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Many streaming broadcasters are now starting to do this. I use a VPN (NordVPN -- not recommending them, just stating what I use). These streaming services cannot track my true location, DNS or IP address on a Virtual Private Network.

The Pocket addon should definitely not come pre-installed with Firefox, users should be given a choice whether they want this functionality or not (that's the whole point of installing custom addons from AMO). The same goes for Firefox Screenshots. These type of addons smell like bloatware to me. IMO, Firefox should remain lightweight, fast, secure, customizable and privacy oriented.

The main problem with the Pocket addon is that it sends data to the cloud. A privacy aware browser shouldn't be doing this, although it should still give us the option if anyone would want something like this. Why Pocket is being forced on users in contrast to the many available extensions on AMO, I have no clue. A search for the term "bookmarks" on AMO returns 51 pages. And 45 pages of results for the term "screenshot".

Why would Firefox want to host this type of data? Bookmarks and screenshots of pages might indicate a user's interest in a specific page. I am guessing this is valuable data to Mozilla?

Looking at Pocket's privacy policy, I'd personally stay far away from it.

Regarding uBlock Origin, I will repeat here what I just posted on Twitter:

I was contacted in March by one of the researcher regarding the "behind-the-scene" issues (the "AppCache" and "SW" columns in the tables).

As a result, this was fixed in 1.15.20.

I like bitwarden - https://bitwarden.com/

Ignore the pricing spam, the basic version is free and completely functional. You can pay extra to be able to add 2fa and a few other things. Browser extensions, apple/android comaptibility, desktop client.

I understand the usefulness of integrating a bookmark storage option, but I disagree with their forced usage of a proprietary provider. If they could implement Firefox Hello, why not implement a tweaked version of, say, Wallabag?

Yes. Of course it should.

Many people argued at the time that it was not just a bad product, but that it set a bad precedent and signaled that worse changes would be coming. Others laughed it off, but... we see now that the criticism was correct.

As has already been stated on these boards, Firefox is on a slippery slope, and already pretty far down, at that. If Mozilla wants to regain the trust of its users (and ex-users), they need to do more than just apologize for their most recent mistake. They need to rededicate themselves to their stated mission, and prove to their users that they're serious about it. So long as Pocket, a paid service developed by a third party that collects personal data from users using closed source code, remains a core part of Firefox, then they clearly do not care about an open and free internet, which means users have no reason to care about them.

Personally, I find it insulting that Mozilla is constantly taking core configuration options and features I use (like Tab Groups), removing them and relegating them to extensions, and then removed entirely, while Pocket remains front and center like it's something to be proud of.

Here's a before and after from amazon:

Before:

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07MMZ2LTB/ref=ods_gw_ha_vicc_blnk_xt2_dcard_announce?pf_rd_p=1e264819-2dde-4c38-83e6-c26549b2d615&pf_rd_r=68HKG3TFZ4W0TDSTJ4W

After:

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07MMZ2LTB

I love it. Thanks for the recommendation. FYI I have no interest in that product, it was just the first thing I clicked on form the home page.

They passed the law apparently making it legal for them to demand that sort of thing of anyone they liked, but from what I've heard they haven't used it to its full extent yet, as of a couple months ago. Signal, NordVPN, Firefox, whoever... basically anyone they might use the law to coerce would very likely choose to cease all operations in Australia instead if they tried.

They are presumably waiting patiently for enough other G20 countries to join them in passing such laws before moving further into this kind of madness.

Just got this email.

If you sign up now, it locks in the $4.99 month to month price.

It'll be interesting to see how they change the pricing, considering Mullvad VPN (what Mozilla is repacking as Mozilla VPN, but Mullvad has more options in settings) is only about ~$1 more expensive in USD.

May be you should try MultiLoginApp. It is a browser launcher, which stores all your pre-configured browser profiles settings and applies those configurations to browsers when you launch them. It might be an overkill if you just need to have a few gmail accounts open in separate tabs. However, if you are managing 5-10 separate accounts made on a single website, this tool is a must.

Take a look at this comparison chart between MultiLoginApp and MultiFox. In short, unlike MultiFox, MLA allows assigning unique proxy server to each browser session, sharing access to your accounts without revaling their actual passwords, protects your accounts from being linked together and fixes different real identity revealing vulnerabilities like WebRTC IP leak and Flash IP leak. The icing on a cake is that the app supports at least three popular browsers - Chrome, Opera and Firefox.

Their free version has most functions available and quite high session number limit - up to 10 sessions for free.

You can remove them from your toolbar by right-clicking on your toolbar, selecting "customize," and then dragging the "Hello" and "Pocket" icons off the toolbar and into the "additonal tools and features" pane, or by going into about:config and changing "browser.pocket.enabled" and "loop.enabled" to false.

For what it's worth, I agree with you that bundling these third party products in Firefox is a mistake. There's an ongoing discussion in the Mozilla Governance google group about the changes and the reactions are very negative.

For users wondering what to do now that WOT has been confirmed to be a spyware, your alternative is to use opensource security softwares. I recommend using uBlock Origin and NoScript.

