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Another unnecessary macOS global keyboard shortcut change inspired a bad change in Firefox.

Apple hijacked ⌃↩ to open a context menu. Firefox used that to normalize input text to a .com URL.

⌘↩ in the address bar used to open a new tab. Firefox thought adding .com was more useful than opening a new tab, so moved new tab to ⌥↩, inconsistent with ⌘ + click opening a link in a new tab.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1949999&amp%3Bref=activitypub

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/136.0/releasenotes/?ref=activitypub

https://lifehacker.com/tech/right-click-with-your-keyboard-in-mac-os-sequoia?ref=activitypub

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255829818?sortBy=rank&amp%3Bref=activitypub

#Firefox

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Mozilla officially refuse to support UnifiedPush, which was incredibly exciting and something I was eager to see land.

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#Firefox 141 Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing, Promises to Use Less Memory on #Linux Systems https://9to5linux.com/firefox-141-promises-to-use-less-memory-on-linux-systems-beta-out-now

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware

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TL;DR: Firefox has a new feature to let you pin additional tabs when you have an existing pinned tab in the window.

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Your data, your rules: #Firefox’s #privacy-first #AI features you can trust

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-ai/ai-browser-features/

#FOSS

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#Firefox 140 ESR Web Browser Is Now Available for Download, Here's What’s New https://9to5linux.com/firefox-140-esr-web-browser-is-now-available-for-download-this-is-whats-new

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Linux

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Starting in Firefox 138, Mozilla started gating Firefox Labs features behind data collection.

Mozilla had announced that some new Firefox features would be released via Firefox Labs.

It is now a few hours since I posted, and there is reason to celebrate – Mozilla is updating Firefox Labs to let people access features without needing to enable data collection.

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"#Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up"

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/17/opinion_column_firefox/

#Mozilla #FOSS #privacy

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TL;DR: Mozilla is now enforcing data collection as a pre-requisite to access new features in Firefox Labs. This is backed by the Terms of Use that Mozilla introduced a few months ago.

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Solution: I found this this bugzilla comment which links to this page for time formatting. I changed intl.date_time.pattern_override.time_short to h:mm a so it shows 4:26PM. There's an open bugzilla report for my issue: Date not formatted according to user's locale (LC_TIME).

For instance, 4:26PM instead of 16:26, I'm on linux (NixOS) if that helps.

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It seems an odd thing to ask, but my initial impressions aren't good

First of all, I just wanted screenshots and finding them was a chore. When I did find some, they're all based on the desktop experience. Part of the issue was because when I clicked sign in on the website and didn't sign in and the only way to go back was to clear cookies.

Secondly, during the sign up, some of the stuff wouldn't fit in my mobile browser, forcing me to scroll, if the page would even scroll. And this harkens back to the age old question, why is Mozilla so bad at web design? Maybe I'm articulating the question wrong, but it's like bugzilla, mobile is an afterthought, hence so many pages being desktop only, Planet Mozilla hasn't even tried for a mobile layout. I understand that Mozilla is a big company and works by the numbers, but those same people at their work computers that you're obsessed about have phones and tablets that they use outside of work.

So when I was looking for an email alias solution, the one that looked the best was Addy.io. it has screenshots of an app, already much better. Mozilla where is the Firefox Relay app? Oh that's right, there isn't one. And honestly, if not for me wanting to support Firefox, I would've gone straight for Addy.io.

I even checked the Thunderbird Pro news, only to find out they weren't going to offer the service, even though it makes a tonne of sense logically, but also don't compete with Firefox for revenue makes sense too

Anyway, the reason I'm asking is because I feel that the experience should be better and while I want to support Firefox financially, I don't want them to think a half arsed experience is good enough. So, does it suck or is it just me?

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A few versions ago Firefox has started popping up these little feature ads that steal focus from the address bar, and now I seem them almost every day. Googling for "firefox pop-ups" is predictably unhelpful.

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Orbit and Deep Fake Detector will shut down on June 26.

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