A 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."
I am officially #Mozilla free:
#Firefox ------------------> #Waterfox
Firefox Dev Editon --> Waterfox extra profile
#Thunderbird ------------> Evolution
And thanks for all the fish...
Nozilla (via @yoasif)
｢ 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) ｣
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!
Mozilla Warns Users To Update Firefox Before Certificate Expires - Mozilla is urging Firefox users to update their browsers to version 128 or later (... - 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 #firefox
@itsfoss #ImageMagick screencap: #Firefox with #Sidebery for #VerticalTabs, #IceWM with #ShadesOfGrey on #Arch #GNU+#Linux
#Apps at sight: #Geany #Zathura #Viewnior #DeltaChat #Dino #Jami #LXTerminal #PCManFM #fs
https://imagemagick.org/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/
https://ice-wm.org
https://archlinux.org/
https://www.gnu.org/
https://www.geany.org/
https://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/
https://siyanpanayotov.com/project/viewnior/
https://delta.chat/en/
https://dino.im/
https://jami.net/
https://www.lxde.org/
Mozilla 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 ... - 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 #firefox
People who had willingly opted into sharing telemetry data by running Nightly or Beta builds of #Firefox 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.
Instead, Mozilla had successfully enabled data collection in its largest user population (the release branch of #Firefox) and was now able to use that data for #advertising purposes. That wasn’t how it was reported, that isn’t how we saw it - but that seems to be what happened.
I looked on #reddit and the general tech press to see if the community had understood what is obvious today – enabling this setting by default allowed #Mozilla 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 #Firefox community had nothing to say about it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/736o33/improving_the_firefox_privacy_notice/
It’s finally making sense. #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).
Take a look at the #Firefox 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.
Ever 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 #Firefox 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.
New 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: @Waterfox
https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/waterfox/
#waterfox #firefox #mozilla #WebBrowser #privacy #floss
#Mozilla warns #Firefox users to update browsers to the latest version to avoid facing disruption and security risks caused by the upcoming expiration of one of the company's #rootcertificates.
Mozilla certificate expires this Friday, March 14, 2025, and was used to sign content, including add-ons for various Mozilla projects and Firefox itself.
Users need to update to #Firefox128 (released in July 2024) or later and ESR 115.13 or later for 'Extended Support Release'.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/mozilla-warns-users-to-update-firefox-before-certificate-expires/
TL;DR: With Firefox 56, #Mozilla combined Firefox Health Report and Telemetry data into a single setting called “technical and interaction data”, which was then enabled by default. This included data about advertising within Firefox’s New Tab page, along with a lot of other technical information about the installation of #Firefox. The Firefox preferences UI makes no mention of usage of this technical data for advertising purposes. 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
Mozilla warns of their own root certificate authority expiration this Friday. Recommends updating to Firefox ESR 115 or Firefox 128.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/mozilla-warns-users-to-update-firefox-before-certificate-expires/
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Mozilla met en garde contre l'expiration de leur propre autorité de certification racine ce vendredi. Conseille la mise à jour vers Firefox ESR 115 ou Firefox 128.
// Article en anglais //
As promised, here is an interview with @ryanleesipes from #Thunderbird, on the whole #Mozilla and #Firefox terms of use situation.
We talk about why this had to happen, how Thunderbird will handle their own Terms of Use, what's happening at Mozilla, and what's changing.
Mia’s Simulacrum 