You can browse pretty much any site without any concerns with those two installed. There's another awesome addon called uMatrix, which is made by the same developer as uBO, but you should get some experience with using uBO first.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix

They have started offering VPN as a paid product, but their GUI lacks a lot of features and customization options. And according to my knowledge, all they really had to do was integrate the GUI with existing Mullvad servers. Not to mention that it is still not available in more countries.

I, for one, would consider switching to Mozilla VPN if they offer more important features and configuration options.

> Edit: people just recommended using > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/traduzir-paginas-web/ > for in-page translation.

On the one hand complaining about telemetry in Edge and then recommending a google translation addon. The Firefox subreddit will always remain a mystery to me. Schrödinger's privacy, I guess.

For anyone looking for a google translate alternative, take a look at https://www.deepl.com/translator
It doesn't have as many languages but translation quality is on-par or even better than Google. There also might be add-ons available that use DeepL, but I haven't checked.

uBO supports default-deny if you want: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium-mode

The rules can also be set on a per-site basis, i.e. if scripts from a specific 3rd-party domain are needed on one site, the rule can be set only for that site. All rules are temporary by default.

This was fixed in this commit, released with 1.13.8. As part of the release, it also became possible to toggle on/off workers on a per-scope basis (I personally toggle off globally and toggle on only to unbreak pages).

Are you using any of the following?

• Avira Antivirus
• Junkware Removal Tool
• SpyHunter 4

See: Software known to have uninstalled uBlock Origin.

On sites (like my bank) that disallow pasting in fields either via CTRL+V or right-click context menu: > dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled FALSE >

will allow you to paste in randomly generated passwords as well as any other stuff. Remember to change it back to TRUE otherwise shortcuts in other web apps like Google Sheets won't work.

> browser.ctrltabs.preview

will show thumbnails of tabs when you switch through them via CTRL+TAB

> network.IDN_show_punycode TRUE

will show the correct ( non-international chars) URL helping to prevent phishing attacks as explained here

================= Firefox stores your about:config settings in a file called prefs.js, which is kept in your profile directory. So to back it up, all you need to do is find your prefs.js file (on Mac, the profile directory is stored in /Users/XXXX/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles, while on Windows it’s in \Users\XXXXX\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles) and copy it to a safe location (Dropbox account, USB stick, etc.). Then if you ever need to reinstall Firefox, you can simply overwrite the prefs.js file in the new profile directory with your backup. Restart Firefox and your settings will be restored.

I used it for a while, but everything about it was inferior to the Mullvad experience so I switched back. As much as I wanted to support Mozilla the app just felt half-baked.

Also the biggest bug was the lack of an auto-reconnect when service was lost, and a lack of notification as well.

I emailed support and they said they hoped to fix it in the future... That seems like a day 1 required feature to me. Having my phone go silent for 3 hours because I didn't realize my VPN connection was dead was unacceptable, and happened to me at least a half-dozen times in the span of a few months.

Use the Browser Toolbox to find out the initiator. The newtab has articles recommended by pocket in some locales, for example, and this is controlled by newtab prefs which don't include "pocket" in their names.

> Google’s own services will always work best with Chrome

http://www.ghacks.net/2015/11/22/google-search-results-on-firefox-mobile-limited-in-comparison-to-chrome/

This is something thats already happening and i truly HATE this approach.
I like Google products, but the game here is so unfair. Dont think it takes years to modify the appearance of the page

Kudos for using KeePass :)

KeePass HTTP is usually OK, but is deemed a security risk. When you have KeepassXC (a fork of a fork of KeePass) and its official browser integration, why look elsewhere.

~~I find interesting that the example I gave in that comment back then is no longer affected by the artificial delay -- they apparently removed the delay for that page.~~ (Never mind, I had a lingering forgotten cosmetic filter foiling the delay) Here is a non-modified one: https://www.ampstart.com/. The delay is by design, it will be there for AMP pages for which 3rd-party ampproject.org is blocked.

The new master JavaScript switch in the next stable release of uBO will take care of that artifical delay for those who are blocking ampproject.org specifically or 3rd-party scripts in general: the new JS switch causes noscript tags to be honoured and when these are honoured the artificial delay is not present.

Here's a direct link to Mullvad, which powers Mozilla's new VPN.

I've been using it since the start of quarantine and it's been pretty great. Lots of locations to choose from, and pretty speedy when I pick locations within the US (where I'm based).

It's not so good for mainstream streaming services, though; I haven't gotten a single server that works with Netflix, for example.

I just added Firefox 52 to Browserling. You can try this new version at this URL without installing it:

https://www.browserling.com/firefox/52/www.reddit.com

We run the browsers in virtual machines and stream them to your browser. If the demand is too high then you'll have to wait in a queue for a while to try it. I'm adding more virtual machines right now to let more people try it without waiting.

