@mozilla why the f*** do you accept money from Temu? 😮

You should get some basic standards.

#Mozilla #Firefox

What is your favorite browser? Feel free to share why.

#Vivaldi #browser #Firefox #Edge #Chrome #Safari #Opera #Windows #Linux #macos #iOS #Android

• Vivaldi (35%, 11 votes)
• Chrome (0%, 0 votes)
• Edge (6%, 2 votes)
• Safari (3%, 1 vote)
• Firefox (58%, 18 votes)
• Opera (0%, 0 votes)
• Other (19%, 6 votes)

Mozilla Firefox exploited zero-day: Security Advisory 2024-51 Security Vulnerability fixed in Firefox 131.0.2, Firefox ESR 128.3.1, Firefox ESR 115.16.1
CVE-2024-9680 (9.8 critical) Use-after-free in Animation timeline

An attacker was able to achieve code execution in the content process by exploiting a use-after-free in Animation timelines. We have had reports of this vulnerability being exploited in the wild.

See related @BleepingComputer reporting: Mozilla fixes Firefox zero-day actively exploited in attacks

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS) has a useless Mozilla security advisory (AV24-576) which doesn't indicate that this is an actively exploited zero-day. What's the point in an advisory when it doesn't provide the biz?

#zeroday #vulnerability #firefox #mozilla #cve #CVE_2024_9680

🤍 Appeal to the Browser Goddesses 🤍

Can we please make it a thing where 32GB of RAM isn't an insufficient amount for day to day web browser usage? Getting an OOM core dump for that reason is inexcusable.

- Should the Zoom browser app really need 2GB on a single tab when it's already downscaling a 1080p feed to 320p on an enterprise account?
- Should Amazon's website really need 1GB per tab just to view the cart or a ~800Mb for a single simple product page?
- Please remind me how an MKdocs fully static page with a single 400k image and no datatables or fancy JS somehow require 242Mb?
- Or perhaps shed some light on the requirement where Google's main page with a single search form somehow needs ~500Mb

There are no "good reasons" for these inefficiencies. We don't suddenly have better search fields or compressed jpegs now vs a decade ago with 1/10th of the system resources.

#developer #webdev #linux #browsers #chrome #firefox #ensh11n

#FireFox we need to talk..

WTF is dis?!

Since @loshmi and @jwz 's post about the #enshittification of #FireFox yesterday, I've been test-driving #webbrowsers suggested by people in response to my request for suggestions of browser alternatives. I thought I'd give a quick review in case anyone else is interested.

Suggestions:

@JayLittle Zen Browser

Downloaded AppImage of Zen. Feels very similar to FF, as it is based on it, but has a Vertical Tabs interface, which I don't like. I ran with it all morning, but it feels too alien to me. Import option only showed Chrome, not FF, but FF Sync is supported, and worked, so I have all my FF passwords, bookmarks and history. Gmail, ebay, Youtube all work.

@aspragg #Epiphany

Installed Epiphany from stock Debian repo. Very minimalist feel (which I kind of like). Says it supports FF Sync, but I couldn't get it to work - just displays a dialog saying "something went wrong". Gmail, ebay, Youtube all work, albeit with manually entered credentials.

@eliteamdgamer #Floorp #servo and #ladybird

Floorp makes you agree to a privacy agreement which is in Japanese, and I couldn't find an English version, so I have not tried. Servo looks interesting, but I don't get the impression it's "production ready" yet. Ladybird, as far as I know is developed by some rather bigoted techbros, so also not tried. Sorry eliteamdgamer, but thanks for the suggestions.

@IzzyOnDroid #LibreWolf

Installed LibreWolf from external repository (followed easy instructions to add to my apt/sources) so it will get updated with my normal system updates. Again, import option only showed Chrome, not FF, but FF Sync is supported (after tweaks in about:config to enable it), and it worked, so I have all my FF passwords, bookmarks and history. Gmail, ebay, Youtube all work.

