I want Firefox to not be on the brink. I have had no problems with it on Linux over the last few years since I switched from Chrome. I do not wish to touch Chrome with a ten-foot pole.
Recently, one of the dev servers that I tried to access misconfigured HSTS, which made it really difficult for Firefox to access the web UI. I fired up chromium, simply typed the magic word, and accessed it no problem.
Of course, ideally, there'd be no misconfigurations, but sometimes, I just need to access whatever dev server and I don't want to waste time on learning how to disable that particular security feature in Firefox temporarily.
Again, I would not recommend doing that on vanilla Firefox, they have Firefox developer edition version for these reasons. And you can run both side by side.
If there's a Firefox developer edition (I had no idea), they should enable all "I want to continue anyways" buttons by default. I mean, it's a developer edition!
I would like a better way to bypass these TLS errors, but hidden booleans and secret phrases aren't that dissimilar.
I agree that if there was at least one boolean to always show the "continue anyways" button, that'd be acceptable to me as well.
I think as a developer, searching for things are just part of the job, so if you have a niche need to debug or work with sites with invalid certs/configs, then it is not that hard to look on how to allow that. Firefox's docs are one of the best docs you can read to be fair.
> If there's a Firefox developer edition (I had no idea), they should enable all "I want to continue anyways" buttons by default. I mean, it's a developer edition!
To be honest, I use developer edition as my main browser and my profile is optimized and highly customized, so I don't remember is that was the default, or I changed it at some time (I keep it true).
But for vanilla Firefox which most of the users or potential users are not developers, I think this is reasonable default.
So what I do is, I google, right? First page that comes up references how to fix the problem on both Firefox and Chromium-based browsers.
So on Firefox, I have to type the config page, then search for ocsp, then disable it. Then, I can finally access the webpage, but of course, I should remember to re-enable it after I'm done on the misconfigured server.
On Chrome, I can fire up an incognito window, type a magic keyword, do what I need, close the incognito window and go back to default.
Honestly, the latter is a vastly better experience in my world (I do backend/integration dev, mostly Python nowadays, probably a FE engineer will not care either way).
You can do the same on Firefox (at least developer edition). I thought that you want to do that without going to incognito mode.
It's a great hidden feature just like Firefox has shift+right click/double right click opening the native context. No amount of "well you can just put this in the console in these cases or this in the console in those cases" makes these kinds of features any less useful.
Is it? The default options are for default users. Default users are dumb. It sounds like you have a non-standard case and the capacity to know the difference between misconfiguration and actual threats. It also makes sense that you are able to turn off certain features for default users when you want to do non-standard (default) tasks.
edit: Well comment below me just mentioned a Firefox developer version, wasn't aware of that.
full-screen-api.ignore-widgets
which makes videos full screen to the browser size.
It was youtube. Not the ads -- I pay for premium -- but the fact that on FF they added an artificial 5s page load delay on firefox plus a bug has lingered for months where it always loads the last video, so you have to load every video twice. 12s/video is too much delay.
Ah well, it was good while it lasted.
Morals my ass!
I stopped using Firefox the day they kicked Brandon out and here's the kicker: I don't agree with the cause Brandon supported but I agree his employment shouldn't be affected by donations he made to support a ballot issue.
So yeah, the Mozilla Foundation can go straight to hell with that shit.
Good riddance!
We all lose if it's only Chrome.
Also, anybody can use the Gecko web rendering engine, yet project after project after project has picked the WebKit or Blink rendering engines.
And no, I haven't "shot myself in the foot" - when I replaced Firefox I found two great browsers: Brave and Vivaldi.
The better question is why you continue to support a compromised organization?
As for Mozilla being compromised - maybe, but it's still less compromised than advertisement companies, crypto companies, tax evaders, and their likes.
And Brave and Vivaldi are based on Chromium, so they help Google that Chromium sets the standards for the web.
You already shot yourself, just didn't recognize yet.
Why do you support a crooked company like Google?
Get back with me when the Mozilla Foundation has done a fraction of what Google has done in furthering our knowledge of computer science. Other companies making significant contributions to our knowledge of computer science are AT&T, IBM, and Microsoft. Would you prefer them to Google?
Also, the Firefox against the world meme is juvenile.
>Get back with me when the Mozilla Foundation has done a fraction of what Google has done in furthering our knowledge of computer science.
I would also consider which Big Tech company you're fighting. Last I looked, Google wasn't cited as the cause of a significant uptick in US teenagers committing suicide and being plagued with mental health issues. I could go on, but in the realm of Bad Actors in the land of Big Tech, Google is actually one of the least problematic entities.
Also, personal donations can make you unfit for some positions. Significant parts of the community felt his donation was not in line with the values they wanted to see represented. And since you didn't agree with them you decided to leave.
So not having leadership with opposing view does not seem strange to me; donation was done privately but it end-up being public enough. There's enough hypocrisy and pink-washing ...
If it's the former then what business do they have caring about Brandon Eich's personal donation to support a ballot initiative?
If it's the latter then it's a conflict of interest and Brandon Eich should be asked to leave.
Might at times be at the detriment of Firefox but it's not like there is any alternative imo. So I don´t mind, it's not like if they remove their LGBT manifesto they suddenly will become relevant again and people will start to care about privacy.
Might be that LGBT people care more about privacy and that this manifesto will help them stay relevant.
And it's not like 2% is not a lot of people, TOR browser is certainly even less and it does not change the fact that I believe it's an highly important piece of software.
I must just be a naturally defiant person, but in that situation, I would go far, FAR, out of my way to make sure I never let them "win" with that kind of bullshit tactic.
Your former comment indicates that you care about page load times, in which case an adblocker will typically reduce both UI yank and certainly network usage, in case you’re constrained.
Last time an ad-blocker caused a multi-hour debugging debacle, that turned out to not be the case. It was preventing me from logging into my bank even when it was supposedly disabled.
No surprise Google is doing those tactics if people react like you :( ...
It slows down my whole system when it tries to load a page in first boot (but librewolf doesn’t for some reason) the HID and webgl/webgpu support is bad…
It’s just not a very good browser compared to chrome forks or webkit based ones.
Nvidia's drivers suck but if you want to do AI stuff their cards are basically the only option until Intel and AMD complete ramping up their support for AI stuff. I wouldn't be surprised if two years from now AMD takes the crown with Intel being a close second (providing the best bang-for-the-buck) but for that to happen AMD needs to focus more on making actual implementations faster (e.g. PyTorch) and not just making minor incremental improvements to ROCm (and also make it so you don't need to use `amdgpu-install` to use it!).
I am on X though, perhaps a Wayland related bug or config thing?
Have you tried:
- running with terminal to see errors
- running with a new profile
I believe there’s a design issue with Firefox and GTK handling input events; some Wayland compositors have workarounds but others do not.
https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/7645
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1743144
Firefox is my preferred browser and I hope we can keep its engine alive in this era of Chrome dominance.
Well, I suppose a packager could have disabled wayland in firefox...
Firefox isn't as stable as I would like it to be, but it's much better than any Webkit alternative I can find on Linux.