> Cross-origin requests in content scripts already encounter restrictions by advances of the web platform (e.g. SameSite cookies, CORP) and privacy features of Firefox (e.g. state partitioning). To support extensions, we are allowing extension scripts with sufficient host permissions to be exempted from these policies. Content scripts won’t benefit from these improvements, and will eventually have the same kind of permissions as regular web pages (bug 1578405). We will continue to develop APIs to enable extensions to perform cross-origin requests that respect the user’s privacy choices (e.g. bug 1670278, bug 1698863).

Does this mean Local CDN will potentially work better? It currently runs into these limitations a lot.

$10/mth, are you kidding? That's more than you'd pay if you bought the VPN through ProtonVPN directly!

Fuck that. I'm paying $30/yr for Torguard right now and have had no problems with them.

~~There is literally nothing in the release notes…~~

Edit: They have updated the release notes.

√ fixed >Prepare to use SHA-256 signing certificate for Windows builds, to meet new Microsoft signing requirement (1079858)

If you are okay with having the screenshot as a png image rather than a pdf, you can use the Developer Toolbar to do this without needing any addons.

Press Shift-F2 or go to Tools > Web Developer > Developer Toolbar

Then type in the following line and press enter.

screenshot --fullpage

For more information, see: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13158083/take-a-full-page-screenshot-with-firefox#14830242

If you're confused, just follow the money, and you'll know what's up.

> The typo correction feature is an additional revenue source for the Adblock Plus project. [...] Whenever typo correction brings you to the site of a large online shop an affiliate ID will be added to the address. <em>(source)</em>

Now this does seem to be a bit useless and on the shady side, but at least it's not overly intrusive. If you say no to the first prompt, it automatically disables this... feature, and you can turn it off in the filter options as well.

I hesitate to say Google is doing this on purpose, but it does smell like it.

A temporary fix for this is to spoof your user agent to fool youtube into thinking you're using a different browser.

Works like a charm.

While not recent, Pocket is also a huge privacy issue:

Straight from their privacy policy page: https://getpocket.com/privacy

• we collect information about the URLs, titles and content of the web pages and other information you save to Pocket.
• The types of information we collect includes your browser type, device type, device id, time zone, language, and other information related to the manner in which you access the Pocket Technologies.
• We may also use non-identifying, non-aggregated information to deliver tailored advertisements to you.
• We may also share your device ID with third parties in connection with advertising campaigns.

And Firefox by default used to automatically send each of your downloads to Google servers to scan them.

I would be interested if Mozilla adopted matrix and developed matrix clients that don't suck, along with a privacy conscious homeserver. A major product embracing matrix could really change how people communicate over the internet. Firefox hello could not integrate with other services (only other browsers) and did not have the option to remove it from the browser, so flopped nearly instantly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7460225

> For the record, Mozilla does provide employee benefits that cover same-sex domestic partners, and I would be shocked if any CEO attempted to change this. (I am a Mozilla employee.) > > The Mozilla community is governed by participation guidelines that state: "support for exclusionary practices must not be carried into Mozilla activities," and "support for exclusionary practices in non-Mozilla activities should not be expressed in Mozilla spaces." > > http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/policies/participation/ > > UPDATE: In a meeting with Mozilla staff this morning, Brendan reiterated that he was involved in the creation of that code of conduct, and supports it 100%. He also specifically said that he should be held accountable to it, and that it's important for those in positions of power to be accountable to those with less power.

I don't think you could call him "openly anti-gay". AFAIK all that is publicly known is that he gave money to some campaign. He never explained why and it doesn't seem he voiced any public opinion on that matter. I think Mozilla employees and we all should keep an eye on what he does. But simply condemning him on that one action seems as wrong as the action itself.

I was reading along, thinking "dang, those were great ideas and great products, especially Send. Still, Mozilla needs to focus on Firefox, so this is good news."

But then, at the end:

> this decision allows us to sharpen our focus on experiences like Mozilla VPN, Firefox Monitor, and Firefox Private Network.

Oh. All three of those services are essentially rebrands. Mozilla VPN is Mullvad, Firefox Monitor is Have I Been Pwned, and Firefox Private Network is Cloudflare Warp.

I really hope the new strategy is more than "slapping our brand on other folks' products". Please focus on Firefox!

http://www.ghacks.net/2015/05/14/how-to-disable-pocket-in-firefox/

> * Type about:config in the browser's address bar and hit the enter-key afterwards. * Confirm that you will be careful if the prompt appears. * Search for browser.pocket.enabled. * Double-click on the preference to toggle its state from true to false.

> This disables Pocket in Firefox and the icon should be gone once you restart the browser.

Edit: "Firefox already has a 'reading list'." - Not anymore. It's making way for Pocket. As I understand it, this is not a permanent change though: The devs were unable to make it refined enough for general use in a reasonable timescale, so while they work on it they've turned to someone who has already solved the problem.

I personally recommend KeePassXC, it's a fork of another (basically dead) fork of KeePass.

The main features are full UNIX support (KeePass only runs on Windows) and as of recently a proper browser plugin, there were some security concerns about KeePassHTTP.

Link: https://keepassxc.org/project/ (The link to the extensions is there)

It's also available as a trusted chocolatey app if you are on Windows.

Shameless plug for my favourite search engine: Duckduckgo!

