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Next time you don't want to update your operating system to do the same things on the Internet you did 5 years ago, #Firefox is your friend.

@firefox

\#ilovefs Thankyou for making my data secure, my life easier, my days colourful, my rabbit holes deeper,

@nextcloud @thunderbird \#paperlessngx \#homeassistant \#mupibox @jellyfin @moodeaudio @ff3 @firefox @Kodi @dietpi @signalapp \#scratch #python #opnsense #tailscale #hibiscus #solaranzeige

\#Firefox we need to talk, or #DevsOfMastodon what are your issues with Firefox? I really like Firefox(#GUX, #GUI, workflows etc), and I've always agreed that we need an independent #browser alternative to #Chromium, but I didnt think it was this bad: https://youtu.be/mmjUlFIaNLE?t=136 Sure take that video with a grain of salt, but I think he has a point. @[email protected] @[email protected] I really hope @firefoxnightly can finally start catching up!

\#Development #FediDevs #OpenSource #Gecko #LibreWolf #Vivaldi

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Supposedly that is the path to my Firefox profile directory. But when I click "Open Directory", nothing happens.

When I access that file path, the directory (k45qdkms.default-release) does not exist.

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\#GlobalSwitchDay

✅ EASY STEPS

Browser → @firefox @torproject (10 minutes for FF, then learn about Tor)

Google → @duckduckgo @StartpageSearch (1 minute and you're free)

WhatsApp → @signalapp (Start with family, then scale)

Gmail → @protonprivacy @Tutanota @posteo\_en (Start with the free plan, a full switch could take months, planning and a paid account, but it's worth)

Maps → @openstreetmap (Maps work, but you have hundreds of less metadata for itineraries and shops-bars)

X → @Mastodon (I supposed you already know that)

Don't procrastinate, reown your data and privacy.

I use Fennec F-Droid (This does apply to normal ff mobile). When I hold the space key of the onscreen keyboard to control the cursor in a website's input field it doesn't move character by character but word by word. Is there a flag in about:config that changes it to go character by character instead? Their implementation is buggy and painful for me and the sole reason for why I feel forced to use Brave 😭 pls help

Crossposted from a community manager's post: https://reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1hwd6u7/join_mozilla_to_test_the_new_firefox_address_bar/

Hi r/firefox 👋,

The address bar is one of the most prominent areas in any browser, and Firefox is no exception. Understanding its importance, the Firefox team has been working on a set of complementary features designed to improve discoverability and security of the Firefox address bar.

With this set of features landing in Firefox Beta 135, we need your expertise to help us test these enhancements by participating in this campaign, which will be live on January 9th!

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From https://reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1hokr0c/mozilla_chair_pay_vs_firefox_market_share_2023/m4aca4j/:

Total 2022 pay: $6,903,089 Total 2023 pay: $6,260,072 - a $643,017 decrease Base chair pay: $600,000 2023 chair bonuses and other incentives: $5,622,600

Sources:

• 2023 finances (direct PDF link)
• Previous finances
• Browser market share

For comparison, here are other executive salaries ($0 bonuses for each)

|Executive name|Title|Total Pay (2023)| |:-|:-|:-| |MARK SURMAN|PRESIDENT & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR|715,143| |J. BOB ALOTTA|SVP, GLOBAL PROGRAMS|508,138| |ANGELA PLOHMAN|COO, SECRETARY & TREASURER|452,234| |ASHLEY BOYD|SVP, GLOBAL ADVOCACY|427,701| |ZHILUN PANG|DIRECTOR OF FINANCE|273,069| |DAVID WALKER|SENIOR COUNSEL|268,565| |LAINIE DECOURSY|DIRECTOR, ORG EFFECTIVENESS|267,028| |JUAN BARANI|SENIOR DIRECTOR, GIFT PLANNING|262,879| |STEPHANIE WRIGHT|SR PROGRAM MANAGER, MOZFEST|236,785|

Solution: I just needed to disable Firefox Color in about:addons.

