Optimizing the proxy object lead to performance gains

A thread about Firefox that drops support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1. It includes versions prior to 10.15 of macOS.

The author explains the reasoning and there are multiple arguments.

The "About config" is not available in the menu anymore since the last version.

The recommanded way to get the Firefox version is from "Open Application Menu" > Help > More troubleshooting information

Yes! Browser extensions are planned on Android.

Links are not focusable by default on Firefox... WTF ?!
Here the solution:

1. about:config
2. Change the value of accessibility.tabfocus to "Number"
3. Set the value 7 to accessibility.tabfocus

Anonymize the personal data of a tweet.

This extension can be extended to more websites :)

Cookies were initally shared between sites easily.

Now Firefox cluster cookies set by a site for this site only.

An illustration is better than 100 words: https://cdnx.nextinpact.com/data-next/image/bd/171170.png

Cookie privacy has limitation though

In other words, it can do nothing about the tracking carried out directly by the site visited. On the other hand, access to third-party cookies is not totally blocked. It is simply very restricted, as there are certain cases where this access is legitimately used, such as for authentication via a third-party service.

After all if a website is malicious, then is it hard to fight against if a connection has been made :/

1. Automatic blocking of autoplay videos
2. Speedier website browsing
3. Lighter on system resources
4. Mobile extensions (some of them)
5. Equally easy sync across all devices
6. Deeper safeguards for privacy
7. Reader mode
8. Open-source code

Un outil permettant de se configurer un profil Firefox selon ses besoins et envies 👍‍

(via https://korben.info/creer-profil-firefox.html)

browser.compactmode.show → true
browser.uidensity → 1

(via https://sebsauvage.net/links/?t40Qsg)

Thanks for that :)

TechRadar se fait l’écho d'un constat fait sur StatCounter : en janvier, la part de marché de Safari était de 9,84 % sur « desktop ». Or, Edge et Firefox ont tous deux gagné en utilisateurs et sont désormais très proches, avec respectivement 9,54 et 9,18 %.

The decline and potential demise of Firefox is a massive problem that everybody seems to be kind of tiptoeing around, too afraid to acknowledge that if Firefox were indeed to disappear, we’d be royally screwed. We’d end up right back where we started 20 years ago, with Chrome being the new IE6, but with the big difference that Chrome isn’t bad enough yet for people to care.

Aside from Firefox, there really isn’t any browser out there that takes Linux seriously, and this is a big problem. Chrome is a disaster on Linux [...] Things like the Gnome Browser or KDE’s Falkon can barely be taken seriously, and on top of that, are based on Apple’s WebKit, which isn’t a great position to be in either – and that’s it. There’s nothing else.

La qualité des appels audio passé avec le navigateur devrait être de meilleure qualité. En effet, la suppression du bruit, le contrôle automatique du gain et l’annulation de l’écho connaissent des améliorations significatives pour offrir une meilleure expérience.

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La possibilité de mettre Firefox en navigateur par défaut sur Windows 11 depuis Firefox

Le mode lecture de firefox: Ctrl + Alt + r. Il évite tout bruit gênant sur la page: cookie banner, etc...

À noter qu'il y en a un caché pour Chrome: https://www.minitool.com/news/how-to-enable-use-reader-mode-in-chrome.html.

Les cookies sont mieux nettoyés:

si vous supprimez les données liées à un domaine en particulier, celles liées à des services comme Facebook le seront également si elles ont été stockées lors d'une navigation sur ce site

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le dispositif de connexion unifiée (SSO) intégré à Windows, propre à l'entreprise, est désormais géré par Firefox

👍 Si cela peut donner plus d'utilisateurs à Firefox.

On en conclus entre autres que choisir son navigateur est aussi politique.

In other words, we will be losing out on a lot of good things (forcefully) just because all the competition prefers using Chromium as its base or engage in anti-competitive activities

And this is one of the reason I use Firefox

J'ai aussi rencontrée ce genre d'erreurs avec position: absolute 🙃
Aller Firefox, que ce genre de bugs soit corrigé !