Firefox

Noticed this in 148.0 for desktop

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/64577564

I absolutely hate the redesign, having the new tab button in the middle makes no sense, the corner is way easier to tap, having the individual tabs be taller makes them take up more space while looking worse and the tab selector takes up the whole screen, so I can't see the tab I was on.

For context, this is what it was like before:

I just updated to Firefox 148. Very happy to see the "AI kill switch" in the settings. One thing that bothers me, though, is the new "Do you want to see the weather for your location?". And even more bothering are the answer alternatives:

• "Not now"
• "Yes"

well how about adding a "No, never"?

Does anyone know which settings to modify to eliminate this weather stuff altogether? Cheers!

Edit: Searching for "weath" in about:config brings up a set of options, many of which can be set to false. But I'm happy if anyone here has extra tips or advice.

Edit 2: According to some replies, this is something that's been there before v148. Useful tip from a reply: see the "edit" button on the bottom right of Firefox's about:home page.

Tonight I'll be celebrating #ilovefs with the Portuguese community (and you can too!), but until then...

❤️ @mediawiki
💙 @openstreetmap

These two are free software apps that, during this year, I felt thankful for existing, so today I want to send an heartfelt thanks to their maintainers!

💜 @microg
💖 @fdroidorg

But if we're focusing on maintainers, then I must send special hearts to the maintainers these two, who have had tough challenges during this year (and need our support and strength for 2026).

💗 #PublicMoneyPublicCode

I suppose the PMPC campaign started and is maintained by @fsfe (thanks!) but one of the beauties of it is how it has grown, and it is nowadays part of the public discourse. We see political parties refer to the term. We see position papers and even law proposals referring to it. We see open consultation submissions by non-tech entities mentioning it. More than a campaign, it is now a concept, a movement, an ideal. So thanks to all of you that keep saying: "Public Money? Public Code!"

💘 And of course, my love to all the free software I kept using in my daily life, things would be difficult without it (and their maintainers): ssh, telnet, vim, gvim, botany, git, konsole, @firefox, @ubuntu, @libreoffice, #mastodon, @element and many, many more!

💕 💞 🥰😍😘💌💝💓💟❤️‍🔥🩷🧡💛💚

@firefoxwebdevs, @firefox shouldn't fixing Firefox's #WebAssembly support for #Flutter be one of your priorities?

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show/_bug.cgi?id=1788206

https://docs.flutter.dev/platform-integration/web/wasm#learn-more-about-browser-compatibility

TIA all #flutterDev s and #Firefox fans

I've been wanting this feature for ages. So nice to see this being added to FF. My next hope is that its not limited to split view and it can tile like I3.

Hi there. I am using Firefox on macos and something really annoys me. It logs me off all site everytime I close it. I have non sensitive websites where I want to remain logged in without entering my password and 2FA code every single time. The box "Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed" is unticked but once restarted it is ticked again. Any idea what to do? Is that because I have tracking protection set on Strict?

I hate all three. I understand some of the decisions but other ones are frustrating.

Let me explain what I used to do. What I used to do, is take advantage of the fact that firefox profiles are completely separate instances of firefox, each with their own settings and extensions. I would run my personal profile with highly aggressive and experimental settings, because I was ok with it crashing if it meant I learned interesting things. On the other hand, the profiles related to schoolwork and other more important tasks would be defaults, so they would be much more stable. I no longer consider this a necessary feature, but it was fun to play with.

The other big reason why I relied on the old profiles, is because they have separate cookies and whatnot, which is useful for when I want to have an account for each profile. Although Google happily lets you sign into multiple accounts from the same browser, Microsoft, Discord, and many other apps do not, and force you to sign out before signing in again.

But this is painful. Things never open in the profile I want them to by default, which is annoying. In theory, and I am considering doing this, the way to fix it is by creating app menu shortcuts for each profile, and then having them be the apps I select whenever I want to open a website link or file (with no default profile/app set, so I just select every time).

In addition to that, each profile had to have it's own mozilla account for syncing, which was annoying.

Containers seemed like a nice in between. I could use a single mozilla account for sync, but have seperate microsoft or other accounts on the same browser instance.

Except nope, they actually suck and don't work like that. I can't decide a window is dedicated to a container, so all tabs from xyz site will open in that container and give me that account. It constantly prompts me and it's painful and the UX for what I'm trying to do is miserable.

Containers seem designed more for isolating cookies between two different sites, rather than hiding instances of sites from themselves. Like the original version was a "facebook container", which would hide the facebook cookies from other sites, but I don't want that. I want to be able to log into multiple facebook accounts (hypothetically, I don't actually have a single facebook account but you get the idea).

The new profiles, if you've heard of them, somehow manage to combine the worst of both worlds. Firstly they are an entirely separate system and can't be managed by the second profile system. But they exist within a single one of the old profiles, meaning I can't do tricks with desktop shortcuts to make apps open in one profile or the other. But at the same time, despite existing within one profile, they each require seperate Mozilla accounts for sync.

I am very frustrated, but als resetting up my system so I am considering what to do. I am probably going to continue with profiles, but add app menu shortcuts for them.

Any better ideas?

In case you're not on the Mozilla Foundation mailing list, I thought people would be interested in this to let people know about the direction of AI you want Mozilla to go.

Just be respectful; it goes a longer way to making your voice heard than insults do.

