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

ThunderCast Episode #2: With Special Mozilla Guest Mike Conley

Mozilla's Mike Conley joins us to discuss the nostalgia of the early internet, his first task for Thunderbird, and some great Firefox features

^{Jason Evangelho (The Thunderbird Blog)}

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

The Official Thunderbird Podcast Is Here!

Welcome to the debut episode of the ThunderCast, an inside look at the making of Thunderbird, with community conversations about open source.

^{Jason Evangelho (The Thunderbird Blog)}

If you love the #Firefox Translations add-on as much as we do and find yourself thinking "this should REALLY come to Thunderbird," then this bug is worth keeping an eye on:

bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…

In fact, I learnt a lot about how #Thunderbird and @mozilla are actually related, and I always thought it's a hardwired #Mozilla product just like #Firefox.

I'm really looking forward to the improvements in Supernova and also future updates to #K9Mail. I used to be a #GMail user but ran into performance problems on older devices and under bad networking conditions. Not a problem for good old #IMAP! :)

#Chromium landed support for fractional scaling on #Wayland a couple of days ago. It was reverted again today. Reason for revert: This change completely broke Chromium Ozone/Wayland on compositors that support fractional-scale-v1.

Nobody had ever tested it and the authors missed the whole actual scaling part with wp_viewporter.

Anyhow, here's a working initial patch for #Firefox:
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…

I've just run into another CPU bug affecting #Firefox so this is a good occasion to show you how one looks like and how I identify it. CPU bugs have always been a fact of life but they've become more common as CPUs have become more complex.

But let's begin from the start, the bug in question is a crash: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.… 🧵 1/5

#PocketToots is a new #Firefox extension that syncs your #Mastodon bookmarks to Pocket, AND adds a link in Pocket to the original toot.

Very cool! addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…

PocketToots – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download PocketToots for Firefox. Saves your Mastodon bookmarks to Pocket and adds a link back to the Mastodon post in Pocket.

^{addons.mozilla.org}

Wow, so the other day I shared what #Microsoft does when you search to download #Firefox from #Edge* but they go one step further for #Chrome.

(I have zero love for either surveillance capitalist but, my goodness, what absolute asshattery. Having spent more time than I’d like testing in #Windows these past two days, I constantly feel like some malevolent entity is trying to exploit me at every turn. Because one is. This OS is a case study in hostile #design.)

* mastodon.ar.al/@aral/109704475…

#web

From the Firefox 109.0 changelog:

„The native HTML date picker for date and datetime inputs can now be used with a keyboard alone[…]“

Nice! Always great to see native elements being improved.

The full changelog can be found here: mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/109.…

#firefox #mozilla #release #changelog #date #picker #accessibility #keyboard

Firefox 109.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes

^Mozilla

Here's a very early implementation of #Firefox Sync running in Thunderbird Daily!

The bones are there and the foundation is solid.

Though it may be called something else by the time we launch it in Thunderbird 115 (such as Thunderbird Sync or #Mozilla Sync), it's a feature we're THRILLED about putting in your hands.

I’m not going to use bloody bugzilla, so if anyone from Mozilla sees this, your enterprise flow for adding certificate authorities (CAs) to Firefox on Linux fails on Fedora Silverblue.

Since Fedora Silverblue is seen as the possible future of Fedora/Red Hat, you folks might want to talk to the Fedora folks about it and come up with a solution.

github.com/fedora-silverblue/i…

#mozilla #firefox #fedora #fedoraSilverblue #bug #tls #ssl #redHat #linux #enterprise #certificates

Cannot add certificate authorities to Firefox using enterprise policy · Issue #397 · fedora-silverblue/issue-tracker

In Firefox version 64+, you can add your custom certificate authorities to Firefox using an enterprise policy file and by copying your certificates to /usr/lib/mozilla/certificates or /usr64/lib/mo...

