Hello friends! I'm super excited to announce that Shopify has stepped up to become the first ever corporate sponsor of the Ladybird browser project, generously contributing $100,000 USD! Here's a quote from Mike Shaver, Distinguished Engineer at Shopify, on why they decided to back us:...
In a well-intentioned yet dangerous move to fight online fraud, France is on the verge of forcing browsers to create a dystopian technical capability....
This might be a little late for this year, but we can definitely start playing with some ideas for next year (or maybe we can run the logo next month)....
On Monday morning we (Mozilla) detected a very large crash spike affecting #Firefox users on Linux, specifically on an older version of a Debian-based distribution. It turned out to be an interesting bug involving the #Linux kernel and #Google JavaScript code so let me tell you about it. A thread 🧵
I use nightly as my daily mobile browser for years. Just found out for the first time if I long press my device back button it brings up Firefox history for the tab. Awesome
Works pretty well apart from missing rotation support and UI issues on small screens. It currently requires "media.webrtc.camera.allow-pipewire" to be set to "true" in "about:config". Other then that the same requirements like for other apps like Snapshot, Authenticator and Decoder apply: a working Pipewire/libcamera/xdg-portal...
Unofficial Subreddit Migration List (Lemmy, Kbin) (www.quippd.com)
A comprehensive mapping of old subreddits to new communities.
Welcoming Shopify as a Ladybird sponsor (awesomekling.substack.com)
Hello friends! I'm super excited to announce that Shopify has stepped up to become the first ever corporate sponsor of the Ladybird browser project, generously contributing $100,000 USD! Here's a quote from Mike Shaver, Distinguished Engineer at Shopify, on why they decided to back us:...
France’s browser-based website blocking proposal will set a disastrous precedent for the open internet (blog.mozilla.org)
In a well-intentioned yet dangerous move to fight online fraud, France is on the verge of forcing browsers to create a dystopian technical capability....
Pride Month Logo Contest (fedia.io)
This might be a little late for this year, but we can definitely start playing with some ideas for next year (or maybe we can run the logo next month)....
On Monday morning we (Mozilla) detected a very large crash spike affecting Firefox users on Linux, specifically on an older version of a Debian-based distribution (fedia.io)
On Monday morning we (Mozilla) detected a very large crash spike affecting #Firefox users on Linux, specifically on an older version of a Debian-based distribution. It turned out to be an interesting bug involving the #Linux kernel and #Google JavaScript code so let me tell you about it. A thread 🧵
Nighty new finding
I use nightly as my daily mobile browser for years. Just found out for the first time if I long press my device back button it brings up Firefox history for the tab. Awesome
Kawaii Firefox (www.quippd.com)
Two years ago, mitcheecostelo posted about an “aesthetic firefox icon to replace the default icon!” that his girlfriend Ritozilla had created.
DuckDuckGo’s privacy-focused browser is available for Windows now (www.theverge.com)
Firefox 114 on POWER (www.talospace.com)
Firefox 114 is released . The biggest update in my humble opinion is that (assuming you're running Linux) you can now use FIDO2/WebAuthn aut...
the best browser (media.fedia.io)
Firefox Desktop Nightly now sports a volume slider in the Picture-in-Picture player window (media.fedia.io)
Robert Mader: Just gave #Firefox with #PipeWire / #libcamera / #xdgportal support a go on my #PinePhonePro. (floss.social)
Works pretty well apart from missing rotation support and UI issues on small screens. It currently requires "media.webrtc.camera.allow-pipewire" to be set to "true" in "about:config". Other then that the same requirements like for other apps like Snapshot, Authenticator and Decoder apply: a working Pipewire/libcamera/xdg-portal...
When did you start using Firefox? Did you leave at some point and return? What is your story? Introduce yourself! (fedia.io)
Let's take advantage of the fact that we are so small! Say hi and tell us how you started using Firefox!