Mozilla has also the Sync server available for selfhosting so you can host your personal sync server and not even use Firefox sync server for extra de-coupling and security.
I recently removed every iteration of Google Chrome from all my devices and switched over to Firefox, had to get used to some weird design things but other than that completely satisfied with the switch. Having my ad blocker extension on mobile is a game changer.
Dude, I've been using Firefox on mobile for a while now, but I didn't realise you could use extensions with it. Found out thanks to this comment, thanks!
the client hello encryption sounds really cool, i've been using firefox for 15 years and idk if other browser have it, this my first time hearing about it, but it's definitely a good selling point to get more people to use FF, hopefully they market it well and not leave it as just something that we see in the release notes
I love Brave's sync method for its expediency and anonymity, but it is very vulnerable. Not just to bad opsec, i.e. leaks, but there is no way to protect the browser in vulnerable environments - no master password. As for creating an account to use a browser... lol, lmao
@@qlippoth13 Indeed it is. I use it at/for work as a good all-in-one package - Shields makes the internet usable when add-ons are a no-no. I can also look past the questionable senior management, crypto connections and past link abuse in a work setting. Never for personal use.
I've been using Firefox for 20 years, and it rarely crashes, if ever. But than, when I opened this video, it crashed. Funny. The quick restart repaired it though, I am very content with Firefox.
Another reason to use Firefox, which was the reason to why I switched to it, is because of its ability to block RU-vid's Anti Adblock. Damn, a lot of blockers... I can imagine seeing RU-vid starting to block firefoxes RU-vid Anti-Adblock-Blocker, which would be "Anti-Adblock-Blocker-Blocker". 💀
right now i never got that problem i am not sure if they are just a/b testing or if i got lucky because in use a lot of different browsers and i never got it
Could you talk about Microsoft and their private Windows API's. I've worked in IT for a number of years and only just this week did it dawn on me that, whilst I know plenty of their secret sauce is kept from public view, certain API's are also undocumented and people who have attempted reversing them often have mixed success. Kind of ominous to think what they could be doing with some of those.
Once I really started getting good at red teaming/malware development I noticed there is so many undocumented APIs. Some of them have names like “SystemFunction1” so they dont even bother to name a lot of them. SystemFunction032 is RC4 encryption of a memory buffer I believe. SystemFunction036 is random number generator
Won't encrypted hello also prevent ISPs and network operators from censoring specific websites by making them unable to tell which site we're connecting to?
Yes, and while you're fighting INGSOC don't forget to sync your browser using real-identity SAML authentication. Nice Emmanuel Goldstein reference BTW :)
It was back in the early to late 2000s until Chrome appeared. Firefox had around 30% of the browser market share since it was the main alternative to using Internet Explorer. Today its market share is about 3% excluding forks like Librewolf, Pale Moon etc
@@MentalOutlaw I suppose it's been some years but back when I first got on the web like a decade ago Firefox was listed right along with Google, Internet Explorer and Bing when people talked about search engines. perhaps it's fallen out of fashion or I ended up getting a weirdly warped view of how popular it was
(My personal preferences) I use 3 browser - Thorium (a Chromium fork with some patches to maximize performance); Firefox and Tor. And best to ensure your privacy obviously is Tor second Firefox and Thorium last. And the best for Google🥶🥶 (if you use google, i need it for school) only Thorium. Firefox is mid🤯, if i like to google something random in web i will use Firefox for the speed and if i don't need speed i use Tor👻.
unfortunately, tab syncing mentioned in the video never had worked reliably for me :( tab would be visible/sent to other devices only if Fx feels like it. this feature is amazing conceptually though.
I use Firefox daily and have for a long time now. But they need HDR support. The only reason I have to use any other browser for me personally is because of the lack of HDR streaming capabilities. I think that would have a significant impact on user base
I know that HDR is a technology to enhance image "beautifulness" on-the-go, but I thought it was handled by the GPU or the OS level and not by apps themselves (other than games)?
