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[–] viking@infosec.pub 257 points 2 years ago (4 children) Firefox my beloved. permalink fedilink source hideshow 7 child comments replies: [–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 55 points 2 years ago (16 children) Saying this about any corporation's product is guaranteed not to age well. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 20 child comments replies: [+] parpol@programming.dev 57 points 2 years ago (6 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 7 child comments replies: [–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 44 points 2 years ago (11 children) Chromium (Google Chrome's base) is also open source. And yet, we're still at a corporation's mercy as to whether everything Chromium-based gets ruined by Google's fuck-what-the-users-want policies. Like with Manifest V3. And JXL support. And extensions on mobile. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 12 child comments replies: [+] parpol@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 child) Except now you have to maintain a branch that's missing everything after that release upstream. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] parpol@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Yeah you can probably do periodic merge or rebase etc. But then you have the fun of merge conflicts permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (10 replies) load more comments (5 replies) [+] Boozilla@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago* (1 child) Because people have the attention span of a goldfish and if you aren't reminding them every 5 seconds of the features they have available they'll forget they do in fact use them and then complain to support because they can't spend 5 seconds on the help page. I say this, not in defense of mozilla, but in frustration at having to deal daily with these kinds of issues. You can put giant screen-size arrows on where to go / what single "do the thing" button to press and people will still forget 5 seconds later. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Boozilla@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 years ago* We're so fucking used to ads we don't even always realize we're getting pushed propaganda permalink fedilink source parent [–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago Mmm mmm mmm, Bill Cosby tells me to love my puddin' pops! ........i feel sleepy...... permalink fedilink source parent [–] viking@infosec.pub 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Firefox is a foundation, not a corporation. And I'm already using Fennec instead of the official release. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago No. Firefox is a product. Mozilla is a corporation AND a foundation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (12 replies) [–] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 years ago (6 children) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 12 child comments replies: [–] rtxn@lemmy.world 59 points 2 years ago (2 children) Librewolf, my beloved. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (4 children) This is the first I've heard of LibreWolf. Is it compatible with Windows 7? And also, why is it good? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [–] ivn@jlai.lu 67 points 2 years ago You really shouldn't connect windows 7 to the internet. permalink fedilink source parent [+] parpol@programming.dev 26 points 2 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] jrgd@lemm.ee 20 points 2 years ago https://librewolf.net/ A summary from its site and known technical details: no telemetry by default includes uBlock Origin has sane privacy-respecting defaults prepackages arkenfox user.js relatively well-maintained fork of Firefox that keeps up with upstream No major controversies AFAIK As for Windows 7, nobody should really need to install Librewolf anyway on such a device. No device running Windows 7 should have access to the internet at this point. If you are asking about compatibility intending this use case, you have bigger problems to worry about than your choice of browser. If you just need to view HTML files graphically, even Internet Explorer or an older firefox ESR will do. permalink fedilink source parent [–] can@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) Looks like it should run on Windows. Edit: sorry, didn't read far down enough. It's only built for Windows 10, but they recommend this? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Main features: ... Continued support for NPAPI plugins like Silverlight, Adobe Flash and Java Picture this in your minds eye: a Windows 7 machine running a browser with still working Flash and Java plugins, connected to the internet in 2024. what do you see? i see a flourishing ecosystem of worms, viruses and rootkits, all trying to be the one species to get to be the one who does the most damage to the prey species, the common user. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago Sounds like an interesting experience to me. Admittedly I hadn't looked that far into it. If Win 7 is a must I'd say just go with latest Firefox. permalink fedilink source parent [–] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago ❤ permalink fedilink source parent [–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 22 points 2 years ago You're overreacting. Firefox knows their users. I am a huge "stan" for Firefox, but I will delete it like a time traveller if they make it impossible to ignore ads. I will salt the earth and poop on Firefox's grave and actively avoid it everywhere... However. If I'm wrong, there will be a Next Thing... permalink fedilink source parent [–] viking@infosec.pub 6 points 2 years ago Yeah I'm using Fennec, which doesn't have that. But as long as it's a flick of a switch to disable, I don't really mind. Still a million times better than manifest v3. permalink fedilink source parent [–] TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (3 children) If you use a DNS solutions you can block all the telemetry shit. Frankly FF has been phoning home in a lot of undesirable ways for many years even before this, like most browsers. