Tor is being integrated into Firefox with the goal of making Tor Browser unnecessary. The Tor Project says the two big benefits of this are that Tor will get more users and they'll be able to focus more on research rather than maintaining their Firefox fork.
The V76 is really geared towards the next generation of 8K Ultra HD content, like planned coverage of the upcoming 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang.
Newgrounds, Kongregate, Albino Blacksheep, Dagobah, Animutation Portal, and the like still use Flash to present vector animations and games whose authors either can't be located or lack the time=money to remake them from scratch using HTML5.
But Adobe will release a WebAssembly build of Flash player to support old content, won't they? I mean, the proprietor cares about their proprietary platform, right?
we're talking about all Internet sites, not just a small portion of Top 10,000 or Top 1 Million sites
No. Wrong. W3Techs doesn't work that way. From W3Tech's technology overview: "We include only the top 10 million websites (top 1 million before June 2013) in the statistics in order to limit the impact of domain spammers. We use website popularity rankings provided by Alexa (an Amazon.com company) using a 3 months average ranking. Alexa rankings are sometimes considered inaccurate for measuring website traffic, but we find that they serve our purpose of providing a representative sample of established sites very well."
STW Analyst: “A lot of things have surprised me about working at the CIA! The diversity of occupations employed here, the rotation opportunities, the investment in employee training.”
According to two Facebook employees, workers have been calling on internal message boards for a hunt to find those who leak to the media
So.. they want everyone to share data with Facebook, but don't want Facebook to share its data with everyone else.
I suppose it makes sense. After all, you don't get rich by writing a lot of checks. And so in an information economy you don't get rich by allowing symmetry in data access and control.
Orwellian pursuit of 100% monitoring and control over its citizens (and, probably, others beyond its borders).
Much like the NSA does. The WannaCry attacks were enabled by NSA-developed weapons which the NSA lost control of. The NSA knew about these exploits for years, weaponized them, and never told Microsoft because they wanted their weapon to be viable for as long as possible.
You can often just switch to reader view to read the page by clicking the document icon in Firefox's location bar. Firefox doesn't detect a possible reader view for all pages though.
Yes, "justification" is exactly the word. No proof, no actual evidence, just rumor and innuendo. Just self-reinforcing delusion. Your claims are bizarre.
Just think about what you're saying logically. You're claiming that Mozilla pays people to go "undercover", on Slashdot of all places, to comment on Firefox. I think you're dramatically overstating the importance of Slashdot in the scheme of things. And why would Mozilla do that? The way they promote Firefox is through blog posts, media interviews, and good old fashioned advertising, not some bizarre cloak-and-dagger campaign.
You can audit Mozilla's financial statements. So find me the pay packet that they allegedly send me. And if you can't do that, then it's time to face up to the possibility that you really have lost perspective.
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.
Meh, there's little value in being a drama queen. All the add-ons I used before Firefox 57 still worked after Firefox 57, and so do over 9,000 other add-ons.
To quote from the page you linked (emphasis added): "The Alliance for Open Media is governed by founding member companies: Amazon, Apple, ARM, Cisco, Facebook, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, Netflix and NVIDIA."
The logo isn't on the page but Apple has joined the Alliance for Open Media at the highest membership level which is "founding member" (even though they weren't a member from the start). The membership terminology is poor.
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Tor is being integrated into Firefox with the goal of making Tor Browser unnecessary. The Tor Project says the two big benefits of this are that Tor will get more users and they'll be able to focus more on research rather than maintaining their Firefox fork.
freakin' anonymity protocol that Firefox (and its various forks) will almost certainly never have.
Firefox will have it. Mozilla's project Fusion is working to integrate Tor into Firefox. The goal is to make Tor Browser (which is a Firefox fork) obsolete by including Tor in Firefox by default.
One option to at least help - use a different web browser for Facebook
Another option is to use Firefox's Facebook Container. It's an easy way to separate Facebook from the rest of your browsing activity.
The V76 is really geared towards the next generation of 8K Ultra HD content, like planned coverage of the upcoming 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang.
The 2018 Winter Olympics ended months ago.
Yes, and due to changes to the immigration system. A month ago, it was claimed Canada had pulled off a brain heist, but now they are supposedly suffering a brain drain. It's all a bit inconsistent.
Homestarrunner Abandoned flash and put their content on Youtube as videos (sadly you lose a lot of in interactivity).
