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hitstun , in From Mozilla: Help us uncover Firefox 3rd party installer
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To take the survey, go to this campaign page and scroll down to the "take part" button to get the survey in your language. I basically just told them that I install Firefox ESR from Chocolatey. They were really interested in locale strings like "en-US".

muhyb , in Firefox 127's private window handling angers users

Is this a Windows problem I'm too Linux to understand?

Oisteink , in Firefox 127's private window handling angers users

Yes - this is why my dad (80) and my nephew (23) stopped using Firefox . It’s the only reason anyone use Firefox and without it nobody will use it.

DarkThoughts ,

The only reason people use Firefox is because of an icon in privacy mode? What?

Oisteink ,

Sorry - my bad. Turns out it’s just 1 guy on the forums and theregister that cares.

TachyonTele ,

What browser did your hypothetical dad and nephew switch to?

Oisteink ,

Edge! It’s Firefox but with ai

TachyonTele ,

Ah ok, I didn't realize you were making a joke.

Zachariah , in Firefox 127's private window handling angers users
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Yeah, about:config is one of the best things about Firefox. It allows a standard user not to stumble into settings that would lead to frustration or needing help. But it also lets power users use Firefox the way they want to. I’m always annoyed when a setting is removed from there.

autotldr Bot , in Firefox 127's private window handling angers users

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The latest Firefox 127 appeared on June 11 with a modest list of changes – automatically reloading the browser when the OS reboots, closing duplicate tabs, and requiring more authentication to access stored passwords.

A change Mozilla didn't mention in the release notes has users complaining online, though.

Users complained on Mozilla's forums and on Reddit at the time, but it was at least possible to recombine the icons with the option in about:config – but no longer.

As you might imagine, people are not happy, although according to the official response in this complaint, it looks like the change will be reverted in Firefox 128:

According to this thread, users of Firefox on Apple iOS are finding that if you have both a main and private Firefox instances open, when the main one is closed, all the tabs in the private instance are closed too.

Slip-ups like this suggest to us that, as has long been the case, the Firefox developers lack a good understanding of how its remaining followers use it, and why they stick with it.


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cloudless OP ,

Bad bot. Completely missing the points.

wick , in Google disrupted YouTube video playback on Firefox, again - gHacks Tech News

Affected users might have blamed Firefox for the issue. Some may even have switched to a Chromium-based browser, as these worked without any issue.

I've been having issues with YouTube on Firefox for ages, not these issues, different ones. I haven't bothered to test if it's only Firefox that has the problem because I'm not using Firefox for a seamless experience, I'm using because why the fuck would I use anything else on Linux? I won't put google or ms into a Linux environment, even if I don't really care about privacy or whatever, it just feels like mixing oil and water.

Might use another browser like brave or whatever foss solutions are out there, but I'd be surprised if anything like that is better than Firefox.

InternetUser2012 ,

When I have issues, I use user agent switcher and go windows with chrome and the problems magically disappear. Google is such shit.

kbal , in Firefox tips and tricks for online shopping - The Mozilla Blog
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Someone make sure that page is archived. This could end up being the exact moment we hit peak bullshit.

best_username_ever , in Firefox tips and tricks for online shopping - The Mozilla Blog

The new Firefox: shopping and advertisements.

MonkderDritte , in Google disrupted YouTube video playback on Firefox, again - gHacks Tech News

No such problems with yt-dlp + mpv. And still no injected ads.

FuryMaker , in Google disrupted YouTube video playback on Firefox, again - gHacks Tech News

If it doesn't load quickly or properly, I just don't watch it, which ultimately hurts Google.

shadowwwind ,
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@FuryMaker @cloudless do you use an adblocker?

Blackmist , in Google disrupted YouTube video playback on Firefox, again - gHacks Tech News

Badly muxed VP9 stream? Is that where they tried to stuff ads into it?

pbsds , in Google disrupted YouTube video playback on Firefox, again - gHacks Tech News
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The youtube ui is so slow I don't use it, even back when I was using chrome. Thanks invidious!

tostos , in Google disrupted YouTube video playback on Firefox, again - gHacks Tech News

this is frustating i had to use open with potplayer extension most of times.

Doof , in Google disrupted YouTube video playback on Firefox, again - gHacks Tech News

I happens to me but all i thought was that YouTube was bad not Firefox.

Blackmist ,

It is.

"This problem is triggered by bad muxed VP9 bytestream served by Youtube, so it's not a regression on our side, this issue can also be reproduced on old versions Firefox".

Furbag , in Google disrupted YouTube video playback on Firefox, again - gHacks Tech News

I have issues with YouTube playback specifically on my work laptop. At home it's fine. It just started one day where videos sometimes fail to auto play and requires multiple refreshes. Even once they get going they often stall out and the progress bar goes all the way back to the beginning so I've gotten in the habit of taking notes of the time before I hit refresh and hope it comes back before I completely lose all interest.

I'd use Piped instead, but it has literally never once worked for me. Videos never load.

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