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I was once told that Firefox users don’t always do enough to celebrate the small wins. Here’s something that I consider to be a big one, but might not be int...

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Mozilla continues to champion user privacy on the web, teaming up with Fastly and Divvi Up to bring privacy-preserving technology to Firefox.

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Based on technology from Fakespot.

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We recently identified a bug in the addons.mozilla.org (AMO) external API that caused all signing requests to mark extension submissions as being Android compatible. A ...

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I've configured my android phone to connect to cloudflare dns using the one.one.one.one server. When I go to https://1.1.1.1/help in Firefox for android, the page shows that it cannot use the DoH protocol, but Dot works. That wouldn't be too much of a problem but, since Firefox has rolled out ECH and it requires DoH, Firefox won't be using ECH. Is there a way to fix that. Thanks.

P. S.: I should point out that when I visit cloudflare's dns help page chrome for android does use DoH.

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Highlights Some more great work from our performance team means that sites using Vue.js 3.0 will run better in Firefox! We’ve added some new behaviours to session restore, and ...

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I like to tab trough the drop-down via the keyboard. The (…) button is a tab stop, so it gets in the way.

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I used to work in the field of machine translation and would like to know more about how they are doing this translation. 10 years ago, we saw the explosion of statistical and training based translations. However, these are better suited for the cloud, so does anyone know where I can find info on how Firefox does their translations?

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In August we encouraged developers to start preparing their desktop extensions for Firefox Android open availability on addons.mozilla.org (AMO). The project is progressing well and ...

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Browser choice screens are back on the menu. Most notably, the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) will require them from 2024. But lawmakers and regulators in many other jurisdictions have also been looking at choice screens alongside other interventions to address deep-seated competition issues in browsers and browser engines (explored in more detail in our 2022 ‘Five Walled Gardens’ report).

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Nowadays, our cars are anything but a private space — they are full blown data collection nightmares on wheels.

New Mozilla research has revealed that popular global car brands — like Chevrolet, Nissan, Toyota, Kia, Audi, Jeep, Honda, Volkswagen, and more — are collecting your deeply personal data, like your genetic information and sexual activity. This invasive harvesting of information is collected via a web of sensors, microphones, cameras and the phones, apps, and connected services you use in your vehicle.

Car companies are brazenly collecting deeply personal information about people the moment they get into a car, often without explicit consent to do so. And that’s why the Mozilla community is now coming together to force car companies to respect our right to privacy. Add your name to ask car companies to stop collecting, sharing and selling our very personal information.

Find out more about our research on cars in the official launch blog post.

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I use Firefox 117.0.1 on MacOS at the moment. After recent update, I was able to see this built-in translate feature in url tab. It can now translate pages offline and more or less okay quality for me.

I use the same version of Firefox on Windows. But this feature is not available and I cannot see it in settings either. My question is, I know this is beta but is this MacOS only for now or I somehow enabled this feature on MacOS?

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I'm on the latest version of firefox and Autofill and Form settings are missing on the privacy and security settings. Where can i find it?

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Hi all,

It's a long time that I'm using Firefox as my main browser on my Linux (Pop_Os 22.04 Ubuntu based, Gnome) machine.

From about a week I'm having an annoying problem: with every Google search i do i get an annoying notification to grant access to my location , see here 👇
https://pasteboard.co/7CBrWgTwSd4t.png
I get this popup notification every time i do a google search, also if i repeat the search in the same tab.

I had a look at the Gnome privacy settings with no luck.

I don't know if it's something related to Gnome not saving the preference or if it's Firefox.

Anyone has any idea ?

Thanks 🙏🏻

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I have a major issue with Google search on my PC. Google search results are only showing me the first page and won't scroll or offer me the Goooooogle page selector. I have tried turning off and on continuous scrolling in settings and nothing changes - I don't see the page selector. If I sign out, I get the page selector and settings allows me to choose results per page. This happens regardless of region selected or whether choose automatic region. It doesn't affect images but the 'all' tab is useless if I am signed in which is, frankly, a nightmare. This happens on my mobile too, but only if I show desktop page, the mobile version works and this only happens to me with firefox :(

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I've always been frustrated with the ever-changing prices of products on Temu, so have created this extension to record product prices in the background so that they are searchable later. It's still in development, but I hope to add more features soon.

Github repository: https://github.com/hexfactor/TemuTracker

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Hi, I've been using nightly for about 5-6 years now the latest nightly version feels so slow and having frequent small annoying freezes, is there a bug I can track about it or I can provide more info? I've experienced this on my PC and laptop.

It feels slow loading pages also clicking the middle mouse button rarely works properly. (opening links and closing tabs)

I haven't tried to reset Firefox yet, but I will if other people think their nightly is working properly.

p.s I didn't find a post about nightly that's why I created a new thread.

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Say I have a window of mostly music that I want to open with shortcut a, and a window of work stuff that I want to open with shortcut b. Is there anything I can do to get firefox shortcuts to remember the windows separately? I don't want to use chrome or a different browser as the second window, but that would work for specifically what I want to do.

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Hi, I'm having this issue with Firefox where it will try to reload/load all my tabs and my system CPU usage will jump to 100% and in the about:performance page it will show Firefox at 140% CPU usage.
I've tried to reinstall, Firefox. I've also tried removing extensions, as that's where I think the problem might be coming from. But it didn't seem to solve anything. I've also gone into about:config and set blockautorefresh to true, but this didn't help either.
I was able to go into about:performance and extract one of the profile performance for the Firefox system. Furthermore, I however am not knowledgeable about Firefox and or web development and the services to understand and isolate the problem that is causing this issue.
I'm running on macOS, and I've only recently switched to Firefox, as I used to run Arc as my main browser.
Has anyone had any similar issues to this and are there any fixes that might work to prevent this from happening. It severely impacts my work as I'm not able to use Firefox until I restart it, and that would be happening ever 10–15 minutes.

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Firefox performance on Vue.js has improved significantly throughout the year. Most recently, we sped up reactivity with Proxy optimizations.

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Mozilla’s latest edition of *Privacy Not Included reveals how 25 major car brands collect and share deeply personal data, including sexual activity, facial expressions, and genetic and health information.

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