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I'm honestly surprised side tabs don't seem to be more popular or more widely supported, especially for widescreen setups. Something like what is offered by the Tree Style Tab extension on Firefox (or really just 'flat' sidewise tabs really should be a native option, or less of a kludge than it currently is for Chrome.

It's likely just a personal taste but it seems to make things far less cluttered and provides a main window closer in shape to the traditional 4:3 proportions.

The biggest problem with facebook for me is that they don't just hoover up what you do on the internet, they also devour anything connected to you - your contact list (if you run facebook software on a smartphone), who you send messages to, possibly even the contents of those messages. They then use all this to create their connectivity graphs, and most importantly, they make nodes on this graph not just for the user themself, but for everyone else that said user has contact with - whether or not they've actually used any facebook services.

When it comes to web browsers, you have a lot of control over information leaks if you're willing to get your hands dirty and accept some broken websites (for instance, google owns the recaptcha service; blocking that like I do will break a lot of stuff, something I accept as a price to be paid). I block the vast majority of third-party requests (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/requestpolicy/ has served me well for many years), scripts and cookies when browsing; and I don't use any google or facebook websites (the one exception being the occasional youtube video, but that's done through a separate browser running in incognito mode). My phone runs LineageOS, so is completely free of any google crapware. This should completely prevent google from gathering any kind of information about me. It takes a little work, but I can take myself away from google's eyes and be pretty confident about having done it properly.

Removing oneself from facebook's tentacles is a lot harder. Not only do you need to not use any of their stuff (which is what you'd reasonably expect to do in such a situation), but you also need to refuse any contact with those who run any facebook software on their phone. Because the moment they enter you into their address book, or you exchange an SMS message or a phonecall, their device has just sold you out.

This behind the scenes connectivity graph creation is the problem with facebook. I don't believe that google do a similar analysis on those who send e-mail to someone's gmail account, or use ordinary android phones which run google stuff, but I could be very, very wrong here.

I can delete all of my cookies right now. I can opt not to even allow them to work on my computer. I cannot do the same with Facebook plugins that have invaded the internet.

Yes, you can.

uMatrix is wonderful. Slightly steep learning curve, the first two weeks all your favourites will break as you adjust your whitelist, but it stops third-party tracking dead.

Enterprise sites and developer sites rely on FTP. In related problems you can no longer download Firefox on default Windows XP. bug here

I like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-.... I am some what fair and just (some might say a fair bastard and just a cunt but that's another story, service in the military the things they teach), I let some run and block others. Scripts on bad sites get blocked, scripts advertising bad products get blocked, over the top ads or ads in front of content get blocked, the rest run, even pop ups well more accurately open up in a new tab are allowed.

As with VP9 earlier, the first reference AV1 encoder is absolutely slow: currently it's an order of magnitude slower than x265's veryslow preset (which is extremely slow to begin with).

AV1 is not currently supported by anything under the sun except an alpha build of Firefox (where it struggles to decode even a 3Mbps video on powerful PCs).

Most likely ffmpeg will include its own decoder (implementation) because ffmpeg and AV1 developers have contradicting views on coding styles. ffmpeg has its own VP9 decoder.

Apple joined the alliance just a few months ago when the development was almost over, which means Apple most likely didn't really contribute to it at all.

The spec is 619 freaking pages long.

You can create a container for any site you choose with this Firefox add on.

Done as well as any other site you want to segregate as well.

There is the First Party Isolation plugin. Here is the description:

"First Party Isolation, also known as Cross-Origin Identifier Unlinkability is a concept from the Tor Browser. The idea is to key every source of browser identification with the domain in the URL bar (the first party). This makes all access to identifiers distinct between usage in the website itself and through third-party. Think of it as blocking Third-party cookies, but more exhaustively." ...

You're essentially asking for Firefox's containers. They are included by default with the browser (just not enabled).

Which incidentally is exactly what this add-on enables for you and uses for the facebook.com domain only (it creates a Facebook container for you).

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Secur...

That's what uMatrix does: https://github.com/gorhill/uMa... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-... It would be impossible to have that on by default for normal users though. Too many sites are broken by not allowing 3rd party requests, and the average user would just switch to Chrome rather then deal with making whitelists.

Bring back the goddamned ESC key. Until a user can hit hyper pages like Yahoo News with a tranquilizer dart that delivers a static page that can be scrolled and read until the user hits the end or hovers over something... it will not be complete. It should cancel Javascript time triggers also, something addons cannot presently do far as I know.

