Filtering RSS depends on your RSS client. On the desktop, QuiteRSS [1] is really good at it. On Android, SpaRSS [2] isn't entirely terrible at it, though there might be better ones out there (I've essentially only…
Well, you can just as well be best friends, even if you're wanting to mold each other. Both parties just have to be open-minded about it. You might even see it as positive to be challenged in your ways, as it helps you…
Yeah, it definitely feels like Google has gotten into this phase of a monopoly where you just stop trying. It was specifically Google that used to have all kinds of advanced user thingamabobs, now they actively make it…
The problem with X11 is that it's everything-and-the-kitchen-sink. You can't solve that by making another everything-and-the-kitchen-sink. You need to cut down in some places and modularize the other things. One…
Uploading files would become a chore, as you'd always have to copy them over from your actual Home-directory to that Firefox-user's, but yeah, it would add another thick layer that attackers would have to get through.…
There's some progress happening for this in AnySoftKeyboard: https://github.com/AnySoftKeyboard/AnySoftKeyboard/issues/26...
Microsoft is a for-profit company. They build up reputation to use it. They have no reason to just amass it. When they open-source software that is specifically to try to get the dev/tech community somewhat back onto…
I don't think, they are obsessed with 60 FPS, that's just what for most people is synonymous to a smooth experience and is often not met by browsers at this point in time. Here's for example an early demo showing…
I remember reading at some point that WebRender could actually be isolated relatively easily and then applied to basically any browser. That sort of already took place, going from Servo over into Gecko. So, it might…
Run Firefox. Mozilla audits extensions and extension updates before they get published.
That doesn't really make a difference. Opt-out is essentially the same as just forcing it. The vast majority of users will never even know that they could be opting out.
The NSA, FBI, CIA and partnering intelligence services from the However-Many-Eyes countries all also have access to Google's servers...
If you actually look into it, there's basically nothing that you can accuse them of here. There's the possibility that Cliqz does actually start collecting the data, i.e. breaks the contract, commits a crime, and that…
The proofs are in the blog post. The code is linked and the statements in the blog post are official statements from Mozilla, therefore if it was factually inaccurate, they could be sued over misleading customers.
I think, the Cliqz browser extension will do the same: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cliqz/
There's https://anbox.io/. I don't know, though, if there's any limitation that prevents using this on the Librem 5.
I can't promise that you won't ever have choppy CSS animations anymore, but it is currently the case that the desktop version of the "new Firefox", so the upcoming Firefox 57, ships with a new, written from scratch and…
The CSS engine was completely rewritten in Rust and now heavily utilizes parallelism, which Rust certainly did help with. I'd say, this was only about 1/4 of the performance increase going from 56 to 57, though. (Based…
These components were built as part of the Servo project and then ported to Firefox, so you'd probably just want to ask the Servo team directly. You can find them on IRC, in the channel #servo on irc.mozilla.org. There…
If it's a desktop environment for a Linux-based operating system, like it seems from the comments here, then you'd have access to more and especially more powerful software. And then I suppose, it's a matter of taste…
57 just entered Beta. It will be released on the 14th November. That's a whole 6 weeks still. It also is not the end of all Firefox development. Just because it's not necessarily done for 57, doesn't mean that it won't…
Because implementing such user protections takes away from the revenue stream of webpage owners. As a result of that, those have much less of a incentive to ensure compatibility with Firefox, which ultimately means lots…
Yeah, but that's nonsense that bad journalists write or Mozilla marketing people say, because it's more understandable for normal readers and makes it more credible that things will change. The truth is that they were…
It is up to Google to do that. And it's up to the people to complain, strike and whatnot about it and to leave the platform, if the problem becomes unbearable. This is a perfectly normal dynamic that exists any time…
And that fact would have any relevance at all, if there was a viable, free alternative to iOS and Android. For what is the Status Quo in the mobile market, Apple is doing well. Even Custom Android ROMs have inherent…
Filtering RSS depends on your RSS client. On the desktop, QuiteRSS [1] is really good at it. On Android, SpaRSS [2] isn't entirely terrible at it, though there might be better ones out there (I've essentially only…
Well, you can just as well be best friends, even if you're wanting to mold each other. Both parties just have to be open-minded about it. You might even see it as positive to be challenged in your ways, as it helps you…
Yeah, it definitely feels like Google has gotten into this phase of a monopoly where you just stop trying. It was specifically Google that used to have all kinds of advanced user thingamabobs, now they actively make it…
The problem with X11 is that it's everything-and-the-kitchen-sink. You can't solve that by making another everything-and-the-kitchen-sink. You need to cut down in some places and modularize the other things. One…
Uploading files would become a chore, as you'd always have to copy them over from your actual Home-directory to that Firefox-user's, but yeah, it would add another thick layer that attackers would have to get through.…
There's some progress happening for this in AnySoftKeyboard: https://github.com/AnySoftKeyboard/AnySoftKeyboard/issues/26...