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments load more comments (3 replies) [–] pwalker@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago At least link the full article and not just the headline... smh. Here is also the follow-up article with comments from Firefox's CTO. https://www.heise.de/en/news/Firefox-defends-itself-Everything-done-right-just-poorly-communicated-9802546.html permalink fedilink source parent [–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Not entirely true. permalink fedilink source parent [–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago (4 children) Anyone else been having issues of not being able to load YouTube videos past the first few seconds on Firefox using ublock? I couldn't find any recent information online. I don't know if this is part of the war on ad blockers, or unrelated. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 7 child comments replies: [–] viking@infosec.pub 5 points 2 years ago It's been a side effect of the server side ads apparently, but reloading the page fixes it for me. permalink fedilink source parent [–] snooggums@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago I watched several videos today on Firefox with ublock origin and no issues. Haven't run into issues with ads yet. permalink fedilink source parent [–] errorlab@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago Yeah, yesterday. I just kept refreshing. FF + unlock + not signed in, seems to trigger it permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (1 reply) load more comments (1 reply)
[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 55 points 2 years ago (16 children) Saying this about any corporation's product is guaranteed not to age well. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 20 child comments replies: [+] parpol@programming.dev 57 points 2 years ago (6 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 7 child comments replies: [–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 44 points 2 years ago (11 children) Chromium (Google Chrome's base) is also open source. And yet, we're still at a corporation's mercy as to whether everything Chromium-based gets ruined by Google's fuck-what-the-users-want policies. Like with Manifest V3. And JXL support. And extensions on mobile. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 12 child comments replies: [+] parpol@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 child) Except now you have to maintain a branch that's missing everything after that release upstream. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] parpol@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Yeah you can probably do periodic merge or rebase etc. But then you have the fun of merge conflicts permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (10 replies) load more comments (5 replies) [+] Boozilla@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago* (1 child) Because people have the attention span of a goldfish and if you aren't reminding them every 5 seconds of the features they have available they'll forget they do in fact use them and then complain to support because they can't spend 5 seconds on the help page. I say this, not in defense of mozilla, but in frustration at having to deal daily with these kinds of issues. You can put giant screen-size arrows on where to go / what single "do the thing" button to press and people will still forget 5 seconds later. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Boozilla@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 years ago* We're so fucking used to ads we don't even always realize we're getting pushed propaganda permalink fedilink source parent [–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago Mmm mmm mmm, Bill Cosby tells me to love my puddin' pops! ........i feel sleepy...... permalink fedilink source parent [–] viking@infosec.pub 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Firefox is a foundation, not a corporation. And I'm already using Fennec instead of the official release. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago No. Firefox is a product. Mozilla is a corporation AND a foundation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (12 replies)
[+] parpol@programming.dev 57 points 2 years ago (6 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 7 child comments replies: [–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 44 points 2 years ago (11 children) Chromium (Google Chrome's base) is also open source. And yet, we're still at a corporation's mercy as to whether everything Chromium-based gets ruined by Google's fuck-what-the-users-want policies. Like with Manifest V3. And JXL support. And extensions on mobile. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 12 child comments replies: [+] parpol@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 child) Except now you have to maintain a branch that's missing everything after that release upstream. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] parpol@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Yeah you can probably do periodic merge or rebase etc. But then you have the fun of merge conflicts permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (10 replies) load more comments (5 replies)
