/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

The Joy of Coding returns today with Episode 330! More livehacking on Firefox, more Windows JumpList stuff!

We got things showing up in the jump list last week programmatically. This week, we'll try modifying the frontend to have the option for using the new backend. And then maybe tests! Finally!

Starts at 1PM ET: https://mikeconley.ca/joc/

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.

21 years ago this summer Firefox got real. For some months it was mostly just tinkering, but with Blake's internship and collabs with Hyatt, PCH contributing, Hewitt getting more involved, Kerz, myself and a couple others working on theme stuff, things were getting serious.

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.

Anyone having trouble with Lemmy and Firefox?

Right now I'm having log in problems, along with it showing no content, however if'n I click on communities, the list shows up for a fraction of a second while the page is loading, and then I'm presented a blank page.
I've turned off a few extensions, whitelisted the tab in No Script, and even started in troubleshooting mode, but it hasn't made any difference.

#firefox

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!

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 ...

Firefox 114 is released . The biggest update in my humble opinion is that (assuming you're running Linux) you can now use FIDO2/WebAuthn aut...

State of JavaScript, CSS, GraphQL and friends

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 [[email protected]](/c/[email protected]) 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.

About some of the challenges of webcompat outreach and what you can do.

Many Reddit communities (sub-reddits) have shut down this Monday, r/firefox is one of them. Are you out of the loop?

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.

If you are using the latest Firefox Nightly on Android, it will probably crash immediately at startup. This is being tracked as bug 1837869

Firefox is experiencing a resurgence since the news of Chromium based browsers weakening ad blocking extensions has hit the public consciousness.