Deciding for ourselves: 98% of people want a browser choice screen, Mozilla study finds (blog.mozilla.org)
What if we got to easily choose our web browser, and didn’t have to rely on complex operating system settings to change the pre-installed default?
Firefox now has speed parity with Chrome on the Speedometer benchmark (mozilla.social)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1376783...
Mozilla asks people to sign petition to stop France from forcing browsers to censor websites (foundation.mozilla.org)
cross-posted from: gehirneimer.de/m/privacy@lemmy.ml/t/57607...
What obscure about:config settings would you recommend changing?
We’ve all turned off trimURLs but what else is hiding in there?
[It's FOSS News] Google's New Web Environment Integrity Proposal Dismissed by Brave, Mozilla, and Vivaldi (news.itsfoss.com)
It's not just Adobe. Now Logitech wants me to go to a random website in order to add peripherals to my computer, and I'm met with this when I go to the page they tell me to (lemmy.world)
As if it wasn’t bad enough that they want me to use a random internet service to add a keyboard to a usb wifi receiver, they have the balls to put this for Firefox users. I clicked out of pure curiosity, as I’m not even remotely interested in involving a corporate internet service in getting my keyboard connected to my...
Unofficial Subreddit Migration List (Lemmy, Kbin) (www.quippd.com)
A comprehensive mapping of old subreddits to new communities.
I made a Firefox extension for more easily navigating to Lemmy communities from the browser address bar (addons.mozilla.org)
tl;dr: With Lemmy Go you type lg beekeeping on the address bar and it takes you to the most popular beekeeping community, or you can pick one from the given suggestions....
Apple is finally allowing Firefox to use its own engine on the iPhone (but only in the EU) (www.theverge.com)
Firefox starting to remove tracking parameters from shared URLs (blog.nightly.mozilla.org)
Currently still in Nightly and only on ‘Copy Link’. Still nice progress though.
TIL; You can use any desktop Firefox addon in Firefox for Android by changing the user agent to Desktop Firefox and no need to create or have a collection.
To do this, first you need to have Firefox Nightly or Beta installed on your phone, then go to addons.mozilla.org and search in the search bar for User-Agent Switcher and install it by pressing the “Add to Firefox” button and now you should have User-Agent Switcher installed....
Firefox 118.0 released (www.mozilla.org)
Stop using Brave Browser (www.spacebar.news)
So tired of Adobe. They're part of the problem. (images4.imagebam.com)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/3376057...
Firefox 115.0.2 Released (www.mozilla.org)
Fixed...
Firefox saw an increase in users (~50% in Germany and ~30% in France) following Apple’s default browser changes in the EU. (www.theverge.com)
Firefox spokesperson Christopher Hilton tells The Verge that the browser has seen a more than 50 percent jump in users in Germany and a nearly 30 percent increase in France.
Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are ‘as painful as possible’ for Firefox - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates (arstechnica.com)
Google slows down Firefox users when watching YouTube.... (fosspost.org)
Google slows down Firefox users when watching YouTube…
Firefox is blocking my personal website based on flawed "Google Safe Browsing" What the hell? (lemmy.sdf.org)
Started this morning. All of my personal tools like nextcloud and RSS reader were blocked, and I had to go manually override that screen for each one. Unacceptable.
Say (an encrypted) hello to a more private internet. (blog.mozilla.org)
As web users, what we say and do online is subject to pervasive surveillance. Although we typically associate online tracking with ad networks and other third-party sites, our online communications travel across commercial telecommunication networks, allowing these privileged entities to siphon the names of the websites we visit...