[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 44 points 2 years ago (11 children) Chromium (Google Chrome's base) is also open source. And yet, we're still at a corporation's mercy as to whether everything Chromium-based gets ruined by Google's fuck-what-the-users-want policies. Like with Manifest V3. And JXL support. And extensions on mobile. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 12 child comments replies: [+] parpol@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 child) Except now you have to maintain a branch that's missing everything after that release upstream. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] parpol@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Yeah you can probably do periodic merge or rebase etc. But then you have the fun of merge conflicts permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (10 replies)
[+] parpol@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 child) Except now you have to maintain a branch that's missing everything after that release upstream. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] parpol@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Yeah you can probably do periodic merge or rebase etc. But then you have the fun of merge conflicts permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 child) Except now you have to maintain a branch that's missing everything after that release upstream. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] parpol@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Yeah you can probably do periodic merge or rebase etc. But then you have the fun of merge conflicts permalink fedilink source parent
[+] parpol@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Yeah you can probably do periodic merge or rebase etc. But then you have the fun of merge conflicts permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Yeah you can probably do periodic merge or rebase etc. But then you have the fun of merge conflicts permalink fedilink source parent
[+] Boozilla@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago* (1 child) Because people have the attention span of a goldfish and if you aren't reminding them every 5 seconds of the features they have available they'll forget they do in fact use them and then complain to support because they can't spend 5 seconds on the help page. I say this, not in defense of mozilla, but in frustration at having to deal daily with these kinds of issues. You can put giant screen-size arrows on where to go / what single "do the thing" button to press and people will still forget 5 seconds later. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Boozilla@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 years ago* We're so fucking used to ads we don't even always realize we're getting pushed propaganda permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago* (1 child) Because people have the attention span of a goldfish and if you aren't reminding them every 5 seconds of the features they have available they'll forget they do in fact use them and then complain to support because they can't spend 5 seconds on the help page. I say this, not in defense of mozilla, but in frustration at having to deal daily with these kinds of issues. You can put giant screen-size arrows on where to go / what single "do the thing" button to press and people will still forget 5 seconds later. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Boozilla@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 years ago* We're so fucking used to ads we don't even always realize we're getting pushed propaganda permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago Mmm mmm mmm, Bill Cosby tells me to love my puddin' pops! ........i feel sleepy...... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] viking@infosec.pub 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Firefox is a foundation, not a corporation. And I'm already using Fennec instead of the official release. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago No. Firefox is a product. Mozilla is a corporation AND a foundation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago No. Firefox is a product. Mozilla is a corporation AND a foundation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation permalink fedilink source parent
[–] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 years ago (6 children) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 12 child comments replies: [–] rtxn@lemmy.world 59 points 2 years ago (2 children) Librewolf, my beloved. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (4 children) This is the first I've heard of LibreWolf. Is it compatible with Windows 7? And also, why is it good? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [–] ivn@jlai.lu 67 points 2 years ago You really shouldn't connect windows 7 to the internet. permalink fedilink source parent [+] parpol@programming.dev 26 points 2 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] jrgd@lemm.ee 20 points 2 years ago https://librewolf.net/ A summary from its site and known technical details: no telemetry by default includes uBlock Origin has sane privacy-respecting defaults prepackages arkenfox user.js relatively well-maintained fork of Firefox that keeps up with upstream No major controversies AFAIK As for Windows 7, nobody should really need to install Librewolf anyway on such a device. No device running Windows 7 should have access to the internet at this point. If you are asking about compatibility intending this use case, you have bigger problems to worry about than your choice of browser. If you just need to view HTML files graphically, even Internet Explorer or an older firefox ESR will do. permalink fedilink source parent [–] can@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) Looks like it should run on Windows. Edit: sorry, didn't read far down enough. It's only built for Windows 10, but they recommend this? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Main features: ... Continued support for NPAPI plugins like Silverlight, Adobe Flash and Java Picture this in your minds eye: a Windows 7 machine running a browser with still working Flash and Java plugins, connected to the internet in 2024. what do you see? i see a flourishing ecosystem of worms, viruses and rootkits, all trying to be the one species to get to be the one who does the most damage to the prey species, the common user. