An update on Mozilla's PPA experiment and how it protects user privacy while testing cutting edge technologies to improve the open web.
An update on Mozilla's PPA experiment and how it protects user privacy while testing cutting edge technologies to improve the open web.
You can grab a profile of performance issues and report them: https://profiler.firefox.com/docs/#/./guide-profiling-firefox-android
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 a...
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.
Mozilla did their biggest Reddit AMA yet on Thursday, June 13, with eight members of the Firefox leadership team. With 400 total comments on the post, they c...
Mozilla did their biggest Reddit AMA yet on Thursday, June 13, with eight members of the Firefox leadership team. With 400 total comments on the post, they c...
Mozilla did their biggest Reddit AMA yet on Thursday, June 13, with eight members of the Firefox leadership team. With 400 total comments on the post, they c...
Mozilla did their biggest Reddit AMA yet on Thursday, June 13, with eight members of the Firefox leadership team. With 400 total comments on the post, they c...
Firefox 130 will feature an on-device AI model that automatically generates alt-text for images, integrated into its built-in PDF editor.
Firefox 130 will feature an on-device AI model that automatically generates alt-text for images, integrated into its built-in PDF editor.
Hazel doesn't close tabs because it's 'like a trip down memory lane.' Mozilla says it has some profile and tab group features coming later this year that might help her organize those memories.
Hello, SUMO community! We're setting the stage for something big: a revamp of our style guide designed to make our support content not just user-friendly, but user-delightful. To get a ...
Hello, SUMO community! We're setting the stage for something big: a revamp of our style guide designed to make our support content not just user-friendly, but user-delightful. To get a ...
Today’s Speedometer release is more open and challenging than before and is the best tool for driving browser performance improvements.
Today’s Speedometer release is more open and challenging than before and is the best tool for driving browser performance improvements.
Today marks a significant moment in our journey, and I am thrilled to share some important news with you. After much thoughtful consideration, I have decid
Today marks a significant moment in our journey, and I am thrilled to share some important news with you. After much thoughtful consideration, I have decid
A year ago I was sharing how a Mozilla Performance Sheriff catches performance regressions, the entire Workflow they go through, and the incoming improvements. Since I joined the Performance Tools ...
A year ago I was sharing how a Mozilla Performance Sheriff catches performance regressions, the entire Workflow they go through, and the incoming improvements. Since I joined the Performance Tools ...
By Celia Bernhardt | cbernhardt@queensledger.com A new mural featuring soft colors and detailed flowers stretches along the main atrium of NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens. The mural was designed by artist Zeehan Wazed, and brought to life through a community painting party in the hospital. Wazed devel...
By Celia Bernhardt | cbernhardt@queensledger.com A new mural featuring soft colors and detailed flowers stretches along the main atrium of NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens. The mural was designed by artist Zeehan Wazed, and brought to life through a community painting party in the hospital. Wazed developed the design with the help of multiple focus groups …
This would break inputs all over the web. Check out yahoo.com - type into the search box. That auto-suggest feature wouldn't work based on your proposal.
We’ve been working hard on making Firefox even faster and we’re extremely happy to report that this has resulted in an improvement in speed.
We’ve been working hard on making Firefox even faster and we’re extremely happy to report that this has resulted in an improvement in speed.
Great news for people using Firefox Nightly on Debian-based Linux distributions (such as Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and others): installing, updating, and testing the latest Firefox Nightly builds just got ...
Great news for people using Firefox Nightly on Debian-based Linux distributions (such as Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and others): installing, updating, and testing the latest Firefox Nightly builds just got ...
My thoughts are that a source would be nice.
I was once told that Firefox users don’t always do enough to celebrate the small wins. Here’s something that I consider to be a big one, but might not be int...
I was once told that Firefox users don’t always do enough to celebrate the small wins. Here’s something that I consider to be a big one, but might not be int...
Mozilla continues to champion user privacy on the web, teaming up with Fastly and Divvi Up to bring privacy-preserving technology to Firefox.
Mozilla continues to champion user privacy on the web, teaming up with Fastly and Divvi Up to bring privacy-preserving technology to Firefox.
Based on technology from Fakespot.
Based on technology from Fakespot.
We recently identified a bug in the addons.mozilla.org (AMO) external API that caused all signing requests to mark extension submissions as being Android compatible. A ...
We recently identified a bug in the addons.mozilla.org (AMO) external API that caused all signing requests to mark extension submissions as being Android compatible. A ...
Use the arrow keys?
Firefox translations are local and open source.
https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/components/translations may be a good place to start to learn. https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/components/translations/index.html may also be helpful.
Yeah, there is no automoderator here, so things are going to be a little cumbersome to start.
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It does seem unnecessary. A former r/firefox moderator built this one ages ago which works for me: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/toggle-pin-tab/
We don't recommend pre-built user.js files contributed by the community.
You can always look at my guide if you like, I suppose.
There are issues on Fedia, unfortunately: https://fedia.io/m/fedia/t/91925/Can-t-access-some-magazines
Seems to be an open enhancement: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1808766
With desktop Linux trailing both Windows and macOS in popularity, there’s nothing unexpected or inherently malicious about this, and the point of the previous few paragraphs is not to complain about the state of Firefox for Linux or to suggest Mozilla transfers precious resources from the Windows and macOS versions to the Linux version. While I obviously wouldn’t complain if they did so, it wouldn’t make much sense. The real reason I’m highlighting these issues is that if Firefox for Linux is already treated as a third wheel today, with Mozilla’s current financial means and resources, what would happen if Mozilla saw a drastic reduction in its financial means and resources?
Clearly, Google would cut the macOS and Windows versions of Chrome and begin to deploy Chromebooks and Chrome for Linux exclusively.
Yeah, this is pretty much how family members have set up their "shopping" profiles with the coupon extensions, etc.
Why would you want to do that? Control-Shift-N continues to make the most sense for that function. I could understand the objection to Control-Shift-P, but I also don't know what would be a better shortcut for a new private window.
Sorry, I know this doesn't help you do the hack you want to do.
