Ich benutze seit Jahren Tabgruppen[1], ein Google Chrome feature. Turns Out: #Firefox kann das seit v133 auch, muss aber manuell in den about:config aktiviert werden. Für mich ein Game-Changer!
[1] https://blog.google/products/chrome/manage-tabs-with-google-chrome/
I've been inspired by @art to make Bocchi the Firefox !
Please use as you like
#firefox #BocchiTheRock
did you order the book _Careless People_ because #Meta ( #Facebook ) wants you not to?
Me too.
Another thing Meta wants you to do is leave their ad tracking feature turned on in #Firefox. It's easy to turn off https://blog.zgp.org/turn-off-advertising-features-in-firefox/
I am officially #Mozilla free:
#Firefox ------------------> #Waterfox
Firefox Dev Editon --> Waterfox extra profile
#Thunderbird ------------> Evolution
And thanks for all the fish...
Had enough of big tech browser corpos like Google (Chrome) or Mozilla (Firefox) collecting your data and selling them to Advertisers?
Then it is time to uninstall them and get yourself a Norwegian browser Vivaldi with 0 external investors!
People who had willingly opted into sharing telemetry data by running Nightly or Beta builds of #Firefox to help Mozilla make a better product – those are the people who are blindsided by this change. We chose to opt in to share data with Mozilla, and the way that the data was used changed after we made our decision – and it wasn’t really clear that it was the case.
Instead, Mozilla had successfully enabled data collection in its largest user population (the release branch of #Firefox) and was now able to use that data for #advertising purposes. That wasn’t how it was reported, that isn’t how we saw it - but that seems to be what happened.
I looked on #reddit and the general tech press to see if the community had understood what is obvious today – enabling this setting by default allowed #Mozilla to further monetize the new tab page. I found afnan-khan’s sad submission of Mozilla’s privacy notice post. 13 net upvotes, 0 comments.
A massively consequential change with regards to data sharing in advertising, and the #Firefox community had nothing to say about it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/736o33/improving_the_firefox_privacy_notice/
It’s finally making sense. #Mozilla reduced granularity into the options for data collection in #Firefox, enabled additional data collection by default, and gave itself the ability to use this new data for advertising purposes. Users would have to opt out of this data collection for it not to be used for advertising purposes (a purpose that Mozilla in this iteration is not forthright about).
Take a look at the #Firefox Preferences UI that Mozilla is telling us to toggle if we don’t want our data being processed for ads. I don’t see anything here says that this setting is about sharing data with advertisers. I have to go to the Privacy Notice to understand that. That doesn’t feel very upfront to me.
Ever since this setting has existed, Mozilla contributors and employees have told people to enable it, in order to ensure that Mozilla developers have insight into how people use Firefox, to help make #Firefox better. While this post will prove my (naive) impression wrong, I had never seen anyone mention that this setting shared data with advertisers.
And yet, that is what Mozilla is telling us.
I tried to add a tampermonkey script to my mastodon client that automatically changes the input language based on some simple heuristic
… alas, no luck, it seems basically impossible to set the dropdown value because React is in the way. 
How do I start a #firefox window so it remains isolated from the other firefox windows ?
It'd be to use it as if it was a separate application... Or am I better off using a different browser ?
TL;DR: With Firefox 56, #Mozilla combined Firefox Health Report and Telemetry data into a single setting called “technical and interaction data”, which was then enabled by default. This included data about advertising within Firefox’s New Tab page, along with a lot of other technical information about the installation of #Firefox. The Firefox preferences UI makes no mention of usage of this technical data for advertising purposes. https://www.quippd.com/writing/2025/03/12/mozilla-has-been-sharing-aggregated-firefox-data-with-advertisers-since-2017-when-it-enabled-telemetry-by-default.html
Takie tam... Jak używam #Firefox na starszych komputerach, ze znikomą ilością RAM.
At last, starting from Firefox 137, Firefox will finally publish ARM64 (AArch64) builds as a Flatpak on Flathub!
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-beta/rev/d32c19f08688
#Flatpak @FlatpakApps #Flathub @flathub #Mozilla #Firefox #Linux #AArch64 #ARM64
As promised, here is an interview with @ryanleesipes from #Thunderbird, on the whole #Mozilla and #Firefox terms of use situation.
We talk about why this had to happen, how Thunderbird will handle their own Terms of Use, what's happening at Mozilla, and what's changing.
Had a look at my Pi Hole blocked queries list and there are entries for:
incoming.telemetry.mozilla.org
I thought I had disabled all the 'phone home' functionality in Firefox, but it appears to be still sending telemetry. about:telemetry claims it is disabled but there are several telemetry settings set to true in about:config. I don't know how to turn these off in settings, the only option seems to be to set:
toolkit.telemetry.server
to an empty address.
Mozilla repeatedly calls Firefox an independent browser in their defense of why Google should keep funding the development. Independent?
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/internet-policy/proposed-remedies-browsers/
https://social.nikkasystems.com/@karlemilnikka/114127469613324001
Mia’s Simulacrum 