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago Sounds like an interesting experience to me. Admittedly I hadn't looked that far into it. If Win 7 is a must I'd say just go with latest Firefox. permalink fedilink source parent [–] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago ❤ permalink fedilink source parent [–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 22 points 2 years ago You're overreacting. Firefox knows their users. I am a huge "stan" for Firefox, but I will delete it like a time traveller if they make it impossible to ignore ads. I will salt the earth and poop on Firefox's grave and actively avoid it everywhere... However. If I'm wrong, there will be a Next Thing... permalink fedilink source parent [–] viking@infosec.pub 6 points 2 years ago Yeah I'm using Fennec, which doesn't have that. But as long as it's a flick of a switch to disable, I don't really mind. Still a million times better than manifest v3. permalink fedilink source parent [–] TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (3 children) If you use a DNS solutions you can block all the telemetry shit. Frankly FF has been phoning home in a lot of undesirable ways for many years even before this, like most browsers. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments load more comments (3 replies) [–] pwalker@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago At least link the full article and not just the headline... smh. Here is also the follow-up article with comments from Firefox's CTO. https://www.heise.de/en/news/Firefox-defends-itself-Everything-done-right-just-poorly-communicated-9802546.html permalink fedilink source parent [–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Not entirely true. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 59 points 2 years ago (2 children) Librewolf, my beloved. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (4 children) This is the first I've heard of LibreWolf. Is it compatible with Windows 7? And also, why is it good? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [–] ivn@jlai.lu 67 points 2 years ago You really shouldn't connect windows 7 to the internet. permalink fedilink source parent [+] parpol@programming.dev 26 points 2 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] jrgd@lemm.ee 20 points 2 years ago https://librewolf.net/ A summary from its site and known technical details: no telemetry by default includes uBlock Origin has sane privacy-respecting defaults prepackages arkenfox user.js relatively well-maintained fork of Firefox that keeps up with upstream No major controversies AFAIK As for Windows 7, nobody should really need to install Librewolf anyway on such a device. No device running Windows 7 should have access to the internet at this point. If you are asking about compatibility intending this use case, you have bigger problems to worry about than your choice of browser. If you just need to view HTML files graphically, even Internet Explorer or an older firefox ESR will do. permalink fedilink source parent [–] can@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) Looks like it should run on Windows. Edit: sorry, didn't read far down enough. It's only built for Windows 10, but they recommend this? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Main features: ... Continued support for NPAPI plugins like Silverlight, Adobe Flash and Java Picture this in your minds eye: a Windows 7 machine running a browser with still working Flash and Java plugins, connected to the internet in 2024. what do you see? i see a flourishing ecosystem of worms, viruses and rootkits, all trying to be the one species to get to be the one who does the most damage to the prey species, the common user. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago Sounds like an interesting experience to me. Admittedly I hadn't looked that far into it. If Win 7 is a must I'd say just go with latest Firefox. permalink fedilink source parent [–] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago ❤ permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (4 children) This is the first I've heard of LibreWolf. Is it compatible with Windows 7? And also, why is it good? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [–] ivn@jlai.lu 67 points 2 years ago You really shouldn't connect windows 7 to the internet. permalink fedilink source parent [+] parpol@programming.dev 26 points 2 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] jrgd@lemm.ee 20 points 2 years ago https://librewolf.net/ A summary from its site and known technical details: no telemetry by default includes uBlock Origin has sane privacy-respecting defaults prepackages arkenfox user.js relatively well-maintained fork of Firefox that keeps up with upstream No major controversies AFAIK As for Windows 7, nobody should really need to install Librewolf anyway on such a device. No device running Windows 7 should have access to the internet at this point. If you are asking about compatibility intending this use case, you have bigger problems to worry about than your choice of browser. If you just need to view HTML files graphically, even Internet Explorer or an older firefox ESR will do. permalink fedilink source parent [–] can@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) Looks like it should run on Windows. Edit: sorry, didn't read far down enough. It's only built for Windows 10, but they recommend this? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Main features: ... Continued support for NPAPI plugins like Silverlight, Adobe Flash and Java Picture this in your minds eye: a Windows 7 machine running a browser with still working Flash and Java plugins, connected to the internet in 2024. what do you see? i see a flourishing ecosystem of worms, viruses and rootkits, all trying to be the one species to get to be the one who does the most damage to the prey species, the common user. