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kitsune
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Firefox has data loss problem and management problem too.
They don't consider people opening 80 tabs and having 90K bookmarks. - "If you open more then 20 tabs then something is wrong in your browsing using methods" ~ Every bugzilla.mozilla.org dev / support.mozilla.org support
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r/firefox has been made private
r/firefox is a private community. r/firefox. This community has shut down and will not grant access requests during the protest. Please do not message asking to be added. . We have gone private as part of the coordinated protest against Reddit's exorbitant new API changes, and unprofessional response to the community's concerns regarding 3rd party apps, mod tools, and accessibility that will be impacted by this decision. . More information: . https://redd.it/147cksa/. . For support, see . https://support.mozilla.org. . The moderators of r/firefox have set this community to private. Only approved members can view and take part in its discussions.
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Ported Win10 to Win11 and email times shifted from CST to PST
I followed the directions on support.mozilla.org for moving TB to new computer. This consisted of copying appdata/roaming/Thunderbird from the old machine (which ran TB flawlessly), installing Tb on the new machine, closing TB, deleting appdata/roaming/Thunderbird, and the copying over the the Thunderbird folder.
- The add-on is disabled on this site.
- Where does one go to ask for a feature request?
- Mozila account sign-up makes me wanna k@#l people
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Crash report interpretation
I'd like to know if I can get crash reports explained here. I reported multiple crashes at support.mozilla.org , was told to supply the necessary information there, along with several other people, but there was no response after that.
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Making Firefox follow DPI settings in Windows?
Perhaps you can find more help over at Mozilla Support, or maybe report a bug at Bugzilla.
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Can anyone help me?
It looks like your system fonts are just messed up. Could you please check other websites completely unrelated to Epic Games that also use the Inter Regular font (https://support.mozilla.org, for example) to see if they look broken too?
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No dailymotion, rumble video playback in Firefox 102.5.0esr (64-bit) Windows
There are tons of people on support.mozilla.org likewise complaining they cannot get Firfox to play videos on various websites. Now it makes sense why Firefox accounts for a whopping 3% share of web browsers used.
policy-templates
- Is It Possible to Export a Policies.JSON File from a Golden Firefox Installation?
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Firefox 115 can silently remotely disable my extension on any site
There is no such thing as a "known trusted extension" ever since they killed sideloading extensions and forced auto-updates. 10 years ago not force updating extensions was also a thing they moved behind a flag, and then just dropped.
Also - if you want to blacklist certain extensions from certain sites, you abso-freaking-lutely can already... see: https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/master/READ...
you want the `restricted_domains` field.
It gets worse - Mozilla is the fucking worst at checking submitted extensions. They tried to the play into the whole "app store" thing that Google/Apple were doing, but those are justifiable cost centers at those two companies in a way that just doesn't work for a player like Mozilla.
Mozilla's store checks for extensions are fairly pathetic. You can submit a near empty shell with excessive permissions, get approved the first time, then auto-update to a new release (which will deploy to users immediately thanks to auto-updates). That new version has to pass a battery of useless automatic SAST checks, which will happily highlight all sorts of things it doesn't like (it flags words like "hello" because it contains a curse word) but which won't do shit to check if you're hoovering up credentials, browsing data, tracking users, etc.
If you're unlucky, at some point in the next 24 months you'll trigger a real review from Mozilla and get caught.
To be blunt - I have 15 years experience writing extensions. I don't like Google. If you think Mozilla is better you're wrong.
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Can you prevent users from changing or disabling extensions / add-ons?
You can do that with policy templates. Use the Discussion tab at the top of the GitHub page if you need help setting them up.
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How to preset an item from the settings "about:config" permanently?
Policy Templates for Firefox
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We Must Fight for Firefox
They very well could do this for a a company that requires really strict privacy and security, but unfortunately in its current state Firefox doesn't have nearly the corporate sysadmin-friendly tooling that Chrome and especially Edge do.
When I was tasked with implementing CIS browser hardening policies at a previous job a few years ago, this was just a matter of enabling some Group Policy template settings for Chrome and Edge, but for Firefox this involved distributing a prefs.js file to all the workstations. In any corporate environment it's very likely going to be point and click Windows admins that are implementing browser standards, who tend to be allergic to anything resembling code and are already used to using GPOs for just about everything.
Yes, Firefox does have GPO templates but it's not nearly as rich as Chrome and Edge. Edge has even more GPO templates than does Chrome iirc, Chrome already had a lot to begin with and then Microsoft added even more of their own on top of that.
https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/v4.11/READM...
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/configure-micro...
That alone already puts Firefox at a huge disadvantage for corporate deployment, the other thing that makes it even less attractive, even to companies where privacy/security is a huge requirement (like my previous job) is that Edge is already bundled with the OS, and is one less thing that needs to be manually patched. In high security corporate environments, just keeping things patched is always a huge task so it's very hard to convince someone that they need to put in more work to keep an extra piece of software patched (which is already very difficult considering how frequently browsers are updated). To make things even worse, just about all vendors will only support Chromium-based browsers for whatever SaaS they sell you, so Firefox is a nonstarter for getting support, even if it will work just fine 99.9% of the time.
For all these reasons, I lost the battle to keep Firefox around, which is a huge shame because of how much I love it and wanted to fight the Chromium monoculture. So I guess for a corporation to support Firefox despite how corporate-friendliness the alternatives are, they'd have to reaaaally want to.
- Disable telemetry
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Automating Pinning Extensions to the Toolbar
You can see the relevant JSON code in the changelog. As I said, you can post a comment on this page to remind Mike to update the documentation for policy templates.
- Firefox does not save logins after update to 112.0
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Firefox app configuration on Android - MDM
This GitHub repository has a Discussions tab where you can ask questions about deploying Firefox: Policy Templates for Firefox.
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Set startup default but allow user to change
Check out the official documentation here: Policy Templates for Firefox. You can use the Discussions tab if you have any questions.
What are some alternatives?
firedragon-browser - A Floorp fork with custom branding 🐉 (mirrored from GitLab)
tridactyl - A Vim-like interface for Firefox, inspired by Vimperator/Pentadactyl.
ungoogled-chromium - Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
dnxfirewall - DNXFIREWALL™ and DAD'S NEXT-GEN FIREWALL™, a C/CPython hybrid next generation firewall built on top of Linux and bound to kernel/ netfilter hooks for packet control.
settings
awesome-python-applications - 💿 Free software that works great, and also happens to be open-source Python.
ffprofile - A tool to create firefox profiles with personalized defaults.
Fenix - ⚠️ Fenix (Firefox for Android) moved to a new repository. It is now developed and maintained as part of: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android
dnscrypt-proxy - dnscrypt-proxy 2 - A flexible DNS proxy, with support for encrypted DNS protocols.
positron - a experimental, Electron-compatible runtime on top of Gecko
ExtPay - The JavaScript library for ExtensionPay.com — payments for your browser extensions, no server needed.