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Firefox 44 Arrives With Push Notifications (mozilla.org)
An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla today launched Firefox 44 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Notable additions to the browser include push notifications, the removal of RC4 encryption, and new powerful developer tools. Mozilla made three promises for push notifications: "1. To prevent cross-site correlations, every website receives a different, anonymous Web Push identifier for your browser. 2. To thwart eavesdropping, payloads are encrypted to a public / private keypair held only by your browser. 3. Firefox only connects to the Push Service if you have an active Web Push subscription. This could be to a website, or to a browser feature like Firefox Hello or Firefox Sync." Here are the full changelogs: Desktop and Android.
I'm confused. We are delaying the removal of this preference to Firefox 46
If you haven't already, rather than messing around with settings and installing extensions, just drop it. Uninstall and don't look back. There are other browsers.
RSS is dying because sites don't like it. People use it as a shortcut to see whether anything on their list of favorite blogs is worth navigating to the site to read. If not, then they won't visit the site, taking page hits (and ad revenue) from the site. I love RSS, but it seems like sites are dropping support for it left and right.
"Can't you see that everyone is buying station wagons?"
Anyone know where to find old versions of chrome?
Or a way to disable chrome's auto update function so it doesn't later decide you forgot to re-enable it and update anyway?
Auto updates are nice until they decide when I want to update for me.
Minimum threshold fixed. Thanks!
So based on last month's stats, Firefox is down to about 7% of the browser market. That's across all versions, on all desktop and mobile (where Firefox for Android has a massive 0.05% of the market) platforms.
At this point, Firefox as a whole is nearly below iOS Safari 9.2, IE 11, and UC Browser for Android. It almost has fewer users than Opera Mini, even! Hell, even Chrome 46 still has almost as many users as Firefox has in total, and Chrome is up to version 48 now!
It's now clear that Firefox 44 introduces a lot of shit that users just don't want, and there's a lot more dumb shit in the pipeline, too.
Based on this, I'm going to make a prediction: Firefox will be at or under 2% of the market by the end of 2016.
So many of Firefox's changes only serve to drive users away to other browsers, and I don't see anything suggesting that they'll start listening to their few remaining users any time soon. Rust and Servo are total dead ends at this point, so we can't count on them to save Firefox.
Once Firefox hits such a low single-digit share of the market, it's likely that Mozilla will be considered completely irrelevant. This is bad for the web, of course, since it cements the WebKit/Blink monoculture.
Yet, mind bogglingly enough it is still way simpler than trying to fix windows registry. Mind you fuck up about:config and the browser stops working, Windows registry fucks itself up and you computer stops working. Want to keep a computer working, always dual boot and that way you can boot to Linux to fix your gaming and browsing machine. I have managed to keep windows 7 going since getting this computer without a reinstall by that very method. Damn being able to edit a text file makes like so much easier when it comes to fixing a broken OS or broken program. Having to reinstall a program or and entire OS and every program you have because you couldn't edit a text file is fucking nuts. One five minute edit versus hours and hours of reinstall, oh, yeah that edit is so very, very hard.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen