Looks like the cookie banner blocker, originally scheduled for Firefox 114, didn’t make it into today’s Firefox 115 either. Brave and DuckDuckGo already block cookie banners.

For Firefox, we need to rely on uBlock Origin. Unfortunately, there’s no uBlock Origin for Firefox on iOS.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/115.0/releasenotes/

Just wanted to write down my appreciation for the "Firefox Translations" extension and make people who might find it useful, but missed its announcement, aware of it.

For the people who haven’t heard about Firefox Translations it does local translation from one language to another.
Works on the entire page or just whatever you select.

Not having to offload the task to say google translate or some other company is a great win for privacy and anti-tracking.
It is yet another reason why I’m still on Firefox all these years later.
On any other browser(vast vast majority) this would be online and data mined.

It can’t compete with google translate on number of languages right now, but for a lot of people I’d imagine it’s pretty useful in its current state.
Hopefully additional languages will be added with time.

More information about it here if you want to know more.

I think this was the last piece of the puzzle for more reliable downloads. Sites like Mega that use this won't have much to complain about in the near future.

Starting July 11, 2023, Pocket users will be prompted to transition to a Firefox account in order to log in and access their Pocket account. Aside from changing how you log in to Pocket, this does not affect your saved items. While optional at first, the transition to a Firefox account in order to log in will be required by August 15, 2023.

For Pocket Premium subscribers, converting your account will not impact your subscription.

Highlights from the team working on Necko, Firefox's networking layer

A comprehensive mapping of old subreddits to new communities.

/r/firefox's new official home is in the Fedi!

From /r/Firefox:

All legacy technical posts will remain available so that searching for help related to the browser is still available, but henceforth and until the reddit admins appropriately reply to our concerns, the only new submissions allowed will be ones that contain the cuddly fuzzy little animals from which the subreddit indirectly received its name:‌

The red panda! Also known as fire foxes. ‌

If you are looking for technical posts, we now have an official community on Kbin. Keep in mind that Lemmy also federates with Kbin. We continue to be around on Matrix as well.

The subreddit & Kbin magazine aren't run by Mozilla but are still a very important forum for the browser.

Do give them a follow on @firefox - you should be able to follow that from most of the Fediverse i.e. Mastodon, Calckey, etc etc etc

#Firefox #Mozilla #Reddit #RedditMigration @fediversenews

In a well-intentioned yet dangerous move to fight online fraud, France is on the verge of forcing browsers to create a dystopian technical capability.

This move will overturn decades of established content moderation norms and provide a playbook for authoritarian governments that will easily negate the existence of censorship circumvention tools.

This might be a little late for this year, but we can definitely start playing with some ideas for next year (or maybe we can run the logo next month).

Wouldn't it be cool to rebrand the magazine logo here in a Firefox+Pride themed way? Your logo should be square-ish so that it fits in the Kbin sidebar.

MDN is launching a code Playground. Users can prototype ideas and expand all live samples into an interactive experience.

On Monday morning we (Mozilla) detected a very large crash spike affecting #Firefox users on Linux, specifically on an older version of a Debian-based distribution. It turned out to be an interesting bug involving the #Linux kernel and #Google JavaScript code so let me tell you about it. A thread 🧵

Two years ago, mitcheecostelo posted about an “aesthetic firefox icon to replace the default icon!” that his girlfriend Ritozilla had created.

The Joy of Coding returns today with Episode 329!

I'm continuing to livehack on Firefox's Windows jump list implementation. The hope is that we can get the new off-main-thread backend implementation to feature parity with the existing implementation.

Starts at 1PM ET!

Let's take advantage of the fact that we are so small! Say hi and tell us how you started using Firefox!

Download Kbin Link for Firefox. Find it annoying to copy paste [!memes@beehaw.org](/c/memes@beehaw.org) to look at a Lemmy community? This extension is for you. This extension looks for Lemmy style communities and replaces them to direct you to seeing that community on your kbin instance.

Big improvements are coming to CSS Motion Path. Use offset-path and offset-distance to move elements along a path.