I wonder if they're seeing an opportunity here to ride on other people's advertising - with so many VPN providers sponsoring content creators heavily on YouTube, maybe the public will actually know the term and understand the idea of the feature without Mozilla having to do much work.
It'd be interesting to see 'super private browsing mode' which has Tor integration be shipped with Firefox. Making Tor easier to use and more accessible for normal people is a huge win for privacy.
I know it isn't Firefox, but Brave is a Chromium-based browser that has Tor built-in with their 'Private Tabs'. It is a really nice privacy focused browser. Everything good about Chrome, without everything bad about Google.
> Everything good about Chrome, without everything bad about Google.
Except, of course, its use of the chromium engine, which is something I think we should fight against. So, basically, one of the biggest anti-features of Chrome from Google.
Not to speak about Brave's business model, around basic attention tokens (my attention is not available, sorry). This is incompatible with privacy. Brave is an ad company! It may be in a nice phase where ads are opt in but it may not be like that forever.
The obvious browser closest to Firefox including Tor is Tor browser, based on Firefox, provided by the Tor project itself.
The only added value that’s important is respecting users rights online and privacy. Brave is as bad as any of them, and being Eich’s new business venture doesn’t inspire any trust none what so ever.
I was skeptical about Opera's VPN, but it does seem to work. Of course, I don't count on it not logging my real IP, but still, it's a useful free service.
Opera just got bought out by some chinese company. It's for you to choose whether that is or is not a concern for you, but I personally am uncomfortable with such a company as my VPN, particularly I can add it to the server which I already keep for miscellaneous uses.
> Firefox Send allows you to share large files securely (but not store them). The caveat being that you need to have a Firefox account to use all of the above ...
There's no requirement for a Firefox account, for Send. And it works well via Tor, with no CAPTCHA bullshit.
I cannot express how much I love this service. Firefox Send is flat out the best way to send files securely over the internet by giving someone a URL (and optionally a password).
I already use Thunderbird with the ProtonMail bridge and ProtonVPN on my phone and computers (combined with my self rolled VPNs).
I would welcome FireFox into the mix, they'd do quite well together -- plus maybe they can make the bridge unnecessary (which IMO is the most annoying part of ProtonMail).
No, that doesn't stop the videos from playing. It only mutes them. You still have the visual interference of the animation, along with unwillingly downloading massive amounts of video data.
As an aside, Firefox for Android is great for power users because it has extensions. It's much closer to feature-parity with desktop browsers than Chrome is, and offers more significant advantages over Chrome on Android than desktop as a result.
For power users, it's not just the extensions on Android (though it's a big part). It's the massively cross-platform for many years: Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Android, BB10, MacOS, and more (I'm only listing the ones I've used in somewhat recent memory). To have that feature parity across so many platforms has immense value to me. I can support family, friends, co-workers.
I wish Mozilla would get into the email service market. I could really go for a reasonably-priced, ad-free, Gmail-sized, bring-your-own-domain email service.
Not only they're maintaining it again, but the number of developers assigned as been increased!
However, they intent the community picks its development up, eventually.
However, for now, thunderbird is being developed by Mozilla again, afaik
(i guess they understood there was the need for an e-mail client and that thunderbird was in a good place for competing.)
I, honestly, see KDE's Kontact as the ONLY decent OS alternative. Too bad it's not of easy install & support on windows... It would be a great e-mail client...
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