Sorry, you cannot have access to the content you can plainly see in the window because an oversold cloud appliance or gobblegook DNS abuse tactic is failing to respond.

cite "Without getting into too much technical details, pressing the Esc key can cause major problems for sites that use Web Apps that are coded in Ajax or use jQuerry. With the growing popularity and number of web apps came a great number of users accidentally hitting the escape key. So effective with Firefox 20 the Esc key will no longer stop anything, it simply won't do anything.

cite bug 614304, comment showing consensus "Yeah, I think we should remove this "feature". Having a key to abort network requests seems like an expert feature that at least shouldn't be enabled by default. IMHO it should ideally be removed completely. People can always write an extension to re-add it if desired."

So instead of forcing XMLHttpRequest/WebSocket/Ajax developers to directly address the situation of sudden lost network connectivity... which is a general design issue and might have been solved by now... it was decided that the unwashed masses should lose control of their browsers, forever. There's always yanking the wall plug, until Mozilla addresses that problem at some future date.

</S> humor, kinda. I love Firefox even though I'm frozen at an undisclosed earlier version.

ShareMeNot has been replaced by the EFF add-on Privacy Badger. I'm trying it now.

ShareMeNot has been replaced by the EFF add-on Privacy Badger. I'm trying it now.

Ghostery I
    don't know if Ghostery still sells data: Ghostery
    sells data it collects. (Business Insider, Jun 18, 2013) Ghostery web site. See the article, Ghostery
    is Acquired by Cliqz! (Feb 15, 2017)

I am very happy with Ghostery, use it in all of my browsers. I also use their browser on my Android phone, mainly to stop any additional data consumption. To the best of my understanding you can opt out of their data collection.

I would also recommend ShareMeNot.. I don't use Facebook and do not want them (and others) tracking me.

Add-ons Links
Firefox, WaterFox, and Pale Moon Browsers

For security: Get add-ons only from the Mozilla.org add-on web pages.

Visit those links with Firefox. Visiting with the latest version of Pale Moon (27.8.2) shows an error: """This add-on requires a newer version of Firefox (at least version 52.0). You are using Firefox 27.9."
Pale moon add-ons

Adblock Latitude For Pale Moon browser only. Blocks display of ads. "Adblock Latitude is a direct fork of Adblock Plus made specifically for the Pale Moon browser."

BetterPrivacy Removed by the author. Deletes Local Shared Objects, LSOs. LSOs are files placed on your computer by the Adobe Systems Flash plug-in. Use of Adobe Flash allows web sites to track you, permanently even though your browser is configured to delete the files known as "Cookies" after each re-starting of your operating system.

CanvasBiocker Prevents websites from using the Javascript <canvas> API to fingerprint them.

Classic Theme Restorer Quoting 3 paragraphs:

"This add-on will stop working when Firefox 57 arrives in November 2017."

"This add-on will stop working when Firefox 57 arrives in November 2017 and Mozilla drops support for XUL / XPCOM / legacy add-ons. It should still work on Firefox 52 ESR until ESR moves to Firefox 59 ESR in 2018 (~Q2)".

"There is no 'please port it' or 'please add support for it' this time, because the entire add-on eco system changes and the technology behind this kind of add-on gets dropped without replacement."

Cookies Manager+

Disconnect Updates to Pale Moon browser don't install.

Facebook Blocker Prevents Facebook from following you everywhere there are Facebook "Like" buttons.

Firebug "Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page..." Firebug development page.

FlashStopper Stops video autoplay and shows a preview thumbnail. On Sept. 9, 2017 does not work with YouTube because it prevents reading comments; there is a working version in the development branch.

Ghostery I don't know if Ghostery still sells data: Ghostery sells data it collects. (Business Insider, Jun 18, 2013) Ghostery web site. See the article, Ghostery is Acquired by Cliqz! (Feb 15, 2017)

HTTPS Everywhere Doesn't install in Pale Moon. Encrypts traffic by using HTTPS encryption rather than HTTP wherever web sites accept HTTPS. See How to Protect You

Add-ons Links
Firefox, WaterFox, and Pale Moon Browsers

For security: Get add-ons only from the Mozilla.org add-on web pages.

Visit those links with Firefox. Visiting with the latest version of Pale Moon (27.8.2) shows an error: """This add-on requires a newer version of Firefox (at least version 52.0). You are using Firefox 27.9."
Pale moon add-ons

Adblock Latitude For Pale Moon browser only. Blocks display of ads. "Adblock Latitude is a direct fork of Adblock Plus made specifically for the Pale Moon browser."

BetterPrivacy Removed by the author. Deletes Local Shared Objects, LSOs. LSOs are files placed on your computer by the Adobe Systems Flash plug-in. Use of Adobe Flash allows web sites to track you, permanently even though your browser is configured to delete the files known as "Cookies" after each re-starting of your operating system.

CanvasBiocker Prevents websites from using the Javascript <canvas> API to fingerprint them.

Classic Theme Restorer Quoting 3 paragraphs:

"This add-on will stop working when Firefox 57 arrives in November 2017."

