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by callahad 9y ago
We are. It's not quite polished yet, but check out privacy.resistFingerprinting (and privacy.firstparty.isolate) in about:config. This all dovetails with our work to upstream the relevant patches from the Tor Browser Bundle, which is a
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by callahad 9y ago
Here's an add-on that does exactly that: https://github.com/mdn/webextensions-examples/tree/master/pr... It's not currently packaged and uploaded to addons.mozilla.org, but you can try it by cl
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by callahad 9y ago
Tree Style Tab is available on Firefox Quantum and will be with us for a long, long time. Piro, the author, wrote an excellent article about his experience porting TST to a WebExtension: http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/latest/
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by callahad 9y ago
The privacy situation is absolutely different; Mozilla has no profit motive to monitor and monetize your activity on the Web. For example, Firefox Sync is specifically designed so that we have no knowledge of your browsing data. In contrast
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by callahad 9y ago
Aside from the privacy / philosophy / openness / counterweight-to-monopolization-of-the-Web angles which Yoric mentioned, you might find we're actually better than Chrome in some areas. Often small things, but I find I p
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by callahad 9y ago
If you dislike them, you can disable those kinds of animations by toggling `toolkit.cosmeticAnimations.enabled` in `about:config`
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by callahad 9y ago
If you want that kind of distinction, it should be pretty trivial (less than a dozen lines of code) to implement a dynamic theme to that effect. We've got an article in the https://hacks.mozilla.org queue about exactly that
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by callahad 9y ago
Plenty of screenshots at https://mozilla.org/firefox/ , but I'd suggest giving it a shot yourself. Lots of work went into cleaning up the UI, adding appropriate, subtle animations, etc. On macOS, the titlebar and s
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by callahad 9y ago
Very sorry about that. The third party extension was developed by a core DevTools engineer, just not merged upstream. We'll get there. :)
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by callahad 9y ago
We do :) The full details are at https://github.com/mozilla/fxa-auth-server/wiki/onepw-protoc... , but basically we derive two separate keys: one for authentication, that gets sent over the wire, and a complet
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by callahad 9y ago
We track most of our bugs in Bugzilla ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org ). Once you've created an account, go to File a Bug, Core, and choose "Audio/Video: Playback" as the Component in the form. (In general, it&#
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by callahad 9y ago
We actually fixed that failure mode three years ago with the release of Firefox Sync 1.5. The encryption key can now be re-derived from your password, so you can always recover your data as long as you remember your password. Even if you lo
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by callahad 9y ago
The instructions at https://support.mozilla.org/kb/import-bookmarks-data-another... show how to import data from other browsers into Firefox.
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by callahad 9y ago
Sorry about that inconvenience. The current plan is to revisit WebSocket debugging in Q1 next year, per https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=885508 . Part of the delay is the complete rewrite that most of the DevTool
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by callahad 9y ago
Huh, I can't replicate that in Fedora. Are you using a binary downloaded from Mozilla directly, or from one of the various Debian APT repos? Can you email me with more info (my HN username @mozilla.com), especially what desktop environ
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by callahad 9y ago
Article is from 2014, though the project is still minimally active: https://github.com/freeotp/freeotp-android
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by callahad 9y ago
No. Hangouts only works on Chrome and Safari (with a plugin). It does not work in Edge or Firefox, as we've phased out support for third-party plugins.
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by callahad 9y ago
Firefox does support multiple isolated instances, just without a prominent UI. You can use the Profile Manager ( https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-... ) or command-line flags to launch and
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by callahad 9y ago
> A Firefox instance can only run one at the same time, making it useless to run e.g. a work and a private profile together. I may be misunderstanding what you mean, but I believe you actually can do that. If you navigate to about:pr
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by callahad 9y ago
Benchmarks are not comprehensive, nor are they gospel; it's entirely possible for a browser to score lower on a benchmark while also feeling faster in real-world use. For a long time, this was true of Chrome versus Firefox on JavaScrip
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by callahad 9y ago
If you set your screen resolution to "default for display" in System Preferences, does the scrolling feel closer to native?
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by callahad 9y ago
There's been some renewed interest in this direction, at least on Android, in the form of GeckoView: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1322573 Servo, Mozilla Research's next-generation parallel browser
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by callahad 9y ago
Firefox Sync is intentionally designed so that we can't read or recover your data; it's all encrypted client-side. Chrome is specifically designed to do the opposite: Google explicitly states that when you sign into Chrome, "
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by callahad 9y ago
Just two things: Profiles and Multi-Account Containers. The original poster was referring to Containers when saying "persona tabs."
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by callahad 9y ago
I'm not sufficiently familiar with Chrome's architecture to speak comparatively, but Firefox Quantum (57) has a significantly improved sandbox thanks to finally going fully multi-process (full status at https://wiki.moz
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by callahad 9y ago
Can confirm. Would be very interested in a link that shows a regression of that degree.
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by callahad 9y ago
You can use about:profiles or the profile manager ( https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-... ) to handle that. The UX isn't as polished, but for just a handful of uses (work, personal, et
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by callahad 9y ago
Hey lvh. As imron suggested, I've found containers have largely replaced my need for multiple profiles day-to-day, with the main exception of throwaway profiles, which `firefox --profile $(mktemp -d) --new-instance` handles well enough
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by callahad 9y ago
Thank you for choosing Firefox. 1. Are there any specific extensions you need? Happy to add them to our outreach list. 2. Sorry about Hangouts; follows a trend of Chrome-only product launches/re-launches from Google (five this year so
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by callahad 9y ago
WebExtension Experiments are effectively that escape hatch. They have more or less the same access to the internal APIs as legacy add-ons, with the only restriction being that you can only install them on Nightly and Developer Edition. The

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