#Mozilla #Firefox 131 Web Browser Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New https://9to5linux.com/mozilla-firefox-131-is-now-available-for-download-heres-whats-new

#OpenSource #Linux #FreeSoftware

Fennec und Mull sind besonders für datenschutzbewusste Nutzer interessant, aber wegen der verzögerten Updates nicht für jeden geeignet. Teil 5 der Artikelserie »Sichere und datenschutzfreundliche Browser«. 👇

https://www.kuketz-blog.de/fennec-und-mull-sichere-und-datenschutzfreundliche-android-browser-teil-5/

#fennec #mull #browser #firefox #brave #mozilla #datenschutz #sicherheit #privacy #security

So far very impressed and happy with #Vivaldi as my new main browser. Glad that they included some apps integrated into the browser that I was not initially expecting to use as much as I do.

RIght now - this is the integrated RSS reader, and the Notes app of all things.
First one, makes me wonder why this wasn't this way in ALL browsers forever, especially #Firefox...

And as to the integrated and sync-able Notes across desktop and mobile apps --> Goodbye, Google Keep.

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.

OK my transfer from #Firefox to #Vivaldi now fully complete. No buyers remorse at all.

#Passkeys on every site you can, make everything so much better, btw

A few notes:

#Vivaldi after tweaking UX really can be a #Calmtech solution - at least as much as any browser can. But you can tweak EVERYTHING on it.

#Vivaldi's RSS feed feature - way more helpful than I thought.

#Already have about 10 ideas on how they could integrate the Fedi even more into the browser.

cc: @[email protected] @[email protected]

I've been a #Firefox user FOREVER. But with the direction of the recent Mozilla leadership, plus their treatment of @[email protected] has pushed mo over to moving to @[email protected]

Sad, sad day. But they crossed enough lines that it's time. And @[email protected] has been a strong advocate for the fediverse and the open web.

That's disappointing. I love #FireFox and #Mozilla but this is the wrong direction. The org doesn't appear to have a strong strategy, constantly moving from VPN, to fedi, to AI. Supporting federated services is such an obviously good long-term play for their mission, so to end their Mastodon instance is unfortunate.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/18/24248142/mozilla-will-shut-down-its-mastodon-server-on-december-17th

#Tech

Mozilla leadership
(in ref to https://mozilla.social/@mozilla/113153943609185249 )

#comic #firefox #mozilla

#Mozilla #Firefox 130.0.1 is out now to fix black rendering of AVIF images on #Linux when Firefox is built with GCC and a recent regression causing some UI elements to be rendered as left-to-right instead of right-to-left for users of the Saraiki localization. Download at https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/130.0.1/releasenotes/

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware

#Mozilla #Firefox 130.0.1 is out now to fix black rendering of AVIF images on #Linux when Firefox is built with GCC and a recent regression causing some UI elements to be rendered as left-to-right instead of right-to-left for users of our Saraiki localization. Download at https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware

Firefox has added an optional side-bar for an AI chat and you can specify which model to use.

Has anyone made it use Eliza yet?

😆

😐 : Summarize this page
🤖 : Have you come to me because you want to summarize the page?
😐 : Yes, please summarize the page
🤖 : What does it mean to you to summarize the page?

I haven't turned it on, and I am eyeing forks of the software that are against this sort of thing, but if I did turn it on that model would amuse me most.

#ai #firefox #aiModel #eliza

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?

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

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

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;
}

#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

Mozilla is currently asking for feedback about the AI integration into Firefox.
Soo.. feel free to share your opinion about how much you love it :neocat_googly_shocked:

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

#mozilla #firefox #noai

Um what??? What is this??

AI chatbot within Firefox...? Is this good or bad cause uhhh.. someone only just pointed this out to me a second ago

#Firefox #Fediverse

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