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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/7131235

> Look at this chud video here. > > It's just complaining about DEI, but why now? Apparently, Firefox has a "license" to all your data now. How much is that true? Is he just cherry-picking here, in this case? Librewolf or whatever it's called might be a better option. There's also Zen browser. > > I got this in my YouTube feed and didn't know it was more anti-DEI slop and now I'm not sure what to believe. Wish they didn't have to make it so political like they accuse others of doing. Ah well. But what is this I hear about Firefox having a "license" to all your data? > > I guess that's like a lot of browsers, tbh, but I suppose Firefox has higher standards, or did...

cross-posted from: https://lazysoci.al/post/22508106

> DNS over HTTPS has been shipped for Firefox for Android Nightly

Hi there,

I wanted to migrate from the default Ubuntu Firefox snap installation to a deb-package-based one using the instructions on the official help site.

I do not just import keys without examining them first, so I had a look at the key from packages.mozilla.org:

pub rsa2048/C0BA5CE6DC6315A3 created: 2021-05-04 expires: never usage: SC trust: unknown validity: unknown [ unknown] (1). Artifact Registry Repository Signer <artifact-registry-repository-signer@google.com> Now, what I don't understand is the identity containing a reference to Google instead Mozilla: "Artifact Registry Repository Signer <artifact-registry-repository-signer@google.com>"

Could somebody help me understand that?

Thanks a lot in advance!

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Today I saw the AI chatbot in the sidebar for the first time (I remember turning the setting of in the Labs settings, but they turned it on IG). Looking the options, it supports a number of models, but all of them seems to be on a remote servers. Is there any way to use an LLM run on my own machine?

I just recommended someone to use Firefox for its excellent translation capability. And I think my reply warrants an entire post, so here is a copy of my reply. This is just a reminder that you can visit websites with other languages too. However Japanese and Korean are not supported yet, which would be helpful for me. Hopefully they add the support soon. But for German in example it works:

You could use a translation tool, for something that looks interesting to you. At least Firefox makes this easy, with its builtin translation functionality (without Google as far as I understand, and I think local/offline only, but can be wrong). Firefox is my main way to interact with Lemmy:

Directly in the addressbar for non native languages: !

Or through menu:

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BTW I just saw the link that describes it: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/website-translation

> Note: Unlike other browsers that rely on cloud services, Firefox keeps your data safe on your device. There's no privacy risk of sending text to third parties for analysis because translation happens on your device, not externally.

One more reason to use Firefox.

Edit: User Lazycog in the comments pointed out that you can also open a new tab for free text translations. Type about:translations in the addressbar and you get this:

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Edit: Another user Arthur Besse in the comments pointed out that you can translate current selection only too. And you need to install language packs, so those will be available offline too. Otherwise its online connected I assume.

Select text and right click, so you can translate that part only:

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Go to Firefox General Settings page, scroll down to Translations section and download the packages you need. Also checkout what its own settings has to offer, for some customization:

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I edited the title to switch Apple with Labor because that's the real gist of the news item, not that they had worked and organised at Apple, although that's no small part.

I'm not sure if this paywalled so here is a archive.today link in case it is.

I tried creating a single bookmark with search word But I can't get this to work. How can I bypass security to make it work ? Do I really have to enable debug mode ? Is it possible to switch debug mode without having to restart the browser (and discard all tabs)

Here is the code I tried

``` javascript:(async()=>{let t="S",n="GPT Classic",u="https://chatgpt.com/g/g-YyyyMT9XH-chatgpt-classic/?q=%25s",k="cc",g=(await PlacesUtils.bookmarks.search({parentGuid:PlacesUtils.bookmarks.toolbarGuid,title:t}))[0]?.guid||(await PlacesUtils.bookmarks.insert({parentGuid:PlacesUtils.bookmarks.toolbarGuid,title:t,type:PlacesUtils.bookmarks.TYPE_FOLDER})).guid;await PlacesUtils.bookmarks.insert({parentGuid:g,title:n,url:u}),await PlacesUtils.keywords.insert({keyword:k,url:u}),alert(Bookmark "${n}" added to folder "${t}" with keyword "${k}"!)})();

```

Crossposted from a community manager's post: https://reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1hwd6u7/join_mozilla_to_test_the_new_firefox_address_bar/

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Aside from the fact that it's relatively new and unknown, does this hold a candle to other Firefox-based projects? They seem to be competent by their own comparison tables.

Has anyone got any first-hand experience?

From https://reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1hokr0c/mozilla_chair_pay_vs_firefox_market_share_2023/m4aca4j/:

Total 2022 pay: $6,903,089 Total 2023 pay: $6,260,072 - a $643,017 decrease Base chair pay: $600,000 2023 chair bonuses and other incentives: $5,622,600

Sources:

• 2023 finances (direct PDF link)
• Previous finances
• Browser market share

For comparison, here are other executive salaries ($0 bonuses for each)

|Executive name|Title|Total Pay (2023)| |:-|:-|:-| |MARK SURMAN|PRESIDENT & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR|715,143| |J. BOB ALOTTA|SVP, GLOBAL PROGRAMS|508,138| |ANGELA PLOHMAN|COO, SECRETARY & TREASURER|452,234| |ASHLEY BOYD|SVP, GLOBAL ADVOCACY|427,701| |ZHILUN PANG|DIRECTOR OF FINANCE|273,069| |DAVID WALKER|SENIOR COUNSEL|268,565| |LAINIE DECOURSY|DIRECTOR, ORG EFFECTIVENESS|267,028| |JUAN BARANI|SENIOR DIRECTOR, GIFT PLANNING|262,879| |STEPHANIE WRIGHT|SR PROGRAM MANAGER, MOZFEST|236,785|

Solution: I just needed to disable Firefox Color in about:addons.