"This add-on will stop working when Firefox 57 arrives in November 2017 and Mozilla drops support for XUL / XPCOM / legacy add-ons. It should still work on Firefox 52 ESR until ESR moves to Firefox 59 ESR in 2018 (~Q2)".

"There is no 'please port it' or 'please add support for it' this time, because the entire add-on eco system changes and the technology behind this kind of add-on gets dropped without replacement."

Cookies Manager+

Disconnect Updates to Pale Moon browser don't install.

Facebook Blocker Prevents Facebook from following you everywhere there are Facebook "Like" buttons.

Firebug "Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page..." Firebug development page.

FlashStopper Stops video autoplay and shows a preview thumbnail. On Sept. 9, 2017 does not work with YouTube because it prevents reading comments; there is a working version in the development branch.

Ghostery I don't know if Ghostery still sells data: Ghostery sells data it collects. (Business Insider, Jun 18, 2013) Ghostery web site. See the article, Ghostery is Acquired by Cliqz! (Feb 15, 2017)

HTTPS Everywhere Doesn't install in Pale Moon. Encrypts traffic by using HTTPS encryption rather than HTTP wherever web sites accept HTTPS. See How to Protect You

Add-ons Links
Firefox, WaterFox, and Pale Moon Browsers

For security: Get add-ons only from the Mozilla.org add-on web pages.

Visit those links with Firefox. Visiting with the latest version of Pale Moon (27.8.2) shows an error: """This add-on requires a newer version of Firefox (at least version 52.0). You are using Firefox 27.9."
Pale moon add-ons

Adblock Latitude For Pale Moon browser only. Blocks display of ads. "Adblock Latitude is a direct fork of Adblock Plus made specifically for the Pale Moon browser."

BetterPrivacy Removed by the author. Deletes Local Shared Objects, LSOs. LSOs are files placed on your computer by the Adobe Systems Flash plug-in. Use of Adobe Flash allows web sites to track you, permanently even though your browser is configured to delete the files known as "Cookies" after each re-starting of your operating system.

CanvasBiocker Prevents websites from using the Javascript <canvas> API to fingerprint them.

Classic Theme Restorer Quoting 3 paragraphs:

"This add-on will stop working when Firefox 57 arrives in November 2017."

"This add-on will stop working when Firefox 57 arrives in November 2017 and Mozilla drops support for XUL / XPCOM / legacy add-ons. It should still work on Firefox 52 ESR until ESR moves to Firefox 59 ESR in 2018 (~Q2)".

"There is no 'please port it' or 'please add support for it' this time, because the entire add-on eco system changes and the technology behind this kind of add-on gets dropped without replacement."

Cookies Manager+

Disconnect Updates to Pale Moon browser don't install.

Facebook Blocker Prevents Facebook from following you everywhere there are Facebook "Like" buttons.

Firebug "Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page..." Firebug development page.

FlashStopper Stops video autoplay and shows a preview thumbnail. On Sept. 9, 2017 does not work with YouTube because it prevents reading comments; there is a working version in the development branch.

Ghostery I don't know if Ghostery still sells data: Ghostery sells data it collects. (Business Insider, Jun 18, 2013) Ghostery web site. See the article, Ghostery is Acquired by Cliqz! (Feb 15, 2017)

HTTPS Everywhere Doesn't install in Pale Moon. Encrypts traffic by using HTTPS encryption rather than HTTP wherever web sites accept HTTPS. See How to Protect You

Add-ons Links
Firefox, WaterFox, and Pale Moon Browsers

For security: Get add-ons only from the Mozilla.org add-on web pages.

Visit those links with Firefox. Visiting with the latest version of Pale Moon (27.8.2) shows an error: """This add-on requires a newer version of Firefox (at least version 52.0). You are using Firefox 27.9."
Pale moon add-ons

Adblock Latitude For Pale Moon browser only. Blocks display of ads. "Adblock Latitude is a direct fork of Adblock Plus made specifically for the Pale Moon browser."

BetterPrivacy Removed by the author. Deletes Local Shared Objects, LSOs. LSOs are files placed on your computer by the Adobe Systems Flash plug-in. Use of Adobe Flash allows web sites to track you, permanently even though your browser is configured to delete the files known as "Cookies" after each re-starting of your operating system.

CanvasBiocker Prevents websites from using the Javascript <canvas> API to fingerprint them.

Classic Theme Restorer Quoting 3 paragraphs:

"This add-on will stop working when Firefox 57 arrives in November 2017."

"This add-on will stop working when Firefox 57 arrives in November 2017 and Mozilla drops support for XUL / XPCOM / legacy add-ons. It should still work on Firefox 52 ESR until ESR moves to Firefox 59 ESR in 2018 (~Q2)".

