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I'm actually pissed. I and many other users on the forum got an email from Chris Hayes on this:

Hello,

This is a friendly email to make you aware that your personal email address is currently visible to the whole internet via Mozilla's Discourse forum. It will show up in Google Search results. The affected email is the one that this email was sent to.

Many users may not be aware that their email address is publicly visible and Mozilla has not done anything about it in the 4 years it has been known, so I've taken this into my own hands to inform you.

What can you do?

You can update your profile name to be something else (actually, profile name is completely optional, so you can leave it blank if you want).

Steps to update profile name:

  1. If you search for "Mozilla Discourse forum" it should be one of the first results.
  2. Login. (Top-right)
  3. Click on your profile picture at the top right.
  4. Then, click on your username, at the top of the dropdown menu.
  5. Click on the "Preferences" button.
  6. Change the "Name" field, and click "Save Changes".

How did this happen?

There's a misconfiguration with Mozilla's Discourse forum that when you sign up with your Firefox account, it will by default use your personal email address as your profile's public name.

This is not a new issue, and has been known since 2020. The Mozilla Discourse forum is not actively maintained by Mozilla, so this has yet to be fixed.

You are one of 4,630 other users impacted by this privacy issue. It impacts 19% of all forum users, and 28% of new users.

More information:

There's a Discourse discussion about this problem here: https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/email-is-displayed-by-default-for-the-new-account/92266

If you have connections to Mozilla, please help escalate this issue to the right people. This is a serious and long-standing privacy issue at an organization that should value "Privacy by default".

Sincerely,@chrisA fellow Mozillian

I am not Mozilla: This is not an official Mozilla email, I do not represent or work for Mozilla. This is an email from a fellow community member spreading awareness of this unaddressed privacy issue.

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For instance, I watch a video on Shout Factory and then pause, close the tab and when I go back to the link it goes back to where I left off.

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I see a few selections for desktop, but the only mobile options I have found so far only work with chrome. I have used a search engine and looked on the add-ons page as well as on GitHub.

Basically the goal is to remove facebook posts that are about certain topics using keywords. Other features are cool too. Any suggestions?

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

Hey everyone,

I created an addon to bring touchscreen navigation gestures to the desktop version of Firefox, so mainly for 2-in-1 laptops and Linux/Windows tablets. It adds back/forward navigation and pull-to-refresh gestures, shows the same icons as existing touchpad gestures, and will check beforehand if you can still scroll in a given direction.

Here is the link: Touch Navigation

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This is a RES-like script to let you navigate all Lemmy and mlmym sites with your keyboard!

Github is here https://github.com/vmavromatis/Lemmy-keyboard-navigation

Feedback always welcome 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

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so I was making an extension for firefox where it calculates and displays a user's Karma. Now the extension works perfectly fine when you paste in your profile and go there, or if you refresh your profile. but if you go to the main menu of Lemmy, then back to your profile by clicking on your profile, the extension simply doesn't work.

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Sometimes on my Mac I want to open a image that could be opened in a new tab, directly into the Preview app (the default photo viewing app). It would be great if I could have a context menu option when right click images, to open them in the app, I wonder if there’s an addon to do this.

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Close Container (addons.mozilla.org)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

Close all tabs of a container from the tab context menu or a toolbar button popup.
#privacy
to be used with temporary containers with setting to delete the container after last tab closes.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

Share the current tab on the fediverse

new version released ☺

Updates

  • fix Friendica API issue.
  • Improve CSS style in the options page.
  • Doesn’t require any permissions :blobspy:
  • More services supported.
  • improved integration with different versions.

screenshots

GNU IceCat / Firefox-ESR

Trisquel Abrowser / Firefox Standard

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dark mode

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Open a blank dark or white tab rather than the default browser's new tab page.

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Profile Switcher (addons.mozilla.org)
submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

Create, manage and switch between browser profiles seamlessly.

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  • Local-Storage (Firefox 58+ only)
  • History & Downloads
  • This can be delayed in seconds
  • Cookies (optionally only when not whitelisted)
  • Local Storage (optionally only when not whitelisted on Firefox 58+)
  • History
  • Downloads
  • Form Data
  • Passwords
  • Indexed DB
  • Plugin Data
  • Service Workers
  • Server Bound Certificates
  • Cache
  • Delete thirdparty cookies on creation
Different cleanup types can be applied:

-Never: No cleaning.
-On Startup: Clean only on browser start.
-On Leave: Clean on domain leave and on browser start.
-Instantly: Prevent data from being set, if possible. Otherwise

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Explore the press with no middlemen between the newspapers and your computer. Discover millions of results within seconds and explore the last ones in Firefox via this addon. Select your press review and export it in a few clicks.

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by Bernard

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Very useful and pleasant to use. You almost don't have to move your fingers out of the keyboard with this extension.

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Privacy Redirect (addons.mozilla.org)
submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

Redirect social media links to privacy-respecting alternative front ends, or redirects to an alternate service such as Google Maps -> Open Street Map

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The writer has more great addon like web archive. But this is an even greater addon.

It basically uses the audio captcha and feels it with STT. It may fail sometimes, but still it saves so much frustrations! Remember to donate if you like it!

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Save-Data: on (addons.mozilla.org)
submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

http header to tell websites to adjust content for less data download

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skip redirect (addons.mozilla.org)
submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

go to final link destination. skip the redirect.
whitelist feature for sites that need redirect like waybackmachine.
privacy