Mozilla published a new State of Mozilla. It’s absolute slopaganda. A mess of trippy visuals and corpo-speak that’s been through the slop wringer too many times.
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This guide walks through how to set up Vivaldi’s blocklists from the perspective of someone migrating from “big browser + extension” to “Vivaldi + built-in blocking,” with some extra notes for privacy-minded folks.
The Mozilla Foundation, the nonprofit arm of the Firefox browser maker Mozilla, has laid off 30% of its employees as the organization says it faces a “relentless onslaught of change.”
I can't help but think Firefox is in its last throes of decline. I really hope it manages to bounce back, somehow, but it's difficult to see how.
The OpenSearch description format can be used to describe the web interface of a search engine. This allows a website to describe a search engine for itself, so that a browser or other client application can use that search engine. OpenSearch is supported by (at least) Firefox, Edge, Safari, and Chrome.
web-ext is a command-line tool designed to speed up and simplify development. This article explains how to install and use web-ext.
I look left and right, and I'm the only one who still uses Firefox.
We’re pleased to announce that, as of version 23, the Puppeteer browser automation library now has first-class support for Firefox. This means that it’s now easy to write automation and perform end-to-end testing using Puppeteer, and run against both Chrome and Firefox.
Firefox users are not a captive audience that needs to be coddled, they are generally full-grown adult computer users who need to be listened to
Now, it’s one thing to roll out a new so-called “feature” to benefit behavioural advertising. It’s quite another to make it enabled by default. That’s a piece of deceptive design that has no place in Firefox. Defaults matter. Browser makers know this. It’s no accident that this “feature” was enabled by default.
A great tool for Firefox users on Windows.
The Big Three may effectively be down to a Big Two, and right quick.
This article walks through creating an extension for Firefox, from start to finish.