"There is no 'please port it' or 'please add support for it' this time, because the entire add-on eco system changes and the technology behind this kind of add-on gets dropped without replacement."

Cookies Manager+

Disconnect Updates to Pale Moon browser don't install.

Facebook Blocker Prevents Facebook from following you everywhere there are Facebook "Like" buttons.

Firebug "Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page..." Firebug development page.

FlashStopper Stops video autoplay and shows a preview thumbnail. On Sept. 9, 2017 does not work with YouTube because it prevents reading comments; there is a working version in the development branch.

Ghostery I don't know if Ghostery still sells data: Ghostery sells data it collects. (Business Insider, Jun 18, 2013) Ghostery web site. See the article, Ghostery is Acquired by Cliqz! (Feb 15, 2017)

HTTPS Everywhere Doesn't install in Pale Moon. Encrypts traffic by using HTTPS encryption rather than HTTP wherever web sites accept HTTPS. See How to Protect You

Add-ons Links
Firefox, WaterFox, and Pale Moon Browsers

For security: Get add-ons only from the Mozilla.org add-on web pages.

Visit those links with Firefox. Visiting with the latest version of Pale Moon (27.8.2) shows an error: """This add-on requires a newer version of Firefox (at least version 52.0). You are using Firefox 27.9."
Pale moon add-ons

Adblock Latitude For Pale Moon browser only. Blocks display of ads. "Adblock Latitude is a direct fork of Adblock Plus made specifically for the Pale Moon browser."

BetterPrivacy Removed by the author. Deletes Local Shared Objects, LSOs. LSOs are files placed on your computer by the Adobe Systems Flash plug-in. Use of Adobe Flash allows web sites to track you, permanently even though your browser is configured to delete the files known as "Cookies" after each re-starting of your operating system.

CanvasBiocker Prevents websites from using the Javascript <canvas> API to fingerprint them.

Classic Theme Restorer Quoting 3 paragraphs:

"This add-on will stop working when Firefox 57 arrives in November 2017."

"This add-on will stop working when Firefox 57 arrives in November 2017 and Mozilla drops support for XUL / XPCOM / legacy add-ons. It should still work on Firefox 52 ESR until ESR moves to Firefox 59 ESR in 2018 (~Q2)".

"There is no 'please port it' or 'please add support for it' this time, because the entire add-on eco system changes and the technology behind this kind of add-on gets dropped without replacement."

Cookies Manager+

Disconnect Updates to Pale Moon browser don't install.

Facebook Blocker Prevents Facebook from following you everywhere there are Facebook "Like" buttons.

Firebug "Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page..." Firebug development page.

FlashStopper Stops video autoplay and shows a preview thumbnail. On Sept. 9, 2017 does not work with YouTube because it prevents reading comments; there is a working version in the development branch.

Ghostery I don't know if Ghostery still sells data: Ghostery sells data it collects. (Business Insider, Jun 18, 2013) Ghostery web site. See the article, Ghostery is Acquired by Cliqz! (Feb 15, 2017)

HTTPS Everywhere Doesn't install in Pale Moon. Encrypts traffic by using HTTPS encryption rather than HTTP wherever web sites accept HTTPS. See How to Protect You

Add-ons Links
Firefox, WaterFox, and Pale Moon Browsers

For security: Get add-ons only from the Mozilla.org add-on web pages.

Visit those links with Firefox. Visiting with the latest version of Pale Moon (27.8.2) shows an error: """This add-on requires a newer version of Firefox (at least version 52.0). You are using Firefox 27.9."
Pale moon add-ons

Adblock Latitude For Pale Moon browser only. Blocks display of ads. "Adblock Latitude is a direct fork of Adblock Plus made specifically for the Pale Moon browser."

BetterPrivacy Removed by the author. Deletes Local Shared Objects, LSOs. LSOs are files placed on your computer by the Adobe Systems Flash plug-in. Use of Adobe Flash allows web sites to track you, permanently even though your browser is configured to delete the files known as "Cookies" after each re-starting of your operating system.

CanvasBiocker Prevents websites from using the Javascript <canvas> API to fingerprint them.

Classic Theme Restorer Quoting 3 paragraphs:

"This add-on will stop working when Firefox 57 arrives in November 2017."

"This add-on will stop working when Firefox 57 arrives in November 2017 and Mozilla drops support for XUL / XPCOM / legacy add-ons. It should still work on Firefox 52 ESR until ESR moves to Firefox 59 ESR in 2018 (~Q2)".

"There is no 'please port it' or 'please add support for it' this time, because the entire add-on eco system changes and the technology behind this kind of add-on gets dropped without replacement."

Cookies Manager+

Disconnect Updates to Pale Moon browser don't install.

