Re:Things about the new Firefox browser for Android
by kozziollek on Thursday February 27, 2020 @03:00PM
(#22437176)
I never used uMatrix, but as far as I am aware uBlock Origin has the same functionality if you check "I am an advanced user" in settings.
See: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium...
Re:Things about the new Firefox browser for Android
by cobby on Thursday February 27, 2020 @04:40PM
(#22438250)
No. uMatrux offers way more granular control.
Re:Things about the new Firefox browser for Android
by 0-_-0 on Friday February 28, 2020 @04:39AM
(#22441636)
I don't know about that, but it breaks some of uBlock's functionality:
https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/706xrr/umatrix_vs_...
Re:Things about the new Firefox browser for Android
by 4bpp on Thursday February 27, 2020 @03:55PM
(#22437750)
How big a security risk is it, really? Firefox Mobile apparently has a 0.66% usage share, which is lower than desktop Linux, and desktop Linux anecdotally is pretty much a non-target for malware authors. I, for my part, blocked my FF Mobile autoupdates upon reading this and am not going to lose a lot of sleep over the possibility that some malicious website would choose to target me over the Chrome/Safari users.
(I would also suspect, without concrete evidence, that an average default mobile browser user has more valuable data on their phone - Firefox seems like the browser of choice for the same sort of refuseniks who would still do most of their online banking and what-not on PC only rather than installing their bank's app)
Re:Things about the new Firefox browser for Android
by Wowfunhappy on Thursday February 27, 2020 @07:24PM
(#22439461)
I agree, particularly if the OS itself is up to date, but it's kind of irrelevant—if GP wants the web to keep working, they'll have to upgrade relatively soon.
It's such a questionable decision. I understand that addons take a while to support, I understand for most users it's still an upgrade since they don't use extensions, I understand that at some point you need real users instead of just beta-testers. But they're taking a huge step backwards for user freedom. It's a bad look for Mozilla.
I'm disappointed. I wish they'd develop the apps in parallel until they had actual feature parity. Even if the old version of Firefox got pushed to a separate app; I'd be fine uninstalling Firefox and reinstalling 'Firefox Classic' from Mozilla. I feel like they don't really understand what the community response to this is going to be.