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I often see people wishing that they could donate money to #Firefox Development directly.

One way to do this is to purchase a subscription to Relay, VPN or Pocket! Feel free to think of those subscriptions as donations, but instead of a tax receipt, you get access to a useful service that you can choose to use or not.

Those subscriptions make great gifts, too!

mozilla.org/en-CA/products/vpn…
relay.firefox.com/
getpocket.com/premium#plans


Mozilla '23 Ann. Report: CEO pay skyrockets while Firefox Marketshare nosedives

Link: lunduke.locals.com/post/505329…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…

#firefox #mozilla


This December, if there’s one tech New Year’s resolution I’d encourage you to have, it’s switching to the only remaining ethical web browser, Firefox. According to recent posts on social media, Firefox’s market share is slipping. We should not let that happen. There are two main reasons why switching is important.
A red panda (firefox) resting on a tree branch.Red Panda” by Mathias Appel is marked with CC0 1.0.

1. Privacy


Firefox is the only major browser not built by a company that makes money from advertising and/or selling your personal data. There’s been a lot of talk about websites tracking users using cookies, fingerprinting and other nefarious technologies that hurt your privacy. But owning the browser puts Google, Apple and Microsoft in a position where they don’t even need those tricks. We need to use browsers that are independent, and right now that means Firefox.

2. Browser engine monopoly


Wikipedia lists four browser engines as being “active”. Browser engines are the bits that take a web page’s code and display it on your screen. Ideally, they conform to the official W3C standards, and display all elements as it describes. If that’s the case, web developers can easily write sites that work on all browsers. No proprietary vendor lock-in nonsense, just glorious open standards at work.

It’s happened before


In the early 2000’s, Internet Explorer had a massive 95% market share. This meant that many sites were only developed for use with IE. They’d use experimental features that IE supported, in favor of things from the official HTML standard. This was a very bad situation, which hindered the development of the World Wide Web.

Currenty, Chrome, Safari and Edge all use variations of the closely related Webkit and Blink engines. If we want to avoid another browser engine monopoly, we need to support Firefox, and its “Gecko” engine.

Firefox is actually really good


If Firefox would be a bad browser, I would not recommend you to switch. It’s fast, has a nice user interface, and feels every bit as modern and elegant as its competition. I’ve been using it as my main browser for a couple of years now, on Linux, Windows, MacOS and Android. As a web developer, I usually have at least three browsers open, but when I go look something up on the web, I pick Firefox.

So please, help save the web by using the best browser out there. It’s an easy thing to do, and it makes a big difference.

roytanck.com/2023/12/23/in-202…

#Firefox #privacy


#firefox 121.0 comes with the new option to always underline links. __always__. It's a great UX improvement for me at least.


Firefox survey II

For those of you who block Google Analytics, which of the below do you use?

This is a follow up to last week's survey:

mastodon.social/@lufthans/1115…

Feel free to boost for visibility, comment for specific tool recommendations

#Firefox #InternetPrivacy #WebPrivacy #DigitalPrivacy #GoogleAnalytics

Edit: bah, survey fail, forgot to make multi-select

  • use ad block add on to block Google Analytics (5 votes)
  • use JavaScript and cookie blockers to block Google (3 votes)
  • use a privacy add on to block Google Analytics (3 votes)
  • Pepper&Carrot ( see results w/o participating ) (1 vote)
Poll end: 1 year ago


Firefox survey

Edit: follow up survey on what people use to block Google Analytics - mastodon.social/@lufthans/1115…

When using Firefox which of the following do you do?

See Esther's post for article about Firefox being at only 2.2% use per Google Analytics for US government sites:

mastodon.social/@estherschindl…

Feel free to boost for visibility

#Firefox #InternetPrivacy #WebPrivacy #DigitalPrivacy #GoogleAnalytics #InherentlyBoostable



Firefox survey

Edit: follow up survey on what people use to block Google Analytics - mastodon.social/@lufthans/1115…

When using Firefox which of the following do you do?

See Esther's post for article about Firefox being at only 2.2% use per Google Analytics for US government sites:

mastodon.social/@estherschindl…

Feel free to boost for visibility

#Firefox #InternetPrivacy #WebPrivacy #DigitalPrivacy #GoogleAnalytics #InherentlyBoostable

  • use a DNS blackhole to block Google Analytics (36%, 152 votes)
  • use browser add on to block Google Analytics, ad b (80%, 330 votes)
  • don't block Google Analytics in any way (4%, 19 votes)
  • Pepper&Carrot ( see results w/o participating ) (5%, 23 votes)
412 voters. Poll end: 1 year ago


Firefox survey II

For those of you who block Google Analytics, which of the below do you use?

This is a follow up to last week's survey:

mastodon.social/@lufthans/1115…

Feel free to boost for visibility, comment for specific tool recommendations

#Firefox #InternetPrivacy #WebPrivacy #DigitalPrivacy #GoogleAnalytics

Edit: bah, survey fail, forgot to make multi-select



: I use #NextDNS for DNS-level tracker-blocking.

