What are /r/mozilla's favorite Products & Services?

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No. There is BlueGriffon which is built using Gecko. I don't know that it provides any advantages. The developers use whatever editor they are comfortable with. Ranging from vim or emacs to sublime text, vs code or atom to visual studio.

With the push of Let's Encrypt, partially backed by Mozilla, I don't see how that's going to be such a big problem. The biggest blocker for small sites today, as I see it, is the outrageous prices for SSL-certificates.

You absolutely shouldn't:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-24/#CVE-2017-7828

That is a critical vulnerability in Firefox 56, and Firefox 56 will not be patched.

If you need to hold on to some legacy extensions for a while, switch to Firefox 52ESR, which will get security patches until early July 2018:

https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/organizations/

Starting from scratch is a mammoth undertaking. OpenStreetMap have the data and the expertise, they (or a company using their data) are the best bet. Look at Mapbox for an example of what can be done with their data and some UI expertise.

https://www.mapbox.com

Yeah I'd highly recommend LanguageTool. Here's their privacy policy: https://languagetool.org/legal/privacy

I guess they have a desktop version that runs locally and doesn't send any of your text through the internet, but I haven't tried that at all.

> unnecessary technical barrier (...) [people] are finding that often as not IRC traffic isn’t allowed past institutional firewalls

Why don't they just deploy The Lounge as a user-friendly web frontend to their IRC server and call it a day?

> IRC is an ongoing source of abuse and harassment

Sure, that never happens on proprietary communication platforms like Facebook, Twitter or Discord.

This website pretty much is the go to for privacy conscious people.

https://www.privacytools.io/

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Remember Mozilla only has a finite budget, even Firefox isn't completely safe without add-ons and configurations.

> The biggest blocker for small sites today, as I see it, is the outrageous prices for SSL-certificates.

That was what I was trying to get at. Websites who don't need HTTPS are going to be forced to buy SSL certificates yearly.

This is the first time I've heard of Let's Encrypt. I read the How it Works page, Does this mean it won't work with shared hosting? As far as I know SSH access is limited on those kinds of services.

I can reproduce the report, but it's not an real issue for Firefox users.

I blocked Google via Privacy Badger by setting the www.google.com slider to the left, and I know this renders many google services inoperable. These definitely include Recaptcha. Then I went to "Sign up with Firefox" to Pocket and I was able to sign in to my account. There was no Google dependency here.

However, when I tried to login to Pocket via (its own login page)[https://getpocket.com/login], it didn't work. I noticed at the bottom right there's a small Recaptcha icon, and a microscopic link that says "Terms". But that only applies to the login page, which Firefox users don't need.