Firefox

Anyone know how to revert the horrendous new #Firefox #Android menu design?

It is slow, clumsy and it is even harder to reach extension icons than before.

And extensions. Are. The. Only. Reason. To. Use. Firefox. (Apart from Privacy, if you harden it a lot).

I couldnt find an about:config to revert the menu redesign. #Ironfox showed a menu for that for some time.

#FirefoxAndroid @firefoxnightly @firefox@lemmy.world @firefoxwebdevs @firefox@lemmy.ml @firefox@fedia.io

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/47572739

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40834339

Just pick one - All the Fox functionality without bloatware

Librewolf - https://librewolf.net/

Waterfox - https://www.waterfox.com/

Zen Browser - https://zen-browser.app/

More browsers here - https://alternativeto.net/category/browsers/firefox-based/

You can also use this add to disable the ~~shitload~~ ai function in many search engines in one go

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-ai/

GitHub page - https://github.com/jruns/disable-ai

You can find all the links on Mastodon<

This would make it much easier to re-find a site i visited briefly. I'm using LibreWolf but this seems like something that should be the same across forks.

Dépendance aux #réseaux asociaux explosant depuis #covid #confinement Dégradation de la #SantéMentale des #ados en particulier Protéger son vrai #biome #social Choisir ses espaces de #partage et #discussion #EscapeX #EscapeMeta Dégoogliser sa vie @Framasoft @Mastodon @signalapp @firefox @MattermostFR @chowmak #Résistance #RésistancesAffectives Premières étapes ces procès de #Meta #Alphabet #Bytedance
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/la-revue-de-presse-internationale/la-revue-de-presse-internationale-emission-du-jeudi-26-mars-2026-9872700

The op of this thread (not this quoted post) is what #DemandEverythingAcceptNoTradeOff is for.

As if any @firefox fork, including @librewolf, has the ability to even maintain the Gecko engine - let's all switch to forks or Chromium and see the dying days of adblock.

Their #AI is a local on-device model runs without internet connection, it has nothing to do with #InfoSec or #Privacy - just teenagers shouting at the sky because everyone else hates AI they should post something about it.

He (on the balance of probability) can't even tell that he addressed the Lemmy sub instead of the official Firefox account; I wonder what he studies technologies for.

https://programming.dev/comment/22932324

#Firefox #Mozilla #Fediverse #OpenWeb #advertising #adblock #ublock #ublockorigin

@firefox DO NOT USE ME
I SPY ON YOU
I GIVE YOU NO PRIVACY
USE https://librewolf.net/ OR https://mullvad.net/ INSTEAD!

@firefox
https://librewolf.net/
https://mullvad.net/

I am @firefox and I can confirm that you should switch to LibreWolf or Mullvad Browser

librewolf.net
mullvad.net

I am @firefox and I spy on you with telemetry and then sell that data to my business partners!

I am @firefox and if you see this, I gaslit my users into ai integrations and data collection!

@firefox, the “last privacy-respecting browser” now nags you with in-browser pop-ups to let AI generate “key points” when you long-press links.

Mozilla CEO: “AI should always be a choice – something people can easily turn off”

Then why the fuck is it off by default? Why the fuck am I getting pop-ups asking me to try features I didn’t ask for? That’s not a choice. That’s opt-out with a fucking marketing budget.

What the fuck happened to you, Mozilla.

They spent WEEKS in damage control promising an "AI kill switch" and then shipped it fucking disabled. That is the most gaslit UX I have ever seen in my life.

"Help me @librewolf - you're my only hope."

Settings > AI Controls > Block AI enhancements. Do it now, because they won't do it for you.

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Edit: a few corrections thanks to @Feyd:

“Hover over links”

• It’s a long-press / context menu action, not a passive hover. That’s a meaningful distinction because hover implies it’s happening constantly without intent, which is way more invasive than what’s actually happening.

“Sending page content to ML models”

• the default link preview (before you enable key points) just reads the Open Graph meta tags – the same og:title / og:description metadata that generates link cards in Slack, Discord, iMessage, etc. That’s not AI, that’s just HTML parsing.
• even when you DO opt into the AI key points feature, it runs a local on-device model, not shipping your page content off to some cloud endpoint.

#Firefox #Mozilla #AI #InfoSec #Privacy #Fediverse #OpenWeb

Hey @mozilla ... WHY did you removed 'Share All Tabs' from latest mobile @firefox version?

I used that button daily.

Now I need to first select each tab like a moron ...

Bring it back please.

Thanks.

Mozilla is working on a big redesign for Firefox under the code name 'Nova'. Although it is not yet known when the new design will appear, the first screenshots have already been released.

• Original sauce: https://www.soeren-hentzschel.at/firefox/exklusiv-so-sieht-das-neue-nova-design-von-firefox-aus/ ;

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?