@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-12-19 16:22:00
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-12-19 16:22:00
@grist@fosstodon.org2025-11-19 13:59:45
f you've been having trouble with Grist plus Firefox 145: Firefox released a bugfix version 145.0.1, https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/145.0.1/releasenotes/ - so if you had to downgrade to get Grist working, you can now upgrade again.
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2025-12-17 19:14:25
Reminder: You can let Mozilla know what you think about AI and other stupid shit.
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/building-ai-the-firefox-way-shaping-what-s-next-together/td-p/109922
(Edited to fix li…
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-02-18 09:42:03
from my link log —
How a single character typo led to RCE in Firefox.
https://kqx.io/post/firefox0day/
saved 2026-02-17 https://dotat.at/:/D5NT1.html…
@usul@piaille.fr2026-01-17 21:01:10
Two Years of Building AI in Firefox | Tarek Ziadé
https://blog.ziade.org/2025/12/05/two-years-of-ai-at-mozilla/?trk=feed_main-feed-card_feed-article-content
@alejandrobdn@social.linux.pizza2025-12-17 21:14:10
Mozilla's New CEO: It's Time to Evolve Firefox Into an AI Browser https://www.pcmag.com/news/mozillas-new-ceo-its-time-to-evolve-firefox-into-an-ai-browser
Do you know what the moment calls for? To look for alternatives with the Ge…
@seav@en.osm.town2025-12-18 17:06:50
RE: #Firefox and its recent push for integrated
@nohillside@smnn.ch2025-12-16 16:00:53
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-12-18 16:49:54
Firefox riding the bullshit horse into the sunset but we’re not allowed to tell them they’re wrong?
jfc
@lil5@social.linux.pizza2025-12-19 10:05:11
How should #firefox pay developers?
@catsalad@infosec.exchange2025-12-16 15:24:52
So how long until the Firefox logo becomes another AI company logo that looks like a butthole?
:firefox: https://www.theverge.com/tech/845216/mozilla-ceo-anthony-enzor-demeo
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2025-12-18 12:34:30
RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115740500373677782
I like that Firefox is (through @…) communica…
@aardrian@toot.cafe2025-12-18 15:13:23
Frankly, I’ve been quiet on this because I wanted to see if Firefox would offer a single ‘fuck off fake-AI’ button.
https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115740500373677782
That said, I still don’t see a clear message on disabling ad blockers. But I also haven’t …
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2025-12-18 20:16:05
I got Waterfox installed and Firefox Sync working with it so that's a big win. I am currently not able to change the sync device name, which is annoying, but not a deal breaker.
When I get more time over the holiday break I'll dig in a bit more and see if I can do a full switch from Firefox to Waterfox.
Edit: Shit, I spoke too soon! I quit & relaunched and Sync has me signed out and I cannot sign back in. Sigh...
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2025-12-18 09:42:03
from my link log —
Attempting cross translation unit taint analysis for Firefox.
https://attackanddefense.dev/2025/12/16/attempting-cross-translation-unit-static-analysis.html
saved 2025-12-17
@mro@digitalcourage.social2026-01-13 12:54:05
@fell@ma.fellr.net2025-12-19 18:26:54
You know what? I stick with Firefox. The Mozilla management might be detached idiots, but I firmly believe that the people actually making the browser, the engineers, have their heart at the right place.
They've shown it time and time again, bullshit got announced but not much actually happened. There was always a checkbox to get rid of that crap.
Unless the actual browser on my device does something unforgivable, I stay.
@adlerweb@social.adlerweb.info2025-12-16 20:54:54
@chiraag@mastodon.online2025-12-18 07:44:21
The whole hubhub around Mozilla, Firefox, and AI is interesting because I'm of two minds:
* I really, *really* don't want AI in my browser. I don't see the point.
* If my browser must have AI (b/c some asshole CEO has decided it _must_ be done), the way Mozilla is proposing it is probably the best case scenario, at least the way it has been described.
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2026-01-17 22:14:05
This is the sort of thing that makes me wary of tech. Not his script, all it does is install a policy.json file that does what it claims.
But installed, suddenly kiosk mode in Firefox is a black screen! Normal mode is fine. So I remove the policy file although nothing there should affect kiosk, restart and -kiosk is still a black screen!
