#Firefox 126.0.1 is out now to fix issues with drag-and-drop functionality on #Linux, an issue with reading tagged PDF documents in a screen reader, and an issue causing high GPU memory usage on certain versions of #AMD GPUs. Get it at https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/download/thanks/
After being kneecapped by a #patents troll years ago, #Mozilla Location Services, the only somewhat trusted (non-Google/Apple) "Wi-Fi positioning system" (geolocation based on triangulating collected #WiFi SSIDs), is now shutting down: https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/2065
MLS was how #GeoClue could get a meters-accurate location without a #GPS receiver / sky line-of-sight.
It was used by many #GNOME / #KDE apps to get instantaneous neighborhood-level location (for maps, local weather…) on #Linux laptops.
Mozilla’s now director of public policy once asked me, with a straight face, why I was giving them a hard time and holding Mozilla to a higher standard: “we’re just another Silicon Valley tech company.”
But that’s not what you tell people publicly, is it, Mozilla?
Still, it’s time y’all got this.
Mozilla is a half-billion-dollar for-profit corporation – whose CEO makes >$3M/yr – that has a foundation do its PR.
> #Mozilla travaille sur plusieurs améliorations attendues de longue date pour #Firefox, dont une nouvelle gestion des onglets, avec notamment une organisation verticale. Le #navigateur n’échappera pas aux sirènes de l’intelligence artificielle, mais l’éditeur compte l’utiliser de manière locale et ciblée.
Wie cool ist das denn? Habe gerade ein Addon gesucht, das mir aus YT Links Invidious Links macht, und habe das Addon von @aymm gefunden - einem metalhead.club Member! 🤘
@kde@kde Guess what, Firefox does the same thing (a refresh will reset your privacy settings and your default browser, all of which affect Mozilla’s revenue streams) but they’re a tad sneakier/cleverer(?) about it.
(Firefox is not private by default so getting you to reset your settings is how they try to influence you to return to their preferred configuration.)
When #Mozilla created their new logo with :// in it, the team behind reached out to me and asked if I had any objections since #curl already was using :// in our logo.
I did not object - I approved of it. I think it validated our logo choice and I am jealous they have a name that can hold :// integrated the way they do.
Not surprised by the new security vulnerability in Mozilla's PDF.js - patched in latest Firefox. But remind me again why browsers try to render PDFs to begin with?
Displaying PDFs in browsers opens a huge new attack surface. PDFs are complex. Browsers render PDF forms poorly and offer only a limited subset of the many accessibility features provided by dedicated PDF software.
La direction de la #Mozilla Foundation me semble difficilement lisible. Ils ont maintenant une "chairwoman", une "executive director", et un président (ancien executive director). C'est quoi la différence entre ces 3 postes ?
Standardmäßig ist Firefox leider nicht besonders datenschutzfreundlich. Wer nicht die Einstellungen durchsuchen möchte und sich nicht bei jeder neuen Version Sorgen über neue Funktionen von Mozilla machen will, kann auf Alternativen zurückgreifen. Zum Beispiel #LibreWolf für den Desktop und #Fennec für Android. Beide Varianten entfernen unter anderem die Telemetrie-Funktionen.
A #Mozilla continua na sua senda de afugentar todos os utilizadores que ainda confiam no #Firefox: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-search-update/
Ao menos é possível desligar toda a telemetria, mas a que foi acrescentada está ligada à mais básica que ainda podia ser enviada (telemetria técnica). Desliguem a opção com as instruções que cuja hiperligação esta na publicação partilhada. #PrivacyFirst
WTF is wrong with the people at #Mozilla? I don’t care how much they say they’ve anonymized the personal data #Firefox grabs - this just makes them look like every other privacy-invading enshittified company.