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IT NewsAdd WebUSB Support To Firefox With a Special USB Device - RP2040-based Pico board acting as U2F dongle with Firefox. (Credit: ArcaneNibble, ... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/03/15/add-webusb-support-to-firefox-with-a-special-usb-device/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://hackaday.com/2025/03/15/add-webusb-support-to-firefox-with-a-special-usb-device/</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/computerhacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#computerhacks</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/securityhacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#securityhacks</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#firefox</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/webusb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#webusb</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/u2f" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#u2f</a>

Dr BlobfishI've been inspired by <a href="https://mrrp.chimmie.k.vu/@art" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@art</a> to make Bocchi the Firefox ! Please use as you like <a href="https://im-in.space/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#firefox</a> <a href="https://im-in.space/tags/BocchiTheRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BocchiTheRock</a>

AfterDawnMozillalta varoitus: Päivitä vanhentunut Firefox hetiMikäli käytössä on Firefox 127 tai sitä vanhempi, on selaimen juurivarmenne vanhentunut. Tästä seuraa tietoturvaongelmia ja mm. lisäosat eivät ole enää luotettavia.Kehotus koskee Windowsia, Linuxia, macOS:aa ja Androidia.<a href="https://dawn.fi/uutiset/2025/03/15/mozillalta-varoitus-firefox-pitaa-paivittaa-heti" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://dawn.fi/uutiset/2025/03/15/mozillalta-varoitus-firefox-pitaa-paivittaa-heti</a><a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#firefox</a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/mozilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mozilla</a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/selaimet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#selaimet</a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/tietoturva" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tietoturva</a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/uutiset" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uutiset</a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/teknologia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#teknologia</a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/tekniikka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tekniikka</a>

Privacy Project<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IceCat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IceCat</a> extensions disabled because they're not verified?!!WTF is this BS?!<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/browser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#browser</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#firefox</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privacy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/addons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#addons</a>

Soh Kam YungA look at forks of Firefox."For those who are willing to stay in the Firefox "family" there are a number of good options that have taken vastly different approaches. This includes GNU IceCat, Floorp, LibreWolf, and Zen."<a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1012453/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lwn.net/Articles/1012453/</a><a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Firefox</a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/WebBrowsers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WebBrowsers</a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Software</a>

It's a me, MauroI am officially <a href="https://mograph.social/tags/Mozilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mozilla</a> free:<a href="https://mograph.social/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Firefox</a> ------------------> <a href="https://mograph.social/tags/Waterfox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Waterfox</a> Firefox Dev Editon --> Waterfox extra profile <a href="https://mograph.social/tags/Thunderbird" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Thunderbird</a> ------------> EvolutionAnd thanks for all the fish...

jbzNozilla (via <a href="https://mastodon.social/@yoasif" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@yoasif</a>)｢ Mozilla reduced granularity into the options for data collection in Firefox, enabled additional data collection by default, and gave itself the ability to use this new data for advertising purposes. Users would have to opt out of this data collection for it not to be used for advertising purposes (a purpose that Mozilla in this iteration is not forthright about) ｣<a href="https://www.quippd.com/writing/2025/03/12/mozilla-has-been-sharing-aggregated-firefox-data-with-advertisers-since-2017-when-it-enabled-telemetry-by-default.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.quippd.com/writing/2025/03/12/mozilla-has-been-sharing-aggregated-firefox-data-with-advertisers-since-2017-when-it-enabled-telemetry-by-default.html</a><a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#firefox</a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/mozilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mozilla</a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privacy</a>

✨🇪🇺 Mia’s Simulacrum 🏳️‍⚧️✨Had enough of big tech browser corpos like Google (Chrome) or Mozilla (Firefox) collecting your data and selling them to Advertisers?Then it is time to uninstall them and get yourself a Norwegian browser Vivaldi with 0 external investors!<a href="https://vivaldi.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://vivaldi.com/</a><a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/buyFromEU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#buyFromEU</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/eu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#eu</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#usa</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigTech</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#firefox</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#google</a>

Author-ized L.J.My only real complaint on switching from Chromium to <a href="https://writeout.ink/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Firefox</a> as my primary browser was the wispy little hide-and-seek scrollbar. With the help of this guide from the creator of the <a href="https://writeout.ink/tags/CustomScrollbars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CustomScrollbars</a> extension, though, I got my nice fat scrollbar back! <a href="https://github.com/WesleyBranton/Custom-Scrollbar/wiki/How-to-enable-wide-scrollbars-on-Firefox" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/WesleyBranton/Custom-Scrollbar/wiki/How-to-enable-wide-scrollbars-on-Firefox</a> Here's how I did it:1. Open Advanced Preferences by navigating to "about:config" without the quotes. Click "Accept the risk and continue."2. Search for "widget.gtk.overlay-scrollbars.enabled" without the quotes. Double click this setting to change to "false."3. Search for "widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.style" without the quotes. 0 is the system default scrollbar style, so if a different style is desired double-click to change to a number between 1 and 5. 0 worked on my <a href="https://writeout.ink/tags/ArchLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ArchLinux</a> system. For more explanation, see Heading 3 on the linked guide.4. Search for "widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.override" without the quotes. Double click and change to a number. 20 works for me.And that's it! I now have a chonky scrollbar that stays in place without needing the Custom Scrollbars extension, but on other systems and configurations one may need to install the extension and play around with settings, including disabling "automatically hide scrollbar" in the preferences of the Custom Scrollbars extension. (These preferences can be reached by navigating to "about:addons" without the quotes, going to Extensions > Custom Scrollbars, and clicking the three-dot menu to the right of the enable/disable toggle button. That one took me a minute to find lol.)