There's likely a fix, for them who has the nous, but I'm guessing stuff like this contributes significantly to our tech landfills 😅
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-16 13:45:50
Mozilla appoints Anthony Enzor-DeMeo as its CEO amid a challenging period for Mozilla's for-profit arm with layoffs, restructuring, and its Google dependence (David Pierce/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/845216/mozilla-ceo-anthony-enzor-demeo
@stf@chaos.social2026-02-12 20:32:40
@publicvoit@graz.social2026-01-16 14:39:15
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-12-14 14:44:04
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-01-16 06:10:56
»Einfach nur einen Webbrowser, bitte:
„Just the Browser” ebnet den Weg zu schlanken Webbrowsern am Desktop. Nervender Ballast wird binnen Sekunden aus Chrome, Edge oder Firefox entfernt.«
Ich muss mir dies mal in Ruhe am Wochenende ansehen, ob dies nun wirklich nützlich ist oder andere Browser dies schon längst umsetzen.
🌐
@awinkler@openbiblio.social2026-02-16 12:23:57
underrated feature of #firefox: take high-res screenshots from websites: in console type ":screenshot --dpr 3 --fullpage" (via https://devtoolstips.org/tips/en/take-high-res-sc…
@fennek@cyberplace.social2025-12-18 06:14:45
Äh... das uBlock-basierte AdNauseam funktioniert jedenfalls nicht mehr. Vivaldi wird, falls es das doch noch nicht haben sollte, Manifest V2 Support und damit funktionierendes uBlock verlieren. Komischer Schritt zu einer komischen Zeit, Herr
@…
@thomasafine@social.linux.pizza2025-12-17 03:21:47
Firefox is jumping the shark with this AI thing. A web browser helps you browse the web. it doesn't steal and summarize web content in order to prevent you from visiting web sites.
I think it's barely less disgusting than the blockchain web nonsense. But I acknowledge that it is possible that it is actually even more disgusting.
@funkvolk@mastodon.social2025-12-16 20:56:31
Sooooo... any alternatives for Firefox and Thunderbird yet? #Mozilla
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-01-15 21:52:00
Einfach nur einen Webbrowser, bitte
„Just the Browser” ebnet den Weg zu schlanken Webbrowsern am Desktop. Nervender Ballast wird binnen Sekunden aus Chrome, Edge oder Firefox entfernt.
https://www.heise.de/…
@qbi@freie-re.de2025-12-14 14:34:48
Sachen, die man am Sonntag macht:
Profil vom #Firefox zerstören.
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2025-12-19 17:29:54
And there's a browser called "Floorp"!?
https://floorp.app/
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com2025-12-17 01:58:39
Content warning:
@… On macOS I use Safari, but the rare time that I’m using Windows, Firefox is still the browser I have installed there.
I’m not aware of any better alternatives, but then I haven’t cared to look for a while.
@stephane_klein@social.coop2025-12-11 08:57:40
@UlrikeHeiss@eldritch.cafe2026-02-14 09:32:55
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizza2026-02-16 15:31:35
Like #OCTRANSPO itself, the travel planner is not working. I have been living at my current location for over five years so I KNOW there is a bus just across the street. Just wanted to confirm the start times for tomorrow and then how badly it figured out the transfer point.
Failed in Vivaldi, failed in Chrome so it isn't browser related. Firefox it just barfed.
![QU Reverse
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Q_ PLAN YOUR TRIP
There are no stops around the.
destination within the distance
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information center.](https://cdn.social.linux.pizza/system/media_attachments/files/116/081/019/329/913/787/original/5f74ee8c7229cc3c.png)
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-12-17 15:46:38
Remember Firefox OS? Of course you don't.
Well, they tried to do "for mobile what we did for the web" and utterly failed—while neglecting their core product.
Now they’re all in on “doing for AI what we did for the web”.
@alecsargent@social.linux.pizza2025-12-09 19:18:20
If your are on Firefox and your are tired of the narrow ass scrollbar go to settings and enable "Always show scrollbars" then in about:config set widget.non-native-theme.enabled to true then set widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.override to 15-40.
You can thank https://www.dedoimedo.com/computer…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2026-02-03 15:16:57
#Firefox führt ab Version 148 eine neue Einstellung ein, mit der Nutzer alle aktuellen und zukünftigen generativen #AI-Funktionen im Browser blockieren können.
Alternativ lassen sich einzelne Features wie #Übersetzungen
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2025-12-17 22:05:50
I might be the minority here but I feel like if Firefox shipped with AI shit enabled but a huge "DISABLE AI" button you could press to turn it off... I might be okay with that.
If the alternative is (almost) every other browser having AI and no way to turn it off, is a "DISABLE AI" button a win?
