Firefox

Mailing from @firefox@lemmy.world @firefox@lemmy.ml @firefox ......
First of all our presence on their mailing list is shared with Google (fonts.googleapis) and via Braze Social (US) it's also going to AWS.....
Yes, you are doing a brilliant job to protect our privacy at mozilla!

@firefox #fortnite we are making a proceduarally generated gooner game

i was setting up an instance on a new computer and i went to turn it off but i noticed it wasn't there; did they get rid of it (hopefully)? or did they move it someplace?

I don't know how many times already I've had to remove this, and now nothing seems to work anymore. Setting browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.newtabLayouts.variant-b to false should work, I guess, but it doesn't.

Edit: shishka_b0b has posted a solution (as for enlarging the quick link icons, I forgot the simplest solution - zooming in the page)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon#Animated_favicons

Thoughts on @brave and Brave Search over @firefox and @duckduckgo? Looking at #privacy and #foss alternatives to #bigtech. Educate me please.

I've got an HTML file on my phone, and would like to view it. But Firefox on Android has neither a menu entry "Open File", nor does using the file:// method work, nor is any app associated with the .html file extension.

BTW, Chrome suffers from the same problem. And it is not an issue with the file, it works when opened via the https:// method from my home server.

Why, oh why, can't I open a local file on Android?

The photo is from Firefox beta for Android.

source: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxnightly/114805708639661562

I'm wondering if this concept would work...

I love cheese, and sometimes find that websites don't have enough info about cheese. So I'm trying to help Google and GTM know that I have a significant interest in cheese.

I want to code an extension in FF that looks for a GTM container ID and injects data into that container that sends tags for cheese, cheese products, charcuterie, etc. And even injects data showing large purchases of cheese. This will save Google time, because otherwise I would have to rely on several weeks or months of searches about cheese. Instead, if every site I visit helps me express an interest in cheese, that would be great!

I would, of course, only use this extension myself, and never share such a thing. In the extension options, I would be able to select tags to share, just in case I end up with a similar interest for pine trees, marshmallows, or tomatoes.

Thoughts? Open to any suggestions here.

Linux thing, but i thought it would be interesting.

Mozilla has recently shut down multiple projects, so why not this one too?

CEO of Data Privacy Company Onerep.com Founded Dozens of People-Search Firms
March 14, 2024

Nearly a Year Later, Mozilla is Still Promoting OneRep
(February 13, 2025)

Since FF 140 I'm getting an icon next to the url whenever I'm opening a website with DRM embedded content, such as discord if someone posted a link to some audio player.

Now normally I ignore those icons, but this particular one is shaking violently whenever you access the website - and not just the first time, but even when you navigate between tabs, which is super annoying.

So I was wondering if there is a way to deactivate it permanently?

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-DeepSpeech-Discontinued

Open about:config

Search for browser.urlbar.trimURLs and set it to false

You're welcome

TL;DR: Firefox has a new feature to let you pin additional tabs when you have an existing pinned tab in the window.