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Mozilla Firefox 102 Is Now Available for Download, Adds Geoclue Support on Linux
Submitted by Marius Nestor on Monday 27th of June 2022 09:47:14 AM Filed under



Firefox 102 is now here to introduce support for Geoclue on Linux, a D-Bus service that provides geolocation services when needed by certain websites.
It also improves the Picture-in-Picture feature by adding support for subtitles and captions for the Dailymotion, Disney+ Hotstar, Funimation, HBO Max, SonyLIV, and Tubi video streaming services, and further improves the PDF reading mode when using the High Contrast mode.
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Mozilla/Firefox Leftovers
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 21st of June 2022 09:41:30 PM-
Understanding Apple’s Private Click Measurement [Ed: Mozilla now makes a semi-apology for mass surveillance; every now and then Mozilla openly admits it does not value users' privacy, causing an uproar that can take years to quell or calm down while Firefox keeps losing millions of users every month]
Private advertising technology proposals could greatly improve privacy for web users. Web advertising has a reputation for poor privacy practices. Firefox, other browsers, and the web community are collaborating on finding ways to support advertising while maintaining strong, technical privacy protections for users.
This series of posts aims to contribute to the ongoing conversation regarding the future of advertising on the web by providing technical analyses on proposals that have been put forward by various players in the ecosystem to address the questions of what might replace third-party cookies. In this installment, we look at Apple’s Private Click Measurement (PCM).
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Reflecting on 10 years of time well spent with Pocket [Ed: Mozilla is pushing spyware instead of Firefox]
Ten years ago, a small, yet mighty team launched Pocket because we felt that people deserved a better way to consume content on the internet. We wanted it to be easy — “as simple an action as putting it in your pocket” — and empowering, giving people the means to engage with the web on their own terms. We championed the save as a fundamental internet action — akin to browse, search and share — but more than any other, allowing you to create your own corner of the internet.
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Joey Amato, Publisher of Pride Journeys, Shares What Brings Him Joy Online [Ed: Mozilla quit being a technical company]
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WWW: Curl and Mozilla Firefox
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 16th of June 2022 08:42:35 PM
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curl --insecure
WARNING: be sure you know what you’re doing! this is especially true to knowing what website you’re trying to access. It may be fine to ignore SSL warnings for a local dev environment on your laptop or for accessing internal URLs in your private infrastructure. But anything on the public Internet that gives you an SSL warning must be reviwed before you progress.
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curl user survey 2022 analysis | daniel.haxx.se
Once again I’ve collected the numbers, generated graphs, scratched my head and tried to understand what users mean and how to best use this treasure trove of user feedback.
The curl user survey 2022 ran for two full weeks in the end of May. Here is the document with all the numbers, graphs and analysis from this year’s data.
You will learn what protocols curl users use (HTTPS and HTTP), which TLS backend is the most popular (OpenSSL) and which the top platform is (Linux). And a lot more.
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Kids are growing up in a very online world. What’s a concerned parent to do?
Technology is easy to blame for the mental health crisis that kids are facing. But according to experts, it’s not that simple.
A rare public advisory from the U.S. surgeon general in December 2021 warned that young people are facing unprecedented challenges that have had a “devastating” effect on their mental health. These difficulties were already widespread before the pandemic started in 2020 — with up to 1 in 5 people in the U.S. ages 3 to 17 having a reported mental, emotional, developmental or behavioral disorder.
We often attribute the crisis to technology, particularly social media. After all, young people today are spending much of their time glued to screens like no generation before them. One study conducted in 2021 found that teens spent 7.7 hours per day in front of screens for activities unrelated to school. But there is not a definitive correlation between mental health and social media use.
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Hacks Decoded: Bikes and Boomboxes with Samuel Aboagye [Ed: What does that have to do with the Web, with Mozilla, or with Firefox?]
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Firefox Done More Safely
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 15th of June 2022 11:01:14 AM
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Mozilla Firefox locks its browser’s cookie jar
On Tuesday, Mozilla and its Firefox browser announced Total Cookie Protection, a powerful way for Firefox to preserve privacy while allowing websites to recognize you and provide customized experiences.
Total Cookie Protection is rolling out to all Firefox users worldwide, the company announced on Tuesday. It will be on by default.
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Volunteer as an alpha tester
Tor Browser receives hundreds of changes a year: from updates to Firefox – the underlying browser on which Tor Browser is based – to entirely new features designed to help protect at-risk and censored users. However, each change made to Tor Browser has the potential to introduce new and sometimes elusive bugs.
In order to find and fix these bugs before they reach the majority of our users, we apply updates to an early version of Tor Browser known as Tor Browser Alpha before releasing them more widely. Then, as a small nonprofit, we rely on a community of volunteer testers to try out our alphas before their general release in order to keep Tor Browser available on so many platforms.
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Mozilla Enables Firefox’s “Total Cookie Protection” Privacy Feature by Default on Desktop
Submitted by Marius Nestor on Tuesday 14th of June 2022 02:12:09 PMOne of Firefox’s strongest privacy features, Total Cookie Protection was first introduced with the Firefox 86 release of the open-source web browser, was extended to the Private Browsing mode with the Firefox 89 release, and further improved in Firefox 91 to prevent data leaks. If you haven’t heard, Total Cookie Protection protects your privacy by confining cookies to the website where they’re created. This prevents tracking companies from using the said cookies to track your browsing activity as you navigate across multiple websites.
