Since it seems #Google has decided to uni-laterally force through their new anti-#adblock #DRM euphemistically named "Web environment integrity", I decided to add a little bit of code to my website that blanks out the page and displays a protest message with a link to the firefox download page when you visit it from a browser...
Maybe you are already a Firefox user, we are part of a minority on the web today, and think that this text is not for you. You’re probably right, but I’d like to make a few points here and ask for your help in taking the web back before it’s too late. And if you don’t use Firefox, you’ve been using some version of...
The Joy of Coding returns today with Episode 331! I'm going to be livehacking on Firefox, maybe reviewing some patches, but hopefully (finally!) working on those GTest tests for the new off-main-thread Windows Jump List backend we've built!...
Highlights We were able to disable some Spectre / Meltdown JIT mitigations! Nightly-only for now. These were mitigations we deployed years ago to protect users against various timing ...
May and June were good months for Firefox's Speedometer performance compared to Chrome. We're closing in while Chrome seems fairly static. In this visualization, lower in the graph is better. From https://arewefastyet.com/win10/benchmarks/overview?numDays=60.
Download Kbin Link for Firefox. Find it annoying to copy paste !memes@beehaw.org to look at a Lemmy community? This extension is for you. This extension looks for Lemmy style communities and replaces them to direct you to seeing that community on your kbin instance.
In the coming months Mozilla will launch support for an open ecosystem of extensions on Firefox for Android on addons.mozilla.org (AMO). We’ll announce a definite launch date in early September, but it’s safe to expect a roll-out before the year’s end.
Mozilla Firefox should gear up as an excellent option for power users and productivity enthusiasts with this feature....
Thought I’d never see the day when Firefox would match Chrome on Speedometer....
Specifically, when you open a reasonable number of tabs in any browser, the tabs look like this. However, as my friend has just imported all of his tabs and bookmarks over from Chrome to Firefox, he has an immense number of tabs open right now; in Chrome, he can see all the tabs at once with its UI. On Firefox, however, it keeps...
Is Firefox ESR more stable? Uses less memory? Have you tried it?
Could someone confirm? The test page is here (Safari and Chrome behave correctly):...
On Monday morning we (Mozilla) detected a very large crash spike affecting #Firefox users on Linux, specifically on an older version of a Debian-based distribution. It turned out to be an interesting bug involving the #Linux kernel and #Google JavaScript code so let me tell you about it. A thread 🧵
We’ve been working hard on making Firefox even faster and we’re extremely happy to report that this has resulted in an improvement in speed.
In a well-intentioned yet dangerous move to fight online fraud, France is on the verge of forcing browsers to create a dystopian technical capability....
Kind reminder that uBlock Origin, an efficient blocker built by gorhill (Raymond Hill), works the best on Firefox. Spread the word!
The data privacy company Onerep.com bills itself as a Virginia-based service for helping people remove their personal information from almost 200 people-search websites. However, an investigation into the history of onerep.com finds this company is operating out of Belarus and Cyprus, and that its founder has launched dozens of...
