Firefox 57.0 Released

Re:Firefox 57.0 Released by cryptos on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @09:09AM (#15695050)

I hope that firefox will continue to protect users privacy as good as possible. I'm thinking of super cookies and the like. Other brother vendors don't seem to be very engaged in this area.

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Re:Firefox 57.0 Released by a254613e on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @01:40PM (#15697877)

With their recent testing of Cliqz integration I doubt they're really committed a lot to protecting users privacy.

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15421708

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Re:Firefox 57.0 Released by johndoe489 on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @09:02AM (#15703752)

Isn't that turned off when you disable "search suggestions"?

I don't like search suggestions even in Chrome. I find it makes the omnibar less useful.

The omnibar was the game changer for me when Chrome did it. I never have many tabs open as I can recall anything I've visited previously by typing a few words. More often than not what I want is one of the first suggestions.

So to help with this, I turn off search suggestions since they are not relevant to my past browser activity. I also got in the habit of frequently using Private window so that my History has more relevant content. It's great and I'm confident I don't need to bookmark a lot.

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Re:Firefox 57.0 Released by DerfNet on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @11:21AM (#15696380)

user privacy is exactly why I'm excited to finally have a decent mainstream competitor to Chrome. If nothing else this is a nice gate out of the Google ecosystem.

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