Keyboard navigation, no tracking, no "bubble", customizable colourscheme and UI, !bangs (awesome little keywords that let you search hundreds of sites from the search/address bar directly), super quick results, and a cute mascot to boot!

i ditched Google two years ago, and haven't looked back. The only thing I'd like them to implement is "filter by date", but it seems that's a difficult thing to get going. If you absolutely can't sever the tie to google, just use the !bangs "!g" (search google), "!m" (search google maps), and "!i" (searh google images) along with your query, but honestly, when you get used to DDG, Google is just painful in comparison.

I'm not paid to write this, just a happy user! Give it a Go!

• As an aside, for anyone who hates and never uses CAPSLOCK, try rebinding it to backspace. Super convenient to have the back button right next to the home row when web browsing, and ergonomically fixing typos. Easier to do Shift + backspace (forward) as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7545958

> Google's HTML 5 media player uses Media Source Extensions (MSE) now . This enables them to use adaptive streaming implemented in JavaScript using DASH JS libraries. > > Unfortunately MSE support is not complete in Firefox so the MSE using HTML5 YouTube player doesn't work..

You can drag'n'drop files in Firefox, but not a folder. You need Filesystem API to do that http://updates.html5rocks.com/2012/07/Drag-and-drop-a-folder-onto-Chrome-now-available.

Firefox does not support Filesystem API http://caniuse.com/#feat=filesystem

I mean there are a lot of default things in firefox that aren't too great for privacy, like the new tab page and arguably telemetry. The PrivacyTools page explains some things

All executed uBO code after the data migration at first install is pure webext. The pure webext version, available in the Releases section is exactly the same code, except without the legacy data migration part at first install.

The company behind Ghostery does research on behalf of the advertising industry. Even if you think their research is ethical, and they do ask you to opt-in, you're still supporting a product which helps the people who created this problem (tracking) in the first place.

There are better alternatives. does the same things and is open source and non commercial. There's also the Easyprivacy list available for Adblock. Easyprivacy + should be sufficient for normal users, but the technically proficient would probably appreciate the added granularity and protection of Noscript.

A note about Adblock: we should all move away from Adblock Plus and use the forked version Adblock Edge. ABE is developed from the ABP codebase before the implementation of their whitelist program. The ABP whitelist program is essentially a protection racket. ABP allows advertisers to get past the default filter in exchange for money. This is slimy behavior that we should not encourage.

Another tool I use on all my Firefox installs is Self Destructing Cookies. This automatically deletes cookies after you close a tab, unless you set that domain be allowed to save persistent cookies. This does better than just disabling third party cookies (which should really be default behavior by now, there's no legitimate need for them) because many tracking cookies are being issued from the same domain to get around the blocking of third party cookies. And you really don't need a cookie set for every random site you visit.

> its kinda difficult to compare

Hence why uBO-Scope. It measures the result of the blockers, it does not need to know about what filter lists MWB uses. I've shown in the past how the badge count on a blocker is not that meaningful: what is really meaningful is what was not blocked, and it may happen that a blocker shows a higher blocked requests count and yet it blocked less.

That's false, their CEO is Andy Yen: https://protonmail.com/about. They're also not Lithuanian ("...registration data of Lithuania"), they're Swiss. They have an excellent reputation with ProtonMail.

Neither "chrismatic" nor his site has anything to do with uBlock Origin. uBlock Origin's primary developer is Canadian and accepts no monetary contributions for his efforts. The software is not represented by any corporation.

The following text is on the Readme of the uBlock Origin github page:

>BEWARE! uBlock Origin is COMPLETELY UNRELATED to the web site ublock.org

Twitch is a horribly optimized site. Uses far more resources than Netflix, Hulu, or Youtube no matter which browser I use. If you're a bit tech savvy, I recommend setting up Streamlink which can pipe Twitch streams into VLC (youtube too!) . Much more resource friendly!

As I said elsewhere, I would have corrected them in the comments, but they make you sign over your firstborn just to comment.

Mozilla never stopped work on multiprocess. The post he references from "last month" announcing the expanded team didn't happen last month. It happened a year and a month ago.

Kind of a crucial detail when you're arranging most of the article around that bit.

UBlock Origin - it uses less CPU/RAM and shows no ads.

Adblock Plus allows certain ads. They will also demand money from "larger entities" to let ads through. While I'm not a fan of ads (I use uBlock Origin), I'm also not a fan of how Adblock Plus makes money - they are basically running an extortion racket. This makes marketing more expensive even for good/nice/no-spammy/well-behaved companies:

> … our main source of revenue comes as part of the Acceptable Ads initiative. Larger entities (as defined below) pay a licensing fee for the whitelisting services …

> Regarding fees, only large entities (those with more than 10 million additional ad impressions per month due to participation in the Acceptable Ads initiative) have to pay.

https://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads#revenue

If your worried about security just use Keepass son - Hosted locally not in the cloud.

A local based PW manager is less convenient than a cloud hosted one but that's the trade off between security and convenience

I will get downvoted for this but I actually like pocket recomandations. They are long complex articles that offer a lot of information. I like them so much that I bookmarked the Pocket explore page and visit it from time to time https://getpocket.com/explore/trending/?

