Comment on Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all desktop users worldwide | It is Firefox’s strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were created

TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• troybot@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Looks like the article was updated today. I’m guessing this was originally covering an announcement for a future rollout and now it’s finally happening?

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  • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    blog.mozilla.org/…/firefox-rolls-out-total-cookie…

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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Maybe. Confusing decision on the part of Mozilla though, if so. I was checking to see if they mentioned which version this update happened in, but couldn’t find it. Then I noticed the original post date. Weird.

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• unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I guess it says updated, but hey. PR for Firefox is cool, until the imminent enshittification.

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  • sandbox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The moment that Firefox goes too far, it’ll immediately be forked and 75% of the user base would leave within a few months. Their user base is almost entirely privacy-conscious, technologically savvy people.

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    • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I agree, but something will have to change because chrome will swallow ALL that. Just today some back-end problem was messing up all my stuff, and co-workers were asking, " did you try a different browser? " botch no I did not try Netscape

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      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        “I agree [with the opposite of what you said]. Also, here, have an irrelevant anecdote that includes a funny misspelling and a supposed diss of FF from 1999”

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      • sandbox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Not sure what you mean - I don’t think most of the people still using Firefox are going to switch to a Chromium based browser any time soon, I can’t speak for everyone of course but it feels like Firefox users tend to have an ideological objection to Google having a monopoly on web browsers.

        It’s always worth trying a different browser when you have issues on websites - there are a lot of things that can be different beyond the layout and javascript engines - cookies, configuration, addons, etc. Yesterday I noticed a big difference between Chromium and Firefox in that even if you hard-refresh on a HTTP/2 connection, Chromium reuses a kept-alive connection, and firefox doesn’t — I would totally argue that Firefox’s implementation is more correct, but Chrome’s implementation will lead to a better experience for users hard-refreshing.

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    • morriscox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Firefox did an add-on genocide years ago and it obviously didn’t hurt them in the long run.

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    • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Depends on how it “goes too far”. What I am, for example, afraid of is the possibility of removing Manifest V2 support. Maintaining the browser with such a significant change would get more and more difficult as time goes on.

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      • sandbox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I think that would be an example of a wildly unpopular change, yeah.

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      • verdigris@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        This is currently one of the biggest selling points for the browser, since Chrom(ium) is dropping support for v2… So I don’t see that happening.

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