So, in summary, I now have three extra browsers installed, and am feeling more positive about not having to resort to Chromium any more. I'm favouring LibreWolf at the moment, as it feels a lot more homely. Will continue flitting between all of these for a week or so, as I need to use other websites I haven't yet tested. I'll be surprised if anything flat out fails to work, but time will tell.

I work at a public administration with an obligation to keep its software and systems #accessible for its civil servants, who like me might be disabled, as well as for citizens who use its systems from the outside.

Recently, #Firefox stopped working with my screen reader, after it was updated to version 115. After some investigation, requiring the aid of a coworker and far more knowledge about computers and #accessibility than should be expected from a civil service end user, I worked out what was happening. Can you guess?

Someone had the brilliant idea to set, as group policy, the following Firefox directive: accessibility.forced_disabled: 1.

Yes, that does what you think it does. It disallows accessibility providers such as screen readers to connect to Firefox and use the APIs. Who thought this was a good idea and why?

The Joy of Coding returns today with Episode 378! Come join me while I #livehack on #firefox !

In this episode, we're going to continue to document a fairly complex chunk of code - the code that powers the customization state of the toolbars and overflow panel!

Starts at 1PM ET:

mikeconley.ca/joc/

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WTF. I wish I'd known that before paying for their app (back when you could, before ads took over apps).

Also, this is timely, as #Firefox have stuck an AccuWeather widget on people's new tab page.

So... #Signal and #Wire, which both have issues, but not #Matrix / #XMPP? And for video, 2 #YouTube front ends and a proprietary YouTube clone, but no direct mention of #Peertube? And for Translation, the proprietary #Deepl, but no mention of the local and #Privacy respecting #Firefox #translate

I appreciate the intent of this post, but the research is... outdated at best.

Sagt mal, #Firefox testet ein lokal laufendes #KI-Modell , um #Alternativtext generieren zu lassen – ein Feature, nach dem niemand gefragt hat, insbesondere darauf Angewiesene nicht, und das #Inklusion eher verschlechtern wird, weil warum dann noch als Mensch Alternativtexte schreiben?

Und das Team #Barrierefreiheit so: 🤷‍♂️

Jetzt im Ernst? Will denen niemand mal die Meinung geigen?

hacks.mozilla.org/2024/05/expe…

#KIHype

Are you sick and tired of websites, especially technical ones that have complicated commands or code snippets, preventing you from copy/paste? Here's a fix that website owners HATE!

Open Firefox (because you shouldn't be using anything else), and in the Awesomebar, type in "about:config" and press enter. Accept the warning. Search for the option "dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled" and set that sucker to FALSE.

Take back the web!

#Firefox #CopyPasteDisabled #TakeBackTheWeb

#Firefox joins the other browsers and disables HTTP/2 server push.

libcurl still supports it!

groups.google.com/a/mozilla.or…

Wait a damn minute, look at that pull request discussion and the diff as committed… the CTO of #Firefox has amended #Mozilla's "Neutral" position regarding #JPEGXL to indicate that their "cost" concerns are mainly about the security risks of a decoder being 100k lines of C++, and that they would be "open to shipping" a memory-safe decoder that meets their requirements?

And some folks at Google are going to write that implementation in Rust?!

I… I did not expect that.

github.com/mozilla/standards-p…

The current JPEG XL decoder in #Firefox apparently consists of more than 100,000 lines of multi-threaded C++

For just decoding an image format.

Not sure what it says about the format, the implementation and the Internet at large.

github.com/mozilla/standards-p…

🪦The Dying Web | Matthias Endler

｢ the world's largest websites are owned by the same company, which also owns the world's most popular browser and search engine. Coincidentally, they are also the world's largest advertising company. And people are wondering why they can't block ads on YouTube anymore ｣

endler.dev/2024/the-dying-web/
#google #monopoly #firefox #chromium

The Dying Web | Matthias Endler

I look left and right, and I'm the only one who…

^endler.dev

Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin

Solution: Firefox + uBlock Origin 😉🤟

tuta.com/blog/best-private-bro…

Here's the latest news: windowscentral.com/software-ap…

#Chrome #Google #Firefox #uBlock #Browsers

One of the Haiku OS developers has ported Firefox successful to Haiku OS

#haikuos #firefox

discuss.haiku-os.org/t/progres…

Progress on porting Firefox

Firefox 128:

