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Lots to See in Firefox 93
- jikbd 5y agoIt’s a pity there’s nobody there to see it.
- ketralnis 5y agoI use firefox. You can too.
- alittlesalami 5y agoSwitched to Firefox 8 months ago and I'll never go back. I dare you to try it.
- starik36 5y agoYou could probably use Firefox 93. Firefox 8 is quite old.
- rudian 5y ago> I'll never go back I probably said that a couple of decades ago. Things change.
- asdff 5y agoHow are you blocking ads without ublock origin?
- beebeepka 5y agoNoScript. No need to thank me
- asdff 5y agobroke all my banking websites and probably half the rest of the web when i tried it out unfortunately. the world is reliant on javascript for better or worse.
- pessimizer 5y agoWhitelist your banking websites.
- asdff 5y agoAnd I did, then some other critical website would come up that would be broken, then another, and another, and eventually I just got sick of dealing with the internet in a broken state and always having to mess with a config. At least with ublock origin I can block trackers and ads and still use websites that rely on js, which is the vast majority of them these days, and it works without me having to do hardly any fiddling at all.
- gorjusborg 5y agopihole blocks ads across the entire network
- asdff 5y agoI already know that's going to be an ongoing project getting sites correctly whitelisted, plus its all moot when I take my laptop outside my home. Ublock origin just works.
- xxpor 5y agothe only sites I've had to whitelist are the shopping links in Google. I maintain my pihole outside the house with an always on wireguard tunnel. Granted, this is more work than installing an extension but my phone uses it too. The biggest thing I miss is ad blocking on youtube.
- jikbd 5y agoI have, many times. It’s slower than chrome and comes with lots of ads in the interface by default.
- caterama 5y ago> The UI for <input type="datetime-local"> has been added. I've been out of frontend web dev for a while... does this mean the days of trying to find/create your own (good) datetime picker component are gone?
- greggturkington 5y agoNot gone, but that's the direction we're heading (hopefully). > it may currently still be best to use a framework or library to present these, or to use a custom input of your own. Another option is to use separate date and time inputs, each of which is more widely supported than datetime-local https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/datetime-local https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/in...
- onli 5y agoI literally waited years for this. This year I opted to change a backend date input from datetime-local to date and time input input fields, after waiting too long for browser support. The datetime-local field got added 2014, "browsers will support it soon"...
- exyi 5y ago> Because of the limited browser support Which browser does not support it (if we can exclude IE 11)? And if some obscure browser does not support, it will just fallback to input[type=text], so no big deal. I'm really looking forward to get rid of all these JS implementations which can't properly handle keyboard / touch / screenreader / whatever comes.
- he_is_legend 5y ago1 year old safari. it was added april 2020 - https://caniuse.com/?search=datetime-local https://caniuse.com/?search=datetime-local
- yyyk 5y agoNo, you still need a datetime picker. That's because by design <input> does not let you configure a timezone (EDIT: nor a datetime format), and it's always somehow badly detected/misconfigured on a small subset of your users. Later you find out the user thought they were entering a DD/MM/YYYY date, while the browser decided it's getting MM/DD/YYYY, and hijinks ensue. It's easy to ensure the correct timezone on js pickers.
- bawolff 5y ago> The SHA-256 algorithm is now supported for HTTP Authentication using digests. This allows much more secure authentication than previously available using the MD5 algorithm. Lol wat? For reference - in a password hashing context, you generally don't care about about collisions. Its not really a relavent attack. What you do care is speed and memory hardness. Generally you want a slow hash, like bcrypt or argon2, so that in an offline attack the attacker can't bruteforce very quickly. Sha256 is almost as bad as md5 in this context.
- Causality1 5y agoLots to see, like ads from "trusted partners" in the address bar. Funny how that wasn't a "highlight."
- asdff 5y agoHillarious that they said it was an opt in feature, then when I checked my settings all these boxes were checked already. Who opted in for me, mozilla?
- noasaservice 5y agoAnd the insult to injury was the "will take 30 days to remove data". I never accepted it. You force-upgraded me and opted in without consent. And then hang a 30 day window of data retention... If that's true at all.
- Operyl 5y agoIs that possibly because they’re including the backup age out period though?
- noasaservice 5y agoWho knows. There was no informed consent. No opt-in. It was just turned on without my knowledge. I had to find out on Twitter infosec to watch out for this.
