Firefox 71 Arrives With Better Lockwise and Tracker Blocking, Picture-in-Picture on Windows (venturebeat.com) 53
Mozilla today released Firefox 71 for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. Firefox 71 includes Lockwise password manager improvements, Enhanced Tracking Protection tweaks, and Picture-in-Picture video on Windows.
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Claims to be blocking trackers yet it is full of Google analytics on Mozilla websites, telemetry in browser and has Pocket “but you can disable it” “but you can use pale moon”. Face it, every browser maker is bound to Google either for funding on their rendering engine. Mo$Illa Goofaux is not what we want. Nobody is brave enough to take on the systemd of the internet.
Getting people paid that produce content and tools is a problem, unless you think all content and/or tools should be produced as a labor of love, or we all start doing lots of Patreon, Kofi, et.al. sponsorship of said tools/content.
I welcome other suggestions for getting people paid, but that's all I can think of for the moment.
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Google could offer a paid service where they would not track you, remove all ads and pay the websites you visit a similar amount they get now.
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Or we could just skip Google and start using low-value cryptocurrencies like Reddcoin or Dogecoin. No middleman.
But no, it always has to be fixed by someone else, which is why Google is so powerful now, even outside their own company.
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Most people are too lazy to set up everything themselves, which is why someone has to do it.
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Google could offer a paid service where they would not track you, remove all ads and pay the websites you visit a similar amount they get now.
Every time I see someone say this I want to cry a little at how stupid it is.
How would they know not to track you? You'd have to have a unique identifier that you could show them on every page they have a tracker or ads, otherwise you look like someone who didn't pay and who they can track and show ads to. And they'd have to maintain a big old database of all the websites that you visited so that they know who to send payment to, and how much.
So your solution to "don't track me!!!!" is to....volunteer for m
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I support a few youtubers via Patreon.
Re:Firefaux at again (Score:5, Insightful)
Getting people paid that produce content and tools is a problem,
Apparently it isn't, because Mozilla has millions in the bank. They spent 20M on Pocket, which nobody asked for. We've asked for them to fix bugs that have persisted for years. They haven't done that.
At this point, giving Mozilla money is just paying to be ignored.
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As for bugs they refuse to fix, I've noticed that no one every mentions one specifically.
No, you imagined that. I've seen dozens of them mentioned here on Slashdot. Try reading [slashdot.org]. It really helps.
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They are probably working on MozCoins and a paid app store at this point.
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Nobody is brave enough to take on the systemd of the internet
Let me correct you there. Nobody is paid to take them on. You are completely free to fork whatever browser and start developing whatever the hell you so wish. But you'll note that after a few hot seconds of working on it, it becomes a massive task to maintain. So do not confuse for a second that any browser maker is some form of coward. People have mouths to feed and roofs to put over their head. It's easy to say, someone should do something about it, however, it's an entirely different aspect when ac
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Nobody is brave enough to take on the systemd of the internet.
Including you.
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Claims to be blocking trackers yet it is full of Google analytics on Mozilla websites
And? It's a website. It pays to know how people use a website. *YOU* get benefits from them knowing how you use their website.
Please just give a real video autoplay blocker. (Score:5, Insightful)
That's all I want from FF right now. A true video autoplay blocker that blocks autoplay on ALL videos. I don't understand why this is so hard. How hard is it to just NOT play the video automatically?
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With Javascript it can be hard to tell if an action was initiated by the user or by something automatic.
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Shouldn't matter. The little area of the screen where the video shows should require a direct click on it to make it go. Something that can't come from Javascript at all.
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This. I'm super happy with Firefox at the moment, but they built up the autoplay block up for months before it came out and honestly, I don't see much difference since then.
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Super happy? Is that as much as very happy or is it closed to really happy? Or maybe its just south of awesomely happy?
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All it does is mute videos.
Re:Please just give a real video autoplay blocker. (Score:4, Informative)
Set media.autoplay.default to 1 to disable video autoplay for all sites
Set media.autoplay.allow-muted to false to disable video autoplay even for muted videos
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This site can’t be reached
The webpage at chrome://config/ might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.
ERR_INVALID_URL
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Thank you Luthair, that was the joke. [urbandictionary.com]
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Yes we've done all that. The point is there are still videos that are auto playing.
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And when I do that it slows by browser down to unusable.
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Argh. Mozilla changed its about:config looks. :(
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My about:config settings that seem to work so far on various news sites, netflix, youtube, and etc
media.autoplay.ask-permission true
media.autoplay.block-event.enabled true
media.autoplay.default 5
media.autoplay.enabled.user-gestures-needed false
It does however somewhat break web-based media players that use queue's such as amazon music where you'll have to explicitly play the first and second song before firefox then allows auto playing the rest of the queue/playlist. And have to explicitly play the vide
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Fully-working autoplay blocking would be the one killer feature that would win me back to Firefox from Chrome. We never realized how great we had it back when videos were all in Flash so we could easily make them click-to-play.
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The Mozilla autoplay meta bug 1376321 [mozilla.org] has a link to the following HTMLMediaElement.play() behaviour flowchart [bmoattachments.org] showing the inevitable conclusion.
Reading the code at dom/media/AutoplayPolicy.cpp [mozilla.org] you need to kill the isInaudible variables as the old config media.autoplay.allow-muted was purged. Else you still need an addon that blocks autoplay.
Re:Please just give a real video autoplay blocker. (Score:5, Informative)
That's all I want from FF right now. A true video autoplay blocker that blocks autoplay on ALL videos. I don't understand why this is so hard. How hard is it to just NOT play the video automatically?
media.autoplay.allow-muted = false
media.autoplay.block-event.enabled = false
media.autoplay.block-webaudio = true
media.autoplay.default = 5
media.autoplay.enabled.user-gestures-needed = false
The above five about:config settings have successfully prevented autoplay for me on every site I have gone to. Note I do not have Java or Flash so I can't speak for those, but as far as anything else, I have zero autoplay videos anywhere.
