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OhWeh 🤍 #RIPNatenom 💔<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>kim_harding</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> + <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Thunderbird" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thunderbird</span></a> + <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Libreoffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Libreoffice</span></a> </p><p>Eine OfficeSuite, die der von MS IMHO überlegen ist. Nicht billiger, wenn man regelmäßig spendet, aber besser. Nutze ich privat und beruflich (internationale Kunden) seit vielen Jahren.</p>
aaron<p>Just watched the March 2025 update of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ladybird" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ladybird</span></a> project. I’m impressed how far this project has come. Great stuff! </p><p>Unrelated, but surprising side note: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Safari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Safari</span></a> took over <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> in the web-platform-tests. </p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/HsPIgTdUd_I" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/HsPIgTdUd_I</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/webdev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webdev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/browser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>browser</span></a></p>
Tomas Ekeli<p><span>ah, the vertical tabs are now available without messing with flags in </span><a href="https://plud.re/tags/firefox" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#firefox</a><span> <br><br>i like them!</span></p>
Sören Hentzschel 🦊<p><a href="https://social.agenedia.com/tags/Mozilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mozilla</span></a> veröffentlicht <a href="https://social.agenedia.com/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> 137 für <a href="https://social.agenedia.com/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Android</span></a> <a href="https://www.soeren-hentzschel.at/firefox-android/firefox-137-android/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">soeren-hentzschel.at/firefox-a</span><span class="invisible">ndroid/firefox-137-android/</span></a></p>
jack 💥<p>So is <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>firefox</span></a> safe to use again? Was all that EULA drama for not?</p>
isAAAc 🏴🏴‍☠️ ⏚ 🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.top/@dt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dt</span></a></span> </p><p>je vais plutot arreter d'utiliser firefox et basculer sur LibreWolf, </p><p>ils ont fait leur choix, éclairé, <br>je fais de même.</p><p><a href="https://librewolf.net/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">librewolf.net/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.krashboyz.org/tags/IA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IA</span></a> <a href="https://masto.krashboyz.org/tags/Mozilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mozilla</span></a> <a href="https://masto.krashboyz.org/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> <a href="https://masto.krashboyz.org/tags/LibreWolf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LibreWolf</span></a></p>
Jor ☝️😐<p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Astuce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Astuce</span></a> Pour désactiver le nouveau chatbot dans <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> (qui est maintenant activé par défaut) :</p><ul><li>allez dans « about:config »</li><li>cherchez la clé « browser.ml.chat.enabled »</li><li>allez chercher les gens corrompu·e·s de Mozilla corp. qui ont décidé d’intégrer cette merde de force alors que personne n’en veut et pétez leur les genoux</li><li>mettez la valeur à « false »</li></ul><p>Voilà de rien. À bientôt pour d’autres astuces. 😐</p>
Mark Stosberg<p>After test-driving various browsers, I'm back with <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a></p><p>I tried Chromium, qutebrowser, Brave, Vivaldi, Zen &amp; Floorp.</p><p>The minimal keyboard-driven UI of Qute was my favorite, but it lacks some mainstream extension support that I need.</p><p>Vivaldi can be customized with details like toolbar at the bottom, but had some crashers and oddities.</p><p>Zen's "Compact mode" is great, but it has a serious light-mode theming bug.</p><p>Firefox isn't perfect, but is today's sweet spot.</p><p>What's your fav browser?</p>
Hacker News 50<p>A special build of curl that can impersonate Chrome and Firefox</p><p>Link: <a href="https://github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/lwthiker/curl-imper</span><span class="invisible">sonate</span></a><br>Discussion: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43571099" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4</span><span class="invisible">3571099</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.lansky.name/tags/chrome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chrome</span></a> <a href="https://social.lansky.name/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>firefox</span></a></p>
.:\dGh/:.<p>Guys, remember, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mozilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mozilla</span></a> has pivoted from a Software-driven to a Marketing-driven.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ads</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DataCollection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataCollection</span></a>, whatever they need to keep the lights on as the Google Search deal seems to cease this year.</p><p>I cannot blame them, but yeah, I don't see anyone donating $400M every year, nor pushing Firefox to 50% of browser market share.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Browsers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Browsers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Internet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WebBrowser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebBrowser</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Web</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/InternetBrowser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InternetBrowser</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Quantum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Quantum</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LibreWolf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LibreWolf</span></a></p>
TechHelpKB.com 📚<p>In response to Mozilla's recent privacy changes, Zorin OS 17.3 replaces Firefox -- its previous default browser -- with Brave, albeit a customized version that hides features like Brave Rewards, Wallet, Leo AI, and more.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/brave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>brave</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/browser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>browser</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/zorin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zorin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>firefox</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/03/zorin_os_173/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theregister.com/2025/04/03/zor</span><span class="invisible">in_os_173/</span></a></p>