Facebook Blocker Prevents Facebook from following you everywhere there are Facebook "Like" buttons.

Firebug "Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page..." Firebug development page.

FlashStopper Stops video autoplay and shows a preview thumbnail. On Sept. 9, 2017 does not work with YouTube because it prevents reading comments; there is a working version in the development branch.

Ghostery I don't know if Ghostery still sells data: Ghostery sells data it collects. (Business Insider, Jun 18, 2013) Ghostery web site. See the article, Ghostery is Acquired by Cliqz! (Feb 15, 2017)

HTTPS Everywhere Doesn't install in Pale Moon. Encrypts traffic by using HTTPS encryption rather than HTTP wherever web sites accept HTTPS. See How to Protect You

Add-ons Links
Firefox, WaterFox, and Pale Moon Browsers

For security: Get add-ons only from the Mozilla.org add-on web pages.

Visit those links with Firefox. Visiting with the latest version of Pale Moon (27.8.2) shows an error: """This add-on requires a newer version of Firefox (at least version 52.0). You are using Firefox 27.9."
Pale moon add-ons

Adblock Latitude For Pale Moon browser only. Blocks display of ads. "Adblock Latitude is a direct fork of Adblock Plus made specifically for the Pale Moon browser."

BetterPrivacy Removed by the author. Deletes Local Shared Objects, LSOs. LSOs are files placed on your computer by the Adobe Systems Flash plug-in. Use of Adobe Flash allows web sites to track you, permanently even though your browser is configured to delete the files known as "Cookies" after each re-starting of your operating system.

CanvasBiocker Prevents websites from using the Javascript <canvas> API to fingerprint them.

Classic Theme Restorer Quoting 3 paragraphs:

"This add-on will stop working when Firefox 57 arrives in November 2017."

"This add-on will stop working when Firefox 57 arrives in November 2017 and Mozilla drops support for XUL / XPCOM / legacy add-ons. It should still work on Firefox 52 ESR until ESR moves to Firefox 59 ESR in 2018 (~Q2)".

"There is no 'please port it' or 'please add support for it' this time, because the entire add-on eco system changes and the technology behind this kind of add-on gets dropped without replacement."

Cookies Manager+

Disconnect Updates to Pale Moon browser don't install.

Facebook Blocker Prevents Facebook from following you everywhere there are Facebook "Like" buttons.

Firebug "Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page..." Firebug development page.

FlashStopper Stops video autoplay and shows a preview thumbnail. On Sept. 9, 2017 does not work with YouTube because it prevents reading comments; there is a working version in the development branch.

Ghostery I don't know if Ghostery still sells data: Ghostery sells data it collects. (Business Insider, Jun 18, 2013) Ghostery web site. See the article, Ghostery is Acquired by Cliqz! (Feb 15, 2017)

HTTPS Everywhere Doesn't install in Pale Moon. Encrypts traffic by using HTTPS encryption rather than HTTP wherever web sites accept HTTPS. See How to Protect You

Add-ons Links
Firefox, WaterFox, and Pale Moon Browsers

For security: Get add-ons only from the Mozilla.org add-on web pages.

Visit those links with Firefox. Visiting with the latest version of Pale Moon (27.8.2) shows an error: """This add-on requires a newer version of Firefox (at least version 52.0). You are using Firefox 27.9."
Pale moon add-ons

Adblock Latitude For Pale Moon browser only. Blocks display of ads. "Adblock Latitude is a direct fork of Adblock Plus made specifically for the Pale Moon browser."

BetterPrivacy Removed by the author. Deletes Local Shared Objects, LSOs. LSOs are files placed on your computer by the Adobe Systems Flash plug-in. Use of Adobe Flash allows web sites to track you, permanently even though your browser is configured to delete the files known as "Cookies" after each re-starting of your operating system.

CanvasBiocker Prevents websites from using the Javascript <canvas> API to fingerprint them.

Classic Theme Restorer Quoting 3 paragraphs:

"This add-on will stop working when Firefox 57 arrives in November 2017."

"This add-on will stop working when Firefox 57 arrives in November 2017 and Mozilla drops support for XUL / XPCOM / legacy add-ons. It should still work on Firefox 52 ESR until ESR moves to Firefox 59 ESR in 2018 (~Q2)".

"There is no 'please port it' or 'please add support for it' this time, because the entire add-on eco system changes and the technology behind this kind of add-on gets dropped without replacement."

Cookies Manager+

Disconnect Updates to Pale Moon browser don't install.

Facebook Blocker Prevents Facebook from following you everywhere there are Facebook "Like" buttons.

Firebug "Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page..." Firebug development page.

FlashStopper Stops video autoplay and shows a preview thumbnail. On Sept. 9, 2017 does not work with YouTube because it prevents reading comments; there is a working version in the development branch.

