Firefox is great browser. Deserves to be more popular than it is for sure.
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Why you SHOULD be using Firefox
- Thread starter opethdisciple
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What I like about Firefox you mostly have control over the features, though there has been attempts at times to push features, but you can fill it up with features if you wish - personally I like to keep it minimalistic. Stuff like Chrome and Edge much less respect the user's wishes and want you to use the browser their way.
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Soldato
still blows my mind how badly they fumbled the position they had years ago bc of bad decision making around extensions allowing chrome to swoop in
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Firefox 130.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes
www.mozilla.org
Firefox now offers an easy way to try experimental features with a new Firefox Labs page in Settings.
- AI Chatbot feature lets you add the chatbot of your choice to the sidebar, for quick access as you browse.
- Picture-in-Picture auto-open experiment enables PiP on active videos when switching tabs.
Firefox 130.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes
Firefox now offers an easy way to try experimental features with a new Firefox Labs page in Settings.
- AI Chatbot feature lets you add the chatbot of your choice to the sidebar, for quick access as you browse.
- Picture-in-Picture auto-open experiment enables PiP on active videos when switching tabs.
I like!
You need to access it via the sidebar icon which you can add to your toolbar if it isn't already there, by using the customise toolbar option. That said I cant find any use at all for ai chat unless anyone can enlighten me
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Firefox 131.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes
www.mozilla.org
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Snapshot
Man of Honour
These are the tabs/windows I have open right now and this is the RAM that is being used 
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131.0.2 has been released to fix a critical security bug. Release for ESR too.
Beefy change release for this one:
www.mozilla.org
firefox-esr/mozilla 128.3.1esr~build1 amd64 [upgradable from: 128.3.0esr~build1]
firefox/mozilla 131.0.2~build1 amd64 [upgradable from: 131.0~build1]
Beefy change release for this one:
Firefox 131.0.2, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes
www.mozilla.org
firefox-esr/mozilla 128.3.1esr~build1 amd64 [upgradable from: 128.3.0esr~build1]
firefox/mozilla 131.0.2~build1 amd64 [upgradable from: 131.0~build1]
Tip to clean up google, remove the AI box.
First in about:config add the following tunable 'browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh' and set to true.
This allows you to add search engines manually, instead of needing an extension to do it.
Next in the settings page in the search engine section, add a new search engine, give it a name like 'GoogleUKnoAI'
In the 2nd box add this. Note this example makes each page show 20 results (this is no longer in the search settings, so this is also a way to customise the results per page) 'https://www.google.co.uk/search?num=20&udm=14&q={searchTerms}'
Finally top part of firefox settings search section, set it as the default search engine.
First in about:config add the following tunable 'browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh' and set to true.
This allows you to add search engines manually, instead of needing an extension to do it.
Next in the settings page in the search engine section, add a new search engine, give it a name like 'GoogleUKnoAI'
In the 2nd box add this. Note this example makes each page show 20 results (this is no longer in the search settings, so this is also a way to customise the results per page) 'https://www.google.co.uk/search?num=20&udm=14&q={searchTerms}'
Finally top part of firefox settings search section, set it as the default search engine.
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Annoyingly anything newer than 127. isn't working with HDCP on many sites for me 
not sure if it is working properly for anyone with newer versions... especially Amazon Prime Movies refuses to work with anything but SD.
EDIT: None of the old tricks are fixing it either... gonna have to use Edge for some stuff FFS.
EDIT2: So changing media.eme.hdcp-policy-check.enabled to false in about:config fixes it but not sure if there are other side-effects of that.
not sure if it is working properly for anyone with newer versions... especially Amazon Prime Movies refuses to work with anything but SD.EDIT: None of the old tricks are fixing it either... gonna have to use Edge for some stuff FFS.
EDIT2: So changing media.eme.hdcp-policy-check.enabled to false in about:config fixes it but not sure if there are other side-effects of that.
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Man of Honour
The prime video HDCP thing is known to Mozilla as I filed a bug report to them about it months ago as I was one of the first people to notice it. See,s they still have not sorted it.
There seems to be a bug in Firefox that uses Windows DWM when all of these conditions are met:
1: Windows is locked and FF is open still or minimised to taskbar
2: Windows puts the display to sleep as is normal for the lockscreen after 1 minute of sitting on the lockscreen
Waking the display back up stops the DWM use, you will notice the CPU fan spin a bit faster as CPU cycles are being used when this happens. on my system it's an extras 200rpm or so for the AIO fans which is subtle, but is audible to me on a silent system otherwise whic is how I noticed it. CPU temps also climb an average of 4 degrees with a min to max variance going from 29-33 degrees to around 47 degrees.
Post about it here:
I have not tried nightly yet to see if it's in that too though.
There seems to be a bug in Firefox that uses Windows DWM when all of these conditions are met:
1: Windows is locked and FF is open still or minimised to taskbar
2: Windows puts the display to sleep as is normal for the lockscreen after 1 minute of sitting on the lockscreen
Waking the display back up stops the DWM use, you will notice the CPU fan spin a bit faster as CPU cycles are being used when this happens. on my system it's an extras 200rpm or so for the AIO fans which is subtle, but is audible to me on a silent system otherwise whic is how I noticed it. CPU temps also climb an average of 4 degrees with a min to max variance going from 29-33 degrees to around 47 degrees.
Post about it here:
I have not tried nightly yet to see if it's in that too though.
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