- bun_at_work 5y agoSeems like they don't actually say opt-in. In any case: Settings -> Privacy and Security -> Address Bar -- Firefox Suggest -> Contextual Suggestions -> Include Occasional Sponsored Suggestions For me it's selected, so I deselected it. Still a good browser. Edit: They do say opt-in, but the opt-in was in version 92.
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- AdmiralAsshat 5y ago> The AV1 Image File Format (AVIF) is a powerful, open source, royalty-free file format. Is "royalty-free" an unequivocal good, or a good with caveats? I would assume it means you don't have to pay licensing to encode or decode the format. Are there any restrictions?
- belval 5y agoPretty much unequivocal good if you want state-of-the-art compression and live in a country that enforce patents. The Wikipedia page for AV1 explains it well I think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1#Purpose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1#Purpose
- jagger27 5y agolibavif seems to be licensed under 2-clause BSD, which is very permissive.
- miralize 5y agoI just want profiles in Firefox to be as prominent a feature as it is in Google Chrome.
- ASalazarMX 5y agoHave you tried containers? I used to rely heavily on profiles, but containers are like having several profiles open at once, or several degrees of private browsing.
- swozey 5y agoNot op but I also stopped using Firefox due to profiles. I have one monitored/controlled profile for work and another for my personal stuff and I really need the complete separation so I don't do the wrong thing in the wrong place. I use different themes for both of them so it's obvious which one I'm on. I also have multiple google accounts because of it which are super simple to use in Chrome, the containers might cover that for me.
- distances 5y agoOptimal would be to separate work time from leisure, but I realize that may not be realistic for everyone. I use separate OS accounts, or with some customers, separate computers to never mix work and private stuff.
- tmottabr 5y agofirefix has had profiles for ages.. way longer than chrome have it.. it is just not proeminent in the interface.. you can access the profiles in "about:profiles" You can also have a shortcut for "firefox.exe -p" and it will aks what profile you want when starting.. or create a shortcut to "firefox.exe -P "Profile Name"" and it will open automatically in the profile you define in the shortcut..
- swozey 5y agoYeah, I know, thanks for the downvotes. That's a ridiculous UI compared to Chromes. Also have you ever tried migrating profiles before Sync?
- jablala 5y agoIt is anecdotal but we had a JPEG at ~115KB and after encoding to AVIF the quality remained the same but the file size dropped to ~15KB. Having looked at caniuse.com it seems that Chrome, Opera and (only just now by default) Firefox support it. With Edge, Safari, and the majority of mobile browsers still to catch up.
- wlesieutre 5y agoWhat's extra sad about that is WebKit supports AVIF images, but Safari doesn't because it hands image decoding off to the OS where it isn't supported. Works in Gnome's WebKitGTK though. https://www.coywolf.news/webmaster/why-webkit-supports-avif-but-safari-does-not/ https://www.coywolf.news/webmaster/why-webkit-supports-avif-...
- 21eleven 5y agoI see it as part of my internet civic duty to do what I can to prevent browser mono-culture and that is a large part of why I use Firefox. Also it is an all around good browser.
- NelsonMinar 5y agoMy favorite thing about Firefox is containers. It also has a more generous addon policy, for instance the Bypass Paywalls Clean extension which Google won't allow on the Chrome store.
- davidgerard 5y agouBlock Origin blocks ads on Firefox that it can't block on Chrome descendants.
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- pengaru 5y agoAds in my browser? What is this, Juno [0]? Epiphany needs a noscript equivalent so I can retire FF. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno_Online_Services https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno_Online_Services
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- bloopernova 5y agoHave you tried Waterfox?
- iakov 5y agoTalk about a clickbait title. Two hyper-technical features and support for an obscure image format. To be honest, as a faithful Firefox user, I'm very hesitant to update my browser. A few months ago FF rolled out an abysmal UI update out of the blue, and I had to rely on third-party "fix" [0] to this problem. I really don't want to lose the "fix" due to update, the low contrast of default theme makes Firefox just unusable to me. I wish there was a no-bullshit fork of Firefox with no Pocket, no Suggestions and Photon UI. [0] https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix
- throwaway123x2 5y agoBrave?
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- bloopernova 5y agoHave you tried Waterfox?
- syntaxing 5y agoI love using Firefox but my biggest gripe is the “back button” on a mouse is somehow a scroll click button on macOS while Chrome works fine
- kreeben 5y agoMy biggest gripe is "hey, our users all seem to think we're the good guy, so let's sneak in ads, they won't care".