Edit: Here's the link if you're not on Piefed: https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/201

One large step towards bringing some security parity with Chrome

TL;DR: Mozilla has a new CEO and a new mission: transform Firefox into an AI browser. That has run into some snags, as Firefox users don’t seem that interested in AI. Mozilla is forging ahead, utilizing deceptive patterns (previously known as dark patterns) to nag and annoy people into enabling AI features. You can see this in the introduction of Link Previews, an extremely invasive anti-feature that exists solely to push AI into your experience.

Was ich übrigens kürzlich und ganz nebenher ge #didit habe:
@firefox ist rausgeflogen und wurde durch @Waterfox ersetzt... Wollte es eigentlich nur mal testen, aber ich seh grad keinen Grund, den #firefox nochmal an zu machen (maximal nochmal n paar bookmarks suchen)...

OpenAI says prompt injections will always be a risk for AI browsers with agentic capabilities, like Atlas. But the firm is beefing up its cybersecurity with an "LLM-based automated attacker."

The lack of self awareness in the title is astonishing.

Did not read the article. But saw the headline in my rss reader and laughed out loud. This had to be done on purpose.

TL;DR: The big tech AI company LLMs have gobbled up all of our data, but the damage they have done to open source and free culture communities are particularly insidious. By taking advantage of those who share freely, they destroy the bargain that made free software spread like wildfire.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.cafe/post/28583067

LibreWolf is one of the best browsers for people who don't like generative AI.

Here is the statement posted on Mastodon:

As there seems to have been recent confusion about this, just a quick "official" toot to then pin: we haven't and won't support "generative AI" related stuff in LibreWolf. If you see some features like that (like Perplexity search recently, or the link preview feature now) it is solely because it "slipped through". As soon as we become aware of something like this / it gets reported to us, we will remove/disable it ASAP.

That was complete bullshit, of course. Yes, I absolutely branded Mozilla.org that way for the subtext of "these free software people are all a bunch of commies." I was trolling.

Once upon a time, Mozilla was three commies in a trenchcoat.

From Mozilla:

Monitor Plus, Mozilla’s premium data broker scan and removal service, officially shut down on December 17.

Mozilla had partnered with OneRep, a data removal company with ties to data collection services, and had been told about the firm's behavior in early 2024.

Up until this point, Mozilla was dragging its feet:

• 2024-03-14 - Kreb's story undercovers OneRep founder background - https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/ceo-of-data-privacy-company-onerep-com-founded-dozens-of-people-search-firms/
• 2024-03-22 - 8 days later - Mozilla statement to drop OneRep - https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/mozilla-drops-onerep-after-ceo-admits-to-running-people-search-networks/
• 2024-10-22 - 7 months later - Mozilla FAQ update about still searching for provider to replace OneRep - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/securing-new-partner-monitor-plus
• 2025-02-10 - today - almost 11 months later

Ten more months, and Mozilla is no longer looking for a partner, choosing to shutter the program.

There weren't any straightforward guides when I looked this up, and I even had to ask myself. But I just needed to put so and so together, get some feedback here, and voila! Hopefully this can work for you too, and could edit userchrome.css in your favorite editor, and see the changes in Firefox immediately. I tested that it works with @import url("folder/file.css");, and nested imports too (if folder/file.css contained @import url("Another folder/file.css");.

1. Install fx-autoconfig (I haven't tested it with other Firefox JS loaders), following the whole install section: https://github.com/MrOtherGuy/fx-autoconfig?tab=readme-ov-file#install
2. In the chrome/JS/ folder, create <any file name>.uc.mjs (I named mine refresh.uc.mjs) and paste the script below (it's slightly modified from this snippet):
   • The part containing @onlyonce is needed so fx-autoconfig loads it just once, rather than spawn a new instance of the script every time a new firefox window is opened.
3. Clear startup cache: https://github.com/MrOtherGuy/fx-autoconfig?tab=readme-ov-file#deleting-startup-cache
4. You may need to toggle the script. You can go to Menu Bar > Tools > userScripts.

Script

// ==UserScript==
// @onlyonce
// ==/UserScript==

// Script from here:  https://gist.github.com/jscher2000/ad268422c3187dbcbc0d15216a3a8060?permalink_comment_id=3259657#gistcomment-3259657
setInterval(() => {
    /*
       Code to paste and run in the Browser Console
       Requires devtools.chrome.enabled => true in about:config
       Tested in Firefox 68.0.1 on Windows
    */

    // Create references to APIs we'll use
    var ss = Cc["@mozilla.org/content/style-sheet-service;1"].getService(Ci.nsIStyleSheetService);
    var io = Cc["@mozilla.org/network/io-service;1"].getService(Ci.nsIIOService);
    var ds = Cc["@mozilla.org/file/directory_service;1"].getService(Ci.nsIProperties);
      
    // Get the chrome directory in the current profile
    var chromepath = ds.get("UChrm", Ci.nsIFile);

    // Specific file: userChrome.css or userContent.css
    chromepath.append("userChrome.css");

    // Morph to a file URI
    var chromefile = io.newFileURI(chromepath);

    // Unregister the sheet
    if(ss.sheetRegistered(chromefile, ss.USER_SHEET)){
      ss.unregisterSheet(chromefile, ss.USER_SHEET);
    }

    // Reload the sheet
    ss.loadAndRegisterSheet(chromefile, ss.USER_SHEET);
}, 1000)