Never fear. You can burninate without Flash.
Newgrounds, Kongregate, Albino Blacksheep, Dagobah, Animutation Portal, and the like still use Flash to present vector animations and games whose authors either can't be located or lack the time=money to remake them from scratch using HTML5.
But Adobe will release a WebAssembly build of Flash player to support old content, won't they? I mean, the proprietor cares about their proprietary platform, right?
Right?
we're talking about all Internet sites, not just a small portion of Top 10,000 or Top 1 Million sites
No. Wrong. W3Techs doesn't work that way. From W3Tech's technology overview: "We include only the top 10 million websites (top 1 million before June 2013) in the statistics in order to limit the impact of domain spammers. We use website popularity rankings provided by Alexa (an Amazon.com company) using a 3 months average ranking. Alexa rankings are sometimes considered inaccurate for measuring website traffic, but we find that they serve our purpose of providing a representative sample of established sites very well."
See W3Tech's FAQ and overview.
STW Analyst: “A lot of things have surprised me about working at the CIA! The diversity of occupations employed here, the rotation opportunities, the investment in employee training.”
But not, sadly, the practice of torture.
Do that many people really use Chrome as their browser of choice?
Yes.
Thankfully, Adobe is allowing users to completely opt out all of their devices from the services
Why not opt in? If the service is valuable to me I'd want to opt in, wouldn't I?
According to two Facebook employees, workers have been calling on internal message boards for a hunt to find those who leak to the media
So.. they want everyone to share data with Facebook, but don't want Facebook to share its data with everyone else.
I suppose it makes sense. After all, you don't get rich by writing a lot of checks. And so in an information economy you don't get rich by allowing symmetry in data access and control.
LSOs are files placed on your computer by the Adobe Systems Flash plug-in.
The wise thing to do is to not install Flash in the first place. Time's running out for Flash anyhow. Might as well uninstall now.
Orwellian pursuit of 100% monitoring and control over its citizens (and, probably, others beyond its borders).
Much like the NSA does. The WannaCry attacks were enabled by NSA-developed weapons which the NSA lost control of. The NSA knew about these exploits for years, weaponized them, and never told Microsoft because they wanted their weapon to be viable for as long as possible.
There are no cleanskins here.
p.s. FYI: "about:ram" doesn't work
Use about:memory. There's also about:support and about:mozilla.
are able to stop me from reading the page
You can often just switch to reader view to read the page by clicking the document icon in Firefox's location bar. Firefox doesn't detect a possible reader view for all pages though.
Even your denial
Ah, belief perseverance. I understand.
I've offered extensive justification
Yes, "justification" is exactly the word. No proof, no actual evidence, just rumor and innuendo. Just self-reinforcing delusion. Your claims are bizarre.
Just think about what you're saying logically. You're claiming that Mozilla pays people to go "undercover", on Slashdot of all places, to comment on Firefox. I think you're dramatically overstating the importance of Slashdot in the scheme of things. And why would Mozilla do that? The way they promote Firefox is through blog posts, media interviews, and good old fashioned advertising, not some bizarre cloak-and-dagger campaign.
You can audit Mozilla's financial statements. So find me the pay packet that they allegedly send me. And if you can't do that, then it's time to face up to the possibility that you really have lost perspective.
theweatherelectic is a paid promoter.
What a bizarre conspiracy theory.
All of yours work? Well half of mine do not work and do not have equivalents.
Then guess what, kid: your experience is not universal. It's a much simpler explanation than the fantasy world you've constructed for yourself.
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.
I simply have switched to Opera
So.. you switched to a browser with WebExtensions based add-ons? Might as well have keep using Firefox.
Meh, there's little value in being a drama queen. All the add-ons I used before Firefox 57 still worked after Firefox 57, and so do over 9,000 other add-ons.
Apple don't seem to be a member
To quote from the page you linked (emphasis added): "The Alliance for Open Media is governed by founding member companies: Amazon, Apple, ARM, Cisco, Facebook, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, Netflix and NVIDIA."
The logo isn't on the page but Apple has joined the Alliance for Open Media at the highest membership level which is "founding member" (even though they weren't a member from the start). The membership terminology is poor.
Qualcomm includes VP9 support. They'll include AV1 support as well.
VBR seem like a major accomplishment
It's more involved than that.