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Firefox 26 Arrives With Click-To-Play For Java Plugins
An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla today officially launched Firefox 26 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Additions include Click-to-Play turned on by default for all Java plugins, more seamless updates on Windows, and a new Home design for Android. Firefox 26 has been released over on Firefox.com and all existing users should be able to upgrade to it automatically. As always, the Android version is trickling out slowly on Google Play. Release notes are here: desktop and mobile."
Depends.
A third-party web application our company uses encountered Javascript problems in Firefox 24. Waiting for five minutes until Firefox 25 showed up fixed the problem again.
Are you using CookieMonster? It's much better than any stock cookie controller that I've seen.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
If you care about cookies, use an addon/extension that gives you a better interface, and finer control, than the built in systems. I use CookieMonster (set to deny all cookies by default), but there are others.
CookieMonster allows you to set per website permissions, both temporary (until you close the browser, and then permissions revert to deny), per session (deletes every time you close your browser), and ordinary (hangs around until they expire). You can also set third party cookie controls.
What makes Firefox great is the addon/extension ecosystem. If you're not going to use it, why even use Firefox? (OK, it's less evil.)
HELP MY ACCOUNT HAS BEEN HACKED BY AN ILLIBERAL ART STUDENT SET TO DESTROY THE INTERWEBZ!
Try the self-destructing cookies addon.
When you close a tab, the cookies created by that tab are removed. You can whitelist domains to prevent their cookies from being deleted.
This way, sites see cookies as being enabled, but can't track you after you close the tab.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destructing-cookies/
Not a sentence!
- support java/javascript/whatever code.
As someone that runs NoScript, almost all of the websites on the modern Internet just don't work without JavaScript. They aren't even written to fail gracefully if JavaScript support isn't detected.
My dream browser would:
- render text
- render static images
- block ads
My dream browser would NOT:
- play sounds
- play movies
- animate anything
- open up additional windows
- support java/javascript/whatever code
- support cookies
- store any information
Oh well, I guess it will never happen.
Oh, I think you really ought to actually configure Firefox this way and try it out.
Set all plugins to never activate in Tools > Add Ons
Set "Accept cookies" to never, and clear all offline data under Advanced.
Go into about:config and turn off audio and video, set cookies to never in preferences
Install Adblock and Noscript. (You could turn off javascript for reals, but that would prevent Adblock from working. Noscript can do muc the same thing if configured right..)
Try it. Try to get through one day on the real web with your browser set up this way.
You'd need a fantasy dream Internet to make your dream browser work.
Starting somewhere around version 21 of Firefox, they turned off the "downloads" window and took the ability to turn it on/off out of the options. In order to turn something on that had been in Firefox since it was called Phoenix, you had to go into about:config and change "browser.download.useToolkitUI" to true. Now for some reason, it appears to me that Firefox v26 has completely removed the download window altogether. I cannot for the life of me get the old downloads window back. Maybe I'm just blind/dumb, but I can't imagine why Mozilla continues to make changes like this.