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

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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 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 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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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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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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submitted 5 months ago by yoasif@fedia.io to c/firefox@fedia.io

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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submitted 7 months ago by yoasif@fedia.io to c/firefox@fedia.io

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

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A year ago I was sharing how a Mozilla Performance Sheriff catches performance regressions, the entire Workflow they go through, and the incoming improvements. Since I joined the Performance Tools ...

[-] yoasif@fedia.io 2 points 1 year ago

You probably want to ask Google about that. You can modify the page using extensions like uBlock Origin as well.

[-] yoasif@fedia.io 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You are asking how to prevent Google from asking you to sign in?

[-] yoasif@fedia.io 2 points 1 year ago

Oh that is really sad to hear. 😢

[-] yoasif@fedia.io 5 points 1 year ago

Is Firefox a viable alternative now?

Why not try it and see?

[-] yoasif@fedia.io 3 points 1 year ago

The article should link to https://pauloroger.dev/post/take-back-the-web/ -- if it doesn't, it might be an issue with the client.

[-] yoasif@fedia.io 2 points 1 year ago

For someone like this, it probably makes sense to just throw some more CPU/RAM at it. You have to want to make a change like this to some degree.

[-] yoasif@fedia.io 4 points 1 year ago

We are not an official Mozilla community.

[-] yoasif@fedia.io 2 points 1 year ago

Definitely. Check out our switching guide for some tips.

[-] yoasif@fedia.io 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Firefox ESR is an older version of Firefox that continues to receive security updates. It is made for conservative enterprise environments that care more about stability (as in: not changing) than features or fixes. It may or may not be more stable (ideally, newer versions would fix stability issues in older ESR versions), and may use more or less memory (regressions in memory usage should be reported).

I have tried it in the sense that I have a copy around for testing in those odd cases where someone is using ESR. I don't recommend it.

[-] yoasif@fedia.io 2 points 1 year ago

Kind of a big update... this is the last version of Firefox for Windows 7 and Windows 8, along with macOS 10.12, 10.13, and 10.14. I know this is forcing family members to finally upgrade their (mac) OS.

More big updates:

  • Hardware video decoding is now enabled for Intel GPUs on Linux.
  • We've refreshed and streamlined the user interface for importing data in from other browsers.
  • The builtin editor now behaves similarly to other browsers with contenteditable and designMode when splitting a node, e.g. typing Enter to split a paragraph, and also when joining two nodes, e.g. typing Backspace at the start of a paragraph to join the paragraph and the previous one.

Pretty sure that last feature is what finally fixes the Reddit Fancy Pants editor in Firefox... exactly when Reddit is destroying itself.

  • IndexedDB is now also supported in private browsing without memory limits thanks to encrypted storage on disk. The temporary keys to decrypt the information are hold in RAM only and all stored information is purged at the normal end of a private browsing session from disk.

This might help WhatsApp web run in private browsing, among other sites.

The most impactful thing is definitely going to be OS compatibility... this is going to be the last version of Firefox for a long time for a lot of people.

[-] yoasif@fedia.io 2 points 1 year ago

Please forgive the spam -- if you use Firefox and would like to join the Reddit diaspora from r/firefox, check us out on Kbin/Lemmy.

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