data With Advertisers Since 2017, When it Enabled Telemetry by DefaultTL;DR: With Firefox 56, Mozilla combined Firefox Health Report and Telemetry data into a single setting called “technical and interaction data”, which was then enabled by default. This data was then shared with advertising partners on a de-identified or aggregated basis.
How to bulk up the Firefox scrollbar
My only real complaint on switching from Chromium to #Firefox as my primary browser was the wispy little hide-and-seek scrollbar. With the help of this guide from the creator of the #CustomScrollbars extension, though, I got my nice fat scrollbar back! https://github.com/WesleyBranton/Custom-Scrollbar/wiki/How-to-enable-wide-scrollbars-on-Firefox
Here's how I did it:
1. Open Advanced Preferences by navigating to "about:config" without the quotes. Click "Accept the risk and continue."
2. Search for "widget.gtk.overlay-scrollbars.enabled" without the quotes. Double click this setting to change to "false."
3. Search for "widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.style" without the quotes. 0 is the system default scrollbar style, so if a different style is desired double-click to change to a number between 1 and 5. 0 worked on my #ArchLinux system. For more explanation, see Heading 3 on the linked guide.
4. Search for "widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.override" without the quotes. Double click and change to a number. 20 works for me.
And that's it! I now have a chonky scrollbar that stays in place without needing the Custom Scrollbars extension, but on other systems and configurations one may need to install the extension and play around with settings, including disabling "automatically hide scrollbar" in the preferences of the Custom Scrollbars extension. (These preferences can be reached by navigating to "about:addons" without the quotes, going to Extensions > Custom Scrollbars, and clicking the three-dot menu to the right of the enable/disable toggle button. That one took me a minute to find lol.)
@itsfoss #ImageMagick screencap: #Firefox with #Sidebery for #VerticalTabs, #IceWM with #ShadesOfGrey on #Arch #GNU+#Linux
#Apps at sight: #Geany #Zathura #Viewnior #DeltaChat #Dino #Jami #LXTerminal #PCManFM #fs
https://imagemagick.org/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/
https://ice-wm.org
https://archlinux.org/
https://www.gnu.org/
https://www.geany.org/
https://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/
https://siyanpanayotov.com/project/viewnior/
https://delta.chat/en/
https://dino.im/
https://jami.net/
https://www.lxde.org/
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I looked on #reddit and the general tech press to see if the community had understood what is obvious today – enabling this setting by default allowed #Mozilla to further monetize the new tab page. I found afnan-khan’s sad submission of Mozilla’s privacy notice post. 13 net upvotes, 0 comments.
A massively consequential change with regards to data sharing in advertising, and the #Firefox community had nothing to say about it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/736o33/improving_the_firefox_privacy_notice/
It’s finally making sense. #Mozilla reduced granularity into the options for data collection in #Firefox, enabled additional data collection by default, and gave itself the ability to use this new data for advertising purposes. Users would have to opt out of this data collection for it not to be used for advertising purposes (a purpose that Mozilla in this iteration is not forthright about).
Take a look at the #Firefox Preferences UI that Mozilla is telling us to toggle if we don’t want our data being processed for ads. I don’t see anything here says that this setting is about sharing data with advertisers. I have to go to the Privacy Notice to understand that. That doesn’t feel very upfront to me.
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Ever since this setting has existed, Mozilla contributors and employees have told people to enable it, in order to ensure that Mozilla developers have insight into how people use Firefox, to help make #Firefox better. While this post will prove my (naive) impression wrong, I had never seen anyone mention that this setting shared data with advertisers.
And yet, that is what Mozilla is telling us.
TechCrunch · Mozilla responds to backlash over new terms, saying it's not using people's data for AI | TechCrunchMozilla has responded to user backlash over the Firefox web browser's new Terms of Use, which critics have called out for using overly broad language that
New software review on my website!
Waterfox
★★★★☆
A Firefox fork aimed at improved performance and privacy, without sacrificing usability. Also available on Android.
Edit: they're here on the Fediverse: @Waterfox
https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/waterfox/
#waterfox #firefox #mozilla #WebBrowser #privacy #floss
Kelson Reviews Stuff · Waterfox - ReviewA Firefox fork aimed at improved performance and privacy, without sacrificing usability. Also available on Android.
#Mozilla warns #Firefox users to update browsers to the latest version to avoid facing disruption and security risks caused by the upcoming expiration of one of the company's #rootcertificates.
Mozilla certificate expires this Friday, March 14, 2025, and was used to sign content, including add-ons for various Mozilla projects and Firefox itself.
Users need to update to #Firefox128 (released in July 2024) or later and ESR 115.13 or later for 'Extended Support Release'.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/mozilla-warns-users-to-update-firefox-before-certificate-expires/
How do I start a #firefox window so it remains isolated from the other firefox windows ?
It'd be to use it as if it was a separate application... Or am I better off using a different browser ?
The company said that users can opt out of having their data processed for advertising purposes by turning off a setting related to “technical and interaction data” on both desktop and mobile at any time. [Emphasis added.]
This is the real story. Having opt-out data collection is one thing, but misleading users about how they use the data they collect is just slimy.
Mozilla Has Been Sharing Aggregated Firefox Data With Advertisers Since 2017, When it Enabled Telemetry by Default
Mozilla Has Been Sharing Aggregated Firefox Data With... #firefox
Youssuff Quips · Mozilla Has Been Sharing Aggregated Firefox Data With Advertisers Since 2017, When it Enabled Telemetry by DefaultTL;DR: With Firefox 56, Mozilla combined Firefox Health Report and Telemetry data into a single setting called “technical and interaction data”, which was then enabled by default. This data was then shared with advertising partners on a de-identified or aggregated basis.