It would let the people who care disable it. People who don't care could also disable it, we just need to tell them how and why they should.
1/n
@stf@chaos.social2026-02-15 21:28:23
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-02-03 06:50:03
»Mozilla — Firefox bekommt KI-Ausschalter:
Die KI-Funktionen in Firefox lassen sich ab der nächsten Version mit einem Knopf vollständig ausknipsen.«
Gut kann mensch KI auf Firefox nun ausschalten, denn ob es genutzt wird und wenn für was, sollte mensch selber entscheiden dürfen.
🦊 https://www.
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2025-12-19 17:26:29
One of the web sites I logged into with LibreWolf emailed me and said:
"New login from Firefox on Windows NT"
Sir, I have not used Windows NT in the last two decades. Wow.
@chrysn@chaos.social2025-11-27 13:21:12
The WebSerial specification is on of those web APIs implemented only in Chrome so far; Mozilla have revised their standards position from "harmful" to "neutral" when they established the mechanism addon-gating, but are merely open to patches.
But an add-on, "WebSerial for Firefox" already fills the gap well. The caveat compared to any Mozilla sanctioned approach is that it needs a local helper, but that is well managed through the native-messaging-hosts me…
@me@mastodon.peterjanes.ca2025-12-16 15:23:50
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-02-13 22:51:15
the number of restaurants that fail to be able to submit an order on the payment page on firefox is really maddening.
@alejandrobdn@social.linux.pizza2026-01-16 15:41:06
https://justthebrowser.com/
"Just the Browser helps you remove AI features, telemetry data reporting, sponsored content, product integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers. The goal is to give you just the browser and nothing else, using hidden settings in web browsers intended for com…
@jackie@social.linux.pizza2026-02-02 21:57:19
@dde@social.tchncs.de2025-12-26 00:37:02
Meine Firefox-Addons Ende 2025 – #internet
@knurd42@social.linux.pizza2026-01-23 19:01:20
Martin Stransky highlights some recent major achievements for #Firefox on Linux: ""HDR video playback support, reworked rendering for fractionally scaled displays, and asynchronous rendering implementation. All this progress was enabled by advances in the Wayland compositor ecosystem, with new features implemented by Mutter and KWin.
[…]
And there are even more challenge…
@piger@mastodon.social2026-01-15 22:39:50
added hn and lobsters to the dns deny list. Firefox "failed to load page" will be my reminder that even staring at the wall will be more useful than reading those 2 sites
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-12-14 15:15:54
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2025-12-16 16:05:45
RE: https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/115730052589989499
It is super expensive but it really seems to be time to think about how to create and fund an entity that can fork Firefox while Mozilla does some weird AI pie in the sky shit.
@erikdelareguera@mastodon.nu2026-02-14 12:30:14
Ok, så hur kan vi bli mer digitalt oberoende av USA? Här några tankar:
Mail, kalender (mm): Proton
X/Bluesky: Mastodon
AI: Mistral
Office: LibreOffice
Signal/WhatsApp: Olvid, Threema.
Knepigare:
Webbläsare: Vivaldi. Men helst vill jag att Mozilla flyttar Firefox-utvecklingen till Europa.
Sökmotor: Qwant (tycker inte riktigt den håller måttet än)
OS: Linux (men håller det som alternativ till MacOS/Windows?)
Slack mm: Nextcloud Talk kanske (ha…
@joxean@mastodon.social2026-02-03 17:31:52
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-02-05 06:00:29
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Nach heftiger Kritik: KI-Abschalter für Firefox kommt mit dem nächsten Update
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2026-01-18 21:29:13
Noticed only today, since moving my #Emacs environment over to the new laptop last November, all my #OrgRoam 'dailies' are not orgroam files, they are basic #OrgMode files 🥹 C-c n d d does resolve to the right org-roam command, but these files contain only a # title and nothing else.
It was likely naive of me to expect my .emacs to be relocatable.
I don't suppose there's a function to mass-convert org-files to org-roam? Well, that's what keystroke macros are for, I suppose!
On a positive note, my #Firefox kiosk issue was solved by MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=0 which is odd since I'm running Wayland and it had worked fine since September until I added and then removed /etc/firefox/policies/policy.json
@carloshr@lile.cl2026-02-04 12:45:43
@bencurthoys@mastodon.social2026-02-14 08:03:06
Firefox on my Android device just updated itself and is suddenly way, way faster.
Which makes a fucking change from updates making things worse!