This article is a bunch of fake news, misinformation and guess without any clues that only lead people to believe about a situation that is not at all as they described.

Fake news include Nord/Tesonet being the true owner of ProtonVPN (which has been denied by Proton and clarified one the how and why there is a link between Proton and Tesonet, which has nothing to do with the later owning the former but only a pure service-contract between both companies).

Another is the idea that Mozilla might buy Proton, which is a pure assumption based on no facts and which goes totally against the communication and values of Proton Technologies as well as the real situation of both entities (there is only a partnership between both companies as they both defends privacy).

I did not read everything but I am sure there are more fake news in this article.

What would Gorhill say to that?

Have a thought for the maintainers of the various lists. These lists are everything. This can't be emphasized enough. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Why-don't-you-accept-donations%3F

"Most"... Not possible:

• FindBar Tweak: needs lots of extra APIs before it even becomes remotely possible.
• GreaseMonkey: I probably need to clarify here. GM can do some things that TamperMonkey can't. Read the design document for the rewrite to WE to find them. I'm not sure in how far these are fundamental problems or can be fixed, though. I suppose most of these features are not fundamental either, but I wanted to mention it anyway.
• Stylish: can't change the Firefox interface itself.
• CTR: is disabled, but he probably only did that to show the "Legacy" buttons (they don't appear with CTR enabled).
• ProfileSwitcher: got force-disabled, so I suppose he also uses it ;) I don't think this is possible with WebExtensions either (yet?).

So that's 6 out of 12 (I'm ignoring the disabled add-on compatibility reporter here; 5 if you don't count GreaseMonkey). Maybe in a literal sense, that's "most", yes, since over half of their add-ons can be ported. But it does sound like a stretch, when it's not even 60%.

And I'm not even counting the extra features uBlock Origin has in Firefox, such as inline script filtering. Chrome can't do it, and chances are that WebExtensions won't, either.

uBlock Origin is better. Adblock Plus is a great example of how consumers are slow at changing their mind once they've decided on a product. Adblock Plus is a business, and takes money from advertisers for letting some harmless ads through (acceptable ads). uBlock Origin is ~~open source~~ (they both are), lightweight and more reliable.

Edit: uBlock Origin on Github

No.

Get a dedicated VPN. VPN "addons" are pretty much always super shady.

Mozilla is partnering with ProtonVPN (which also have a free option with limited server selection but no other restrictions, possibly the only non-shady free VPN offering) so if you are looking for something it might be a good starting point.

Disclaimer: I am personally a ProtonVPN customer, my mention of it is not supposed to be a recommendation based on their actual service but rather due to their partnership with Mozilla. I am not being paid or otherwise rewarded by ProtonVPN for mentioning them here, always do your own research before trusting your traffic to any internet service provider.

Mozilla uses "add-ons" as a broad category, with three main sub-categories:

• Extensions (add-ons that contain C++ and/or JavaScript and/or XUL and/or other code that calls internal browser APIS and is loaded from XPI files by the browser and can modify pretty much any part of how it works)

• Plugins (libraries, usually cross-browser, that implement the NPAPI interface and are used to display specific media types embedded in web pages)

• Themes (add-ons that contain CSS and other resources that modify the appearance of the browser)

There are some other types of add-ons too, like search plugins. For details, see https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/docs/how-to

Edit: This is the official solution(s).

If re-installing 1.3.10 over current installation does not work, try un-installing first then re-install 1.13.10. Apparently, some people had better luck when un-installing first. To be safe, re-start Firefox before re-installing. If this does not work, than falling back to 1.13.8 is the last resort option.

The issue is inside Firefox, specific to embedded webextensions, which is what uBO 1.13.10 is. The issue is reportedly fixed in Firefox 56.

Shill post time! But the ghacks guy does good write ups about Firefox releases, speaks in layman's terms for most of us folks here, and will often times go into details on about:config options to undo things for people who experience problems or just don't like change.

<strong>Firefox 36 Find out what is new (ghacks)</strong>

Yes. HTTPS Everywhere was created back when major sites were still starting to migrate to HTTPS, and it relies on a manually edited whitelist to upgrade connections.

The new Firefox option will upgrade everything, and you can disable redirections for the few sites that still don't work properly with HTTPS.

Turn it on and open this link to see what a failed upgrade looks like: http://www.pdf995.com/samples/pdf.pdf . You can click on the padlock to disable it permanently for this site.

>Offering paid services

this has nothing to do with FF market share, besides, people already have their own favorite privacy VPN like ProtonVPN while Mozilla VPN is only available in 8 countries with the same if not better price.

Take a look at this page to help get an idea: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode

Medium mode is generally considered to be the best of both worlds - usability and security.

NPAPI plug-ins other than Flash and a couple DRM modules. Other than these, the 64-bit builds never supported NPAPI plug-ins. (Examples of plug-ins that were supported in the 32-bit builds in the past but never in the 64-bit Windows build: Java plug-in, Silverlight, Adobe Acrobat.) And until more recently, some extensions could potentially install .DLL files in Firefox but those wouldn't necessarily be compatible with 64-bit builds.

