We’ll see, and I’d be happy if it wins!

And yet all the big apps are still using Electron.

Usually the answer is limited resources with unclear payoff, i.e. even with Electron’s success, it’s not clear that there’s room for an alternative in the market, and it’d be a lot of effort to do.

Ah, so it should just be better! I wonder why nobody thought of that yet :P

(Sorry, I’m in a sarcastic mood, but you get my point.)

Anyone who thinks they know what needs to happen for Firefox to regain market share, needs to consider what would happen if someone forks Firefox and makes that happen.

There’s no way that CSS theming is it. And in general, “not doing something” isn’t going to be it, either.

I don’t know much about WebGL and WebRTC specifically, but sometimes it’s just inherent to the feature, and it’s literally impossible to implement it without allowing fingerprinting the user.

For example, your screen resolution/viewport size can also be used to fingerprint you. It is impossible to allow adjusting a website to different viewport sizes without leaking those viewport sizes - the only way to restrict fingerprinting is to not offer the feature of using arbitrary viewport sizes (which is what Tor browser does, for example).

Exhibit #17837 why Firefox isn’t “just more hardened by default”.

It’s also not necessarily just because Google wants more of your data (which they do); they may also just use a feature that can also be used to fingerprint you. But since it’s also just useful in general, it’s not disabled by default by regular Firefox.

Well, check out Solid and let me know if you have questions, I have worked with it (and Turtle).

It plays a big role in https://solidproject.org.

That said, there is no way it is feasible to represent the meaning of arbitrary English text in Turtle (or any other RDF serialisation format). There’s a reason the “Semantic Web” concept never really caught on.

One I’ve seen a couple of complaints about:

Fixed an issue where the “List all tabs” button was not able to be moved from the toolbar. (Bug 1918681)

Waiting pays off!

Fixed an issue where the “List all tabs” button was not able to be moved from the toolbar. (Bug 1918681)

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/131.0.3/releasenotes/

So the argument here is that, without ad targeting, ads are less valuable to advertisers, which means that they will pay websites less, which means that only the lowest-quality websites remain?

Likewise Topics API.

I would recommend waiting at least one more release. This might be just the type of change where they were so focused on all the different states between vertical and horizontal tabs, collapsed or not, etc., and just forgot about the situation where you want the button to not be there.

By now they’ve probably had a bunch of bug reports about it, and might focus on adding that functionality in the next release, just four weeks later.

Try appealing to the website goddesses.

Media URL Timestamper - automatically inserts the current timestamp of the YouTube/Twitch video you’re watching and updates it in the history in case you accidentally close/navigate away from the page or go to a different time in the video

Ooh, that’s clever! I usually don’t get many new extensions out of threads like these, but this is neat, thanks for sharing!

I imagine part of the reason is that uBOL’s target audience might have less of a problem with not getting it via AMO? After all, it probably wouldn’t even exist if Chrome didn’t pull its MV3 shenanigans.

Appears to be a mistake, but needs gorhill to appeal to make the reviewer aware of the mistake and to be able to fix it, which he doesn’t feel like doing because he thinks it’s unlikely to have been a mistake.

Update: now reversed, but gorhill removed it himself just to not have to deal with the review process and the possibility of human error anymore.

It’s conspiratorial that Google gets ad clicks through Firefox, and pays Mozilla some of the money it makes from that?

And I suppose it’s also conspiratorial to claim it’s doing the same for Safari users - instead it’s more likely that it’s paying Apple 20 billion a year to remain out of the clutches of regulators?

And where did that Google money come from?

(It’s a rhetorical question of course: it came from Firefox users clicking on ads.)