I set a theme with Firefox Color, I tried changing the theme in settings to light or dark but neither work. I'm wondering if there are other ways to do so in Firefox that I could try. I'm on zen browser which is why it may not have worked.

Solved: It turns out I needed to add https:// to the redirect URL. I now edited the redirect to be this:

{ "createdBy": "Redirector v3.5.3", "createdAt": "2024-12-25T00:25:04.487Z", "redirects": [ { "description": "sh.reddit.com submission page", "exampleUrl": "https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/submit?selftext=true", "exampleResult": "https://sh.reddit.com/r/firefox/submit?selftext=true", "error": null, "includePattern": "https://.?reddit.com/((r|u|user)/.?/submit.*)", "excludePattern": "", "patternDesc": "", "redirectUrl": "https://sh.reddit.com/$1", "patternType": "R", "processMatches": "noProcessing", "disabled": false, "grouped": false, "appliesTo": [ "main_frame" ] }, ] }

Using the Redirector addon, I wrote a redirect from a Reddit submit page to the new new Reddit submit page but it doesn't work when I go to https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/ and click "submit text", it just takes me to https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/submit?selftext=true despite the link working in the example box.

Reproduction: Install the addon, save the following as a json file, click on addon icons and select "edit redirects", then click import to select the json file.

{ "createdBy": "Redirector v3.5.3", "createdAt": "2024-12-22T15:43:42.356Z", "redirects": [ { "description": "sh.reddit.com submission page", "exampleUrl": "https://old.reddit.com/r/tds_roblox/submit", "exampleResult": "sh.reddit.com/r/tds_roblox/submit", "error": null, "includePattern": "[a-z]+?:\\/\\/.+?reddit.com\\/((r|u|user)\\/.+?\\/submit.?$)", "excludePattern": "", "patternDesc": "", "redirectUrl": "sh.reddit.com/$1", "patternType": "R", "processMatches": "noProcessing", "disabled": false, "grouped": false, "appliesTo": [ "main_frame" ] }, { "description": "Old Reddit", "exampleUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit", "exampleResult": "https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit", "error": null, "includePattern": "[a-z]+?:\\/\\/.?\\.reddit\\.com\\/(((r|u|user)\\/.)|$)", "excludePattern": "[a-z]+?:\\/\\/.+?reddit.com\\/((r|u|user)\\/.+?\\/submit.?$)", "patternDesc": "", "redirectUrl": "https://old.reddit.com/$1", "patternType": "R", "processMatches": "noProcessing", "disabled": false, "grouped": false, "appliesTo": [ "main_frame" ] } ] }

@w3c @w3c.social @firefox Can you guys get together and make this happen please, before we literally can’t believe anything we see anymore?

\<img generative=“true” … /\> \<video generative=“true” … /\>

Preferences \> Media \> [x] Block Generative AI media

And maybe a bad actors list to boot… 😀

Right now is the best period of time yet for Firefox-based browser, especially when most alternative browsers are Chrome-based.

While there are a bunch of forks like Librewolf and Palemoon, they provide features mainly for power users like hardened privacy and tweaked user-prefs. A year ago the only fork I knew of, based on recent stable versions of Firefox and added productivity features on top was Floorp. I was very surprised at the hype and sudden popularity of Zen Browser in the past few months and have been curious why it grew so much faster than Floorp which has been around for much longer, look at the Github star graph: https://star-history.com/#zen-browser/desktop&Date. Zen Browser currently has 19.3K stars while Floorp has 6.1K.

Reasons I can think of are the following: heavy promotion of the browser by the devs and community on places like Reddit along with emphasizing its 'zen' philosophy, really fast development (it now has way more features than Floorp), and the Zen mods store, where you can install CSS mods.

