So, I'm staying with #Firefox, even though their CEO is tone-deaf and clumsy and destroying #Mozilla's reputation because today I had to remove 6 extensions in #Vivaldi (my sometimes alternate browser), several of which were security-related, because of Google's changes. I miss them. I want them back.

Bottom line. I definitely feel more secure using Firefox than a Chrome-based browser, and I won't let my disappointment with Mozilla kill off the only alternative to Google. I will continue using Firefox.

As far as using a fork of Firefox, if Firefox doesn't live on, neither will these forks.

Critics said the new terms implied Mozilla was asking users for the rights to whatever data they input or upload through Firefox.

#Mozilla #Firefox 136 Is Now Available for Download with Vertical Tabs, Official ARM64 #Linux Binaries, and Much More https://9to5linux.com/mozilla-firefox-136-is-out-with-vertical-tabs-and-official-arm64-linux-binaries

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware

Yubikeys don't work out of the box for the LibreWolf Flatpak because they sandboxed it so hard.

No big deal. Just had to go into the KDE Plasma Flatpak permission settings and let it have access to all the systems. Which is what Firefox was allowed anyway with a system install.

See why I am divorcing you Firefox? #Firefox #LibreWolf #Privacy #Security

LibreWolf is my main now.
Firefox, I hope you recover from "paying CEO millions". It sounds like a fatal condition. #WebBrowsers #Firefox #LibreWolf

Mozilla’s legal updates from last week are the gift that keep on giving. Take a look at the table below (extracted from the Firefox Privacy Notice):

Mozilla seemingly changes Firefox Terms of Use in order to get rid of wordings such as "we don't sell your data".

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b61939b7f4310eb80c5470e

#Mozilla #Firefox #Privacy #Data #GDPR #Surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism

Without disabling fingerprinting, zoom options aren't saved, dark mode doesn't really work and Netflix is blocked. But is it even worth running Librewolf if you enable fingerprinting? Isn't that one of the main reasons why one runs Librewolf?

Reckon after the last couple of years of shenanigans, the ToU update for #Mozilla's #Firefox will be the last nail in their coffin.

RIP Mozilla.

Another day, another @[email protected] video about Mozilla's terms of use update.

https://youtu.be/xn4mbx8hdlE

To me, this doesn’t feel like a "crisis averted" or "business as usual" situation, but at least Mozilla is addressing it.

I'm very happy with Zen Browser, and I'm considering switching to IronFox on Android. Folks smarter than me say Firefox’s MPL license makes it pretty safe for forks to remove any data-harvesting code if it comes to that.

#Firefox #Privacy #OpenSource #FOSS #TechNews

How my Firefox became a LibreWolf

New blog-post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1065/how-my-firefox-became-a-librewolf

#firefox #librewolf #tos #webcomic

Given #mozilla now-ambiguous statements about privacy, what do we think about using #firefox Relay for email masking/alias?

Relay is a part of my ongoing effort to tighten up email security as I de-Google my online life. I like that Relay is free since I'm trying a bunch of new stuff and may not like it.
Otherwise my only loyalty to it is that I've already invested the time to set up the masks and forwarding, NBD.

#firefoxrelay #email #privacy #gmail

Are we selling your data? Who can say, really? What does "selling" even mean? We'll just need you to agree to new some terms of use to be sure we can get away with whatever it is we'll be doing. Don't worry about it!

#firefox

An update on #Mozilla terms of use after their initial change. #Firefox

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/update-on-terms-of-use/

I'm not looking forward to the moaning about how important #firefox security fixes are. A project that pushes "security fixes" continuously for 20 years is insecure on a conceptual level.

Mozilla removed the promise to "never sell your personal data” from its FAQ.

Time to switch

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b61939b7f4310eb80c5470e#diff-a24e74e4595fa85440a2f4e7e5dcfe68aba6e1e593aef05a2d35581a91423847L62

#mozilla #firefox #privacy

Why does #Mozilla think the few people that are still using #Firefox, are there? The people that were still using it in the darkest times before Quantum, when performance was atrocious. Yep, it's because #privacy. What do they think will happen now that they have modified their TOS to sell your data? 🤦‍♂️
https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b61939b7f4310eb80c5470e

I'm going full hardcore and use Lynx, eff it.

(https://lynx.browser.org/)

#Lynx #Browser #Mozilla #Firefox

Anything you say or do on Firefox may be used by Mozilla against you. You have the right to use a different browser. If you cannot find a browser that doesn’t fuck you over one way or another, one will not be provided for you because capitalism is working exactly as designed.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-terms-of-use/

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/information-about-the-new-terms-of-use-and-updated-privacy/td-p/87735

#Mozilla #Firefox #TermsOfUse #SiliconValley #BigTech #USA #AI

In light of recent Mozilla developments, I'm considering switching to a fork. But maintaining a browser fork is a pretty massive piece of work, so I'm wondering which ones are at least decent at that.

On Wednesday, Mozilla introduced legal updates to users of Firefox, and something feels off. I read, and re-read the new Terms of Use and while much of it reads like standard boilerplate from any tech company, there’s a new section that is unexpected:

We don’t need a fork of Firefox.

We need a fork of Mozilla.

#Mozilla #Firefox

We’re introducing a Terms of Use for Firefox for the first time, along with an updated Privacy Notice.

Mozilla Firefox is officially dead.

My back is officially turned.

What options remain?

For now I'm probably going to be using Gnome Web (i.e. Epiphany) for most straightforward web browsing. It works more than well enough for the stuff I do. Mobile version for Android? Does it exist? iOS?

I'll use Vivaldi for lame "modern" sites that a "simple" browser like Epiphany can't render properly. Mobile?

We'll see how far that goes. This may be less and less of an issue. The big player sites like Google, Meta, etc. are not somewhere I tend to visit.

Banking sites are a mixed bag of necessity.

I'm about to let my Amazon Prime account lapse on its yearly renewal since I won't use them any more.

At least Vivaldi seems to be a decent organization. Technology is based on Chromium though - and this is why I haven't started using it.

I will need to investigate Vivaldi's built-in adblocking since manifest v2 isn't a thing under Chromium.

I used to care about keeping the Mozilla rendering engine alive and relevant but now not so much.

The Firefox forks I've tried have been a mixed bag of whether their new versions follow re-enabling the privacy invasive things that Mozilla upstream does when it sends out a new version.

Time to leave them behind as well I guess.

A lot will depend on how much I miss ublock origin.

If there is a mass exodus from all the Firefox based forks then ublock may cease to exist.

There's a rant in there about pi-holing all browsers but I don't have it in me ATM.

(Posted with Epiphany)

https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/114071999359445580

#Mozilla #Firefox #Gnome #Web #Epiphany #Vivaldi #internet #SocialMedia #ublock #ublockorigin #browser #Google #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #Amazon #Chrome #Chromium #Privacy #Rights #DRM #DataSovereignty #Sovereignty #Fork #Floorp #LibreWolf #WaterFox #ZenBrowser #AdBlock

I've been working on switching from macOS to Linux. I tried moving my Firefox profile (actually Zen Browser but I don't think it makes a big difference) but it was very laggy when opening, and addons didn't work. So I'm just gonna do it the safe way: exporting my session with Tab Session Manager, places.sqlite file (which contains browsing history), bookmarks, addon data, and using syncing. I'm wondering how well copy and pasting the profile folder between OSes worked for other users.