I set a theme with Firefox Color, I tried changing the theme in settings to light or dark but neither work. I'm wondering if there are other ways to do so in Firefox that I could try. I'm on zen browser which is why it may not have worked.

Solved: It turns out I needed to add https:// to the redirect URL. I now edited the redirect to be this:

{ "createdBy": "Redirector v3.5.3", "createdAt": "2024-12-25T00:25:04.487Z", "redirects": [ { "description": "sh.reddit.com submission page", "exampleUrl": "https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/submit?selftext=true", "exampleResult": "https://sh.reddit.com/r/firefox/submit?selftext=true", "error": null, "includePattern": "https://.?reddit.com/((r|u|user)/.?/submit.*)", "excludePattern": "", "patternDesc": "", "redirectUrl": "https://sh.reddit.com/$1", "patternType": "R", "processMatches": "noProcessing", "disabled": false, "grouped": false, "appliesTo": [ "main_frame" ] }, ] }

Using the Redirector addon, I wrote a redirect from a Reddit submit page to the new new Reddit submit page but it doesn't work when I go to https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/ and click "submit text", it just takes me to https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/submit?selftext=true despite the link working in the example box.

Reproduction: Install the addon, save the following as a json file, click on addon icons and select "edit redirects", then click import to select the json file.

{ "createdBy": "Redirector v3.5.3", "createdAt": "2024-12-22T15:43:42.356Z", "redirects": [ { "description": "sh.reddit.com submission page", "exampleUrl": "https://old.reddit.com/r/tds_roblox/submit", "exampleResult": "sh.reddit.com/r/tds_roblox/submit", "error": null, "includePattern": "[a-z]+?:\\/\\/.+?reddit.com\\/((r|u|user)\\/.+?\\/submit.?$)", "excludePattern": "", "patternDesc": "", "redirectUrl": "sh.reddit.com/$1", "patternType": "R", "processMatches": "noProcessing", "disabled": false, "grouped": false, "appliesTo": [ "main_frame" ] }, { "description": "Old Reddit", "exampleUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit", "exampleResult": "https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit", "error": null, "includePattern": "[a-z]+?:\\/\\/.?\\.reddit\\.com\\/(((r|u|user)\\/.)|$)", "excludePattern": "[a-z]+?:\\/\\/.+?reddit.com\\/((r|u|user)\\/.+?\\/submit.?$)", "patternDesc": "", "redirectUrl": "https://old.reddit.com/$1", "patternType": "R", "processMatches": "noProcessing", "disabled": false, "grouped": false, "appliesTo": [ "main_frame" ] } ] }

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I mean, come on.

other than changing theme or userChrome any other options?

Right now is the best period of time yet for Firefox-based browser, especially when most alternative browsers are Chrome-based.

While there are a bunch of forks like Librewolf and Palemoon, they provide features mainly for power users like hardened privacy and tweaked user-prefs. A year ago the only fork I knew of, based on recent stable versions of Firefox and added productivity features on top was Floorp. I was very surprised at the hype and sudden popularity of Zen Browser in the past few months and have been curious why it grew so much faster than Floorp which has been around for much longer, look at the Github star graph: https://star-history.com/#zen-browser%2Fdesktop=&Date=. Zen Browser currently has 19.3K stars while Floorp has 6.1K.

Reasons I can think of are the following: heavy promotion of the browser by the devs and community on places like Reddit along with emphasizing its 'zen' philosophy, really fast development (it now has way more features than Floorp), and the Zen mods store, where you can install CSS mods.

What are your thoughts and reasons for Zen Browser becoming so popular so fast? (while its not mainstream, it did grow fast in among Firefox and power users)

Recently I started using my own self hosted search engine - LibreX...

When I went to add it as the default search engine for Firefox on the desktop - I found that the option to add custom search engines gone (replaced with a 'smarter' way??)

Here is the work around I found..

Go to the about:config page

Paste browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh into the search area and set the value to True

Now when you go to the Settings page, you should see an Add button to add a custom search engine (like you used too...)

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My red heart emoji (❤️) looks weird in #Firefox

This has been the case for quite a while now and I cannot for the life of my figure out why that is. I never explicitly made it this way. It's only in Firefox and a machine with pretty much the exact same #NixOS config does not exhibit this issue.

I tried clearing unused fonts out of \~/.local/share/fonts/ (no emoji fonts remain) and updated the fc-cache but it didn't help. (Obviously I restarted Firefox.)

Any ideas?

@firefox #Linux #freedesktop

Edit:

Seems like three of these were posted on the same day for some reason:

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