The 64-bit Windows build became available in December 2015, but one would have to go to https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/all/ (or the beta equivalent) to download the installer for the 64-bit Windows builds. This is because if a 64-bit build installed itself automatically a 32-bit-only feature (such as being able to run the Java plug-in) would cease to work and, at that time, this would be an unwelcome disruption.

Now that the 32-bit builds likewise no longer support NPAPI plug-ins (other than Flash and a couple DRM modules) and no longer support extensions loading .DLL files into Firefox, there is no longer an add-on disparity between the 32-bit builds and 64-bit builds, so this reason for not migrating users to 64-bit builds on 64-bit Windows machines with enough RAM no longer exist.

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In my case, I think I had installed the 64-bit build a few months into 2016 (using the above link to pick the platform, language, and 64-bit), and I think when I finally installed Nightly near the end of Nightly 55 the express installed defaulted to a 64-bit build (if I recall correctly). But then I knew I wasn't using one of the add-ons that wasn't supported on the 64-bit platform.

You have to enable advanced user mode. You can do that from the Settings tab in uBlock Origin's dashboard.

Here's an explanation on how to use dynamic filtering:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-quick-guide

Remember when Mozilla lied about the integration of pocket about a year ago? It's a real shame to see things turn out that way. I really hope this is all just some kind of big misunderstanding.

I'm a fan of the YouTube Center Developer Build personally. Loads of customization options for YouTube, my favorite being the ability to disable DASH playback.

https://gitlab.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls/-/issues/597

According to that 4 months issue. I wonder if ClerURL upstream want to support Firefox Mobile Android at all. The dev is not in to Android.

The addon it self installable in FF Mobile Android Nightly and Beta. But without upstream support, we're on our own.

Understandably, the ClearURL dev currently is busy rewriting ClearURL to new codes. https://gitlab.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls/-/issues/703

Edited: add links.

I would make an educated guess that Mozilla keeps about 50% of the sale. Mullvad presumably assumes the Mozilla brand can reach customers that the Mullvad brand can't... and since even a well-run VPN service is a high-margin business, they still make money.

Is also possible that Mullvad expects their brand to gain trust by being associated with Mozilla. In the VPN game, a trusted name counts for a lot; users are aware it's an easy business to enter and thus there are a lot of scummy services with little to differentiate them.

It's not a bad business to be in, but along with the other recent rebrands it starts to form a pattern of Mozilla trading on the Mozilla and Firefox brand rather than on their own products. That path leads toward Foxium. I hope I'm wrong!

The Firefox logo is available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. That means that you are free to adapt and share the logo, as long as you give appropriate credit, and you distribute your version under the same license as the original.

However Mozilla still owns the trademark and sets some conditions to allow use of the logo. You can find the logos and the guidelines here

So you can freely change the colors, but you aren't allowed to make the new logo the logo of your website or app or anything like that.

Did you try to restart Firefox? It's as if uBO's content scripts are not being injected. I am not seeing any such issue being raised elsewhere with uBO (neither during the dev build phase) and it works all fine on my side.

Look at the browser console (ctrl-shift-j) to see if there is anything that could be related to your issue.

Edit: looking more at your symptoms, it's as if you disabled cosmetic filtering -- I get the exact same result as in your IMDB screenshot when I disable cosmetic filtering, and picker/zapper not working when cosmetic filtering is disabled is still an open issue.

LastPass is known for severe performance issues. You might want to consider switching to Bitwarden (but maybe it's better to try disabling it first, before you do the effort to switch)

uBlock Origin is also a lot more economic on resources than ABP, so it probably pays to switch your ad blocker too.

I don't know of the other add-ons, try disabling them to see if it makes a difference.

Oh, and check if multi-process is enabled :) You can do that in about:support.

>in my household UBO is used for adblocking and cosmetic filtering, uMatrix being a general blocking tool.

This is likely why they are kept separate as they are really meant to do different (though related, and sometimes overlapping) things. It makes sense to keep either one able to be used without the other.

They originally were part of the same extension -- HTTP Switchboard -- which was then split into uBlock and uMatrix.

Information can be found here and here

> webkit has a far too small usage share to justify just developing for that engine

Seriously? Webkit (or derivatives) have ruled the mobile roost for like seven years now - since the first iPhone in 2007!

Android's AOSP browser uses it, Chrome uses it, Safari uses it, Opera uses it. All that's left is Internet Explorer on Windows mobile and Firefox on Android.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-web-browser-popularity-wanes/

> Speaking of mobile, the Firefox browser is a total non-player in this market. As of June 2014, Safari had a 46.1 percent share of the market; this is followed by the native Android browser with 22.8 percent; Chrome with 16.7 percent; Opera Mini at 7.6 percent, Internet Explorer at 2 percent; and, finally, almost lost in the noisem is Firefox at 0.7 percent.

While technically true, that telemetry isn't used to gather information on features or how users use the browser.