@nelson@tech.lgbt2025-12-13 02:11:18
I haven't launched Firefox in months. Today it popped up this ad on my Windows machine. Guess it's time to uninstall it entirely.
@gideonstar@mastodon.gideonstar.de2025-11-20 17:16:38
@ellie@ellieayla.net2025-12-30 05:33:33
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2025-12-08 23:24:30
@… on Linux as well as BSD? Which version of Firefox?
I'll not use the feature with my main profile – I pile things other than traditional menus into the traditional menu bar, but I'm curious …
(Here: Kubuntu 25.10, Wayland, Firefox 145.0.2 (64-bit).)
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2026-02-12 18:19:30
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2025-12-03 06:05:05
Not Every Browser is Built on Chrome: Explore These Firefox-based Options
Think all popular browsers out there are Chromium based? Take a look at this Firefox-based options.
— by @…
🦊 https://
@compfu@mograph.social2026-01-14 07:15:49
This looks very useful but I‘m reluctant to share this. Every computer tip that is just „open an admin terminal and enter this command that executes stuff right from a github URL“ is dangerous. Even if that one is OK - it teaches people that this kind of thing is not a super red flag for malware exploits. https://toot.communi…
@iam_jfnklstrm@social.linux.pizza2025-11-20 12:33:23
@publicvoit@graz.social2025-12-11 13:56:14
Well, it now came to this: I have to install an add-on in #LibreWolf (#Firefox fork) as well on my almost naked #Chromium in order to get reliable session resume after browser restart:
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk2026-01-11 18:58:16
OK, wth do I start wondering where this bug is - dragging a URL on google and it's upside down?! Google? Firefox? graphics? wtf?
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-12-14 14:32:22
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-02-03 06:20:00
Nach heftiger Kritik: KI-Abschalter für Firefox kommt mit dem nächsten Update
Mit einem einzigen Schalter soll man in Firefox ab Ende des Monats alle KI-Funktionen abschalten können. Wie weit das unter der Haube geht, ist weiter unklar.
@makeratschool@kanoa.de2026-01-11 14:07:32
Mein Firefox hat gerade alle Tabs geschlossen und die Chronik NICHT gespeichert. Merkwürdig.
Jetzt bin ich auf der Suche nach einer Seite, wo man ein Foto seines Laptops mit Stickern hochladen konnte. Einfach so, weil es geht und weil es witzig ist, sich andere Stickersammlungen anzuschauen.
Ich finde es nicht 😭
EDIT: Habs gefunden https://st…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-02 19:01:14
Mozilla says Firefox users will be able to disable all AI features in its desktop browser, starting with Firefox 148, rolling out on February 24 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/mozilla-will-…
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2026-01-18 21:28:34
Noticed only today, since moving my #Emacs environment over to the new laptop last November, all my #OrgRoam 'dailies' are not orgroam files, they are basic #OrgMode files 🥹 C-c n d d does resolve to the right org-roam command, but these files contain only a # title and nothing else.
It was likely naive of me to expect my .emacs to be relocatable.
I don't suppose there's a function to mass-convert org-files to org-roam? Well, that's what keystroke macros are for, I suppose!
On a positive note, my #Firefox kiosk issue was solved by MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=0 which is odd since I'm running Wayland and it had worked fine since September until I added and then removed /etc/firefox/policies/policy.json
@usul@piaille.fr2026-01-20 08:31:50
@felixberthold@hessen.social2026-02-08 09:30:26
@thijs_lucas@norden.social2026-02-08 10:16:38
Die FIFA und auch der DFB haben ja schon gezeigt, dass sie kein Rückgrat haben und sich problemlos wie Trumps Darm winden können.
Wie das mit dem IOC und dem DOSB aussieht können wir jetzt bei der Winterolympiade in Italien beobachten, wo amerikansiche Sportler*innen die Tyrannei der Trumpregierung anprangern.
Haben internatiolane Sporter*innen und Verbände Solidarität mit den Sportler*innen oder den Milliarden der US-Oligarchie?
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-01-16 12:26:49
Euer Browser nervt mit KI-Assistenten, Shopping-Vorschlägen und ständigen „Mach mich zum Standard"-Popups? 😤 Der US-Journalist und Programmierer Corbin Davenport hat genug davon – und eine elegante Lösung entwickelt.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11143193
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social2026-01-30 12:47:00
I'm thinking of installing #Tunderbird on my different Linux computers, but I'm worried that it will go the same way as #Firefox with their forcing of #GenAI on users...
