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Streamline your creative workflow with Firefox's picture-in-picture, eyedropper tool, PDF editor, dark mode and more.

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In alignment with our commitment to an open and accessible internet, Mozilla will reinstate previously restricted listings in Russia. Our initial decision to temporarily restrict these listings was made while we considered the regulatory environment in Russia and the potential risk to our community and staff.

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My favourites:

Augmented Steam - Augmented Steam is a browser extension by IsThereAnyDeal that improves your experience on the Steam platform by providing helpful information and tons of customization options.

Bitwarden Password Manager - At home, at work, or on the go, Bitwarden easily secures all your passwords, passkeys, and sensitive information.

ClearURLs - Removes tracking elements from URLs

Dictionary Anywhere - View definitions easily as you browse the web. Double-click any word to view its definition in a small pop-up bubble. It also supports Spanish, German, French language alongside English. Enjoy Reading Uninterrupted!!!

Don't track me Google - Removes the annoying link-conversion at Google Search / maps / ...

Facebook Container - 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.

Google Container - Prevent Google from tracking you around the web. The Google Container extension helps you take control and isolate your web activity from Google.

LibRedirect - Redirects YouTube, Twitter, TikTok... requests to alternative privacy friendly frontends.

Sidebery - Vertical tabs tree and bookmarks in sidebar with advanced containers configuration, grouping and many other features.

Startpage - This search engine extension protects users from being tracked while allowing them to search the web in complete privacy. Startpage is a private search engine with no tracking, storing, or selling users’ search history.

Undo Close Tab - Allows you to restore the tab you just closed with a single click—plus it can offer a list of recently closed tabs within a convenient context menu.

uBlock Origin - Finally, an efficient wide-spectrum content blocker. Easy on CPU and memory.

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Firefox 130 will feature an on-device AI model that automatically generates alt-text for images, integrated into its built-in PDF editor.

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Last week we shared a number of updates with our community of users, and now we want to share them here: At Mozilla, we work hard to make Firefox the best

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Firefox update

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Over the past few months, we’ve been accelerating our ability to execute outstandingly, make faster decisions, and realize our multi-product ambitions. To help facilitate this, I’m excited to announce an organizational change within the product team. This change will enable us to better develop and scale products at different stages of development and maturity.

Today, we have multiple groups across various teams working on new ideas and emerging products: Fakespot, PXI, Mozilla Social, and the Innovation Ecosystems team, plus some newer emerging pods around new product design sprints and ideation. To simplify and accelerate this work, we are consolidating our emerging and seed product portfolios under a single umbrella, led by Adam Fishman, as our SVP of New Products, reporting directly to me.

By setting up Firefox as a standalone product organization, we will also be able to bring more focus to our continual efforts to improve the Firefox experience for everyone who uses it. Firefox is already a leader in foundational qualities like speed and privacy, and now we will be able to faster in developing solutions that bring more useful tools and more joyful experience to our users. Our recent announcement of new Firefox features is just the start, as we close in on Firefox’s 20th birthday in November.

I am really excited about these changes as they help us accelerate our path to a strong, multi-product future as we simultaneously expand on our investment in our flagship core product, Firefox.

Laura Chambers

CEO, Mozilla Corporation

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All I see is crypto bullshit scam posts

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Any way to restore pre 125 behaviour in newtab and show fixed number of shortcuts, i.e. show empty shortcuts too?

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As title stated, this happened about a week ago. Automatic update fails every time, and I can't watch any streaming service due to Widevine Content Decryption never downloading.

Things I have tried:

Refreshing and resetting.

Reinstalling, then reinstalling after deleting every file and registry key associated with Mozilla or Firefox.

Unchecking DRM content and rechecking.

Removed all add ons and extensions, fresh install as stated above. To the point the installer didn't know it was installed before.

Added Firewall exceptions for inbound and outbound. Weird it wasn't listed, but this didn't fix it regardless.

Set full access to firefox.exe on security for my user name.

Made sure firefox was running as admin, even on my admin account.

I am not using or have any programs that are known to cause issues with Firefox or Widevine updates installed.

No other antivirus programs or firewall programs, just default windows programs.

My admin account is the only account on this machine. And only one install of Firefox is present.

At a loss and frustrated to the point of wanting to move to Chrome after 2 decades of using Firefox. shivers at the thought

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I should not be a few keystrokes away from accidentally deleting all of today's entries with no confirmation if I'm sure, and no way to recover them, even if I close the browser in the same second. I don't even know which ones I hit.

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For instance, I watch a video on Shout Factory and then pause, close the tab and when I go back to the link it goes back to where I left off.

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Hello, SUMO community! We're setting the stage for something big: a revamp of our style guide designed to make our support content not just user-friendly, but user-delightful. To get a ...

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The nonprofit organization that supports the Firefox web browser said today it is winding down its new partnership with Onerep, an identity protection service recently bundled with Firefox that offers to remove users from hundreds of people-search sites. The move comes just days after a report by KrebsOnSecurity forced Onerep’s CEO to admit that he has founded dozens of people-search networks over the years.

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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 people-search services over the years.

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