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Mozilla Fakespot - An AI Deepfake Detector

www.fakespot.com Fakespot - Love Everything You Buy

Fakespot spots, analyzes and identifies fake reviews and counterfeits - helping you out when buying stuff online.

Fakespot - Love Everything You Buy

Warning! This may be collecting data for advertising. From the Privacy Policy:

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How can I use local LLM in the firefox AI chatbot

Today I saw the AI chatbot in the sidebar for the first time (I remember turning the setting of in the Labs settings, but they turned it on IG). Looking the options, it supports a number of models, but all of them seems to be on a remote servers. Is there any way to use an LLM run on my own machine?

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Mozilla Settles Case Over Its Refusal to Hire Labor Activist

www.bloomberg.com Mozilla Settles Case Over Its Refusal to Hire Apple Activist

Mozilla Corp. has agreed to settle allegations it refused to hire a former Apple Inc. software engineer because of her prior labor activism.

Mozilla Settles Case Over Its Refusal to Hire Apple Activist

I edited the title to switch Apple with Labor because that's the real gist of the news item, not that they had worked and organised at Apple, although that's no small part.

I'm not sure if this paywalled so here is a archive.today link in case it is.

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How to create bookmarks using javascript ?

I tried creating a single bookmark with search word But I can't get this to work. How can I bypass security to make it work ? Do I really have to enable debug mode ? Is it possible to switch debug mode without having to restart the browser (and discard all tabs)

