But also not open source.

Open source is like being pregnant - you either are are you aren't. Vivaldi isn't.

Firefox can't fix all the broken sites in the world, but they do investigate issues reported to https://webcompat.com

You can help by reporting sites that don't work for you.

Do you understand how free software works? Did you read the post? I'd love to clarify, but I'm not going to rewrite the article.

Copyright isn't awesome, it is useful. The whole basis of open source is built on the concept of copyright (copyleft), so alignment with copyright isn't "sudden", it is fundamental.

Copyleft software isn't supposed to just be repackaged as proprietary, though. Permissive licenses, sure - but people know what they were signing up for (presumably) there.

Yeah, I am astroturfing. It can't be that I actually believed Mozilla when they said that localizers were heroic.

There are many open source licenses. Being closed source isn't one of them.

Orion isn't open source.

Untrue. Safari never had the real version of uBlock Origin (it was always a port) and it lost many features when Apple moved to a new extensions framework (much like Google). See more: https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/issues/158

Firefox ESR is an older version of Firefox that continues to receive security updates. It is made for conservative enterprise environments that care more about stability (as in: not changing) than features or fixes. It may or may not be more stable (ideally, newer versions would fix stability issues in older ESR versions), and may use more or less memory (regressions in memory usage should be reported).

I have tried it in the sense that I have a copy around for testing in those odd cases where someone is using ESR. I don't recommend it.

What are you a captcha?

Some of us don't run Windows. I have blogged about Manifest v3, FWIW.

That's the TIME magazine cover, buddy.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-labs-fx138/

Kind of a big update... this is the last version of Firefox for Windows 7 and Windows 8, along with macOS 10.12, 10.13, and 10.14. I know this is forcing family members to finally upgrade their (mac) OS.

More big updates:

• Hardware video decoding is now enabled for Intel GPUs on Linux.
• We've refreshed and streamlined the user interface for importing data in from other browsers.
• The builtin editor now behaves similarly to other browsers with contenteditable and designMode when splitting a node, e.g. typing Enter to split a paragraph, and also when joining two nodes, e.g. typing Backspace at the start of a paragraph to join the paragraph and the previous one.

Pretty sure that last feature is what finally fixes the Reddit Fancy Pants editor in Firefox... exactly when Reddit is destroying itself.

• IndexedDB is now also supported in private browsing without memory limits thanks to encrypted storage on disk. The temporary keys to decrypt the information are hold in RAM only and all stored information is purged at the normal end of a private browsing session from disk.

This might help WhatsApp web run in private browsing, among other sites.

The most impactful thing is definitely going to be OS compatibility... this is going to be the last version of Firefox for a long time for a lot of people.

So what is that, a build of Chromium with no Vivaldi features? What is the point exactly? I can download Chromium by itself already. I'll even get edit history, unlike the big tarball that Vivaldi gives me.

This technically isn't about Firefox, but about the Mozilla Support community, which supports Firefox and other Mozilla products. Forks don't direct their users to Mozilla Support, so they are not affected.

Bad documentation can spread, though. We know AI will be consuming the slop that Mozilla generates and will feed it back to people.

Who's a bot?

It transforms the contribution to no longer be "share alike".