Mozilla Firefox Browser Stable Version Releases

what incident?

 

Hello @Sampei Nihira

I am still a beginning user of the arkenfox user.js hardening template but, if used, their unmodified V103 seems to disable both telemetry and Pocket to some degree. Yes?

Thank you.

 

ok, thank you.

 

Moving to Firefox on my mobile devices in preparation for the possible death of ad blockers in Chromium browsers, I have to ask what is it with open tabs?, I regularly check my favourite sites from the home page, even with a site already open in a tab FF will open another tab then another tab then another tab.
Yesterday's surfing resulted in over thirty open tabs of the same websites, Chromium opens pages in one tab unless the user opens a separate tab or you click on a link.

I find this feature annoying and don't see a way of changing it from settings, anyone know of a add on that changes this behaviour?.

 

Certainly and not only also webgl,beacon,show_punycode and many other changes that are beneficial for privacy.

 

Opera has a built-in adblocker,it should not be affected by MV3.
I stay with Opera,I find Firefox annoying to use.

 

no such problems here with several extensions in nightly for android.

yes. by purpose. pocket i dont care, but if user care about feedback which features he like to use or is using and have disabled other, he can let mozilla know about this and push some notice to the devs towards feature(s). no telemetry = no bother.

using a policy can reduce the user.js to the half. this eg.

Code:

{
  "policies": {
    "DisableAppUpdate": true,
    "DisableFirefoxStudies": true,
    "DisablePocket": true,
    "DisableTelemetry": true,
    "NetworkPrediction": false,
    "DisableFeedbackCommands": true,
    "DontCheckDefaultBrowser": true,
    "FirefoxHome": {
      "Search": true,
      "TopSites": false,
      "SponsoredTopSites": false,
      "Highlights": false,
      "Pocket": false,
      "SponsoredPocket": false,
      "Snippets": false,
      "Locked": false
    }
  }
}

would reduce my user.js from 133 to 71.
and this is the only way to disable firefox updates, settings in prefs are misleading and do not work.
to note! one of those also disables safebrowsing
in any case those settings are only for pro's, not beginners because it undermines general security, not only for firefox.

btw pocket gets disabled by removing the pocket button

 

I don't trust Opera, at all. Anything after Opera Trident is Opera is name only.

 

Do you use Android Firefox?

 

Opera is sold to China, are you blithely unaware?

 

So?
Microsoft,Firefox,FB,Instagram........... are not Chinese companies and yet you have to defend yourself VERY much against their telemetry.
It doesn't seem to me that there is much difference,if you have the knowledge to remedy it.

I would like to know how many forum members use Tik Tok...............

 

FYI
We had a series of post regarding that issue.
On other forums, there were post of other Linux users reporting Firefox to freeze/ hang.
The thread at Linux Mint Forums is still active, the mozregression tool being used to analyze the issue.
Also there are two Bugzilla reports active, 1780972 and 1781167.

 

I have in the past. Currently I'm using Vivaldi, the spiritual successor to Opera Presto 12.x. Also, I stay off all social media platforms.

 

Hmmm why though? Isn't Brave superior on Android?

 

Are you using Brave on Android? If so, why do you think it's superior than Vivaldi?

 

FOSS
Adblock written in Rust
Https everywhere built in
Faster updates meaning better security

What makes Vivaldi superior to Brave?

 

I haven't used Brave on Android so I don't have an opinion about it, but I like Vivaldi on Android in part because I also use it in Windows and it syncs tabs across devices.

 

FYI. Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition Stable 105.0 (web browser) Released for the PA Platform, courtesy of PortableApps.com

 

FYI. Mozilla Firefox 105.0 released Sep 20, 2022. Available via Internal Updater (53.86 MB - 64-bit).

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