According to their privacy policy ( https://vivaldi.com/privacy/browser/ ) , it's only for:

> The purpose of this collection is to determine the total number of active users and their geographical distribution.

Instead, Vivaldi relies on their official forums feature requests (and to some extent I imagine social media) to hear what their users want.

If you're not using the Developer Version, give it a go. I've been using it for a couple months now and it's doing everything it's supposed to.

Updates maybe twice a week, so it's definitely still alive.. not sure why the version on AMO isn't updated anymore but at least there's an alternative.

Designed by Trevor Perrin, who also designed the end-to-end encrypted Axolotl algorithm for Signal (that's now also used by WhatsApp, Riot, and others).

Fun fact: WhatsApp and WireGuard are already using Noise and Noise has a Rust implementation, too. Sounds like they've made Mozilla's job pretty easy!

https everywhere is more tweakable and has better individual site support (see link)

For example deviantart has a fucked up HTTPS implementation in its site but https everywhere is able to fix it by manual fine tuning. Smart HTTPS always falls back to HTTP and won't load that site in HTTPS even if I force it to.

To be really fair, Adblock Plus in Chrome has known issues -- namely it can't block in-video ads. I imagine Adblock cannot do this either (since it's due to Chrome's extension API -- though I hear this is something that'll be possible in 2012)

You can keep tabs on top and get your title bar back by toggling "browser.tabs.drawInTitlebar" to false in about:config. But obviously that is not ideal. You read a bit of back and forth about it here on bugzilla.

Opera gets this right by leaving 2-3 pixels above the tabs to grab the title bar.

*edit Haven't tried it, but this add-on claims to fix it.

For those who prefer userChrome.css over extensions try this

#TabsToolbar { padding-top: 1px !important; }

Mozilla has tests in place that automatically mark extensions as compatible for new versions where possible. The developer gets an e-mail with text like:

> Good news! Our automated tests did not detect any compatibility issues with your add-on [add-on name] and Firefox [version]. We've updated your add-on's compatibility to work with Firefox [version] so that our Aurora users can begin using your add-on.
>
> We encourage you to view the results of the compatibility test, as some compatibility issues may have been detected but without enough certainty to declare the add-on incompatible: https://addons.mozilla.org/developers/addon/[add-on name or id]/validation-result/[test number]
>
> This compatibility bump is server-side and we did not modify your add-on package in any way.

They are still improving the compatibility tests, and there are things that extension authors can do to improve their chances of being auto-bumped.

In addition, for those that slip through but only need a compatibility bump, there are add-ons like Add-ons for Firefox: Add-on Compatibility Reporter that let you bypass the browser's compatibility check to try an extension out. Mozilla can use the results of the Aurora/Beta users testing extensions to:

1. Let authors know there's a problem.
   
2. Let authors know that there's not a problem, but they still need to do a manual update.
   
3. Investigate cases of [2] for ways to make their automated tests work better.
   

And, again, let people know about the extensions that break that you're missing, as there's a huge number of add-ons, and letting the community know what add-ons are desirable/where holes exist can help us fill the need.

>We also know what version of Vivaldi you’re running, the type of
processor chip, OS, and screen resolution. Not much to be honest.

Except this data apparently, metioned here: https://vivaldi.com/zerotracking/

In Firefox I can look at every line of code(via searchfox.org), while with Vivaldi I have to trust their blogposts.

I copied OP's URL:

https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=classicshell&amp;ei=UTF-8&amp;hspart=mozilla&amp;hsimp=yhs-001

This is what I get (no ads).

Edit: FF profile is new with no addons, OS is Ubuntu.

> please correct me if I am wrong, but the highest Firefox could get, at the peak of its popularity, was 22% of the market share.

According to Wikipedia, 32% at the end of 2009.

>Google products are pretty much used unanimously, across all culures and continents.

Sounds like Windows and IE during the IE6 days, when Firefox started gaining traction. Yes, it seems bleak out there, but I'll keep using Firefox as long as it makes sense to. I still think it is a better browser, and I don't really trust Google services all that much, even if they are widely used.

>the Free Software Foundation (FSF) does not even list Firefox as a Libre browser anymore.

Yes they do:

>While the Firefox source code from the Mozilla project is free software

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/130

Chris keeps trying to either give the back or have gorhill decide what would be best, but gorhill never gives a proper reply. It must be frustrating for Chris having to deal with such a complete lack of open communication.

He ought to close the main repo, fork Origin, and solely publish for Safari. There's no reason he should have to get so much scorn just because gorhill is acting borderline autistic.

Wouldn't that have just created yet another option in the VPN market, something like MozillaVPN? It's probably better that they throw their support behind an established provider to increase ProtonVPN's credibility without adding yet another choice to an already saturated market.

Seems like tracking protection does a good job :-)
If you want a reason:
Mozilla says here (click me) that they use " basic protection list".
Here (click) are the list FF uses with their tracking protection.
Ad-Networks track. Ad-Networks get blocked through tracking list. Forbes doesn't want to accept that and kicks you out.
Suggestion: Kick forbes away...

Get the Add-on Compatibility Reporter instead and you get the added option of reporting when and how an add-on breaks for you.