From what little I've looked, HDR bumps up the bits per channel from 8 to 10, but there might be more to it than that. I would expect every part of the system (app, window manager, GPU driver and hardware) needs to support it, otherwise you'd have down-sampling, distorted picture, black screen, or maybe even a crash for very badly/lazily written software.
I could swear that I was doing browser sync with Firefox 10 years ago. Turned out for me it wasn't something useful or wanted, but I clearly recall testing the ability to sync a session at work with my home desktop.
Question - Can you create shortcuts for each of your Firefox profiles? Or what’s the best way to access/open the many FF profiles you may have? If you click on the FF Icon on your Windows task bar I assume it’s just going to open the one you have nominated as your default. Also, say you have multiple FF profiles open at once. How can you quickly and easily tell which profile you are on? Other than giving each one of them different themes and having different extensions and layout of the toolbar. Thanks in advance
Never understood the popularity of Chrome, particularly given Google's involvement. Firefox has been my browser of choice for decades. That said, I recently downloaded Opera and I gotta say, I like it.
Hopefully that bugfix is for all tooltips and not just things in the bars. I get floating tooltips whenever I launch a game with youtube open in the browser in the foreground pretty frequently.
i switched from chrome to firefox years ago and its a pretty fine browser. ive seen quite a decent amount of videos claming that firefox is bad and how it has supposedly falled etc etc. i cant really confim it tho. its even on my work pc.
Using Firefox for privacy is like using a hammer to drive screws. It’s really cool if you’re willing to modify the hammer for the job, but absolutely terrible otherwise. Also, if you don’t know what you’re doing, you’ll just make it worse.
and also because firefox has a api for dns lookups so that ublock can block those stupid fake legitmate websites that are actually ads or trackers in the background. I hope a chromium browser implements a dns api so that ublock will be used to its fullest potential.
No, browser specfic. I am quite surprised no browser has implemented this api feature. So useful for network lookups for many extensions and uncloaking sites that look legitmate that turn out to be bad sites.@@lussor1
The only thing brave does wrong is that it is heavily aimed at crypto bros. Are they aimed at the crypto bros trading Monero overseas? Yeah, but they're still crypto bros.
All the techies of ole were like Firefox doesn't do enough for your privacy today it's like you judged prematurely, as it turns out Firefox privacy was merely under construction. With a slow rollout.
I have been using Firefox forever. I do find myself drifting astray and trying other browsers from time to time. However, I always come back to the Fox. Why? ..... because the Fox Rox!!!!! That's why!!!!!
As a visually-impaired Librewolf user, tool-tips or whatever they're called get on my nerves, because they cover what I'm trying to look at simply because my mouse is hovering over an unrelated icon or whatever because I'm zoomed into my screen/use a screen-mag. I'm so happy that annoying persistence has been patched out so it doesn't just linger there when I swap windows around and such. :D
The last version that ran on Windows 98/Me without KernelEx. I used Firefox 2.0 for quite a while on my Celeron 333MHz, 384MB RAM system, though I did dual boot WinMe with Xubuntu which had a bit newer version of Firefox (I think up to 3.5)
big firefox fan, use it where ever I can. technically have it on work computer. but strangely performs a little worse and work related webservers loves who chrome will eat the RAM on peoples computers.... instead of just building a native app?!?
Still, Firefox can be improved big time when you go look at tracking, fingerprinting, and all those things. Brave has some of those things, as has Librewolf. Add-ons are also a good idea. Especially the telemetry they like to send is something "fishy". Still, it's one of the better "big" browsers out there.
I put my flag on it, that there is something wrong with this update. Why? Because 119 for numerologists is equal to 911 and that number is very important to the money magicians of this world. The money magicians own a lot, and likely Firefox too. As owners, I deem it likely they'll put a surprise, easter egg or vulnerability in the 119 update.
