Firefox 110

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66 points·NiekvdMaas··5 comments

I will say it's nice to see the feature blocking external plugin injection. Kind of surprised this wasn't introduced sooner though.

I haven't really used FF for anything but testing/bugfixes on web apps in several years. I do have a couple coworkers and friends that still swear by it.

> On Windows, third-party modules can now be blocked from injecting themselves into Firefox, which can be helpful if they are causing crashes or other undesirable behavior.

about:third-party : ( https://techdows.com/2023/02/firefox-block-third-party-modul... )

Nevertheless, some third-party developers seek to modify the browser in ways beyond what is possible with a browser extension and resort to “hooking” the browser, effectively injecting third-party executable code modules into Firefox processes. Security software such as anti-virus products on Windows are the most prevalent examples. ( https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/third-party-software-... )

about:plugins : ( https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FirefoxPlugins )

With Firefox 53, the ability to restore NPAPI plugin support will be removed completely. ( https://winaero.com/firefox-drops-all-npapi-plugins-except-f... )

What do you use?

> What do you use?

Unfortunately, probably the browser that almost everyone else uses.

Worse, I actually (mostly) like Edge (Chromium based)... although the integrated shopping assistant stuff is starting to get annoying (I keep disabling it).

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