Browser with #uBlockOrigin.
(Prefer #Firefox)

And use the direct website for email providers, instead of using Outlook client. 😁




Viendo los cambios que trae Firefox 120 te das cuenta de lo rota que está la internet actual.

Estos cambios no deberían ser necesarios, y sin embargo, lo son más que nunca: copiar enlaces sin parámetros de rastreo, pedir a los sitios que no vendan tus datos ni te rastreen, auto-denegación de cookies innecesarias...

mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/120.…

Y Chrome yendo en la dirección contraria. Se viene un cisma en internet.

#enshitification #firefox #privacidad





Google announced that starting in June 2024, ad blockers such as uBlock Origin #uBO will be disabled in Chrome 127 and later with the rollout of Manifest V3 (#Mv3).

The new #Chrome manifest will prevent using custom filters and stops on demand updates of blocklist. Only #Google authorized updates to browser extension will be allowed in the future, which mean an automatic win for Google in their battle to stop YouTube #AdBlockers .

#ManifestV3 is deceitful and threatening to your privacy, and now is a good time to switch to #Firefox (@mozilla) and/or #TorBrowser (@torproject) if you haven't done so already!

EFF (@eff) on Google’s Manifest V3:

⚠️⁠eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chro…
⚠️⁠eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/goog…


Chrome Manifest V3 Transition Timeline (2023-11-16)

🚩⁠developer.chrome.com/blog/resu…


EDIT for clarification: MV3 in Chrome will still allow some ad blocking extensions, but will severely limit their blocking ability and even restricts pre-set filters to 50 MAX.


For those of us receiving email in multiple languages, it would be awesome to have #Firefox Translate built in to Thunderbird. No sending your sensitive conversations to a corporate cloud, just a lean translation service running locally.

We've decided to make it a development priority for Q1 2024!

You'll be able to track the progress via this bug: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…

But as always, we'll also keep you posted right here.


I always visit #YouTube without preserving cookies from previous visits, because I don't want their tracking or their recommendations based on my browsing history, but this seems to also stop the "you're using an ad-blocker" popup.

Here's how I configure Temporary Containers (medium.com/@stoically/enhance-…) in #Firefox to do that.

The first screenshot is the basic configuration; the second is some optional additional settings I use so I don't have to click quite as many things every time I open a new YouTube tab.




Daha yeni kullanmaya başlamışken yüz yıllık simgesinin değişmiş olduğunu görmek ve üstelik canımıs #Firefox'un örnek alınmış olması 🥺♥️



Sorry, neither #Linux nor #Firefox are supported by this provider if you want to see your psychiatrist via telehealth. Luckily, my doctor was willing to use an alternative encrypted chat platform. #ADHD


They really look awesome together, don't they?

This summer, please reorganize your task bars appropriately 😆

#Firefox #Thunderbird


Now I have to go and rearrange my Firefox and @thunderbird icons on the task bar! They need to be side-by-side.

Is it just me, or does there need to be a huge VS in the middle...

#Firefox #Thunderbird


Just like our software, the current (and yes, beloved) Thunderbird logo has seen small, iterative improvements throughout the last 20 years. But now the software is evolving into something more modern, and we believe it deserves a fresh logo that properly represents this revitalization.

Introducing the brand new Thunderbird logo, designed by the creator of the original #Firefox and #Thunderbird logos, @jonhicks 🎉

blog.thunderbird.net/2023/05/i…



True story: Mozilla's @mconley is a legend. (Also, he worked on Mozilla Messenger, and is responsible for #Ubuntu shipping with Thunderbird!)

His enthusiasm is so contagious that just listening to this podcast might turn you into a software engineer! Join us for ThunderCast episode 2 as we reminisce about the early days of the internet, and talk about Firefox features more people should be using.
blog.thunderbird.net/2023/05/t…

#Thunderbird #Firefox #Podcast



Welcome back to the ThunderCast: Episode 2 is READY!

We welcome special #Mozilla guest @mconley, a software mechanic, musician, livestreamer, and self-described “pre-internet phenomenon” among many other awesome things.

Join us for a great conversation full of nostalgia, a behind-the-scenes look at some great Firefox features, and much more!

blog.thunderbird.net/2023/05/t…

#Podcast #Firefox #OpenSource #Dev #Email #Linux


We've lined up some awesome guests for the next 3 episodes of #ThunderCast:

Episode 2: Mike Conley of #Mozilla, a software mechanic who works on #Firefox desktop.

Episode 3: Mike Saunders, who does marketing and community outreach for @libreoffice.

Episode 4: Thib Martin @thibaultamartin, a GNOME Foundation Board member who also has a special talent for making people love @matrix.

Get subscribed, some great conversations are coming!

blog.thunderbird.net/2023/03/t…

#Matrix #Podcast #Thunderbird