Firefox

Firefox users are reporting an 'artificial' load time on YouTube videos. YouTube says it's part of a plan to make people who use adblockers "experience suboptimal viewing, regardless of the browser they are using."

Edit: Replies to this thread indicate this is not fully correct as it exists on all browsers; and is likely an ad thing.

I'm trying to move a bit to Firefox in advance for the upcoming changes to Chromium's Manifest v3 changes next june. But one of the major problems I have is that bing looks awful on Firefox for Android in comparison to bing on Microsoft Edge for Android. It seems to be just the mobile version for smart phones, stretched out to a tablet. Is there any way that I can make it look a bit nicer?

It has been ongoing for me for almost two weeks. At first I thought it could be my phone, but I got a new phone last week and it has been happening in the new one too. One crashes was system wide and caused the phone to reboot.

I suspected it could be a custom extension that I use (Control Panel for Twitter) but happens even while the extension is disabled.

Google slows down Firefox users when watching YouTube....

I think is time to #switch back to @firefox

https://www.reddit.com/r/brave/comments/17z4m03/its_over_boys/

#brave #youtube #chrome #ads #adblock #blockadblock #chromium

I have all Firefox Data Collection and Use options disabled.

Anyone know what all of these services are doing? I assume they're for auto updates, account sync, and maybe pushing Pocket ads and/or sponsored pins?

Likely, I'll block most, but curious if anyone knew.

I read a lot of articles. In the past, I've used Pocket to access articles on all my devices.

I prefer to read on my e-ink tablet, where scrolling is a pain. So I need a read-it-later app that supports page-turning, the same way an e-book does.

Pocket used to have this feature, but they killed it with their most recent update.

Wallabag has this feature, but I find the Wallabag fonts ugly and unreadable.

Omnivore does not appear to have this feature.

Does anyone use a read-it-later app that supports page-turning?

Thank you!

Maybe in the first month of new-year ?

I'm sure its common knowledge by now that whatever you write in text boxes on customer support chats can be seen by whoever is on the other side, without or before hitting send. Don't you think that's a breach of privacy?! I imagine it isn't too difficult to implement a fix for it: The browser (like Firefox) could choose not to upload the user input to wherever the website links to, without user input (like click a send button).

The Firefox extension API explicitly requires user actions before an extension can do things like open popup windows.

So I just noticed "Firefox Suggest" appear in my search result using Firefox nightly. I couldn't find which settings to remove it until I turned on debug mode and discovered it in "Secret Settings". hmm. Why is it secret?

Today, when I navigated to amazon.com on Firefox for Android, I received a jarring message that I could "try" a new service, Fakespot, on the app.

Fakespot is littered with privacy issues.

Among other things, FakeSpot/Mozilla was forced to admit:
"We sell and share your personal information"

Fakespot's privacy policy allows them to store and/or sell:

• Your email address
• Your IP address
• "Protected chacteristics"
  ie gender, sexuality, race...
• Data scraped from across the web
• Account IDs
• Things you bought
  (This is sold to advertisers)
• Things you considered buying
  (This is sold to advertisers)
• Your precise location
  (This is sold to advertisers)
• Inferences about you
  (This is sold to advertisers)

Right before Mozilla acquired them, Fakespot updated their privacy policy to allow transfer of private data to any company that acquired them. (Previous Privacy Policy here. Search "merge" in both.)

People donate to Mozilla because they believe in the company's stated goals. Why were the donations put into an acquisition of a company with this kind of privacy policy? And why has Mozilla focused on bundling it as bloat into their browser? Now that Brave is in hot water for becoming bloated, Mozilla should buck the trend, not follow it.

Today, when I navigated to amazon.com on Firefox for Android, I received a jarring message that I could "try" a new service, Fakespot, on the app.

What's Fakespot? A "review-checking, scammer-spotting service for Firefox."

Among other things, FakeSpot/Mozilla was forced to admit:
"We sell and share your personal information"

Fakespot's privacy policy allows them to collect and sell:

• Your email address
• Your IP address
• Account IDs
• A list of things you purchased and considered purchasing
• Your precise location (which will be sent to advertising partners)
• Data about you publicly available on the web
• Your curated profile (which will also be sent to advertising providers)

Right before Mozilla acquired them, Fakespot updated their privacy policy to allow transfer of private data to any company that acquired them. (Previous Privacy Policy here. Search "merge" in both.)

Who asked for this? Who demanded integration into Firefox, since it was already a (relatively unpopular) browser extension people could have used instead?

Problem resolved, post removed

Is it possible to increase the size of the bookmark this page window? userchrome voodoo or otherwise I always wondered why it was so tiny.

I recently noticed that Firefox for me has pretty high battery usage, more than twice of what Connect (Lemmy) has at ~75% the screen time.
Could this be because of extensions? I'm using Dark Reader and uBlock Origin

I get that the site itself has this but can't it be blocked? Have the latest Ublock origin. Tried the site in Mull as well.

Could be I am misinterpreting what its doing..

I've recently switched to Firefox mobile on Android after having used Opera mobile for the past 10+ years.

The feature I absolutely love on Opera mobile is it will dynamicly wrap text and adjust the page layout to a single column when you zoom in/out. So for pages with small text, you can zoom in to see enlarged text and just scroll down to read - where on all other browsers you would have to scroll horizontally back and forth to read the enlarged text.

Opera has been doing this brilliantly for at least 10 years, and I have yet to see this on any other browsers I've tried. Does this functionality exist within Firefox, or is there a plugin that can do this?

Am I the only idiot who keeps doing this?

• Looking at a random image in Firefox
• Click the hamburger menu > Zoom [+] a few times
• Click off the menu
• Zoom level snaps back to 100%

Of course, the problem is that when I "click off the menu", I'm clicking on the image, because it fills most of the screen. If I do the exact same thing in Chrome, the zoom level does not change.

If "revert zoom on click" is considered a sensible design choice, then clicking again ought to revert to the zoom level I just chose.