^GitHub

Wonderful holidays and a happy new year!
🎄🍭🎅🎁☃️ 🍾🥂🎆

I wish you all the best for the next year #Thunderbird 🐦. And now have a nice time with your friends the #Firefox 🦊 and the #Mozilla 🦖😀

@mozilla

To all #blind #ScreenReader users on various platforms who use #Firefox: The project to speed up web page and screen reader interaction, code-named Cache-The-World, is now at a phase where in Nightly 109, it has been enabled for all users. So if you spot anything that is unusual or not working as before, please let the #accessibility team know. Next step is an experiment for 50% roll-out on Windows in the 111 beta.

The page where you can track the progress is here: wiki.mozilla.org/Accessibility…

My blog post describing how we cut #Firefox out-of-memory crashes by more than 70% with one weird trick is out: hacks.mozilla.org/2022/11/impr…

The title is not click-bait, I swear, it *is* one weird trick.

Improving Firefox stability with this one weird trick - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog

Poorly behaving web pages and apps are no longer capable of crashing the browser by exhausting memory, thanks to a simple trick.

^{Gabriele Svelto (Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog)}

Holy cow, that's the most adorable thing out of @mozilla since the original, non-über-minimalist #firefox logo!

(Give us back our cute foxy! )

P.S., I also miss the quasi-religious text on the original about:Mozilla screen. ^__^

--Mozilla fan since Mozilla M13!

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Thunderbird’s “Supernova” Release Promises Revamped Calendar UI, Firefox Sync Support

(Thanks @9to5linux!)

#Thunderbird #Email #Firefox #Calendar

9to5linux.com/thunderbirds-sup…

Back to #Firefox I go! Multi-Account Containers are a killer #privacy feature that only Firefox (and maybe derivatives) has access to.

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…

There's some helper add-ons to further silo #Facebook, #Twitter, and #Google. (That said, I use my own containers for Google to split my accounts)

Facebook: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…

Twitter: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…

Google: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…

Facebook Container – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download Facebook Container for Firefox. Prevent Facebook from tracking you around the web. The Facebook Container extension for Firefox helps you take control and isolate your web activity from Facebook.

^{addons.mozilla.org}

November 9, 2004 (exactly 18 years ago), Mozilla Foundation releases the highly anticipated Mozilla Firefox 1.0 web browser, blog.mozilla.org/press/2004/11….

:'-)

#firefox

Mozilla Foundation releases the highly anticipated Mozilla Firefox 1.0 web browser – Mozilla Press Center

Open Source Software Driving Innovations in Web Experience MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - November 9, 2004 - The Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving choice and promoting innovation on ...

^{Mozilla Press Center}

I'm working on a less formal blog post explaining how #Firefox Sync will work in #Thunderbird Supernova (and why it's going to rock).

But in the meantime, here's an overview from our Thunderbird UX discussion group:

thunderbird.topicbox.com/group…

~Jason

A new stable update is available to all #ManjaroARM users today.
It brings in updates to a lot of #qt libraries, new #firefox , new #thunderbird and other goodies!

forum.manjaro.org/t/arm-stable…

[ARM Stable Update] 2022-09-28 - KDE Frameworks 5.98, Firefox 105, QT5, QT6, ButterManager 2.5.0 and Kernels

Hello ARM community. Slowly getting ready for next release. So here’s some updates for a lot of things! Some highlights: Most of our kernels got updated Thunderbird updated to 102.2.2 KDE Frameworks updated to 5.98.

^{Manjaro Linux Forum}

The default resolution is too dense on the Pinebook Pro, so I had to:

gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['scale-monitor-framebuffer']"

And then set it to 150% in the display settings.

If you do that and use Firefox, it will appear blurry so edit the firefox.desktop file (/usr/share/applications/org.mozilla.firefox.desktop) and change the exec line to:

Exec=env MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 firefox %u

#postmarketOS #alpine #fractionalScaling #firefox #wayland

Today in User Space
🍂We start a new season!
🍪De-AMP and De-Cookie with #firefox & #brave
💾Find out where OOMD put our apps
🎧Listen to the @postmarketOS Podcast
🔊Keep it simple with @ebassi’s Amberol
🔎And prep the #ubuntu history

#linux #opensource
linuxuserspace.show/301

Episode 3:01: Total Community Protection

Linux User Space A podcast focused on connecting user space and community

^{Linux User Space}