Firefox 115: new ESR base and some add-ons may be blocked from running on certain sites - gHacks Tech News
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Firefox 115 is a major new release of the open source web browser that is also the new ESR base and introduces restrictions for running certain add-ons.
  • pup_atlas@pawb.socialEnglish
    112·
    1 year ago

    Don’t like that, this just paves the way to removing ad blockers, just like they’re doing in chrome

    • KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      18·
      1 year ago

      Seems like it’s intended to stop things like data collection on banking sites, and it can be overridden. Very little documentation on it though, so we’ll have to see more in practice.

    • Efwis@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      There is however a way of reverting this (for now?):

      1. Load about:config in the Firefox address bar.

      2. Click Accept the Risk and Continue, if the prompt appears.

      3. Search for extensions.quarantinedDomains.enabled.

      4. Set it to FALSE.

      5. restart Firefox.

      Courtesy of pebcak at forums.endeavouros.com

    • Efwis@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      36·
      1 year ago

      It’s just big tech trying to get it greedy fingers on money anyway they can! I understand it costs money to run websites, but it’s getting to the point where a lot of sites and ad revenue setups are starting to have more ads then actual content, like back in the 80’s and 90’s. And do t forget about the scripts that track everything up do so they can pinpoint ads that will peel to you, at so they think, based on browsing and search history. Hell even brave is starting to put ads and trackers in its browser