> At least Chromium is fully open source.

It is still integrated with Google way too strongly. If you want to be safe with this one, better use Ungoogled Chromium - https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

Yea... I personally would have just disabled issues since most of them were related to 3rd party filters. Looking at Gorhill's contribution stats is just mindboggling, as he was the creator of half a dozen very popular projects.

But now he's transferred the project to Chris who doesn't have a single popular project, and the first thing Chris does is add a bunch of donation buttons. Not a good thing IMO, if anything it should have gone to Deathamns, who at least maintains the Imagus project as well, and seems to have far more experience doing plugin design.

Fortunately Gorhill's 'fork' still does FF builds with bug fixes that are ahead of Chris's already (shocking), and don't have all the buttons asking for donations.

If enough of us star Gorhill's uBlock project, we might be able to bump it up in google's rankings.

Edit: Issues are disabled on Gorhill's fork, so there's that

It's so easy to spot people who never tried Nightly

Gecko is now just with 20% slower than Chrome at Speedometer and it is closing in. It does this without any Rust witchcraft which will land soon.

Actually Gecko is the most modern one..... being rewritten in something that wants to be C++ being rewritten (Rust). Gecko the first one that uses parallel styling and the GPU for rendering the DOM.

Gecko is dead! Long live Gecko!

Personally the only thing I miss from Firefox at this point a better new tab page. With custom speed dials, folders that uses the whole space. (kinda like in vivaldi or something similar to papaly would work for me as well). I really hope that one day we'll see a test pilot about this.

Anyway, keep up the good work guys!

Just buy a Mullvad subscription directly -- they're the providers for the Firefox VPN and when you buy it from them you have way more options for configuring it (e.g. OpenVPN, Wireguard, running it on whole devices or networks).

> ABP works fine for me and it's perfectly fast enough. Why should I change

Just because it's good enough doesn't mean it can't be better also some people still run a laptop from 2006 which needs as much ram as possible

> It's also open source

Fair enough, I was mistaken

> doesn't whitelist ads

https://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads

> no data collection.

Browser version Extension version Operating system, Date of last update, IP address

> It's owned by a company and so what?

Companies tend to get sold out, or just not do the right thing, as we've seen time and time again

> What would happen if the ublock origin guy got sued instead of ABP? Think long and hard before thinking of an answer.

I like to think some big org like eff would get involved and help but I agree he would've probably lost

Additionaly ublock origin includes a lot of features that(as far as I know) aren't included in adp

>Is there something wrong with abp

Some people don't like their Acceptable Ads program.

>there were any advantages either way

uBlock Origin has a much lesser hit on performance than ABP.

When I saw the about page after updating earlier today, I feared that the “Ubuntu Mozilla Daily Build Team” ppa had been hacked. And I was about to contact the ppa maintainers.

Relieved to know that Mozilla is just having fun!!

The blame for that should be placed at the websites that were breached, not HIBP.

You can remove your data from the HIBP database, https://haveibeenpwned.com/OptOut if you are concerned about it being included in the public results.

But we will never apologize for helping bring security and privacy tools to more people who may be unknowingly exposed.

uBlock and uBlock origin have some history.

The original project was uBlock, and the dev decided that he didn't want to maintain the project anymore. He handed it off to someone who had been developing the safari version, and things immediately went downhill. Lot's of allegations of the new uBlock maintainer trying to write others contributions out of the project (editing the wikipedia page to remove the original dev's name), as well as taking donations for the project to his personal paypal account. People felt that he was being unfair, as he hadn't really contributed that much to the project, but was acting as though it was all his doing. uBlock origin is a fork of uBlock, forked by the original uBlock dev.

Regardless of all that drama though, uBlock origin is the better addon. uBlock is basically unmaintained. Compare the commits to uBlock vs uBlock origin. origin is much much more actively maintained.

> to avoid being blocked by any kind of AdBlock, uBlock

FYI uBO users: you have the last word with the no-popups switch: it will unconditionally block popups for the current site -- no need to wait for a new filter to be crafted by filter list maintainers.

Chrome desktop seems like most of the privacy issues can be mitigated.

Android, you can't turn off the location data which sounds nearby router, and cell towers.

"If you do choose to share your location with a web site, Chrome will
send local network information to Google (also used by other browsers
such as Mozilla Firefox) in order to estimate your location. This local
network information can include data about nearby Wi-Fi access points or
cellular signal sites/towers (even if you’re not using them), and your
computer’s IP address. The requests are logged, and aggregated and
anonymized before being used to operate, support, and improve the
overall quality of Google Chrome and Google Location Services. "

r/https://www.google.com/chrome/privacy/whitepaper.html

Heck, I hope that will change with the changes happening in all* the different browsers. In addition to Firefox’s awesome changes, Safari now blocks third-party trackers, Vivaldi is getting new features every release, and even Edge is getting decent. Browsers are getting better, and if people are sticking with Chrome, they’re missing out on some of the best improvements in years.

*except Chrome. Adding more spyware and trying to kill adblockers doesn’t count.