#Mozilla #Firefox 130.0.1 is out now to fix black rendering of AVIF images on #Linux when Firefox is built with GCC and a recent regression causing some UI elements to be rendered as left-to-right instead of right-to-left for users of our Saraiki localization. Download at https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware

Native support for ed25519/x25519 in the browser would be a huge step forward for in-browser/client-side cryptography.

Looks like Google is holding up our ability to use it in production.

(Firefox and Safari both have support enabled by default.)

https://caniuse.com/mdn-api_subtlecrypto_sign_ed25519

#ed25519 #x25519 #cryptography #browsers #web #mozilla #apple #google #firefox #safari #chrome #privacy #security #WebCryptoAPI

If you update a laptop from Ubuntu 22.04.3 to 24.04.1 and the screen is blank with an 'x' cursor after login, do this:

1. control+alt+F1 to go to a tty and login, then:
2. sudo apt install --reinstall ubuntu-session

Further, if #thunderbird doesn't launch, remove the snap installation and install de deb package directly from mozilla (he --purge is so that it doesn't generate adn store a ~4 GB copy of the install). First, do:

$ sudo snap remove --purge thunderbird
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/ppa
$ sudo apt update

Then paste this below into a file ( /etc/apt/preferences.d/mozillateamppa-thunderbird ) to tell the apt system that you prefer mozilla's over any other package:

Package: thunderbird*
Pin: release o=LP-PPA-mozillateam
Pin-Priority: 1001

... and install:
$ sudo apt install thunderbird

The same can be done for firefox if you'd rather skip the snap package.

#ubuntu #mozilla #thunderbird #firefox #linux

I'm using Firefox with uBlock Origin on both android and windows. I'm finding more and more sites that are very slow to load, or won't load at all. Yet when I open them in Chrome they work fine. I'm assuming the sites are just failing because of the privacy protection features of ff+ubo, and I'm happy enough to just avoid these shitty sites in general. But - I'm just checking to see - is this expected behaviour, might I have configuration issues?

I am quite happy they added the borders, but I know some people use high-contrast themes as a base for their own theming and don't want this, in this case, add this to your userChrome.css:

:root {
  --toolbarbutton-outline: none !important;
}

An update on Mozilla's PPA experiment and how it protects user privacy while testing cutting edge technologies to improve the open web.

TL;DR: Firefox used to have a great extension mechanism based on the XUL and XPCOM. This mechanism served us well for a long time. However, it came at an ever-growing cost in terms of maintenance for both Firefox developers and add-on developers. On one side, this growing cost progressively killed any effort to make Firefox secure, fast or to try new things. On the other side, this growing cost progressively killed the community of add-on developers. Eventually, after spending years trying to protect this old add-on mechanism, Mozilla made the hard choice of removing this extension mechanism and replacing this with the less powerful but much more maintainable WebExtensions API. Thanks to this choice, Firefox developers can once again make the necessary changes to improve security, stability or speed. During the past few days, I’ve been chatting with Firefox users, trying to separate fact from rumor regarding the consequences of the August 2020 Mozilla layoffs. One of the topics that came back a few times was the removal of XUL-based add-ons during the move to Firefox Quantum. I was very surprised to see that, years after it happened, some community members still felt hurt by this choice. And then, as someone pointed out on reddit, I realized that we still haven’t taken the time to explain in-depth why we had no choice but to remove XUL-based add-ons. So, if you’re ready for a dive into some of the internals of add-ons and Gecko, I’d like to take this opportunity to try and give you a bit more detail.

My favourites:

Augmented Steam - Augmented Steam is a browser extension by IsThereAnyDeal that improves your experience on the Steam platform by providing helpful information and tons of customization options.

Bitwarden Password Manager - At home, at work, or on the go, Bitwarden easily secures all your passwords, passkeys, and sensitive information.

ClearURLs - Removes tracking elements from URLs

Dictionary Anywhere - View definitions easily as you browse the web. Double-click any word to view its definition in a small pop-up bubble. It also supports Spanish, German, French language alongside English. Enjoy Reading Uninterrupted!!!

Don't track me Google - Removes the annoying link-conversion at Google Search / maps / ...

Facebook Container - Prevent Facebook from tracking you around the web. The Facebook Container extension for Firefox helps you take control and isolate your web activity from Facebook.

Google Container - Prevent Google from tracking you around the web. The Google Container extension helps you take control and isolate your web activity from Google.

LibRedirect - Redirects YouTube, Twitter, TikTok... requests to alternative privacy friendly frontends.

Sidebery - Vertical tabs tree and bookmarks in sidebar with advanced containers configuration, grouping and many other features.

Startpage - This search engine extension protects users from being tracked while allowing them to search the web in complete privacy. Startpage is a private search engine with no tracking, storing, or selling users’ search history.

Undo Close Tab - Allows you to restore the tab you just closed with a single click—plus it can offer a list of recently closed tabs within a convenient context menu.

uBlock Origin - Finally, an efficient wide-spectrum content blocker. Easy on CPU and memory.

Mozilla Firefox should gear up as an excellent option for power users and productivity enthusiasts with this feature.

I would be so happy if this feature makes it into Firefox this year

someone in the mood to confirm a bug with me? I think this is new. Seeing this with F115 (on linux) on a clean, new profile. The code didn't change.

I used to be able to listen to a big audio file in a streaming manner when loaded from goldfire/howler.js library.

The new behaviour is: firefox will download the whole file before starting to play.

Example: (25MB bytes down will occur) https://jsfiddle.net/ugnt03jo/1/ -> click Run in upper left to render html

• if you have traffic stats on your system you'll see bytes trickling in the moment you render the html - not when you click the Play button. This is acknowledged in the devtools network-tab after it is fetched in full
• until fetched in full, the Play button will not stream the audio file

#firefox

Preferable wouldn't require rooting the phone, but curious to hear if there is a way that requires rooting also.

A comprehensive mapping of old subreddits to new communities.

On Monday morning we (Mozilla) detected a very large crash spike affecting #Firefox users on Linux, specifically on an older version of a Debian-based distribution. It turned out to be an interesting bug involving the #Linux kernel and #Google JavaScript code so let me tell you about it. A thread 🧵