A place to discuss the news and latest developments on the open-source browser Firefox
I've been using Consent-O-Matic which works pretty well but built into the browser? Wow.
@Atemu This is why, for me, Firefox is unreplaceable on Android. Just the fact that's not Chromium + also supports extensions is what makes it superior.
I wish that it'll come pre-installed in phones instead of Chrome, so more people can give it a try. But is Android and Google would never allow that.
Unrelated to the post: it's so cool that you're replying from mastodon
The question is, did they get your comment? You didn't @ them. Does Mastodon know how to interpret and exchange replies from Lemmy if it doesn't use @ tagging?
@deweydecibel @Sekoia Yes, I got your reply without @ me. ActivityPub works in mysterious ways.
For example: I can create new posts on Lemmy/Kbin, but those posts can be only text. I still haven't figured out how to post images.
Looks like you either have to @ people to reply to them, or it populates it for you
Yes, and it even associates it as a reply directly to their post. If you're using Lemmy on the web, you can click the rainbow fediverse button to open the comment from the originating instance.
https://mastodon.ie/users/DannyBoy/statuses/110748158892993938
@Undearius @deweydecibel Nice! Now you have created an #Inception kind of post.
Piece of advice boys. When you make posts on Lemmy/Kbin put at the end of it some #hashtags related to the post's topic. So it can be indexable for Mastodon and Pixelfed users.
I as a Mastodon user can see posts from Pixelfed users due to their diligence of using hashtags.
This is something easy that can improve post discoverability and also you'll get more user interaction.
It would be interesting to see some automation there, like having default tags for a community. It would be kinda silly to post something c/firefox and have to tag #firefox too.
Firefox is all I ever used on desktops and I would love to install Firefox on Android, but until they let me set a custom homepage it's not an option. I can't be arsed to make an extra click to get to my selfhosted dashboard which has links to all my most frequented sites and services. It's a fundamental function, so how they have not fixed it is beyond me. Until then I'm using Kiwi which is Chromium based but it is open source, has built in ad blocking, and also supports extensions like uBlock Origin. And I'm pretty sure it was the first Android browser to have the bottom address bar.
Wait, I can change my homepage URL on iPhone. I find it hard to believe that’s an option exclusive to iPhone.
Edit: it’s at the bottom of the settings>homepage tab
You can't do it on Android, it's not an option... Google it if you want to verify it.
Sorry, I didn’t mean “I can’t believe” as in “I think you’re lying” but “I can’t believe” as in “what an absurd feature to leave out on android”.
Oh, sorry, I misunderstood, but yeah, we agree then, it's crazy. And what is crazier is that it did work a few years ago, and then at some point they removed it.
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/7551
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1807866
So yeah, doesn't seem like a priority and might not get fixed for a long, long time... so until then I'm using Kiwi.
No worries, I most definitely could have phrased it a lot better.
Having the feature then losing it is even whackier. 🥴 Especially I’d think their focus would be android users and making sure it’s up to date/functioning for them.
I just noticed a couple of days ago that you can block them in the uBlock Origin annoyances filter list too.
Found out about this literally three days ago and it has been such a blessing. I am a little unsure though with regards to what settings are applied from blocking the banners. I would assume it should enforce a minimal amount of cookies due to the lack of acceptance.
Unless they have US specific behavior. The US doesn't even require a notice, some devs just included it because they were too lazy to add geolocation.
Wait till you learn what you can do with the element selector/custom filters. I've made so many trash web pages so much nicer to read just by learning to use that tool. Fandom.com is actually tolerable now.
Oh shit that's brilliant
Trying the adguard list.
Been using "I still don't care about cookies", but native support would be legendary
Wait, I thought that just accepted everything? Because if you don't care about cookies, you'd be fine with anything, no? But "rejecting" cookie banners to me implies rejecting cookies which is different if I'm not mistaken.
That extension is just hiding the banner, same as if you blocked it with ublock cosmetic filtering
Not 100% true according to the description on that page. It just hides the banner if possible but it will automatically accept some or even all cookies and tracking if it is required for the site to function. And their choice if they accept some or all depends on "whichever is easier to do".
And functionality of the website could be social media or video embedding which might be "required for the site to function" in the eyes of the extension maintainers. But which will send data to Facebook, Google, and the likes. That could be okay depending on what your stance but a good thing to be aware of.
It accepts all or minimal depending on the website.
It's so unfortunate that Firefox on Android, for some reason, never worked well with password managers (as I understand it, it doesn't support the APIs that Android has for them). Sometimes it'll trigger the manager, more often, it won't. Infuriating and a deal breaker for me.
I'll give it another go, maybe this has been improved recently.
Edit gave it another crack, gosh, it actually works now!
I had to use the accessibility features of bitwarden to get it to run, but they improved and on many web pages you can now auto fill passwords from the keyboard integration
I use Firefox both on mobile and on desktop with Bitwarden for myself and LastPass for work, both work with very little problems
I use bitwarden and it works quite well there, the most annoying part are websites that split login and password prompts so that you have to use fill-in feature twice
I use the firefox password manager personally. Not sure if that makes me an idiot or not but it works well and I trust mozilla.
Firefox is still the best browser. :)
It's existed for a while, but I think that pop-up is new. Or I just forgot about it
Did a bit of research and found out the feature is available on Fennec F-Droid too via about:config.
Here's how to enable: https://community.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/firefox-cookie-banner-handling/
Oh yeahhhh
Firefox bringing an actual useful feature? Not removing one? Not bringing in more telemetry and reporting? Not doing more restrictions? Not copying Chrome?
Am I dead?
I use firefox clear and it doesn't even haven cocky support.(longer than one session)
cocky
See you in a few weeks, stable channel. Nightly, here I come!
Just be careful, those kind of features can sometimes break sites.
That’s a fantastic feature.
Awesome! I use ninja cookie atm but builtin would be better.
Amazing
Blaaah, time to switch!
