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I should not be a few keystrokes away from accidentally deleting all of today's entries with no confirmation if I'm sure, and no way to recover them, even if I close the browser in the same second. I don't even know which ones I hit.

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For instance, I watch a video on Shout Factory and then pause, close the tab and when I go back to the link it goes back to where I left off.

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Hello, SUMO community! We're setting the stage for something big: a revamp of our style guide designed to make our support content not just user-friendly, but user-delightful. To get a ...

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The nonprofit organization that supports the Firefox web browser said today it is winding down its new partnership with Onerep, an identity protection service recently bundled with Firefox that offers to remove users from hundreds of people-search sites. The move comes just days after a report by KrebsOnSecurity forced Onerep’s CEO to admit that he has founded dozens of people-search networks over the years.

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The data privacy company Onerep.com bills itself as a Virginia-based service for helping people remove their personal information from almost 200 people-search websites. However, an investigation into the history of onerep.com finds this company is operating out of Belarus and Cyprus, and that its founder has launched dozens of people-search services over the years.

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Today’s Speedometer release is more open and challenging than before and is the best tool for driving browser performance improvements.

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Mozilla Firefox should gear up as an excellent option for power users and productivity enthusiasts with this feature.

I would be so happy if this feature makes it into Firefox this year

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The only addons I've been finding are ones that block based on specific urls, domains, or a few glob patterns. I want to specify any regex.

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Today marks a significant moment in our journey, and I am thrilled to share some important news with you. After much thoughtful consideration, I have decid

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I'm looking to create an "Exit Button" in the Bookmarks Toolbar. I found how to create a Restart Button (creating a Bookmark with the URL about:restartrequired), but I'm having a hard time finding for Exit (or close all Firefox Windows). Perhaps it is not possible, I don't know.

Any help is appreciated.

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A (fairly brief) interview with Mark Surman, Mozilla's president and executive director.

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Is it a fair assessment? I'm still on Firefox. Why is it so hard for Firefox to gain traction?

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Enhancer for YouTube is gone (discourse.mozilla.org)
submitted 11 months ago by kbal@fedia.io to c/firefox@fedia.io
 
 

Yet another popular extension has disappeared under mysterious circumstances. It seems that its author might have requested its removal, but if so then even in that case the longstanding Mozilla policy of telling its users absolutely nothing about what happened applies.

It happened a month ago but it took me this long to notice since the feature I like best only recently stopped working. It's the sort of thing that requires periodic updates to keep up with changes to the youtube UI.

Does anyone know of another extension that can automatically resize the youtube player to fill the browser window? Or, for that matter, the invidious one?

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A year ago I was sharing how a Mozilla Performance Sheriff catches performance regressions, the entire Workflow they go through, and the incoming improvements. Since I joined the Performance Tools ...

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by MHLoppy@fedia.io to c/firefox@fedia.io
 
 

Every year, in the spirit of openness upon which Mozilla was founded, we share publicly the ways we have protected, fought for and helped advance the internet in service of the people who rely on it every day.

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In anticipation of the launch of open extensions on Android, we just added a link to “Explore all Android extensions” on AMO’s Android page to make it easy to discover new content. And just for fun and to offer a taste of what’s to come, we also released a couple dozen new open extensions for Android. You can find them listed beneath the Recommended Extensions collection on that AMO Android page. Try a few out!

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by SquareDrop7892@fedia.io to c/firefox@fedia.io
 
 

I have reinstall Firefox but still persis. Can someone please help me understand how to fix it. As it only happens in firefox. And not in other browsers like brave or edge

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I'm sure its common knowledge by now that whatever you write in text boxes on customer support chats can be seen by whoever is on the other side, without or before hitting send. Don't you think that's a breach of privacy?! I imagine it isn't too difficult to implement a fix for it: The browser (like Firefox) could choose not to upload the user input to wherever the website links to, without user input (like click a send button).

The Firefox extension API explicitly requires user actions before an extension can do things like open popup windows.

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