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Good news! Next release of Fennec browser will support UnifiedPush. And IronFox plan to do it as well!

You'll be able to receive push notifications for many more apps if you're not using Play services, thanks to web apps.

#Android #UnifiedPush #FennecFDroid #IronFox #Firefox



I don't think getting consistency with SVG's filters is going to be a problem. None of the implementations for em and ex are consistent. Percent is broken in a couple too, including Inkscape.

@federicomena Let me know if you want the SVG test file.

#inkscape #svg #w3c #firefox #browser #standards #vector


So today it is Friday the 13th and apparently I should have stayed in my bed.

Just spent way too much time troubleshooting why the curl requests I got from Firefox by using "copy request to cUrl" did not work. Turns out it is a Firefox bug. For unknown reason it adds a caret "^" before each parameter separator in the query string in the curl request, breaking everything. 😞

bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…

#firefox #curl #development #bug #fridaythe13th


If I'm going to be totally honest: implementing anything in #curl is about fourteen times easier and more fun than the thread- and object-spaghetti that is #Firefox code... But don't tell anyone I said this.


After I wrote (most of) the DoH implementation for #Firefox it was not too hard to subsequently add support for DoH in #curl.




TFW I print to a PDF and the webpage is actually truncated at the left of the page.

(same if I print on dead tree)

Not sure if it is shitty CSS or a browser bug.

#firefox


🤯 🤯

  • I've ported UnifiedPush to Firefox, so it can receive background notifications using the service you want, specially useful for PWA (installable web application)
  • ntfy provides a PWA
  • So I can receive ntfy notifications with their PWA through any push service, for instance using Sunup :D

#UnifiedPush #PWA #Firefox #ntfy #PushNotifications




#deltachat Desktop can now run on #Firefox and Safari, entirely avoiding #Electron and Chromium! It's an intended side-effect of the "porting Desktop to #Tauri" effort led by @treefit which aims to provide a non-Electron packaged version of the Desktop. Here is a video and deep dive into what's working on regular browsers now, and what's missing for a full Web version: delta.chat/en/2025-05-22-brows…


While working on my voice-training app last night (instead of sleeping…), I ran into an infuriating issue: I had installed a service-worker to cache the app in case it is installed as a progressive web app, but had not yet added a good way to update it…

So it ended up kinda blocking an easy re-installation of the next version that did add some capabilities to that effect.

As a result I tried really hard to get rid of that service-worker and just did not find a way to do this on mobile #Firefox… In the end I was able to change the website directly on the server, do a hard reload on the client and use the updated client to delete the web-worker. But that’s of course only viable if you control the source for the web-app.

So, I guess I kinda found a way to store very hard to delete information in the browser? Sounds like very much not great for #Privacy…



@cire901 and one of the ways to that is not having yet another email client on Apple Store, which helps strengthen their apps' catalogue.

I trully believe the only way @thunderbird, #Firefox, thus Mozilla to thrive, is both strengthening and weakening Apple's ecosystem, and that means not being present there and help to strengthen where it thrives - and it's not that it thrives that much - on Android.


so they’re pushing for #Microsoft to pick up the bill from #Google or what?

When will #fsf or #kernel.org even just adopt and fork #firefox so we can have a truly open source and maintained browser for all?

We just don’t need or should want a #Mozilla *Corp* anymore imho…


Which of these organizations do you have a positive opinion of?

#poll #FLOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #PublicGoods #Mozilla #Firefox

  • Mozilla (22%, 63 votes)
  • Open Source Initiative (31%, 88 votes)
  • Software Freedom Conservancy (50%, 143 votes)
  • Free Software Foundation Europe (73%, 208 votes)
282 voters. Poll end: 2 months ago


Seems it's time. Are there any #chromium or #chrome derivatives which will still support #ublock origin, or do I really need to start migrating to #firefox?


Cool, Fennec is interested in #UnifiedPush support

[1]We will probably have it on Fennec before it gets upstream (if it does 🤞).

That means UnifiedPush will be available for "installable web applications". So we'll have push notifications with some new apps !

[1] gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild/-…

#FennecBrowser #Firefox #PWA #UnifiedPush


@OctaviaConAmore It's not too clear whether donations to the new MZLA entity are earmarked exclusively for #Thunderbird development, or can be harvested by the parent organization to fund other projects.

I'd want to know because recently I've been donating to Thunderbird and I wouldn't like my donations to be redirected to #Firefox, given its current leadership and direction.


#Firefox is anything but #private or #secure for that matter.. (Unless you apply a custom user.JS)


As promised, here is an interview with @ryanleesipes from #Thunderbird, on the whole #Mozilla and #Firefox terms of use situation.

We talk about why this had to happen, how Thunderbird will handle their own Terms of Use, what's happening at Mozilla, and what's changing.

youtube.com/watch?v=ctg5QzSt5t…



So, bottom line. The colors settings in #firefox is deceiving and useless to the modern user. Or is it really useless? I don't think so. If you use it correctly, it allows you to unleash the browser's powerful color contrast features that forces a specified foreground and background color on all web content.


Anyway, since two days ago, #firefox had the same dialog that has persisted in the browser for almost 30 years! What does it do? Nothing much. That is because the web today uses a technology called cascading style sheets. Websites are thoroughly themed through and through (or "skinned" if you prefer). Using a default foreground or background is almost unheard of...


Yesterday I had the satisfaction of tearing out a 30 year old Netscape-era feature from #firefox and introducing something that should be more useful in the modern #web. Hang tight and I will give you a visual history...

Behold Netscape 4 from 1997 looking right back at you:


There will be a lot of necessary debate over Mozilla’s original mistake and this hopeful change. This is a good move, and as a long-term user of Firefox I find it very welcome.

Organizations are made of people and make mistakes.

Can you imagine Google or Apple so quickly changing their stances like this in response to user input? Or even at all?

Brave has many integrations with third party vendors. How quickly would they sever financial ties in a similar situation?

DuckDuckGo has a lot of gaps in their privacy models.

We need more open browsers developed by communities for the public good, not unlike Firefox.

techcrunch.com/2025/03/03/mozi…

#firefox #browser




#Mozilla isn’t addressing the number one question: why did they remove this section from their #firefox terms of services?

> * Does Firefox sell your personal data?

> Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise.

github.com/mozilla/bedrock/com…