^{Haiku Community}

Now in #Firefox DevTools 129: massive performance improvements, @starting-style support and accessibility fixes:

fxdx.dev/firefox-devtools-news…

#webDev #CSS #webperf

Try #Firefox today please.

endler.dev/2024/the-dying-web/

The Dying Web | Matthias Endler

I look left and right, and I'm the only one who…

^endler.dev

"Google snažil uzavřít dohody s mobilními operátory, aby získal silné výchozí pozice ve smartphonech a ovládl v nich vyhledávání. Tvrdí také, že #Google platil deset miliard dolarů ročně bezdrátovým společnostem, jako je AT&T, výrobcům zařízení, jako je Apple, a výrobcům prohlížečů, jako je #mozilla aby se zbavil konkurentů a udržel si podíl na trhu s vyhledávači."

Jestli to projedou tak to možná bude poslední hřebíček do rakve pro #firefox :D

Despite all my experience, I am sometimes tempted to give certain #software vendors a second chance.

And I was curious to see what the new #AppleMaps could do. Unfortunately, my trial only lasted a few seconds, because neither one of my operating systems nor the browser I use for my daily work are supported.

And so I can say: negative prejudices confirmed, I don't need something like this.

#Apple #Firefox #interoperability #Linux

Apple just released a Chromium/Safari version of Apple Maps. I wonder if they are planning on making a web version as well.

#Firefox #Mozilla #AppleMaps

Wow, #Element (the flagship #Matrix client) dropped support for #Firefox ESR in release 1.11.70. Or rather, they never supported it in the first place, only supporting "last two versions". The change causes a corrupted session for ESR users, and can't be reverted to fix it.

(Note that all Debian Stable users, by default, run Firefox ESR. This is kind of a big deal. ESR is always up to date on security, and gets new features once per year.)

They're managing the issue somewhat badly: github.com/element-hq/element-…

The best we've gotten so far, from a dev caught in the middle:

« Element devs follow the policy set out by people that manage them, they get an input but they do not control the policy. »

Nothing from their employer, whoever that is.

Make sure Element Web works with Firefox ESR · Issue #27684 · element-hq/element-web

Your use case It seems (given the discussion in #27682, unless the person in charge of support there) that Firefox ESR isn't supported. Given it has a large user base (enterprise, Debian stable and...

^GitHub

I looked at Librewolf and it seemed like it'd be perfect. Was still able to send tabs around from machine to machine and sync bookmarks and stuff, which is the thing I suspected wouldn't work. All worked okay, was just firefox without the bullshit they do these days.

Until it just threw javascript errors on my TTRSS install and I couldn't read my newsreader.

Only on my desktop machine mind, it was fine on the laptop.

Maybe I should try harder. Perhaps it was just a fleeting thing that would be fixed next version.

#librewolf #firefox #advertising #bullshit

So I turned off the new Firefox advertiser-friendly stuff.

But somehow I feel this isn't enough. I want to do more than just turn the feature off, I would prefer to submit poisoned and false data to it continually.

Anyone know a plugin that will flood this bullshit system with fake AI lies or anything like that?

In the page explaining why they silently forced this bullshit on me they say "Attribution is very important to advertisers"

Fuck advertisers. Fuck them. You get that Firefox? It is not your job to be kind to advertisers, it is your job to fuck them on my behalf.

#firefox #adverts #tracking

I'm hearing that Mozilla worked with Facebook to build this malware that they silently injected into our machines.

Reminds me of that episode of Batman where Batman teamed up with the Penguin to develop a more citizen-friendly system of crime and extortion so that the Penguin could stop having so many people murdered.

Oh, no, wait. That never happened because Batman knows who the fucking bad guys are.

#firefox #mozilla #meta #facebook