Ghostery I don't know if Ghostery still sells data: Ghostery sells data it collects. (Business Insider, Jun 18, 2013) Ghostery web site. See the article, Ghostery is Acquired by Cliqz! (Feb 15, 2017)

HTTPS Everywhere Doesn't install in Pale Moon. Encrypts traffic by using HTTPS encryption rather than HTTP wherever web sites accept HTTPS. See How to Protect You

Add-ons Links
Firefox, WaterFox, and Pale Moon Browsers

For security: Get add-ons only from the Mozilla.org add-on web pages.

Visit those links with Firefox. Visiting with the latest version of Pale Moon (27.8.2) shows an error: """This add-on requires a newer version of Firefox (at least version 52.0). You are using Firefox 27.9."
Pale moon add-ons

Adblock Latitude For Pale Moon browser only. Blocks display of ads. "Adblock Latitude is a direct fork of Adblock Plus made specifically for the Pale Moon browser."

BetterPrivacy Removed by the author. Deletes Local Shared Objects, LSOs. LSOs are files placed on your computer by the Adobe Systems Flash plug-in. Use of Adobe Flash allows web sites to track you, permanently even though your browser is configured to delete the files known as "Cookies" after each re-starting of your operating system.

CanvasBiocker Prevents websites from using the Javascript <canvas> API to fingerprint them.

Classic Theme Restorer Quoting 3 paragraphs:

"This add-on will stop working when Firefox 57 arrives in November 2017."

"This add-on will stop working when Firefox 57 arrives in November 2017 and Mozilla drops support for XUL / XPCOM / legacy add-ons. It should still work on Firefox 52 ESR until ESR moves to Firefox 59 ESR in 2018 (~Q2)".

"There is no 'please port it' or 'please add support for it' this time, because the entire add-on eco system changes and the technology behind this kind of add-on gets dropped without replacement."

Cookies Manager+

Disconnect Updates to Pale Moon browser don't install.

Facebook Blocker Prevents Facebook from following you everywhere there are Facebook "Like" buttons.

Firebug "Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page..." Firebug development page.

FlashStopper Stops video autoplay and shows a preview thumbnail. On Sept. 9, 2017 does not work with YouTube because it prevents reading comments; there is a working version in the development branch.

Ghostery I don't know if Ghostery still sells data: Ghostery sells data it collects. (Business Insider, Jun 18, 2013) Ghostery web site. See the article, Ghostery is Acquired by Cliqz! (Feb 15, 2017)

HTTPS Everywhere Doesn't install in Pale Moon. Encrypts traffic by using HTTPS encryption rather than HTTP wherever web sites accept HTTPS. See How to Protect You

Add-ons Links
Firefox, WaterFox, and Pale Moon Browsers

For security: Get add-ons only from the Mozilla.org add-on web pages.

Visit those links with Firefox. Visiting with the latest version of Pale Moon (27.8.2) shows an error: """This add-on requires a newer version of Firefox (at least version 52.0). You are using Firefox 27.9."
Pale moon add-ons

Adblock Latitude For Pale Moon browser only. Blocks display of ads. "Adblock Latitude is a direct fork of Adblock Plus made specifically for the Pale Moon browser."

BetterPrivacy Removed by the author. Deletes Local Shared Objects, LSOs. LSOs are files placed on your computer by the Adobe Systems Flash plug-in. Use of Adobe Flash allows web sites to track you, permanently even though your browser is configured to delete the files known as "Cookies" after each re-starting of your operating system.

CanvasBiocker Prevents websites from using the Javascript <canvas> API to fingerprint them.

Classic Theme Restorer Quoting 3 paragraphs:

"This add-on will stop working when Firefox 57 arrives in November 2017."

"This add-on will stop working when Firefox 57 arrives in November 2017 and Mozilla drops support for XUL / XPCOM / legacy add-ons. It should still work on Firefox 52 ESR until ESR moves to Firefox 59 ESR in 2018 (~Q2)".

"There is no 'please port it' or 'please add support for it' this time, because the entire add-on eco system changes and the technology behind this kind of add-on gets dropped without replacement."

Cookies Manager+

Disconnect Updates to Pale Moon browser don't install.

Facebook Blocker Prevents Facebook from following you everywhere there are Facebook "Like" buttons.

Firebug "Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page..." Firebug development page.

FlashStopper Stops video autoplay and shows a preview thumbnail. On Sept. 9, 2017 does not work with YouTube because it prevents reading comments; there is a working version in the development branch.