MorganGoodbye, <a href="https://exquisite.social/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Firefox</a>.

IT NewsMozilla Warns Users To Update Firefox Before Certificate Expires - Mozilla is urging Firefox users to update their browsers to version 128 or later (... - <a href="https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/03/13/2052239/mozilla-warns-users-to-update-firefox-before-certificate-expires?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/03/13/2052239/mozilla-warns-users-to-update-firefox-before-certificate-expires?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#firefox</a>

rival<a href="https://mastodon.social/@itsfoss" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@itsfoss</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ImageMagick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ImageMagick</a> screencap: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Firefox</a> with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sidebery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sidebery</a> for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VerticalTabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VerticalTabs</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IceWM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IceWM</a> with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ShadesOfGrey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShadesOfGrey</a> on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Arch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Arch</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GNU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GNU</a>+<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linux</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Apps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Apps</a> at sight: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Geany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Geany</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Zathura" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zathura</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Viewnior" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Viewnior</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DeltaChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeltaChat</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dino" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dino</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Jami" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jami</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LXTerminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LXTerminal</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PCManFM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PCManFM</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fs</a> <a href="https://imagemagick.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://imagemagick.org/</a> <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/</a> <a href="https://ice-wm.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ice-wm.org</a> <a href="https://archlinux.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archlinux.org/</a> <a href="https://www.gnu.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.gnu.org/</a> <a href="https://www.geany.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.geany.org/</a> <a href="https://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/</a> <a href="https://siyanpanayotov.com/project/viewnior/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://siyanpanayotov.com/project/viewnior/</a> <a href="https://delta.chat/en/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://delta.chat/en/</a> <a href="https://dino.im/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://dino.im/</a> <a href="https://jami.net/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://jami.net/</a> <a href="https://www.lxde.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.lxde.org/</a>

IT NewsMozilla Warns DOJ's Google Remedies Risk 'Death of Open Web' - Mozilla has warned that the U.S. Department of Justice's proposed remedies in its ... - <a href="https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/03/13/1716227/mozilla-warns-dojs-google-remedies-risk-death-of-open-web?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/03/13/1716227/mozilla-warns-dojs-google-remedies-risk-death-of-open-web?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#firefox</a>

Youssuff QuipsPeople who had willingly opted into sharing telemetry data by running Nightly or Beta builds of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Firefox</a> to help Mozilla make a better product – those are the people who are blindsided by this change. We chose to opt in to share data with Mozilla, and the way that the data was used changed after we made our decision – and it wasn’t really clear that it was the case.

Youssuff QuipsInstead, Mozilla had successfully enabled data collection in its largest user population (the release branch of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Firefox</a>) and was now able to use that data for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/advertising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#advertising</a> purposes. That wasn’t how it was reported, that isn’t how we saw it - but that seems to be what happened.

Youssuff QuipsI looked on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reddit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reddit</a> and the general tech press to see if the community had understood what is obvious today – enabling this setting by default allowed <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mozilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mozilla</a> to further monetize the new tab page. I found afnan-khan’s sad submission of Mozilla’s privacy notice post. 13 net upvotes, 0 comments.A massively consequential change with regards to data sharing in advertising, and the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Firefox</a> community had nothing to say about it.<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/736o33/improving_the_firefox_privacy_notice/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/736o33/improving_the_firefox_privacy_notice/</a>

Youssuff QuipsIt’s finally making sense. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mozilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mozilla</a> reduced granularity into the options for data collection in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Firefox</a>, enabled additional data collection by default, and gave itself the ability to use this new data for advertising purposes. Users would have to opt out of this data collection for it not to be used for advertising purposes (a purpose that Mozilla in this iteration is not forthright about).

Youssuff QuipsTake a look at the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Firefox</a> Preferences UI that Mozilla is telling us to toggle if we don’t want our data being processed for ads. I don’t see anything here says that this setting is about sharing data with advertisers. I have to go to the Privacy Notice to understand that. That doesn’t feel very upfront to me.

Youssuff QuipsEver since this setting has existed, Mozilla contributors and employees have told people to enable it, in order to ensure that Mozilla developers have insight into how people use Firefox, to help make <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Firefox</a> better. While this post will prove my (naive) impression wrong, I had never seen anyone mention that this setting shared data with advertisers.And yet, that is what Mozilla is telling us.<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/28/mozilla-responds-to-backlash-over-new-terms-saying-its-not-using-peoples-data-for-ai/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/28/mozilla-responds-to-backlash-over-new-terms-saying-its-not-using-peoples-data-for-ai/</a>

KelsonNew software review on my website!Waterfox ★★★★☆A Firefox fork aimed at improved performance and privacy, without sacrificing usability. Also available on Android.Edit: they're here on the Fediverse: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@Waterfox" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Waterfox</a><a href="https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/waterfox/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/waterfox/</a> <a href="https://notes.kvibber.com/tags/waterfox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#waterfox</a> <a href="https://notes.kvibber.com/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#firefox</a> <a href="https://notes.kvibber.com/tags/mozilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mozilla</a> <a href="https://notes.kvibber.com/tags/webbrowser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WebBrowser</a> <a href="https://notes.kvibber.com/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privacy</a> <a href="https://notes.kvibber.com/tags/floss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#floss</a>

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