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Mozilla Introduces Local Machine Translation Tool for Firefox
Submitted by arindam1989 on Monday 13th of June 2022 05:40:23 PMMozilla introduced an Add-on to help you translate web pages locally without transmitting the data to the cloud or server.
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Mozilla Thunderbird Open-Source Email Client Is Coming to Android Devices
Submitted by Marius Nestor on Monday 13th of June 2022 01:00:28 PMThe Mozilla Thunderbird and K-9 Mail projects work on an improved version of the K-9 Mail open-source Android email app by offering users a better account setup experience using Thunderbird's account auto-configuration wizard, the ability to sync Thunderbird desktop and mobile apps, support for message filters, and improved folder management.
In time, this work that the developers of the Mozilla Thunderbird and K-9 Mail projects plan to implement in the coming months will transform the existing K-9 Mail app for Android into Thunderbird for Android.
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Mozilla and Firefox Leftovers
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 10th of June 2022 11:00:33 PM-
Ephemeron Tables aka JavaScript WeakMaps and How They Work
I read Ephemerons explained today after finding it on Hacker News, and it was good but lengthy. It was also described in terms of the Squeak language and included post-mortem finalization, which is unavailable in JavaScript (and frankly sounds terrifying from an implementation point of view!) I thought I’d try my hand at writing up a shorter and hopefully simpler explanation covering only what is available in JS.
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Will Kahn-Greene: Dennis v1.0.0 released! Retrospective! Handing it off!
Dennis is a Python command line utility (and library) for working with localization.
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Anne van Kesteren: After Mozilla
Mozilla will be represented on the WHATWG Steering Group by Tantek Çelik going forward.
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Tony-nominated Arnulfo Maldonado Shares Pride and Joy From His Corner of the Internet [Ed: What does this have to do with Firefox, Mozilla?]
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Web Browsers, Firefox, and Leaving Mozilla
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 9th of June 2022 10:21:17 PM
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Firefox 101.0.1 fixes issues in Mac, Windows and Linux versions - gHacks Tech News
Mozilla Firefox 101.0.1 will be released later today (if you are reading this on June 9, 2022). The new point release of Firefox Stable fixes three main issues and several smaller issues, including a rare issue on Windows that is making the browser unusable.
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Anne van Kesteren: Leaving Mozilla
I will be officially leaving Mozilla on the last day of June. My last working day will be June 16. Perhaps I should say I will be leaving the Mozilla Corporation — MoCo, as it’s known internally. After all, once you’re a Mozillian, you’re always a Mozillian. I was there for a significant part of my life — nine years, most of them great, some tough. I was empowered and supported by leadership to move between cities and across countries. Started by moving to London (first time I lived abroad) in February 2013, then Zürich in May 2014, Engelberg (my personal favorite) in May 2015, Zürich again in February 2017, and now here in Berlin since September 2018. In the same time period I moved in with my wonderful partner and we became the lucky parents of two amazing children. It isn’t always easy, but I wouldn’t trade it for the world. They bring me joy every day.
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So long, and thanks for all the browser engines. And remember, always ask: is this good for the web?
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Vue Advanced Chat : An Open-Source Chat Room App With Vue.js
Vue Advanced Chat is a web application service that leverages multiple technology, it is compatible with Vue 2, Vue 3, React and Angular.
It is an open-source, flexible, and customizable.
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CSS layouts are so much better than they used to be - Oli Warner
The Holy Grail was A List Apart’s famous article, a culmination of years of forebears delicately floating things around, abusing padding and negative margins to achieve something it took a <table> to do before. It’s hard to appreciate 16 years on, but that article was my bible for a while.
As CSS standards improve and old versions of IE died off we saw the rise of CSS Frameworks, third party code, pre-hacked for edge-cases, just follow their markup, use their classes and everything would work. Most of the time. I’ve been through a few: Blueprint, 960, Bootstrap and most recently Tailwind.
And I hate them all. That’s not fair. They’ve helped me, professionally, cope with an increasing number of browsers, and increasingly complex layouts (waves in responsive), and they’ve definitely got better —depending on your opinion on utility-first classes— but they all reset to something slightly different, and while the form classes are genuinely helpful, and they all served a purpose for layout, I’d rather have not depended on any of them. It’s those moments where you notice that somebody decided that display: table was the best option to meet IE10 support. And until PurgeCSS came along, they also meant a serious hit to the page weight.
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Firefox with VA-API for brave Fedorans
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 8th of June 2022 09:24:54 PMIt’s been a long journey since the first VA-API implementation in Firefox. Two years ago Firefox 77.0 come to Fedora with accelerated video playback on Wayland which was more a tech preview than a working solution.
Since then X11 support was added, fixed many bugs, AV1 decoding was implemented so we can claim VA-API code as mature enough to enable it for testing in Firefox Nightly 103. As we don’t want to scare peaceful Ubuntu users and grandmas watching their favorite show, VA-API is enabled in Nightly channel only and stock Firefox 103 won’t be shipped with that.
But ‘Real Men‘ wants more challenge. ‘Quiche Eaters’ can use polished software, LTS distros or even Mac. That’s nothing for adventurers running on the edge. Thus new Firefox updates (Fedora 35, Fedora 36) has VA-API enabled by default ahead of upstream to get what you asked for, brave Fedorans.
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digiKam 7.7.0 is released
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