Ghostery I don't know if Ghostery still sells data: Ghostery sells data it collects. (Business Insider, Jun 18, 2013) Ghostery web site. See the article, Ghostery is Acquired by Cliqz! (Feb 15, 2017)

HTTPS Everywhere Doesn't install in Pale Moon. Encrypts traffic by using HTTPS encryption rather than HTTP wherever web sites accept HTTPS. See How to Protect You

Add-ons Links
Firefox, WaterFox, and Pale Moon Browsers

For security: Get add-ons only from the Mozilla.org add-on web pages.

Visit those links with Firefox. Visiting with the latest version of Pale Moon (27.8.2) shows an error: """This add-on requires a newer version of Firefox (at least version 52.0). You are using Firefox 27.9."
Pale moon add-ons

Adblock Latitude For Pale Moon browser only. Blocks display of ads. "Adblock Latitude is a direct fork of Adblock Plus made specifically for the Pale Moon browser."

BetterPrivacy Removed by the author. Deletes Local Shared Objects, LSOs. LSOs are files placed on your computer by the Adobe Systems Flash plug-in. Use of Adobe Flash allows web sites to track you, permanently even though your browser is configured to delete the files known as "Cookies" after each re-starting of your operating system.

CanvasBiocker Prevents websites from using the Javascript <canvas> API to fingerprint them.

Classic Theme Restorer Quoting 3 paragraphs:

"This add-on will stop working when Firefox 57 arrives in November 2017."

"This add-on will stop working when Firefox 57 arrives in November 2017 and Mozilla drops support for XUL / XPCOM / legacy add-ons. It should still work on Firefox 52 ESR until ESR moves to Firefox 59 ESR in 2018 (~Q2)".

"There is no 'please port it' or 'please add support for it' this time, because the entire add-on eco system changes and the technology behind this kind of add-on gets dropped without replacement."

Cookies Manager+

Disconnect Updates to Pale Moon browser don't install.

Facebook Blocker Prevents Facebook from following you everywhere there are Facebook "Like" buttons.

Firebug "Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page..." Firebug development page.

FlashStopper Stops video autoplay and shows a preview thumbnail. On Sept. 9, 2017 does not work with YouTube because it prevents reading comments; there is a working version in the development branch.

Ghostery I don't know if Ghostery still sells data: Ghostery sells data it collects. (Business Insider, Jun 18, 2013) Ghostery web site. See the article, Ghostery is Acquired by Cliqz! (Feb 15, 2017)

HTTPS Everywhere Doesn't install in Pale Moon. Encrypts traffic by using HTTPS encryption rather than HTTP wherever web sites accept HTTPS. See How to Protect You

It is worth noting that Firefox's Extended Support Release (ESR) channel is still using the previous engine (version 52), and supports all the "old" add-ons.

If you're not already on ESR, it might be worth moving over there while you evaluate whether it makes any sense to continue being a Firefox user.

Sometimes I submit a support request that a website mistakenly detected the tracking protection built into Firefox as an ad blocker. I tell them that I see ads hosted by the publisher,* such as those on Daring Fireball and those on Read the Docs, and sometimes I click ads hosted by the publisher. But I don't blindly accept scripts that allow third parties to insert arbitrary proprietary scripts that track my "click-stream" from one website to another in order to build an interest profile and try to sell me things I just bought. If a site's ad script requires such tracking in order to run, the site needs to fall back to publisher-hosted ads. Even if publisher-hosted ads have a lower CPM than interest-based ads based on tracking, it's still more than the zero that a site gets if I leave after hitting its adblock wall.

* In the web advertising market, a "publisher" is the operator of a website on which advertisements appear.

If you use private browsing, FF59 removes "referrer values" when you click a link. And you can also change the default referer behavior for the browser. See: https://blog.mozilla.org/secur...

Subject: Gimme my "disable javascript" checkbox back.

Disabling Javascript across the board just breaks most websites. This is why the feature is gone. You should use the NoScript add-on to Firefox instead (It blocks more than Javascript, too!)

Unfortunately, the new redesigned Noscript has a fucking awful interface. So much worse than the old one.

I would recommend you ditch NoScript and check out uMatrix

The latest versions of uMatrix are WebExtensions based. I imagine they'll get bored with maintaining the XUL version eventually and stop development on it.

Subject: Gimme my "disable javascript" checkbox back.

Disabling Javascript across the board just breaks most websites. This is why the feature is gone. You should use the NoScript add-on to Firefox instead (It blocks more than Javascript, too!)

Put the smartphone against your ear: the screen shuts down

I think the claim is that proximity ought to disable the screen and touch screen at the level of the operating system, not that of the browser. The dialer (be it built-in or Skype for Web) would always request that the operating system display the number pad. And then based on proximity, the operating system would choose whether or not to display what the dialer has requested and whether or not to pass on touch events to the dialer. If the dialer absolutely needs to determine whether the number pad is displayed, I guess it could listen for visibilitychange events or determine whether requestAnimationFrame() called its callback in the past second.

if you want to be noticed the easiest way is to do an extreme ultra-marathon with a thumbnail of yourself being carried away on a stretcher.