Does anyone have any i…
@jake4480@c.im2025-11-28 09:01:24
I don't use YouTube much. Mostly for the occasional research. I've been using it since before Google bought it, since when you could only post 10 minute videos on it. I stopped using the YouTube app because of the ads, and for a while, just using Firefox with ublock would block them. But now, it doesn't. So now, I watch YouTube with Firefox in desktop mode, even on my phone. That works, for now. But for how long, who knows. I guess what I'm trying to get at here is that Googl…
@gadgetboy@gadgetboy.social2026-02-09 00:55:51
I tried streaming the Green Day opening performance at the Super Bowl - Peacock doesn't support Firefox, natch. Chrome only. 🙄 I do like the fact that Peacock let's you watch from the beginning of the game and doesn't just provide a real-time feed because I'm only watching the performances.
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-12-14 14:42:15
RE: #Firefox posts on the Mastodon mobile app and got completely confuse…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-02-04 14:03:02
KI-Update kompakt: AI Safety Report, OpenClaw, Firefox, Gaming-Aktien
Das "KI-Update" liefert drei mal pro Woche eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-02-12 13:49:29
In other news just blocked the Firefox developer account on here
Wild times
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-12-14 14:23:14
RE: #Firefox
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2025-12-16 17:28:53
First this...
"AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off."
And then this...
"Firefox will [...] evolve into a modern AI browser."
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/m…
@lil5@social.linux.pizza2025-12-24 15:44:45
@lisp@vivaldi.net @…
Why do anything if there’s an addon that removes the banner entirely?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo…
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2025-12-28 15:42:02
from my link log —
Firefox's low-latency WebAssembly compiler.
http://wingolog.org/archives/2020/03/25/firefoxs-low-latency-webassembly-compiler
saved 2020-03-26
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizza2026-02-02 14:16:34
Default is Firefox on work machine.
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2026-01-28 11:03:28
"As fun as it is to rib on Mozilla, the web needs Firefox. I feel for the Firefox developers who actually care. State of Mozilla will inspire no one. The sloppy prose are borderline unreadable. The presentation is designed to stop you reading."
https://dbushell.com/2026/01/28/mozill
@thomasafine@social.linux.pizza2026-02-06 19:34:35
What's your favorite FIrefox and Chrome extensions for putting back traditional Unix/X11 editing keys?
The specific behaviors I rely on are:
Ctrl-A: beginning of line [HAS CHANGED]
Ctrl-E: end of line
Ctrl-K: kill to end of line [HAS CHANGED]
Ctrl-D: Delete next character [CHANGED]
Ctrl-F: forward a char
Ctrl-B: backward a char
Maybe a couple others I'm not remembering.
(These are actually emacs-style editing keys and I'm a vi user, …
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-12-20 06:00:32
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Waterfox positioniert sich als KI-freie Firefox-Alternative
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-02-08 15:39:52
The real issue with ditching Firefox and leaving Mozilla behind is why haven't I done it years ago
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-12-20 16:45:15
Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Waterfox positioniert sich als KI-freie Firefox-Alternative
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2026-01-06 21:31:23
Firefox should really strip down the browser to the core, make that performant and secure. Maybe even improve extension interfaces and then deliver whatever "AI" nonsense they want through extensions. Would make it so easy to stop having to talk about kill switches and how "hard" those are. Offer people all the slop extensions in the world and see who will download them.
@usul@piaille.fr2026-02-07 17:09:34
Cleaned up my saved password in Firefox today.
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2026-01-27 20:40:01
Just looking at the amount of work that went into this thing trying to sell something the core audience isn't buying shows how badly Mozilla chose when it comes to the new CEO
https://bsd.network/@dch/115968952449549217
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-01-07 16:05:20
Hier noch ein FediTipp, wie ihr anonymisierter Links zu Xitter hier im Fediverse und sonst im Web teilen könnt.
Wenn ihr aus welchen Gründen auch immer die hier teilt, dann nutzt doch bitte dafür eine der Nitter¹ Anbitern im Web. Da gibt es zB XCancel² für den gibt es auch ein Browser Add-on³ für Firefox (und seine Abkömmlingen) gibt.
1) https://nitter…
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2026-02-03 12:40:05
The term "AI" is worse than useless because it hides more than it explains. Mozilla Firefox's "AI killswitch" shows how
(Original title: Hiding behind translations)
https://tante.cc/2026/02/03/hiding-behind-translations/
