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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.
Who has a list of which configuration options I need to go into about:config and disable this time?
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A website registers a Service Worker with the browser. Service Workers are small JavaScript programs with super powers like intercepting network requests or running even when their parent website is closed.
What could possibly go wrong?
Who has a list of which configuration options I need to go into about:config and disable this time?
You must be an old timer!
Programs are configurable! Just go through all the apps and programs that you use on a daily basis and change whatever you want to make the system work to your liking.
All these features are easy to change, and learning a mere handful of methods will get you anywhere you want to go.
1) Go to about.config, click on the "I understand", type in "this.obscure.value", double click it to change value. The "this.obscure.value" is named in a transparent, easily understandable way such as "browser.cache.disk.smart_size.enabled". This enables the "smart size" feature of the caching system. It's obvious what it does, because it's name says it all.
2) Go to start->run->regedit, navigate to "this obscure value", type in "add new value" in DWORD format and set it's value to 1. For instance, to disable the new volume control and go back to the old style, just navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion, create a new key MTCUVC, create a new DWORD EnableMtcUvc, and set its value to 0.
Only old folks think that's not simple, and I don't for the life of me know why!
3) Pick a random number, put "KB" in front of it, and do what's described there. For example, KB3035583 tells you how Microsoft has helpfully introduced "additional capabilities for Windows Update notifications when new updates are available to the user". It's just telling you how Windows 10 is now available. If you want to customize this behaviour, you can use task manager to stop the GWX.exe process. Or, you can go to programs and then click or tap on View installed updates, then scroll down until you see the KB3035583 update, select it, press "uninstall", and then confirm that you want to uninstall it.
Nothing could be simpler, I just *don't get* where these old folks are coming from!
4) Changing things in linux it's even easier! Just go to /etc as root and vi "some-random-file", and change the configuration manually. It's easy to do, because all the configuration files are in one place! For example, remote disks are called "shares", and the process that manages this is called samba, and the file to edit is thus /etc/samba/smb.conf.
What could be easier? The .conf ending lets you know that it's a configuration file!
If you don't know how to use vi, simply type "man vi" and you'll find all the information you need!
Really, I don't understand why old folks don't understand these things - everything is so simple!
And will be used for "One Weird Trick to a Titanic Penis" and "Firefox has detected a CRITICAL security problem. Click on _this link_ to eliminate the malware from your system"
I'm confused. We are delaying the removal of this preference to Firefox 46
Give Pottering a week and we'll have some spaghetti code that does the same thing in kernel.
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