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Changes to planned ESR 115 end-of-life (groups.google.com)
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Privacy-Preserving Attribution: Testing for a New Era of Privacy in Digital Advertising (blog.mozilla.org)
 

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

The Dying Web | Matthias Endler in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

You can grab a profile of performance issues and report them: https://profiler.firefox.com/docs/#/./guide-profiling-firefox-android

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The Dying Web | Matthias Endler (endler.dev)
 

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

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Why Did Mozilla Remove XUL Add-ons? (yoric.github.io)
 

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.

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Mozilla Did a Reddit AMA About Their 2024 Firefox Priorities… See What You Missed (www.quippd.com)
 

Mozilla did their biggest Reddit AMA yet on Thursday, June 13, with eight members of the Firefox leadership team. With 400 total comments on the post, they c...

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Mozilla Did a Reddit AMA About Their 2024 Firefox Priorities… See What You Missed (www.quippd.com)
 

Mozilla did their biggest Reddit AMA yet on Thursday, June 13, with eight members of the Firefox leadership team. With 400 total comments on the post, they c...

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We’re the Firefox leadership team at Mozilla. AMA (live Thursday June 13, 17:00 - 19:00 UTC) (www.reddit.com)
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Experimenting with local alt text generation in Firefox Nightly (hacks.mozilla.org)
 

Firefox 130 will feature an on-device AI model that automatically generates alt-text for images, integrated into its built-in PDF editor.

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Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400+ Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years (www.pcmag.com)
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Keeping you in the loop: What’s new in our Knowledge Base? (blog.mozilla.org)
 

Hello, SUMO community! We're setting the stage for something big: a revamp of our style guide designed to make our support content not just user-friendly, but user-delightful. To get a ...

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Improving Performance in Firefox and Across the Web with Speedometer 3 (hacks.mozilla.org)
 

Today’s Speedometer release is more open and challenging than before and is the best tool for driving browser performance improvements.

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A New Chapter for Mozilla: Focused Execution and an Expanded Role in Charting the Internet’s Future (blog.mozilla.org)
 

Today marks a significant moment in our journey, and I am thrilled to share some important news with you. After much thoughtful consideration, I have decid

Shouldn't browsers protect what users write from being seen by the website (like customer support chats) before hitting send? Would it be difficult to implement? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

This would break inputs all over the web. Check out yahoo.com - type into the search box. That auto-suggest feature wouldn't work based on your proposal.

"We are moving away from native widgets, and the ability to disable non-native widgets will be removed as well" What are your thoughts on this? in c/[email protected]
How do I remove the (…) buttons on the right side of suggestions in the URL field drop-down? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Use the arrow keys?

Firefox Translation Engine in c/[email protected]
Firefox nightly feels slow and buggy in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, there is no automoderator here, so things are going to be a little cumbersome to start.

Firefox nightly feels slow and buggy in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So... report bugs?

All my tabs in Firefox will randomly reload, and my CPU usage jumps to over 140% in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Please post your about:support details to a pastebin.

  1. Go to about:support in your address bar
  2. Click Copy text to clipboard
  3. Go to https://bin.snopyta.org
  4. Paste into the big text box
  5. Click Send
  6. Post the page you are on here.
What’s the optimal permission for the Pin Unpin Tab add-on? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It does seem unnecessary. A former r/firefox moderator built this one ages ago which works for me: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/toggle-pin-tab/

What user.js are you using? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

We don't recommend pre-built user.js files contributed by the community.

You can always look at my guide if you like, I suppose.

uBlock Origin works best on Firefox in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Who says you do?

FirefoxCSS is broken? Deleted? in c/[email protected]
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