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Firefox 120 ships today with massive privacy improvements - gHacks Tech News (www.ghacks.net)
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[–] LWD@lemm.ee 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

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[–] LedgeDrop@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks for the comprehensive write-up. It convinced me to migrate back to Firefox.

I was on Firefox (8 years ago), moved to Chrome (I liked the non-admin/transparent update feature and Websites didn't break like they did with ff), then moved to brave (basically chrome + more privacy), and now I'll go back the Firefox (I hope I won't encounter too many non-FF websites)

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] LedgeDrop@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Neato, I'll check it out. I'm also trying out mull for android (as I'd like to keep my desktop/cellphone bookmarks/browser-history in sync)

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[–] tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only issue is some websites don't like to load in Librewolf. Windy.tv for example. I've never had any serious browser issues in Firefox lately.

[–] LedgeDrop@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I expect to have some website compatibility issues with Firefox/librewolf, as it does have a 3% share of the global browser market - so, website development energy is focused on the chrome/safari experience. However, 8+ years ago I felt I needed to use chrome at least every other day to view certain websites - it was frustrating.

I'm hoping (and willing to try it out) to see if this has improved.

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago

If you want to non ff sites to work on ff you can just spoof tour user agent. 90% of non ff sites actually work. Some use web usb and bluetooth stuff that doesnt work on ff.

[–] BaardFigur@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

can increase the fingerprinting information for a website outside of California or Colorado.

Or you know, the entire EU/EEC which has more inhabitants than USA.

[–] PlexSheep@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

I always use do not track. If they fingerprint me with that, they are explicitly disregarding it. It obviously gives moral superiority.