Do you use any forks instead of default Firefox? If yes, which ones and why?

More info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056110

Thought this interview was interesting:

• He's very bullish on AI, but specifically wants open-source AI and wants to lower dependence on the AI giants which... fine, I guess
• He seems neutral on the AI Off Switch in Firefox. Seems to understand that it's important to users, but doesn't say anything about its future. (He says he sees Mozilla's job as helping "lead our users through this transition" which kinda sounds like it might go away some day)
• Talks up Mozilla Data Collective & any-LLM, which I wasn't familiar with but sound... OK, maybe? Data Collective sounds fine.

Anything else interesting in here? I'm still watching through but lemme know what you find

Hello everyone.

This is a "need help" or "ELI5" post, hope anyone can be nice and explain me.

So, one thing about Firefox (and web browsing in general) I do is, I use private browsing mode, almost all the time. I have a "normal" firefox window with a few tabs I use daily, and a second firefox window which is in private browsing. I use it to just do everything else: dive into rabbit holes, open links, do a web search, watch a youtube video etc.

I do it mainly for privacy reasons, I don't want websites to track me, fingerprint me etc. I also don't want to store any cookies and stuff.

I'm mostly satisfied with the workflow I have, but the one problem is that sometimes firefox will update and ask for a restart, or maybe crash, or maybe I need to reboot my laptop or it will get discharge and turn off, then I lose all of my open tabs. Sometimes I can copy the URLs of tabs I want to keep, and open them again after a restart, sometimes I can't. I'm mostly ok with starting fresh, however sometimes I'm a bit sad about losing the tabs I liked or did not finish reading.

I think my "always open everything in private mode" workflow makes more problems than it solves. The thing is, I do not understand how normal mode behaves when compared to private browsing mode. I know there's "Enhanced Protection" and "Total Protection" modes in settings, but how do they work compared to private browsing? Also there's a button to clear cookies, but there's many other things other than cookies, such as session storage, indexed DB storage, cache etc. When I use private browsing, I 100% know everything about the site I had open gets destroyed. This means if I open a youtube and watch a minecraft video, I won't get full home page of minecraft video recommendations next time I open youtibe again, if I use private browsing mode.

Can I achieve this without private browsing? I think I can use a container, but in this case I would basically want every single tab I open be in a separate container, and this is way too much work to do manually. Also I would want containers to be destroyed after I close the tab.

(The only exception to every tab being in their own container is when I open a link to the same domain from withing a container, for example if I go from reddit homepage in a "temporary reddit container" to a reddit post in a new tab, I would want that post tab be in the same container)

I know there exists an extension called temporary containers, but last time I tried it, I think it had some weird behaviors: IIRC after a browser restart every tab that was open in a temporary container, got reopened outside of containers (so my browser became "dirty" with all the cookies and cache and etc. of every tab I had open in temporary containers previously).

I've heard somewhere (probably reddit Firefox sub) that either enhanced or total protection mode basically do what I want: they make every domain/subdomain to be isolated and behave as if each site had it's own container. Is that true? Then the only thing I would need is a way to destroy site data when there's no open tabs that use said data.

TL:DR; How do I make all randomly open tabs in my browser to not keep their data (cookies, cache, other local stored data) after I close the tab as if I was opening them in private mode? Not being kept in browsing history would also be nice, but that I can clean manually from time to time.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46357879

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On my system, I wanted Firefox profiles to feel like their own browser instances. Meaning, their own app icons and to not be grouped together. Almost like how it is on MacOS.

To do this, I had to make multiple .desktop files. Here are the contents of that file. This targets flatpak, but it should work for traditional Firefox installs too.

I called this profile "Personal". Note that this says --profile "/home/USERNAME/.var/app/org.mozilla.firefox/config/mozilla/firefox/personal". In this, "personal" is a symlink to the real profile folder name located in the same directory.

