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  • The addon really only spoofs the UA to a Chrome one, so Firefox gets the same page that Chrome does. In other words, this should also happen if you likewise change it with another addon.

    The issue is likely that Google Search's Chrome version is now using some code that somehow hangs on Firefox, and I haven't been able to reproduce the issue to diagnose it, sadly.

  • The Firefox Unleashed – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 141
  • To be fair, given how many high-profile data breaches there have been since, and the fact that CPU performance was significantly affected, and how much Intel has struggled to remain competitive, I'm not sure we were all that far off from any exaggerations.

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    The Firefox Unleashed – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 141
    blog.nightly.mozilla.org The Firefox Unleashed – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 141 – Firefox Nightly News

    Highlights We were able to disable some Spectre / Meltdown JIT mitigations! Nightly-only for now. These were mitigations we deployed years ago to protect users against various timing ...

    The Firefox Unleashed  – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 141 – Firefox Nightly News

    Highlights We were able to disable some Spectre / Meltdown JIT mitigations! Nightly-only for now. These were mitigations we deployed years ago to protect users against various timing ...

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    Firefox 115 DevTools Newsletter

    Faster debugging, ignoring lines of source, and more

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    Signing in to Pocket just got even more secure
    blog.mozilla.org Signing in to Pocket just got even more secure | The Mozilla Blog

    The Pocket app and web experience are trusted by millions of people everyday to stay up to date and informed on the topics they care about most, free from

    Signing in to Pocket just got even more secure | The Mozilla Blog

    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.

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    Necko News #4 - 2023 H1 Recap
  • WebTransport is pretty exciting for folks who want to avoid the extra hassle of working with the lower-level WebSockets API, and it can also lead to better performance, so it could be a game-changer for some things; a surprising number of sites are using WebSockets, including multiplayer games.

    Early Hints and the speculative connection improvements are also nice to have, as they should keep Firefox page loading performance competitive as more and more sites support them.

    DNS over Oblivious HTTP is also a pretty important privacy improvement for DoH, so it's great to see that it has a negligible performance impact and we can move ahead with it.

    There was also a captive portal fix, and some of the new contributors helped out with interop2023 fixes, which is very cool to see.

    And the planning for off-main-thread networking is very likely to lead to performance wins down the line, if not also security wins, so it's worth keeping an eye on as well.

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

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    Brief and Blissful – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 140
  • Nice! It just didn't feel like Reddit around here without one of these comments.

    Looking forward to the one asking why Firefox is focusing on new features instead of fixing their old bugs and UIs, because that's why its bleeding users 🤞

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    Brief and Blissful – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 140
    blog.nightly.mozilla.org Brief and Blissful – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 140 – Firefox Nightly News

    Highlights The new migration wizard has been enabled by default! It’s being slowly rolled out to the release channel for users on Firefox 114, and will be fully enabled ...

    Highlights The new migration wizard has been enabled by default! It’s being slowly rolled out to the release channel for users on Firefox 114, and will be fully enabled ...

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    spidermonkey.dev SpiderMonkey Newsletter (Firefox 114-115)

    SpiderMonkey is the JavaScript engine used in Mozilla Firefox. This newsletter gives an overview of the JavaScript and WebAssembly work we’ve done as part of the Firefox 114 and 115 Nightly release cycles.

    SpiderMonkey Newsletter (Firefox 114-115)
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