What are your thoughts and reasons for Zen Browser becoming so popular so fast? (while its not mainstream, it did grow fast in among Firefox and power users)

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Seems like three of these were posted on the same day for some reason:

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I can't seem to figure this out. I've been trying out different news aggregator sites to use as a home page. Right now I'm using skimfeed. I like it, but the links all have skimfeed baggage tacked on. Like this: https://skimfeed.com/r.php?q=1148&l=15649995&u=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F3006%2F

Well, the source looks like this:

``` <span class='boxtitles'><h2><a class='siteurls ts33' href='/news/xkcd.html'>XKCD</a> <a class='siteurls atat' href='http://xkcd.com' rel='nofollow' target='_blank'>+</a></h2></span>

<ul><li class='nl1 bd33'><a href='r.php?q=1148&l=15649995&u=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F3006%2F' target='_blank' rel='nofollow' title='Demons'>Demons</a> </li><li class='nl2 bd75'><a href='r.php?q=1148&l=15642742&u=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F3005%2F' target='_blank' rel='nofollow' </li></ul></div> ```

Which, to be honest, is Greek to me. I'd like to rewrite the links so that they just look like https://xkcd.com/3006/ I don't really care what the link looks like, per se, the encoded bits. I just don't like the extra skimfeed stuff. Aesthetically.

Is there an extension or something that will help me with this? The couple I've looked at are either too complicated for my caveman brain, or site specific (i.e., remove google tracking). If I'm just being a little too retentive, feel free to let me know that too.

It's no secret that Google has a very large influence. They have influenced web pages into being highly optimized for high search engine rankings, and have pushed AMP: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/googles-amp-canonical-web-and-importance-web-standards-0. However I haven't found any concrete examples of Google pushing web standards that have been adopted and require browser support. I've read comments here and there like this one, that the Shadow DOM was created and pushed by Google, perhaps to make it harder to block ads, but didn't find any sources on that.

Vim's modal editing system is very efficient for manipulating text with little keystrokes. Let's say I had a list of URLs like the ones below, representing tabs. I could have the list as a text file, navigate them with arrow keys to move a text cursor, press enter or another key to focus on the tab under the cursor, d to cut a link (like cutting a file in a file explorer, or like how d deletes or cuts text in Vim), and p to put it in another position where the cursor is. I could select multiple lines to do d or p, or press y to yank (copy) them to my clipboard.

startpage.com reddit.com/r/firefox lemmy.ml/c/firefox

Oil.nvim seems to be a good point of reference for this. Its a Neovim plugin that acts as a file explorer, where all the files are text listed in a vim buffer, and you can do d y or p. I did a bunch of searches to see if Vimium Tridactyl or Surfing Keys can do this and nothing showed up. If they can, then an explanation would be helpful.

Source.

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I had it on for a few days but it's inconvenient. I don't pause videos before switching tabs if they're not playing sounds, this feature would turn pip on for them. I wonder if anyone has it on and likes it.

It is apparently possible to use Firefox containers to bypass or enable a VPN on a per-site basis. I discovered this yesterday and it makes using a VPN nowadays much easier, wish I'd heard of it ages ago. Using a SOCKS proxy this way also reduces captchas.

To setup:

1. Install Firefox Multi-Account Containers.
2. Install Container Proxy.
3. Add VPN config under Extensions (puzzle icon in toolbar) > Container proxy > Proxies (for example, Mullvad SOCKS5 proxy).
4. Make sure "Proxy DNS requests" is checked and the Uncloak canonical names setting in uBlock Origin is disabled to prevent DNS leaks.
5. Assign VPN to default and private browsing container.
6. Create a new container named e.g. "Unsecured" with the Multi-Account Container add-on and assign it a direct connection (default).
7. In VPN client, configure Firefox to use split tunneling. Example split tunneling with the Mullvad app.
8. Test default and unsecured containers against VPN website.

The Container Proxy add-on is only needed to configure the unnamed default and private browsing containers. If you want to do the inverse (create a VPN container and leave the default unprotected), you can do that solely with Multi-Account Containers under Extensions (puzzle icon in toolbar) > Multi-Account Containers > Manage Containers > Container > Advanced proxy settings.

EDIT: Mullvad Browser Extension now supports this without containers. Worth trying that instead if you're using Mullvad:

https://mullvad.net/en/download/browser/extension