I've been the Firefox sidebar for ages and I find the new one to be a big improvement in terms of usability, but I'm curious about other people's experiences with it. Do you use the sidebar? Which parts of it do you use more (history, synced tabs, bookmarks)? Have you tried the new one and does it work for you? If it doesn't what do you think is missing or could be improved for it to be a full replacement of the old one?
Joachim
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Firefox is adding a feature you'll actually want to use: Split View. It lets you see two websites side-by-side in a single tab.
It's still a WIP, but if you run Firefox 146 you can try it out.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/enable-firefox-split-view-feature?v1
Firefox is adding a feature you'll actually want to use: Split View. It lets you see two websites side-by-side in a single tab.
It's still a WIP, but if you run Firefox 146 you can try it out.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/enable-firefox-split-view-feature?v1
Joachim
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Mozilla just named Anthony Enzor-DeMeo as their new CEO. He says:
“Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software. Firefox will remain our anchor. It will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions.”
RIP, Firefox.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-New-CEO-AI
#Mozilla #Firefox #AI #AnthonyEnzor-DeMeo
Andres
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📝 Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?
In an interview with “The Verge”, the new Mozilla CEO, Enzor-DeMeo, IMHO hints that axing adblockers is something that, at the very least, was on the table in some form and at some point. From the article:
He says he could begin to block ad blockers in Firefox and estimates that’d bring in another $150 million, but he doesn’t want to do that. It feels off-mission.
It may be just me, but I read this as “I don't want to 😜 😜 but I'll kill AdBlockers in Firefox for buckerinos 😂”. This disappoints and saddens me a lot, and I hope I'm wrong. [...]
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📝 Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?
In an interview with “The Verge”, the new Mozilla CEO, Enzor-DeMeo, IMHO hints that axing adblockers is something that, at the very least, was on the table in some form and at some point. From the article:
He says he could begin to block ad blockers in Firefox and estimates that’d bring in another $150 million, but he doesn’t want to do that. It feels off-mission.
It may be just me, but I read this as “I don't want to 😜 😜 but I'll kill AdBlockers in Firefox for buckerinos 😂”. This disappoints and saddens me a lot, and I hope I'm wrong. [...]
Mozilla just named Anthony Enzor-DeMeo as their new CEO. He says:
“Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software. Firefox will remain our anchor. It will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions.”
RIP, Firefox.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-New-CEO-AI
#Mozilla #Firefox #AI #AnthonyEnzor-DeMeo
#Mozilla MoCo hires new anti-user CEO, who promptly doubles down on #Firefox as Slop Browser.
I do not want to have #Mozilla put #AI into the #firefox browser like they already do.
This article shows me that they are heading in a direction I cannot tolerate:
- https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozillas-next-chapter-anthony-enzor-demeo-new-ceo/
Is there a privacy respecting #browser?
"Technology isn't intrinsically good or evil. It's how it's used. Like the Death Ray." - #Mozilla, probably.
Unfortunately feels like Mozilla has completely lost grip with their remaining audience. Having "ethical AI" (literally the usual suspects build-in, but sure) is not why I'm still on #Firefox.
Considering jumping ship at this point,, but where? Sure as hell not switching to anything Chromium-based. Which leaves what? GNOME Web? LibreWolf? Suggestions welcome.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/rewiring-mozilla-ai-and-web/
Firefox has a new mascot, who Mozilla say will act as a "companion through an internet that’s private, open and actually yours".
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/firefox-new-mascot-brand-refresh?v2
Michael Downey 🧢
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Programmatic #advertising is coming to the #Firefox New Tab page. Time to once again check Settings...it should be possible to turn these off.
IMHO it's best to have an "enterprise" policy in place to deal with these and with the other ad features that keep getting added. (The pace is accelerating, even though they won the case over Google search ad $) https://blog.zgp.org/turn-off-programmatic-ads-in-firefox/
Programmatic #advertising is coming to the #Firefox New Tab page. Time to once again check Settings...it should be possible to turn these off.
IMHO it's best to have an "enterprise" policy in place to deal with these and with the other ad features that keep getting added. (The pace is accelerating, even though they won the case over Google search ad $) https://blog.zgp.org/turn-off-programmatic-ads-in-firefox/
Jonathan Schofield
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Right now when I type a backtick ("`") in a #GitHub #Markdown input box in #Firefox 143.0.4 (deb packaged by Mozilla) on #Debian #Linux (Testing) in #GNOME, instead of it just being displayed as a backtick, it's being displayed as an accent on the following character.
See screenshots for what I mean.
Not happening in Chrome, or on Windows, or in text input boxes on at least one other website I tried.
Anybody else seeing this? Is it a Firefox bug or what? I'm baffled.
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Right now when I type a backtick ("`") in a #GitHub #Markdown input box in #Firefox 143.0.4 (deb packaged by Mozilla) on #Debian #Linux (Testing) in #GNOME, instead of it just being displayed as a backtick, it's being displayed as an accent on the following character.
See screenshots for what I mean.
Not happening in Chrome, or on Windows, or in text input boxes on at least one other website I tried.
Anybody else seeing this? Is it a Firefox bug or what? I'm baffled.
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This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live, so let's go back to nicer things:
* CPU news, AGP news
* #Fennec #Firefox 143's secret revealed
* #GadgetBridge and #BangleJS now reproducible
* #NextcloudNotes crashing
+ 14 new apps
& 140 updates
- 2 apps archived
We're raising tariffs on APKs next month: https://f-droid.org/2025/10/03/twif.html
alcinnz
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dammit, they got me. I accidentally shook my phone and got the new #Firefox "shake your phone to replace the web page you were reading with AI slop" feature (who thought that was a good idea?) My notes on how to turn it off on Apple iOS:
https://blog.zgp.org/turn-off-ai-summaries-in-firefox-on-ios/
turn off AI summaries in Firefox on iOS
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