- CraftThatBlock 5y agoThis doesn't seem to be the behaviour on my machines (Linux and Windows), where mouse3 is back.
- strifey 5y agoOne of the recent Firefox updates fixed this for me fwiw.
- kreeben 5y agoThis is the "here come the ads" version, aka "Firefox Suggest". Turn off auto updates here: options-->general-->firefox updates
- TeMPOraL 5y agoRight. I just wanted to check what's my current version first. I went Hamburger -> Help -> About Firefox, which prompted the browser to automatically download and install version 93. Did I ever mention I fucking hate automatic updates?
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- butz 5y agoWhy not just turn off "Contextual suggestions"? Using unpatched version of browser is very risky these days. Or at least use Firefox ESR, that receives security patches, but lags on features.
- kreeben 5y agoBecause Firefox 92 is the last Firefox version I'll use. Looking for a better alternative as we speak.
- LeoNatan25 5y ago‘Lots to see over here with these “features”, but don’t look over there at all the tracking and ads we added to the browser.’
- berkes 5y agoWeren't "ads" included in 92 already? And what "tracking" do you mean?
- LeoNatan25 5y agoEverything you type and your current city are sent to Mozilla “partners” to allow for personalized “suggestions”.
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- PaulHoule 5y agoI did a small trial of AVIF (using the AVIF plugin for pillow) with high quality photographs and got much worse results than WEBP. (Much bigger file that looked much worse.) It could be my encoder sucks, could be I didn’t pick the right settings (command line opts look like the engineer’s console on the original 747). Most of the demos I have seen online with AVIF images are highly compressed images that look awful on close inspection. Maybe you can accept that for video but I can’t for my photographs. I was disappointed.
- joe_hoyle 5y agoI have experienced the same, though I’ve done less visual comparisons. Comparing % quality like-for-like between webp and avif, on average avif files are slightly larger than webp counterparts. Things didn’t materially improve when using high compression (slow) encoding settings. Could have been a bad encoder (libavif iirc)— there might be an explanation but on the face of it I saw worse performance than webp.
- coldtea 5y agoI'll check Firefox again when they get rid of the leeching managing team going from blunder to blunder, and from unrelated to a web browser pursuit to another...
- exyi 5y agowould be nice, but which browser is better? All other use the core provided "for free" by an advertising + data harvesting company...
- MikeTaylor 5y agoI would trade all these things, in a heartbeat, for the ability to keep other tabs/windows working when one tab is in a hard loop. That one facility is the thing that means I can't let go of Chrome, even though Firefox is prefereable in so many other way.
- smw 5y agoThat was exactly my issue with Firefox. They mostly fixed it in 2016 [1], though I still found a few issues. These days, it seems mostly to be a thing of the past. [1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/multiprocess https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/multiprocess
- bloopernova 5y agoWell, the ad-in-address-bar situation is making me switch to Waterfox. https://www.waterfox.net/ https://www.waterfox.net/
- kreeben 5y agoWaterfox lists all the ways they receive information about their users here [0]. The list has a length of 1: >> We learn information about you when you give it to us directly (e.g., when you choose to send us crash reports) [0] https://www.waterfox.net/privacy/ https://www.waterfox.net/privacy/ Mozilla, say hello to my new little default browser friend.
- hnaccount141 5y agoWorth noting that Waterfox was acquired by System1, an advertising company. While I've seen no evidence that this has affected the browser itself yet, I'd be a bit concerned about the incentives this creates. https://system1.com/press/system1-welcomes-waterfox https://system1.com/press/system1-welcomes-waterfox
- throwaway661885 5y agoYeah. Also I don't think most Firefox forks take security seriously. Jumping like this is like jumping into a house on fire because your finger got burned.
- zfxfr 5y agoLots to see but still no ipv6 support in the adresse bar. What I mean is that you can write http://192.168.1.1 http://192.168.1.1 to access some page but you can't type some ipv6 adresse format
- haurra 5y agohttps://robharvey.com/advert/123movies-watch-after-we-fell-2021-online-hd-free-streaming/ https://robharvey.com/advert/123movies-watch-after-we-fell-2... https://robharvey.com/advert/hd-watch-online-venom-let-there-be-carnage-2021123movies-free-streaming/ https://robharvey.com/advert/hd-watch-online-venom-let-there... https://vocus.cc/article/615605b2fd89780001758ecf https://vocus.cc/article/615605b2fd89780001758ecf