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@cR0w @AAKL @9to5Mac Fair point. Without minimising the validity of your riposte, i was trying to engage a wider principle. Over the recent months so many tooters & bloggers & posters & journalists have made sweeping assessments of doom wrt #Firefox, which have alternatively amused & frustrated me. So many critiques have been unnuanced & histrionic, sometimes plain wrong. Meanwhile, each day i have continued using my #FirefoxNightly + #Sidebery + #FirefoxSecondSidebar, with my tweaked #userJS, & enjoying a magnificent browsing & tab-management UX. However, circling back to your final line...

many users likely wouldn't even know about that change

...also legitimately applies to my setup. I would wholeheartedly agree that :firefox: , :firefox_nightly: , Beta, DevEd would be better if Mozilla brought more granularity directly into the main GUI Settings, rather than leaving them buried for geeks. However, i prefer to "suggest" that enhancement, not [as so many armchair critics recently have felt wont] to rage & moan & declare the death of the fox.

@nev Ditto. One more line i can delete in my #userJS user.js.

@leniwcowaty @Waterfox Fwiw:

// droppie 17/4/25: Multiple times over recent days, to my displeasure, i've found that the 2x-daily Nightly updates kept re-enabling all the telemetry options in `about:preferences#privacy`. Ok then, i'll play hard-ball, by now forcing them all off, per these ex https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yokoffing/Betterfox/main/user.js:
/** TELEMETRY ***/
user_pref("datareporting.policy.dataSubmissionEnabled", false);
user_pref("datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled", false);
/* user_pref("toolkit.telemetry.unified", false); */   //droppie 18/4/25: Perversely this one actually Enables Telemetry, per `about:telemetry#`, if set to True. 
user_pref("toolkit.telemetry.enabled", false);
user_pref("toolkit.telemetry.server", "data:,");
user_pref("toolkit.telemetry.archive.enabled", false);
user_pref("toolkit.telemetry.newProfilePing.enabled", false);
user_pref("toolkit.telemetry.shutdownPingSender.enabled", false);
user_pref("toolkit.telemetry.updatePing.enabled", false);
user_pref("toolkit.telemetry.bhrPing.enabled", false);
user_pref("toolkit.telemetry.firstShutdownPing.enabled", false);
user_pref("toolkit.telemetry.coverage.opt-out", true);
user_pref("toolkit.coverage.opt-out", true);
user_pref("toolkit.coverage.endpoint.base", "");
user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.telemetry", false);
user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.telemetry", false);
/** EXPERIMENTS ***/
user_pref("app.shield.optoutstudies.enabled", false);
user_pref("app.normandy.enabled", false);
user_pref("app.normandy.api_url", "");
/** CRASH REPORTS ***/
user_pref("breakpad.reportURL", "");
user_pref("browser.tabs.crashReporting.sendReport", false);
/** DETECTION ***/
user_pref("captivedetect.canonicalURL", "");
user_pref("network.captive-portal-service.enabled", false);
user_pref("network.connectivity-service.enabled", false);

#Firefox #telemetry #AboutConfig #userJS

@fnwbr And yet, here i be, revelling in the delightful UX that is my :firefox_nightly: , with all the #telemetry disabled, the #AI disabled, numerous other parameters hardened via my #userJS, with the exquisite #Sidebery & its infinitely-nestable tree-tabs & multiple #Workspaces on its LHS, & the brilliant project #FirefoxSecondSidebar with my 21 #WebPanels on its RHS. It's such a great daily browsing UX, unfazed by the last ten days of global #FUD [all the so-called nasties can be disabled, either via simple clicks in the Settings UI, or otherwise via about:config / user.js]. Herd-mentality is a ridiculous trait of humans. 🙄🤦‍♀️

:firefox_nightly: #FirefoxNightly + #Mv2 #uBO + #Sidebery + #FirefoxSecondSidebar = THE best browsing & sophisticated tab management + Web Panel UX i've ever had, easily eclipsing Vivaldi, :floorp: #Floorp, :zenbrowser: #ZenBrowser, Waterfox, LibreWolf... ergo = 💜🥳🎉👯‍♀️

:firefox_nightly: #FirefoxNightly + #NativeVerticalTabs + #uBlockOrigin + #FirefoxSecondSidebar = Very usable already as of Feb 2025, albeit less powerful than Sidebery, ergo = 💜 🎉

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@feather1952 I cannot deny the overt shittiness of the contemporary interwebz, if experienced "raw". That said, almost none of the problems mentioned in the article manifest in my daily browserising, because i take numerous explicit precautions in the selection of my OS (#Linux), browser (#FirefoxNightly, & FF forks #ZenBrowser & #Floorp), their settings (hardened in Preferences, then further hardened via my custom #userJS file), AddOns/Extensions (the most important in this context being #uBlockOrigin, used in #HardMode, with many tens of thousands of my custom #DynamicFilterRules created over the years), & social media decision in favour of only #fediverse, never any of the toxic swampers.

I fully recognise though that a majority of peeps don't care for any of the malarkey i just listed, & so i can't bear to think how dire their online experiences might be... or likely must be. Ugh.

#Thunderbird #UserJS for 128 ESR ("Nebula") is ready for review !

https://github.com/HorlogeSkynet/thunderbird-user.js/pull/55

(cc @thunderbird)

@MsDropbear425 @axelsilverdew https://gitea.krutonium.ca/Krutonium/NixOS/src/branch/master/user/krutonium-hm-extras/firefox.nix#L29-L47 Welcome to my #userJS

@msdropbear42 I sussed it out! 🎉 Once more i can use #DoH Max Protection, ergo also #ECH, & still have fast responsive tab loading. 💃

No, that infers some smarts by me. I was not clever enough to analytically solve it, but instead i merely obstinately stumbled onto the root cause by a tedious investigative process of trial & error elimination.

Several months ago i had added this innocuous string to my #userJS in order to block being fingerprinted via HTTP/2 Fingerprinting [eg, test at https://browserleaks.com/http2]:

user_pref("network.http.http2.enabled", false);

Once i reset this to its default of true, all those many many "problematic" sites now once more load fast again. 🥳

That's cool, but my happiness is tempered by annoyance that here's yet another example where i have to trade away privacy for convenience, damnit! 😡

#Thunderbird #UserJS for 115 ESR is (finally) out 🎉

https://github.com/HorlogeSkynet/thunderbird-user.js/releases/tag/v115.0

#Thunderbird #UserJS for 115 ESR ("Supernova") is ready for review !

https://github.com/HorlogeSkynet/thunderbird-user.js/pull/36

(cc @thunderbird)

@hishgraphics Had not heard of this til your toot, ta. Otoh, tbh, having now read the minimal info at that link, i'm not interested. With my #uBlockOrigin set in Advanced mode, my custom #userJS, & the other native attributes, i remain happy with the privacy capability of my :firefox_nightly: However, building upon this base, these days i am also interested in forks that enhance the FF UI, to deliver a better UX.

That was why, a few weeks ago, i began testing #PulseBrowser & #Floorp. The latter is simply amazingly good [despite still comparatively early development], & so it became my new default browser, in lieu of #FirefoxNightly . There's so much UI goodies to commend it [it's rather like the "Vivaldi of Gecko-land"], not only but including native #Workspaces, #VerticalTabs, #WebPanel, BookmarkBar at top or bottom, BookmarkBar AutoHide when at top...

I doubt that #Mercury is / can be more private than my Floorp [or also :firefox_nightly: ], & even if it happens to be a bit faster, i prioritise that slightly less highly than enhanced UI productivity.

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