Another major step forward for @Mozilla #Firefox and #passkeys

"Firefox on #Android14, third party passkey vendor is not supported" has been fixed.

Fix is in #Firefox128 🚀 🙌

Can't wait for #KeePassDX to add #passkey support on #Android : https://github.com/Kunzisoft/KeePassDX/issues/1421

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1862132#c13

Mozilla "privacy first" Firefox will send Mozilla anything you type into the search bar, location data, and whether you clicked on a suggestion.

They use this to show you search suggestions, including ads.

This is from 2021
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/firefox-suggest/

They now want to collect more data on what you click on:
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-search-update/

#Mozilla #Firefox #privacy #FirefoxSuggest

See what’s changing in Firefox: Better insights, same privacy

We’re ramping up our efforts to enhance search experience by developing new features like Firefox Suggestions.

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New Tor Browser Download With Firefox Security Updates

#Tor #privacy #anonymous #infosec #cybersecurity #Firefox

https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-13015/

New Release: Tor Browser 13.0.15 | Tor Project

Tor Browser 13.0.15 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory.

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Why is #Mozilla collecting our #search data?

source: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-search-update/

Sensitive topics, like searching for particular health care services, are categorized only under broad terms like health or society. Your search activities are handled with the same level of confidentiality as all other data regardless of any local laws surrounding certain health services.

Hello Mozilla, I use Firefox because my privacy is important to me. The best security is still achieved if you don't collect the data. That is why I will use a fork that does not collect search data. It would be nice if Mozilla took user privacy more seriously.

#privacy #news #browser #web #internet #firefox #security #cybersecurity #surveillance #statistics #bigdata #bigbrother

See what’s changing in Firefox: Better insights, same privacy

We’re ramping up our efforts to enhance search experience by developing new features like Firefox Suggestions.

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Mozilla Firefox 126 web browser introduces a new dialog for clearer user data management and enhanced site data insights.
https://linuxiac.com/mozilla-firefox-126-web-browser/

#mozilla #firefox #browser

While I was hopeful for #passkeys for a while, the reality at this point in time is not looking so great. What I see is fragmentation and confusion mostly caused by the big tech players.

Two examples:

1. #amazon allows to create passkeys but for unknown reasons block #Firefox from passkey creation. Can anybody explain why would they do that in may 2024?
2. #Apple situation for #AppleID as per https://passkeys.directory/details/apple/: "You are not yet able to save passkeys for Apple ID accounts in third-party credential managers and can only be stored in iCloud Passwords at this time."
   which means I can't create a passkey in #KeePassXC which is the password manager I love and use.

Having a hard time finding good reasons for such a fragmented and poor user experience. Since the way #Google implemented passkeys allows for flawless creation and usage of passkeys in Firefox and KeePassXC there really can't be any good reasons for amazon and Apple to behave so poorly. So what's the explanation? Intentional #LockIn and malicious intent?

Please enlighten me 💡

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I usually use #Chromium for work, but I've noticed that it's been a pain to load pages since Chromium 124. I found out that it's #Google's "TLS 1.3 hybridized Kyber support" causing the issue since it's enabled by default. I had to go into chrome://flags and disable it, and now everything's working as expected.

I had to test with #Firefox initially to make sure it wasn't my #OpenBSD machine with the issue since the infrastructure change. Good ol' Firefox let me know that wasn't the case; It was Chromium all along.

Woo hoo! 🎉 🎉

https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2024/04/19/firefox-nightly-now-available-for-linux-on-arm64/

#FirefoxNightly #MobileConfigFirefox #Firefox

Firefox Nightly Now Available for Linux on ARM64 – Firefox Nightly News

We're excited to share an update with people running Linux on ARM64 (also known as AArch64) architectures. ARM64 Binaries Are Here After launching the Firefox Nightly .deb package, feedback highlighted ...

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