So it seems that people are not happy about the addition of AI features in Firefox...

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

#mozilla #firefox #browser #ai

You can let Mozilla know that you are against them adding AI to their products.

➡️ https://connect.mozilla.org/

#antiAI #firefox #mozilla

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

Native support for ed25519/x25519 in the browser would be a huge step forward for in-browser/client-side cryptography.

Looks like Google is holding up our ability to use it in production.

(Firefox and Safari both have support enabled by default.)

https://caniuse.com/mdn-api_subtlecrypto_sign_ed25519

#ed25519 #x25519 #cryptography #browsers #web #mozilla #apple #google #firefox #safari #chrome #privacy #security #WebCryptoAPI

If you update a laptop from Ubuntu 22.04.3 to 24.04.1 and the screen is blank with an 'x' cursor after login, do this:

1. control+alt+F1 to go to a tty and login, then:
2. sudo apt install --reinstall ubuntu-session

Further, if #thunderbird doesn't launch, remove the snap installation and install de deb package directly from mozilla (he --purge is so that it doesn't generate adn store a ~4 GB copy of the install). First, do:

$ sudo snap remove --purge thunderbird
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/ppa
$ sudo apt update

Then paste this below into a file ( /etc/apt/preferences.d/mozillateamppa-thunderbird ) to tell the apt system that you prefer mozilla's over any other package:

Package: thunderbird*
Pin: release o=LP-PPA-mozillateam
Pin-Priority: 1001

... and install:
$ sudo apt install thunderbird

The same can be done for firefox if you'd rather skip the snap package.

#ubuntu #mozilla #thunderbird #firefox #linux

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?

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

#Firefox joins the other browsers and disables HTTP/2 server push.

libcurl still supports it!

https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/vU9hJg343U8/m/4cZsHz7TAQAJ?pli=1

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

The current JPEG XL decoder in #Firefox apparently consists more than 100,000 lines of multi-threaded C++

For just decoding an image format.

Not sure what it says about the format, the implementation and the Internet at large.

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/pull/1064

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

I promise, just because #curl and #Firefox often behave similarly, it is almost never because I once worked in the Firefox networking team. 🤠

#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

Every once in a very rare while, #Firefox on #Android misbehaves, and it serves to remind me of how reliable it generally is. I've been running the Beta channel of it for over a decade and have been running it since Fennec nightly came out. My collective Android experience would be very different without it.

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.

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