Mozilla has quietly made it easier to switch to Firefox on Windows recently. From a reporrt: While Microsoft offers a method to switch default browsers on Windows 10, it’s more cumbersome than the simple one-click process to switch to Edge. This one-cl…
Ask Slashdot: Why Is Firefox Losing Users?
This weekend finds some long-time Slashdot readers debating why research shows Firefox losing market share. Long-time Slashdot reader chiguy shares one theory: “Firefox keeps losing users, according to this rant, because it arrogantly refuses to listen…
Mozilla Tests If ‘Firefox/100.0’ User Agent Breaks Websites
Mozilla has launched an experiment where they change the Firefox browser user agent to a three-digit “Firefox/100.0” version to see if it will break websites. Bleeping Computer reports: A user agent is a string used by a web browser that includes infor…
Firefox 91 Pushes Privacy With Stronger New Cookie-clearing Option
WIth the release of Firefox 91 on Tuesday, Mozilla has introduced a bigger hammer for smashing the cookies that websites, advertisers and tracking companies can use to record your online behavior. From a report: The new feature, called enhanced cookie …
Today’s Firefox 91 release adds new site-wide cookie-clearing action
New features build on Total Cookie Protection, simplifying privacy management.
Firefox Lost Almost 50 Million Users In 3 Years
An anonymous reader quotes a report from It’s FOSS, written by Ankush Das: Mozilla’s Firefox is the only popular alternative to Chromium-based browsers. It has been the default choice for Linux users and privacy-conscious users across every platform. H…
その便利な「ブラウザー拡張機能」は使っても大丈夫？ 本当に安全かどうか確かめる方法
ウェブブラウザーの拡張機能（アドオン）は便利だが、その安全性はきちんと確認しておいたほうがいい。「Google Chrome」や「Safari」をはじめとする4つのウェブブラウザーで拡張機能の安全性を確かめる方法を紹介しよう。
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