What I do want to put the focus on, however, is that you have to perform an audit of your product every so often and see how the people using your product have changed, and what kind of functionality that made sense at the time may not make much sense anymore.

• load images automatically
• enable JS
• turn-off the navigation toolbar
• turning off SSL & TLS
• certificate manager
• override automatic cache management

The people that need to do these things should use add-ons, or at the very least an about:config tweak.

I would argue: it makes the configuration or preferences UI lightweight.

This add-on shows with a colored icon, whether the SSL/TLS certificate currently used by the website for is classified as trustworthy by Mozilla or only by the local computer. Helps to identify proxies.

green shield for Mozilla certificates
bleu shield for other certificates

(via https://sebsauvage.net/links/?jrQ5jA)

Focus2console is a Firefox extension to display the tag and its attributes in the browser console. This can be useful in case of loss of focus (due to CSS or JS).

I still use the mouse to switch between tabs. I learn here that:

• the first 8 tabs can be switched with Command + <n> / Alt + <n>
• command + option + Arrow right or left / Ctrl + Alt + Up / Down to switch between tabs around

It's the 20%/80% result I was searching for.

Update ASAP to Firefox 139

De meilleurs performances en HTTP/3.

Le fond d'écran de la nouvelle page d'onglet peut aussi être personnalisé.

10 failles de sécurité corrigés.

Firefox needs the revenue of Google

A feature: provide default formatting without relying on third party tools or extension.

Les profiles "about:profiles" peuvent maintenant avoir leur propres thèmes et préférences.

Aujourd’­hui c’est Google Chrome qui a la main et on voit appa­raitre le même schéma que par le passé. [...]
La situa­tion n’est pas exac­te­ment la même que celle des années 2000 mais elle n’est pas si éloi­gnées que ça.

Il y a plein de navi­ga­teurs mais en réalité Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, Inter­net Explo­rer et les autres sont des déri­vés de Chro­mium. Chro­mium c’est la base open source de Chrome, contrô­lée par Google.

Une fois qu’on a retiré tout ce qui se base sur Chro­mium, il reste Safari et Fire­fox.

Why Firefox forks is not a solution.

1. No fork is doing large-scale engineering work on the browser.
2. Some forks keep insecure APIs
3. Mozilla code is still running under the hood. They must be trusted as for the Firefox browser.
4. The fork is still 99.99% Mozilla code contributions
5. The fork can need more time to apply fixes

This platform shipped in Firefox 133 to provide alt text for images in PDF.js, and will be used in several other places in Firefox 134 and beyond to improve the user experience.

Many Tasks are available in the browsers, exposed in browser.trial.ml.