Dozens of fake wallet add-ons flood #Firefox store to drain #crypto

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dozens-of-fake-wallet-add-ons-flood-firefox-store-to-drain-crypto/

#cybersecurity #Coinbase #MetaMask #TrustWallet #Exodus #Phantom #OKX #Keplr #MyMonero

#Linux Weekly Roundup for June 29th, 2025: #Firefox 140 ESR, first look at #GIMP 3.2, #IPFire gets #WireGuard support, #KDE Plasma 6.4's first point release, Firefox 141 to use less memory on Linux, #qBittorrent 5.1.1, #Clonezilla Live 3.2.2-15, #PipeWire 1.4.6, #GStreamer 1.26.3, and more https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-june-29th-2025

#OpenSource #FOSS

I don't know how recent this change is but I noticed #Firefox removed https:// from the address bar so now every link and every website I visit looks insecure. I know there is a padlock icon next to the address bar but it doesn't seem quite as easily scannable to me.

Another unnecessary macOS global keyboard shortcut change inspired a bad change in Firefox.

Apple hijacked ⌃↩ to open a context menu. Firefox used that to normalize input text to a .com URL.

⌘↩ in the address bar used to open a new tab. Firefox thought adding .com was more useful than opening a new tab, so moved new tab to ⌥↩, inconsistent with ⌘ + click opening a link in a new tab.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1949999&ref=activitypub

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/136.0/releasenotes/?ref=activitypub

https://lifehacker.com/tech/right-click-with-your-keyboard-in-mac-os-sequoia?ref=activitypub

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255829818?sortBy=rank&ref=activitypub

#Firefox

Mozilla officially refuse to support UnifiedPush, which was incredibly exciting and something I was eager to see land.

#Firefox allows you to add new search engine keywords by right clicking on a search field at a site and picking "add a keyword for this search"

#Peertube has a search engine that searches across instances called #SepiaSearch at https://sepiaSearch.org

But Firefox creates a broken search when you do this. Fix it by changing the search URL to add "search" between the / and the ? like so:

https://sepiasearch.org/search?search=%s

Now you can search for videos by typing in the search bar like:

pt kittens

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-DeepSpeech-Discontinued

#Firefox 141 Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing, Promises to Use Less Memory on #Linux Systems https://9to5linux.com/firefox-141-promises-to-use-less-memory-on-linux-systems-beta-out-now

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware

TL;DR: Firefox has a new feature to let you pin additional tabs when you have an existing pinned tab in the window.

Your data, your rules: #Firefox’s #privacy-first #AI features you can trust

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-ai/ai-browser-features/

#FOSS

#Firefox 140 ESR Web Browser Is Now Available for Download, Here's What’s New https://9to5linux.com/firefox-140-esr-web-browser-is-now-available-for-download-this-is-whats-new

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Linux

I'm finding @Waterfox@mastodon.social quite competent as an alternative to @firefox@fedia.io. If shenanigans continue, that's going to be my alternative.

#firefox

Starting in Firefox 138, Mozilla started gating Firefox Labs features behind data collection.

Mozilla had announced that some new Firefox features would be released via Firefox Labs.

It is now a few hours since I posted, and there is reason to celebrate – Mozilla is updating Firefox Labs to let people access features without needing to enable data collection.

Other links:

• https://uptime.zen-browser.app/
• https://bsky.app/profile/zen-browser.app/post/3lrvkbf6lhc2m
• https://x.com/zen_browser/status/1935390844569182453

UPDATE Their repo is back up.

"#Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up"

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/17/opinion_column_firefox/

#Mozilla #FOSS #privacy

TL;DR: Mozilla is now enforcing data collection as a pre-requisite to access new features in Firefox Labs. This is backed by the Terms of Use that Mozilla introduced a few months ago.