N-gated Hacker News<p>🚀 Oh wow, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/curl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>curl</span></a> can now play dress-up as <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Chrome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chrome</span></a> or Firefox! 🎭 Because what the world really needed was more identity crises in HTTP requests. 🙄<br><a href="https://github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/lwthiker/curl-imper</span><span class="invisible">sonate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HTTPrequests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HTTPrequests</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/identitycrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>identitycrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ngated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ngated</span></a></p>
Hacker News<p>A special build of curl that can impersonate Chrome and Firefox</p><p><a href="https://github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/lwthiker/curl-imper</span><span class="invisible">sonate</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/curl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>curl</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/impersonation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>impersonation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Chrome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chrome</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/webdev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webdev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/open" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>open</span></a>-source</p>
Carlos Fernández Miguel<p>If you need to share files (up to 2.5GB!) with end-to-end encryption and a link that automatically expires try Send (<a href="https://send.vis.ee/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">send.vis.ee/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>). It's free! Service not affiliated with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mozilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mozilla</span></a> or <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a>.</p>
Christian Mayer<p>Firefox 137 comes with Tab groups. For some users this feature is not yet rolled out with v137, but you can activate it via about:config by switching 'browser.tabs.groups.enabled' from false to true.</p><p><a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/137.0/releasenotes/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/137.</span><span class="invisible">0/releasenotes/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mozilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mozilla</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a></p>
ComputerBase<p>Firefox&nbsp;137: Browser-Update bringt Tab-Gruppen, neue Suche und mehr <a href="https://www.computerbase.de/news/apps/firefox-137-tab-gruppen-ueberarbeitete-suche-und-neue-funktionen.92047/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">computerbase.de/news/apps/fire</span><span class="invisible">fox-137-tab-gruppen-ueberarbeitete-suche-und-neue-funktionen.92047/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>firefox</span></a></p>
Alexander Deplov 🇩🇪<p>New icons applied! </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>firefox</span></a></p>
wydow<p>C'est moi ou bien on ne peut plus ajouter de moteur de recherche sur Firefox ? Je n'ai pas le bouton &lt;Add&gt; j'ai que &lt;Remove&gt;. Sur Librewolf il y est bien pourtant.</p><p>Edit : Oh et Google ne peut plus être retirer alors que Bing et DuckDuckGo si !!</p><p><a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Librewolf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Librewolf</span></a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/MoteurDeRecherche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MoteurDeRecherche</span></a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Enshitification</span></a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Bing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bing</span></a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/duckduckgo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>duckduckgo</span></a></p>
Erik van Straten<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ottermiemuis" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ottermiemuis</span></a></span> : het is natuurlijk niet netjes, maar met <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> + <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/NoScript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoScript</span></a> (hier onder Android) kan ik <a href="https://www.trouw.nl/duurzaamheid-economie/sinds-zijn-pensionering-werkt-henk-baptist-voltijd-aan-rechtszaken-om-de-natuur-te-beschermen-met-succes~b212c4d4/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">trouw.nl/duurzaamheid-economie</span><span class="invisible">/sinds-zijn-pensionering-werkt-henk-baptist-voltijd-aan-rechtszaken-om-de-natuur-te-beschermen-met-succes~b212c4d4/</span></a> helemaal lezen - zonder abo.</p><p>Door op "Alt" in onderstaande screenshots te drukken zie je een toelichting (een uitgebreide bij NoScript).</p><p>NoScript is een donationware extensie (plug-in) voor Firefox (werkt niet onder iOS) met veel zorg gemaakt en onderhouden door Giorgio Maone (<span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://todon.eu/@ma1" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ma1</span></a></span> ).</p><p>Die NoScript pagina krijg ik te zien als ik rechtsboven in Firefox op "⋮" druk en daarna op "Extensions" &gt; "NoScript".</p><p>Ik gebruik die plugin overigens niet om kranten te kunnen lezen, maar in de eerste plaats om mijn security- en privacy-risico's te verkleinen (en om te zien hoe vreselijk eigenaren van websites mijn privacy aan hun laars lappen).</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.green/@sanderturnhout" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>sanderturnhout</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.nl/@Hadewych" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Hadewych</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@vlindervriendje" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>vlindervriendje</span></a></span></p>
Maxi 10x 💉<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@yoasif" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>yoasif</span></a></span> THX!!<br>Changing <br>apz.gtk.pangesture.delta_mode = 1<br>restored the previous scrolling behavior! =)</p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a></p>