Here is the code I tried

``` javascript:(async()=>{let t="S",n="GPT Classic",u="https://chatgpt.com/g/g-YyyyMT9XH-chatgpt-classic/?q=%25s",k="cc",g=(await PlacesUtils.bookmarks.search({parentGuid:PlacesUtils.bookmarks.toolbarGuid,title:t}))[0]?.guid||(await PlacesUtils.bookmarks.insert({parentGuid:PlacesUtils.bookmarks.toolbarGuid,title:t,type:PlacesUtils.bookmarks.TYPE_FOLDER})).guid;await PlacesUtils.bookmarks.insert({parentGuid:g,title:n,url:u}),await PlacesUtils.keywords.insert({keyword:k,url:u}),alert(Bookmark "${n}" added to folder "${t}" with keyword "${k}"!)})();

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Join Mozilla in testing the new Firefox address bar!

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!

The top 5 contributors will each receive a $50 voucher to shop at Mozilla’s swag stores as a thank-you for your efforts.

Have any questions about this campaign? Join us on Matrix or comment down below!

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github.com GitHub - celenityy/Phoenix: Phoenix is a suite of configurations & advanced modifications for Mozilla Firefox, designed to put the user first - with a focus on privacy, security, freedom, & usability.

Phoenix is a suite of configurations & advanced modifications for Mozilla Firefox, designed to put the user first - with a focus on privacy, security, freedom, & usability. - GitHub - cele...

GitHub - celenityy/Phoenix: Phoenix is a suite of configurations & advanced modifications for Mozilla Firefox, designed to put the user first - with a focus on privacy, security, freedom, & usability.

Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated to the project.

Aside from the fact that it's relatively new and unknown, does this hold a candle to other Firefox-based projects? They seem to be competent by their own comparison tables.

Has anyone got any first-hand experience?

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Mozilla chairman's salary vs Firefox market share (as of 2023)

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:

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|

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How to remove Firefox Color theme?

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.

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Help: Redirecting to sh.reddit.com submit doesn't work with Redirector addon

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" ] } ] }

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Firefox system theme active tab difficult to distinguish

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I mean, come on.

other than changing theme or userChrome any other options?

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What are your thoughts on Zen Browser becoming a lot more popular than Floorp?

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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Adding Custom Search Engine - Self Hosted

Recently I started using my own self hosted search engine - LibreX...

When I went to add it as the default search engine for Firefox on the desktop - I found that the option to add custom search engines gone (replaced with a 'smarter' way??)

Here is the work around I found..

Go to the about:config page

Paste browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh into the search area and set the value to True

Now when you go to the Settings page, you should see an Add button to add a custom search engine (like you used too...)

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My red heart emoji (❤️) looks weird in #Firefox

My red heart emoji (❤️) looks weird in #Firefox

This has been the case for quite a while now and I cannot for the life of my figure out why that is. I never explicitly made it this way. It's only in Firefox and a machine with pretty much the exact same #NixOS config does not exhibit this issue.

I tried clearing unused fonts out of \~/.local/share/fonts/ (no emoji fonts remain) and updated the fc-cache but it didn't help. (Obviously I restarted Firefox.)

Any ideas?

@firefox #Linux #freedesktop

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Celebrating 20 years of Firefox – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 171

blog.nightly.mozilla.org Celebrating 20 years of Firefox – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 171 – Firefox Nightly News

Highlights Firefox is turning 20 years old! Here's a sneak peek of what’s to come for the browser. We completed work on the new messaging surface for the AppMenu ...

Edit:

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

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How use av1 video with Firefox ??

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22627659

> Hi, > > I have a couples of AV1 videos that I would like to display on a html page. > > I've tried > > html > <video controls preload="none"> > <source src="FooBar.mp4"> > </video> > > > but it trow back \ > ! > > I've tried first with MKV container as it's listed on the wikipedia page. > > but this is not listed on the mozilla page https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Media/Formats/Video_codecs 🤔 > > Confusing.. as I found also this in the firefox release note: > > Firefox 97 and later versions support AV1 video in the MKV container. > > So WTF !? > > I've tried also > html > <video controls preload="none"> > <source src="FooBar.mp4" type="video/webm; codecs='av01.0.08M.08'"> > </video> > > but that change nothing... > > Any ideas ? > > Thanks.

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Steam Achievement Guide extension for Firefox

addons.mozilla.org Steam Achievement Guide – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download Steam Achievement Guide for Firefox. This extension will show you the guide for the achievements of the game you are looking at in the Steam store.

Steam Achievement Guide – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/26115585

> cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/26115554 > > > I am not the developer of this extension > > > > This extension will have an overview of missable achievements, HLTB, and other info for those that achievement hunt would find helpful. > > > > > > ! > > > >

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Exploring the Firefox Community on r/firefox

blog.mozilla.org Exploring the Firefox Community on r/firefox | The Mozilla Blog

Open source thrives because of its people. Firefox, like so many successful open-source projects, is powered by passionate contributors and dedicated suppo

Exploring the Firefox Community on r/firefox | The Mozilla Blog

Archive.

!~This photo was included in the blog post.~

Mozilla have zero self awareness.

Here is a quote:

> 2024: > - 2024 is the best year for Firefox > - Opportunity to contribute to Multi-Account Containers extension

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Why can't I middle click on these links ?

URL is https://www.ebay.com/str/theartofserver

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Is there an addon to defeat this right-click disable method ?

thanks !

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Throwback: Mozilla invests $100m looking for a way creators can make money and still "move away from advertising and data mining"

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Firefox 135 Published With Safeguards To Prevent Overwhelming The Back History
  • @MangoPenguin @sheridan
    Is you ever have the misfortune to use any of Microsoft's Web development stuff you will find that this is how they build websites, it's really horrible 🤮

  • [READ FULL POST] Mozilla Fakespot - An AI Deepfake Detector
  • There is the Brave chromium browser, but it lacks Mozilla’s previous track record. This is enshitification at its finest.

    You could host Mozilla’s sync software yourself and integrate it with LibreWolf.

    From an online post:

    "DisableFirefoxAccounts": false, in the policies.json

    lockPref("identity.sync.tokenserver.uri", "https://token.services.mozilla.com/1.0/sync/1.5"); in the librewolf.overrides.cfg

    You need the 2nd one to enable LibreWolf to look for the sync-server. Otherwise every sync query ends nowhere.

    Someone else online in the same thread said:

    Seems it changed

    defaultPref("identity.fxaccounts.enabled", true); // sync and firefox account

    in the /usr/lib/librewolf/librewolf.overrides.cfg

    I haven’t done this myself, so I can’t say for sure that this process works. But hopefully my findings are helpful.

    On another note, I personally avoid chromium based browsers because the major players are all involved in its development and have incentives that do not favor the user’s best interests. Firefox, with all of Mozilla’s flaws, is still the best option for supporting the open web. But instead of being the force for good it was, it became the least evil.

  • [READ FULL POST] Mozilla Fakespot - An AI Deepfake Detector
  • Mozilla FakeSpot sells your private data (profile, location, browsing and search history) to advertising companies.

    https://lemm.ee/comment/11216210

    And when Mozilla released the Orbit AI assistant, they linked to FakeSpot for some reason...


    Edit 2

    The official Deepfake Detector privacy policy is missing from the FakeSpot website. This is the one Mozilla links from their extension policy.


    Edit

    Firefox may be bad in many ways, but the biggest alternatives are generally worse. There are some reasonably good forks like Zen and LibreWolf, but if you have the wherewithal to patch Firefox's user.js on a desktop, you'll probably be better off with a patched Firefox.

    https://lemmy.world/post/4064988

    https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-09-24-harden-firefox-with-arkenfox.html

  • How to search text on bookmarked pages ?
  • It sounds like you want more of a read-it-later tool like wallabag that saves the link and parses + saves the page content. Wallabag in particular is open source, self-hostable, has browser plugins and phone apps, and allows for full-text search.

    You could maybe use an AI tool for this, but it would be a massive waste of resources (even with deepseek) and would only approximate a search engine.

  • What does firefox.settings.services.mozilla.com domain do?
  • It's used to check for website breaches. From How to stop Firefox from making automatic connections:

    Firefox Monitor warns you if your online accounts were involved in a known data breach. For more information, see Firefox Password Manager - Alerts for breached websites.

    To get the latest login breach information and more, Firefox connects to firefox.settings.services.mozilla.com

    To disable, see here.

  • Turn off Firefox forcing websites to dark mode
  • I have astigmatism too and for me it looks just as bad when inverted, a blurry mess of black on white.

    To me, what makes one a better choice vs the other has more to do with my environmental lighting.

    • If I'm on a place with a lot of light, the screen being black makes it have reflections so I prefer black on white in those cases.
    • If I'm in a dark place, the bright screen makes the screen itself the primary source of light which is not good for my eyesight, it can make my eyes feel like burning/tired after a while.
  • Turn off Firefox forcing websites to dark mode
  • Just looks like this for me

    Just need a well lit room for light mode and at least the white of the background bleeds into black text making it grey rather than the blurry mess of white on black.

  • This is not a good look for firefox
  • @UltraGiGaGigantic Sorry about that, not quite what is expected to happen. I understand that it has been looked into and has now been resolved.

    #fxhelp

  • This is not a good look for firefox
  • Was trying to reference this

    Maybe I should have added a paragraph somewhere in there. I was typing fast because I only get so much time on my break at work.