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago Sounds like an interesting experience to me. Admittedly I hadn't looked that far into it. If Win 7 is a must I'd say just go with latest Firefox. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ivn@jlai.lu 67 points 2 years ago You really shouldn't connect windows 7 to the internet. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jrgd@lemm.ee 20 points 2 years ago https://librewolf.net/ A summary from its site and known technical details: no telemetry by default includes uBlock Origin has sane privacy-respecting defaults prepackages arkenfox user.js relatively well-maintained fork of Firefox that keeps up with upstream No major controversies AFAIK As for Windows 7, nobody should really need to install Librewolf anyway on such a device. No device running Windows 7 should have access to the internet at this point. If you are asking about compatibility intending this use case, you have bigger problems to worry about than your choice of browser. If you just need to view HTML files graphically, even Internet Explorer or an older firefox ESR will do. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] can@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) Looks like it should run on Windows. Edit: sorry, didn't read far down enough. It's only built for Windows 10, but they recommend this? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Main features: ... Continued support for NPAPI plugins like Silverlight, Adobe Flash and Java Picture this in your minds eye: a Windows 7 machine running a browser with still working Flash and Java plugins, connected to the internet in 2024. what do you see? i see a flourishing ecosystem of worms, viruses and rootkits, all trying to be the one species to get to be the one who does the most damage to the prey species, the common user. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago Sounds like an interesting experience to me. Admittedly I hadn't looked that far into it. If Win 7 is a must I'd say just go with latest Firefox. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Main features: ... Continued support for NPAPI plugins like Silverlight, Adobe Flash and Java Picture this in your minds eye: a Windows 7 machine running a browser with still working Flash and Java plugins, connected to the internet in 2024. what do you see? i see a flourishing ecosystem of worms, viruses and rootkits, all trying to be the one species to get to be the one who does the most damage to the prey species, the common user. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago Sounds like an interesting experience to me. Admittedly I hadn't looked that far into it. If Win 7 is a must I'd say just go with latest Firefox. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago Sounds like an interesting experience to me. Admittedly I hadn't looked that far into it. If Win 7 is a must I'd say just go with latest Firefox. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 22 points 2 years ago You're overreacting. Firefox knows their users. I am a huge "stan" for Firefox, but I will delete it like a time traveller if they make it impossible to ignore ads. I will salt the earth and poop on Firefox's grave and actively avoid it everywhere... However. If I'm wrong, there will be a Next Thing... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] viking@infosec.pub 6 points 2 years ago Yeah I'm using Fennec, which doesn't have that. But as long as it's a flick of a switch to disable, I don't really mind. Still a million times better than manifest v3. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (3 children) If you use a DNS solutions you can block all the telemetry shit. Frankly FF has been phoning home in a lot of undesirable ways for many years even before this, like most browsers. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments load more comments (3 replies)
[–] pwalker@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago At least link the full article and not just the headline... smh. Here is also the follow-up article with comments from Firefox's CTO. https://www.heise.de/en/news/Firefox-defends-itself-Everything-done-right-just-poorly-communicated-9802546.html permalink fedilink source parent
[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago (4 children) Anyone else been having issues of not being able to load YouTube videos past the first few seconds on Firefox using ublock? I couldn't find any recent information online. I don't know if this is part of the war on ad blockers, or unrelated. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 7 child comments replies: [–] viking@infosec.pub 5 points 2 years ago It's been a side effect of the server side ads apparently, but reloading the page fixes it for me. permalink fedilink source parent [–] snooggums@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago I watched several videos today on Firefox with ublock origin and no issues. Haven't run into issues with ads yet. permalink fedilink source parent [–] errorlab@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago Yeah, yesterday. I just kept refreshing. FF + unlock + not signed in, seems to trigger it permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (1 reply)
[–] viking@infosec.pub 5 points 2 years ago It's been a side effect of the server side ads apparently, but reloading the page fixes it for me. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] snooggums@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago I watched several videos today on Firefox with ublock origin and no issues. Haven't run into issues with ads yet. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] errorlab@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago Yeah, yesterday. I just kept refreshing. FF + unlock + not signed in, seems to trigger it permalink fedilink source parent