cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/32127303

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Screenshot of a pop-up. It reads:

Color Inaccuracies Detected.

We have detected that your browser may have issues with color accuracy.

You may notice subtle visual noise and incorrect colors appear in your skins.

This issue is usually caused by anti-fingerprinting privacy settings in your browser.

Learn how to fix [with a hyperlink to a help page]

this screenshot was taken on Miners Need Cooler Shoes

does anyone know what would cause this precisely? why would anti-fingerprinting mess with the colors i use to edit an image in the browser?

i'd be tempted to brush this off as the website being malicious and lying to get me to deactivate fingerprinting protection, but the website is fully open-source and what they describe happened to me on Piskel (a pixel art editor, which would constantly mess up my colors in subtle but annoying ways)

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37831535

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37607760

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I just don't use tab grouping (yet) and I don't want this particular auto-group feature which I keep triggering by accident

I had this stupid idea after reading this to experiment with my internet habits. I'd like the address bar to only be used for URLs.

found the solution: set keyword.enabled to false

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37149554

If you have an iPhone 15 Pro or later with iOS 26+, the summary is created on your device using Apple Intelligence. On other devices with earlier iOS versions, the page text is sent securely to Mozilla cloud-based AI, which creates the summary and sends it back.

Source.

Using Fennec F-Droid, some pages the progress bar hits 25% and then hangs for an amount of time between a couple minutes to forever. Usually the same page will always hang around the same time, but trying hours or days later it might work. Sometimes the page loads after a couple minutes, but if it doesn't, I can come back hours later and the progress bar is still at 25% for that tab. Killing the app doesn't seem to make a difference. I do use Ublock origin and one other extension to redirect reddit links to old.reddit.com. Haven't started disabling extensions yet, I wanted to see if anyone else is experiencing this on Android.

Misleading title (the one on the news article): Firefox added multiple chatbots, and only on nightlies.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36758792

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cross-posted from: https://lazysoci.al/post/33071230

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36435575

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• Hackernews.

I found these servers, but they all appear to be broken ?

https://github.com/balu-/FSyncMS/ https://github.com/posativ/weave-minimal https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver

Is there one that works ? And since they all seem to break eventually, how do I set firefox to not autoupdate past the last compatible version of my sync server, if I get one to work ?

thanks

4 years ago was the last update of this extension which was then abandoned by its (now unknown) author and eventually removed from AMO. I used it ever since when recently it started glitching a bit, so I decided to revive it with a small improvement upon the original: you can close it the same way it opens - with a click on its icon in the toolbar. The extension has finally been approved by AMO's team and it's accessible to be downloaded and installed. Screenshots and a video demo were added in the description on AMO.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/downloads-sidebar-reborn/

I understand that you foxy folks love your extensions and scripts, and I'm wondering if I could be happy amongst you.

In Vivaldi (and previously in Opera), I have used vertical tabs for I think twenty years. As you can see in the screenshot, Vivaldi lets me list the tabs vertically, shows previews for them, lets me group the tabs into "stacks", and lets me tile any number of tabs on the window at once. I don't think I could use a browser without these features.

I also use mouse gestures very heavily, to open tabs, windows, switch between tabs and windows, reload pages, etc. Vivaldi and Opera have really robust mouse gesture support built in.

How close can I get to these features natively or with extensions?

TIA!

I'm using Firefox as my main browser and see a lot of websites which support passkeys but only with Safari and Chrome, but not Firefox.

Why is that? Is this because of the market share or the implementation?

Looks like Firefox has some different implementation ways than the other two, according to AuthGear https://www.authgear.com/post/passkeys-compatibility

I have already tried the official notes by Firefox (which is not maintained)

Also notes sidebar by Stefan (doesn't work well, bug-gy)

I don't want a PLAY MUTE PAUSE not even a CLOSE button. Especially NOT when they have their own internal state for then they choose to appear and disappear.

I don't want to pay attention to them, I don't want to have to look for them, I don't want them getting in my way any more.

If I want to close a tab, I middle click it ! I already have global mute controls, I don't need an extra volume control, I don't have "tabs making unwanted sounds" problem because I have "Go To Sound Tab" addon installed, so I can easily find any tabs that makes sound and mute it correctly, without a extra, unneeded layer of muting (tab muting, versus app muting versus player muting, that is too many muting options, I don't want to use tab muting personnally so I want these buttons out of here !)

I don't want to have to rely on running violentmonkey script engine on top of my already sluggish browser when I barely have 6615 open tabs.

I want to disable the feature at the root, inside firefox, not patch up webpages like dark reader does.

AAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh h!!!!!!

How much freedom does firefox have again? How long until they ban UBlock Origin?