Of particular note, the "media.autoplay.default = 5" is important. It used to be 1, and another reply to you in this thread also said 1. This is the OLD functionality. 5 is now the everything-fuck-off-block-it-all setting. Mozilla changed this without warning and many people still have not noticed.
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Thanks, this is actually helpful.
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Because it isn't automatic.
It's easy to disable autoplay because you disable playing the video using the media framework - you load the video, you show the thumbnail or first frame, then don't start the playback. But that only works half the time because the advertisers and such have already figured a way around
DevTools continue to get better (Score:3)
I love the new multiline entry mode [mozilla.org] in the console. That's been a long time coming in Firefox.
I'm glad Chrome is continuing to push them to keep getting better with each release so I don't have to switch.
The saddest part is that there are some stalwart, OCD types that are still holding onto pre-Quantum FF. Give it a chance, guys...
I did! (Score:5, Informative)
Look, I want Firefox to be good. All of the philosophy they spout about privacy being the last bastion against Chromium dominance, all that's correct. The problem is they keep shooting themselves in the foot with dumb bullshit.
Typo (Score:3)
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I already gave it a chance, that's the problem. They keep removing functionality I like. The biggest culprit was and remains to this day the status bar, which, aside from displaying status, also doubled as a great place to stash addon buttons so they don't clutter my address bar. There's also garbage anti-features they keep adding, Pocket being the most obvious but their brain-dead implementation of DoH that manages to be worse than both Google's and Microsoft's is another. Look, I want Firefox to be good. All of the philosophy they spout about privacy being the last bastion against Chromium dominance, all that's correct. The problem is they keep shooting themselves in the foot with dumb bullshit.
Welcome to the hell that car enthusiasts with families have been going through for years.
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The biggest culprit was and remains to this day the status bar
If you want to add the status bar back you'll need to edit the profile's user chrome style sheet. This is located in: "your user home"\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\"your profile name"\chrome\userChrome.css within Windows. You can find the all of this in ~/.mozilla in *nix.
#browser-bottombox { height: 20px; border-top: solid 1px #CCC; }
.browserContainer>#statuspanel { left: 4px !important; bottom: 0px; transition-duration: 0s !important; transition-delay: 0s !important; }
.browserConta
Re:I did! (Score:4)
.onion DoH (Score:2)
their brain-dead implementation of DoH that manages to be worse than both Google's and Microsoft's is another.
Cloudflare's DoH server is available over tor as an .onion [cloudflare.com].
Which means that with care, it's possible to set DoH in a way that not even cloud flare know who is browsing where.
Hopefully, other DoH providers will also eventually get .onion addresses.
Once that is in place too, it should be possible to run your own dnsmasq which then randomly interrogate one hidden .onion DoH resolver out of a large-enough pool
I don't want dev tools in the browser (Score:3)
They're bloated enough already , I don't need an IDE for Noddyscript shoved in there as well sucking up memory and disk space. There should be a seperate dev browser for web monkeys.
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The saddest part is that there are some stalwart, OCD types that are still holding onto pre-Quantum FF. Give it a chance, guys...
When they make it so that addons can write files without helpers, and therefore Scrapbook+ is possible again, I'll try it. Until then, I'm using pale moon.
New about:config (Score:3)
Don't forget the new about:config which has a ridiculous amount of padding between rows, no support for sorting by column, and no deep linking. Mozilla have been informed of these issues but say they're not going to fix them because they don't care that their browser is garbage.
The only thing declining faster than the quality of Firefox is it's market share. You'd think Mozilla would take the hint, but they continue to believe that they know best and the user knows nothing. They'll no doubt believe that right up until they have no users left.
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Congratz this has to be the best "First World Problem" post of the week. The fucking About:Config page ... really.
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Counter point (Score:2)
In fairness, being able to deep link to a config setting would be pretty sweet for "This is how you make Firefox do the thing it doesn't do right now but can".
Playing the devil's advocate:
- Avoiding deep linking basically requires the user to go past the "Here Be Dragons" warning entry page and at least type a search keyword in the search bar. This is bare minimum to make sure that user clearly intend to modify a specific setting. Think it as a minimal test to make sure the users is capable of doing actual config mods.
- Deeplinking, if it existed, is probably going to be abused to have people modify something in their config without even understanding what they m
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As to the second, you're probably right. That said, they already do that if they want it to do the thing that it can do but doesn't by default.
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Don't forget the new about:config which has a ridiculous amount of padding between rows, no support for sorting by column, and no deep linking.
By all means, feel free to add it yourself. [mozilla.org]
They'll no doubt believe that right up until they have no users left
Well then go ahead and hasten that outcome by going here then [google.com]. If you personally don't want to fix it, then by all means go elsewhere. I don't know about anyone else, but I'm tired of people whining about open source software that they won't actually make a patch for. If FOSS software is that much trouble for you, by all means, head on back over to the proprietary stuff.
ridiculous amount of padding between rows
Dude it's a fucking CSS style. You really that broken about it, change it your damn self o
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With HTML, CSS and Javascript each being a large complex and growing specification, no, I can't imagine something like that.
Better Lockwise blocking? (Score:2)
Inline language translation (Score:2)
Mozilla has been blacklisting inline translation addons, for a while. The justification is understandable, these addons were loading javascript code from providers like Microsoft and Google, which is against their policies.
A long time ago they said they were working on their own integrated inline translation, there even are settings for that in "about:config", although it doesn't seem to be functional yet.
Am I the only one thinking this is a major missing feature?