Since I started using Video Blocker add-on that kind of click-baiting only gets that entire channel blocklisted.
You know that thing where you watch a video on a topic and lunatics start appearing in your recommended list? Now they show up only once.

I don't have the "approved by Netflix" devices

Here are the resolutions Netflix delivers various viewer software (seems to vary depending on the DRM schemes available in different browsers and platforms) .

And here's a Firefox add-on to get 1080p Netflix video in Firefox.

that specific example [of unwanted Ctrl+Q presses] seems like a reason to petition the developers to add this as an option

From the petition in question: "NEW bug which will not be worked on by staff"

which extensions?

One such extension installed on my copy of Firefox ESR 52 is Keybinder. It cannot be ported because XUL keysets have gone away, and the feature request for adding a WebExtensions counterpart to XUL keysets shows no meaningful activity.

Which is precisely why the GP suggested restricting website character sets by TLD. If you want to have télétoon as your website address, make it télétoon.fr (or télétoon.com.fr), not télétoon.com, as .com is (in practice) a US-centric TLD. This isn't hard and it isn't discriminatory, but the registrars a) want to blackmail website owners into registering more addresses, b) don't give two shits about security, and to top it off c) like virtue-signaling about how open and accepting they are to other cultures (the latter is actually Mozilla's explicit explanation for not displaying punycode for anything ever, because apparently peoples feelings are more important to them than their users security. I don't give a shit if people want their website under .com TLD, what people want is completely and totally irrelevant: I want a billion dollars, doesn't mean Mozilla should be required to give it to me.)

Other alternatives worth considering: Iridium browser, StartPage search engine. And I prefer Magic Earth for Android offline navigation.
I also use a VPN so I/location can't be tracked (in case a site "needs" to load something from the Google CDN). What also helps in that case is the Decentraleyes addon, which caches CDN content.
Sure it's better to just block everything Google, but it's not always practical.
Oh and don't forget to ditch the Google nameservers, you can try OpenDNS.

Using Firefox ESR 52 works for about five more months, after which point the only supported Firefox ESR version (namely Firefox ESR 60) will support only WebExtensions. And unless Firefox ESR 60 includes a fix for [commands] Explicit support for overriding built-in keyboard shortcuts by WebExtensions (bug 1325692), there will be a lot of angry users.

Use Firefox ESR until the extensions you need are ported?

I'm not sure what they are talking about either.

My guess is some use of local storage.

ad tracking companies is paying Mo$illa to cripple their browser

Firefox has built-in tracking protection. Set it to "always" to have it turned on at all times. See the documentation.

Is that also part of the evil plan of these ad tracking companies?

ad tracking companies is paying Mo$illa to cripple their browser

Firefox has built-in tracking protection. Set it to "always" to have it turned on at all times. See the documentation.

Is that also part of the evil plan of these ad tracking companies?

Or waterfox.

But it's stuck at Firefox 56, which is now two major versions behind. Consequently Waterfox doesn't have things like the new WebAssembly compiler. Compare Waterfox and Firefox in this WebAssembly compilation benchmark.

The Waterfox project says they'll be developing a “new” browser, whatever that means. Maybe they'll be switching engines to Blink or WebKit.

You should run that site in a container: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

Yes, the "Show Cookies" button is still there in Nightly and now called "Settings" (presumably a temporary label, because there aren't actually settings in there) but the thing TFA is talking about is that the behaviour of the popup that appears when you press that button has changed from per-cookie to per-site. Previously you got a list of folders, one for each site that has cookies stored. When you expand a folder you get a list of individual cookies that you can see and selectively remove.

Now you simply get a list of websites. For every site on the list you can see how many cookies are stored and how much data is in local storage. It makes sense to group this together here, because local storage and cookies are nearly the same thing. But you can no longer see or delete individual cookies - instead, you delete ALL cookies and storage for a given site or none at all. So the headline is correct in that you can no remove individual cookies from about:preferences.

But you can still fiddle with a site's individual cookies in other ways, like visiting that site and using the developer tools, or grabbing an extension like Cookie Manager.

Looks like Cookie Manager can replace the lost functionality:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

They should bring back the old design. I hate the fact that the images do not line up nicely and that I can not see immediately from what site they are. Yes, I know that I can scroll over it. That takes more time.

I also hate the continuous webpages in general. On Firefox there is Old Google Image Search

I have yet have to find a website where continues pages are an advantage.

A workaround is to add "&sout=1" to your search.

Also for Firefox too as can be quickly found out.
Makes it harder for google to block should they wish.

You can automatically convert Chrome (and Opera) extensions to firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

They all use the Same API now anyway.