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Exec=/usr/bin/flatpak run --env=MOZ_APP_REMOTINGNAME=Personal --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=firefox --file-forwarding org.mozilla.firefox --profile "/home/USERNAME/.var/app/org.mozilla.firefox/config/mozilla/firefox/personal" --name org.mozilla.firefox.Personal --class org.mozilla.firefox.Personal @@u %u @@
Terminal=false
X-MultipleArgs=false
Icon=/home/USERNAME/.local/share/icons/firefox-heart.png
StartupWMClass=org.mozilla.firefox.Personal
DBusActivatable=false
Categories=GNOME;GTK;Network;WebBrowser;
MimeType=application/json;application/pdf;application/rdf+xml;application/rss+xml;application/x-xpinstall;application/xhtml+xml;application/xml;audio/flac;audio/ogg;audio/webm;image/avif;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/png;image/svg+xml;image/webp;text/html;text/xml;video/ogg;video/webm;x-scheme-handler/chrome;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;x-scheme-handler/mailto;
StartupNotify=true
Actions=new-window;new-private-window;
Name=Firefox (Personal)
Comment=Fast and private browser
GenericName=Web Browser
Keywords=Internet;WWW;Browser;Web;Explorer;
X-GNOME-FullName=Mozilla Firefox

[Desktop Action new-window]
Exec=/usr/bin/flatpak run --env=MOZ_APP_REMOTINGNAME=Personal --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=firefox --file-forwarding org.mozilla.firefox --profile "/home/USERNAME/.var/app/org.mozilla.firefox/config/mozilla/firefox/personal" --name org.mozilla.firefox.Personal --class org.mozilla.firefox.Personal --new-window @@u %u @@
Name=New Window

[Desktop Action new-private-window]
Exec=/usr/bin/flatpak run --env=MOZ_APP_REMOTINGNAME=Personal --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=firefox --file-forwarding org.mozilla.firefox --profile "/home/USERNAME/.var/app/org.mozilla.firefox/config/mozilla/firefox/personal" --name org.mozilla.firefox.Personal --class org.mozilla.firefox.Personal --private-window @@u %u @@
Name=New Private Window

Recently, when I try to log in to a site, Firefox has started suggesting email addresses I've recently used. Note that these are not my saved addresses; those are different. (And I want to keep those.) This box is interfering with my Bitwarden autofill. How do I turn this off?

Full article: Firefox browser has started shipping Brave's adblock-rust engine

After seeing a lot of backlash over Waterfox adding Brave's adblock engine:

It looks like Waterfox is piggy-backing off of Firefox’s implementation (great!).

And it's been there for a little while.

Mozilla bundled adblock-rust (Brave’s Rust-based adblock engine, the same one my team works on) into Firefox. Pretty exciting to see them finally start taking ad & tracker blocking seriously; I didn’t think I’d see this day. It landed in Firefox 149 via via Bugzilla Bug 2013888.

cross-posted from: https://lazysoci.al/post/46128508

I'll start: Opening new tabs all the way to the right or bottom, rather than next to the current tab. Its especially disorienting on vertical tabs, I lose track of which (I changed the setting but its still annoying on blank Firefox profiles).

I don't want a PLAY MUTE PAUSE not even a CLOSE button. Especially NOT when they have their own internal state for then they choose to appear and disappear.

I don't want to pay attention to them, I don't want to have to look for them, I don't want them getting in my way any more.

If I want to close a tab, I middle click it ! I already have global mute controls, I don't need an extra volume control, I don't have "tabs making unwanted sounds" problem because I have "Go To Sound Tab" addon installed, so I can easily find any tabs that makes sound and mute it correctly, without a extra, unneeded layer of muting (tab muting, versus app muting versus player muting, that is too many muting options, I don't want to use tab muting personnally so I want these buttons out of here !)

I don't want to have to rely on running violentmonkey script engine on top of my already sluggish browser when I barely have 6615 open tabs.

I want to disable the feature at the root, inside firefox, not patch up webpages like dark reader does.

AAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh h!!!!!!

How much freedom does firefox have again? How long until they ban UBlock Origin?

IMHO it's definetly a hard break with the past design.
But it looks more mature and not as 'shy'.

People ragging on the only viable browser solution we have... Firefox is rock solid, fast, tweakable, and keeps me as safe as any browser and my configs/habits can. I don't care if management eats babies.

I use it on debian with celenity phoenix and a few about:config tweaks, also tweak'd the theme a bit. Extensions: ublock origin, sponsorblock, localcdn, consent-o-matic, containers, keepassxc-browser, and sometimes jshelter.

web browsing: solved

Vertical tabs, current tab not clearly highlighted/indicated enough, dark mode.

My "theme" is I think the 'default' on Manjaro gnome, dark mode.

Last update force the logo on newtabpage (If I need to use CSS for basic change, where are we going?)

Everything I want is some customization on Top Toolbar ( zoom, AddOn, favorite link) ... so no Brave, no Zen.

And 20+ shortcuts easily added and removed and visible in 1 normal screen on newtabapage (no Edge ).

No chrome (because fuck google)

Is waterfox still a thing? LibreFox?