Microsoft is a for-profit company. They build up reputation to use it. They have no reason to just amass it. When they open-source software that is specifically to try to get the dev/tech community somewhat back onto…
I don't think, they are obsessed with 60 FPS, that's just what for most people is synonymous to a smooth experience and is often not met by browsers at this point in time. Here's for example an early demo showing…
I remember reading at some point that WebRender could actually be isolated relatively easily and then applied to basically any browser. That sort of already took place, going from Servo over into Gecko. So, it might…
Run Firefox. Mozilla audits extensions and extension updates before they get published.
That doesn't really make a difference. Opt-out is essentially the same as just forcing it. The vast majority of users will never even know that they could be opting out.
The NSA, FBI, CIA and partnering intelligence services from the However-Many-Eyes countries all also have access to Google's servers...
If you actually look into it, there's basically nothing that you can accuse them of here. There's the possibility that Cliqz does actually start collecting the data, i.e. breaks the contract, commits a crime, and that…
The proofs are in the blog post. The code is linked and the statements in the blog post are official statements from Mozilla, therefore if it was factually inaccurate, they could be sued over misleading customers.
I think, the Cliqz browser extension will do the same: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cliqz/
There's https://anbox.io/. I don't know, though, if there's any limitation that prevents using this on the Librem 5.
I can't promise that you won't ever have choppy CSS animations anymore, but it is currently the case that the desktop version of the "new Firefox", so the upcoming Firefox 57, ships with a new, written from scratch and…
The CSS engine was completely rewritten in Rust and now heavily utilizes parallelism, which Rust certainly did help with. I'd say, this was only about 1/4 of the performance increase going from 56 to 57, though. (Based…
These components were built as part of the Servo project and then ported to Firefox, so you'd probably just want to ask the Servo team directly. You can find them on IRC, in the channel #servo on irc.mozilla.org. There…
If it's a desktop environment for a Linux-based operating system, like it seems from the comments here, then you'd have access to more and especially more powerful software. And then I suppose, it's a matter of taste…
57 just entered Beta. It will be released on the 14th November. That's a whole 6 weeks still. It also is not the end of all Firefox development. Just because it's not necessarily done for 57, doesn't mean that it won't…
Because implementing such user protections takes away from the revenue stream of webpage owners. As a result of that, those have much less of a incentive to ensure compatibility with Firefox, which ultimately means lots…
Yeah, but that's nonsense that bad journalists write or Mozilla marketing people say, because it's more understandable for normal readers and makes it more credible that things will change. The truth is that they were…
It is up to Google to do that. And it's up to the people to complain, strike and whatnot about it and to leave the platform, if the problem becomes unbearable. This is a perfectly normal dynamic that exists any time…
And that fact would have any relevance at all, if there was a viable, free alternative to iOS and Android. For what is the Status Quo in the mobile market, Apple is doing well. Even Custom Android ROMs have inherent…