9:47 That's Mozilla 5.0, not Firefox 5.0. I still remember when Firefox 4 dropped in 2011 (though I had to google the exact year) and even broke the record for browser downloads in 24 hours or something, I believe?
I still remember Firefox 1.5 was the last one to support Windows 95 and Firefox 2.0 was the last one to support Windows 98/Me. We used quite old computers in our family lol Though back in those days Firefox didn't get new versions that often, it wasn't until Firefox 5 when they started the Chrome like version number increments
I love firefox, but it was unusable on the phone. I dont know why, but sometimes it would not open any site and the sync was terrible. I'm using vivaldi now, unfortunately is chromium based and not full open source, but at least it works much better.
From my personal experience, Firefox has improved a lot on Android in the last year, I now use it 24/7. Chromium based browsers are still better on lower end devices.
Damn, I was hoping the bug fix related to the browser theme breaking every time Firefox gets restarted. Sometimes this would even happen randomly while using it. Very annoying because the only way to fix it is to go in theme settings, then disable and re-enable it. Happens multiple times a week.
I'll confess to being a more recent Firefox adopter but now I'm a Firefox shill. It is *baffling* to me that there is such a difference in sheer raw performance between Firefox and Chrome. The largest corporation in the history of ever should not be getting so done in by a non-profit, but they are.
I'll be looking forward to this about a year from now. I'm on Firefox ESR because I have to fix their crap UI that they pumped out in v89 for them with CSS tweaks, and I don't feel like fixing it every update.
Edge has really great inactive tab management, freezing tabs you haven't used in a while. I wish Firefox gets a similar feature and I'll use it more on my laptop
About the extensions in the json object you show at 5:50, these are not imported from chrome. Although both browsers use the same framework for extensions two distinct releases are still needed. What mozilla is doing to "import" Chrome extensions, is to simply map the ones that happen to exist cross-platform to their corresponding Firefox counterpart. Real importing / wrapping is not there yet. Also if mozilla had been closed source, developers would not have been able to cherrypick what bugs to work on. Similarly it would take 15+ years to develop core components like wayland or 10+ years for X to fallback to the last known working resolution when a user didn't get it right the first time.
I wish encrypted, (oblivious,) third-party DNS would be more widespread. That plus HTTPS is probably better than a VPN. No need to detour all your traffic to a single point (that you might not own). But encrypted hello is way more approachable as a default.
Unless there's more going on, it sounds like this was just a bug that they never bothered to work on. In my very first windows application it became apparent that custom pop-ups like this need to be handled based on the focus of the application window. I love that someone bothered to dig into it but this wasn't exactly rocket science.
Firefox is very good broswer not only blocking ads but in privacy settings control and fast and safe browsing Sync features In desktop version Firefox is very good but in app it's little bit disappointing in some features Overall Mozilla is doing pretty good in browsing.
I haven't posted on this channel in a while. I enjoy your videos and I do like Firefox too. However, I think there's an issue that needs to be raised that I think answers why there are more Chrome-based browsers than FIrefox ones. The reason for this might be due to Firefox's source code. It is my understanding that Gecko source code has a bad complexity problem whereas Chromium may not. I have come to find out that Firefox’s source code is made up of half a dozen or more different languages. In order to build a Firefox fork, one would have to use compilers for every language in Firefox’s source code. It could very well be that Chromium source code does not have the complexity issues that Gecko does, hence the reason for the many browsers based on Chroumium. If someone on these threads knows differently or knows if Mozilla has changed this please reply but I think this would be an excellent subject for one of your videos. In my view, it is self-defeating to make the source code for a browser so complex that hinders people from wanting to use it.
Ah yes, FF View!! One of the Worst rollouts of a new app update to android! Wiped out all my tabs, bookmarks, passwords... Basically my whole user profile! Was like a fresh install! According to their community forum it happened to quite a lot of people!
