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Designing Firefox for the future (blog.mozilla.org)

submitted 10 hours ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

the only real solution to it would be creating a standard to all browsers, which is what tor does

there you go. do that to firefox.

[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

this would imply not being able to resize your window for example... you cant do that to a general purpose software. you need to useba tool that fits your needs. it would be the equivalent of complaining about Debian not being an amnesiac distro. Tails exists for this...

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 hours ago

this would imply not being able to resize your window for example

Or it would let you resize and report the same size as everyone else.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

since you mention it, firefox has a feature where it launches with a generic predetermined window size so you blend in. even then screen resolution can only get them so far.

i'm not calling for firefox to be tor, just that everyday software must be more private too.

[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

yes, tor uses that feature to make all users look the same, if you resize a bit your tor window that's it. you can be identified. for fingerprinting to work every browser would need to look the same. this means no extensions, no difference in window size, same settings, etc. do you think that's actually feasible for an everyday browser? really?

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

i know. each point you touched can be improved upon. my point is that browsers are too transparent to third parties, and that's one of the priorities.