with the last update this setting is gone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy3_Y4_-IsU and it brought back the sidebar icon although I had turned it off

I've been using vertical tabs for a while, and I do think that the round icons are 1: better suited to the design of the majority of favicons, and 2: offer a quicker visual separation at a glance. It's easier to distinguish between tabs.

If you prefer horizontal tabs, the rounded tabs with a light stroke are even more stark. Firefox has long had a problem with the visual language of the tabs. It has been hard to clearly distinguish between active and background tabs. If you were not already familiar with the color scheme, and someone showed you a window with two tabs, you'd have to make a wild guess to know which was the active tab. Chrome for example represents this by connecting the active tab to the window view - immediately clear. The old Firefox tabs were ambiguous because they didn't connect, and they also weren't clearly separated. This design makes a clear commitment.

The new app icons are gorgeous. The design looks more coherent across the app. It manages to be modern and clean, while presenting a characteristic personality. For too long, Firefox has been chasing trends and aiming for a middle that doesn't exist. Firefox is different and should look different. I think it's much better to make a visual statement that not everyone will love than to have no perspective at all.

Some people have railed against the new default theme. It's not for everyone, but there are 1000s of official and user-created themes to choose from. I have been using a custom theme for ages precisely because the old default theme was ugly.

A small addition, I use Firefox as my default PDF viewer. The new viewer has a few minor improvements and fixes one or two past missteps. I'm sure folks will (rightly) say there are better options for a PDF viewer, but it meets my needs.

That new UI theme in @firefox is horrible. I dont need color fades. just a solid color is much better. Lucky there's a browser.nova.enabled . And i hope the never remove it.

Not a fan of the new look. If you're in the same boat, plug:

about:config

into your URL bar, and search for:

browser.nova.enabled

Toggle it to false using the button to the right.

There are functional changes that Nova also introduced: this won't effect those - only the aesthetic.

From Vishal Gupta's tutorial.

https://www.askvg.com/disable-or-remove-sign-in-to-sync-banner-from-firefox-menu/

STEP 1: Open Mozilla Firefox and type about:config in the address bar and press Enter. It’ll show you a warning message, click on “Accept the Risk and Continue” button. It’ll open the config page

STEP 2: Now type fxaccounts inside the preference search box and look for following preference: identity.fxaccounts.enabled

STEP 3: This preference decides the availability of Firefox Account/Sync feature inside the web browser. To disable or remove the Firefox Account feature, set the identity.fxaccounts.enabled preference to False.

To change the preference value, just double-click on the preference and it’ll change its value.

STEP 4: Restart Firefox

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The Firefox update is finally on the way! This release adds support for Firefox's new requirements. I expect version 4.0.5 to pass Mozilla's review within a week, bringing the long-awaited Firefox update. Firefox 140 or newer is required.

What's changed

• YouTube Shorts: Fixed missing dislike counts and stale controls when scrolling between Shorts, with better support for newer YouTube layouts and navigation between regular videos and Shorts.

• New: Hide clutter buttons. Enable it in the extension settings to keep Like and Dislike visible. Share, Save, Thanks, and other optional actions remain available in YouTube's three-dot More menu. Off by default.

• Fixed action buttons clipping, wrapping, or flickering on narrow video pages.

• Improved dislike-count and ratio-bar updates when navigating between videos without reloading.

• New: GitHub contributor sign-in. Contributors can now sign in with GitHub to access premium features.

Edit: After reading the recommendations & arguments at arkenfox, I have opted to remove CookieAutoDelete as well as PrivacyBadger and CanvasBlocker. Instead I have:

• set Enhanced Tracking Protection to "Strict";
• setup uBlock Origin to level "medium";
• tweaked some extra about:config entries as recommended here and here, except for privacy.resistFingerprinting.

I'll also consider setting network.cookie.lifetimePolicy to 2 for having all cookies session-only (apart from whitelisted ones).

I observe a much faster loading of the pages now!

My preference is to immediately remove cookies from domains, as soon as (or just some seconds after) a tab with that domain is closed. Except some whitelisted domains specified by me.

To do this, I've used – for years – Cookie Autodelete. But I've discovered now that it doesn't work with Firefox's Strict Mode (the extension says "strict mode is not supported").

All in all I think my understanding of Firefox's capabilities and policies regarding cookies and similar extensions is outdated. I'd be grateful to anyone who can offer insights or links to well-informed sites about this.

I use invidious for youtube watching. and I set the resolution to 480p (because of my internet) I have noticed for sometime that the video looks more smooth and less pixel-y than before. but when I used video snapshot (which take a frame) and I saw that the frame that firefox saved to my drive is pixel-y and less smooth and not like the video it shows to me.

I even checked with screenshot (which take picture of screen and not a direct video frame extract) and I can see that it is smoothed.

what is happening?

could it be AMD ? could it be my desktop KDE doing something?

it is a bit hard to show it but I can clearly see that the video frame I extract is less smooth that the video shown.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/70243886

Experimental feature but can be enabled in firefox stable in Settings, Firefox Labs, Tab notes under Productivity.

I found it really useful for when Im researching something and have lots of papers open in separate tabs. Though Im using it more like tab tags, since notes show up when you hover over tabs. It lets me see at a glance which specific topic a tab is related to if I forget.

What do you all think? I was kinda surprised how little discussion I have seen on this, considering that no other browser have something like it. Firefoxs implementation is pretty smart too, instead of just being a sticky notes widget in the browser (like the one in Vivaldi).

@firefox all websites shared by https://share.google/ do not open. only in private mode. I use android 13. Whats the issue?

The experience is so bad lately while playing videos, some don't play at all and feels like the hardware encoding/decoding doesn't work. This don't happen on Chromium-based browsers.

Doesn't have to be on that particular section of the menu, but can I add commands/buttons willy-nilly somewhere on that menu?

Cheers!

Edit: I found out that the add-on warns about high CPU usage for some of its presets (Preferences->General->Presets). Using a different preset has removed that ~10% CPU usage.

Some preliminary context: Since one or two updates ago, I've noticed that Firefox is using around 10% CPU even then all tabs are unloaded. This didn't happen before. The add-ons I use are still the same, and I have blocked the new LLM functionality. (Maybe someone else noticed the same?) Anyway, in order to investigate, I'm switching off the add-ons one by one, as usually done, checking if the situation improves.

While doing so I was wondering whether I still need Canvas Blocker. I see its most recent reviews are 4 years old now. Does anyone know whether it's still needed for privacy, or if Firefox now provides some of the same functionality built-in? I do use AdBlock Origin as well.

Thank you for info and opinions!

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