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Company requested removal of firefox from Work Computer

Hi I am a long time user of firefox because i love its customization and tools available to help me with my work and personal life. Recently i have been ordered to remove… (read more)

Hi I am a long time user of firefox because i love its customization and tools available to help me with my work and personal life. Recently i have been ordered to remove Firefox from the company laptop as it was deemed insecure by the IT and security department. I have been told to use MS edge and Google's Chrome. Their reasoning is "An inconsistent comparator in xslt/txNodeSorter could have resulted in potentially exploitable out-of-bounds access. Only affected version 122 and later. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 136 and Firefox ESR < 128.8." I do not know what this means. Is there something i can tell my IT department to argue against the directive to only use either Edge or Chrome. Best regards, F Silva

Asked by Correia9 1 month ago

Answered by jonzn4SUSE 1 month ago

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Block Party

Hi. Block Party was just pitched by the WaPo but I see few people here are using it ... yet. Perhaps because you're not monitoring it? I am curious about how it got such… (read more)

Hi. Block Party was just pitched by the WaPo but I see few people here are using it ... yet. Perhaps because you're not monitoring it? I am curious about how it got such a MAJOR free (?) promotion and whether/if there's a way you can or do verify it's claims? For instance, maybe it does what it says it does (clean/close gaps in privacy) but what does it do with the intel it gains?

Is there any chance you can/will verify it in the future?

thanks kindly, steph

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/11/03/online-privacy-settings-block-party/?carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F41ce69d%2F67e57df78492b94b923ec304%2F5d779da19bbc0f0886c7a302%2F42%2F59%2F67e57df78492b94b923ec304

Asked by Steph 1 month ago

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Delete an account with a lot of personal information on there

I'm encountering some difficulties with my current account, which is locked out. I would like to request assistance from the support team to help me delete my account and… (read more)

I'm encountering some difficulties with my current account, which is locked out. I would like to request assistance from the support team to help me delete my account and remove my personal information from the platform. However, I'm having trouble finding the contact information for the support team. I couldn't locate their email address or phone number, and I'm hesitant to post my personal email address and information on a public forum.

I'm feeling quite frustrated, as I've never encountered such challenges with an app before. It appears that I'm unable to reach the Firefox support team at the moment. Can someone please provide guidance on how I can securely and privately request their assistance in deleting my account and personal information?

I had to create a new account just to post this question because my original account got locked out. This happened because I recently acquired a new phone and didn't transfer the two-step authentication information to my new device.

Asked by viettu.vohoang 1 year ago

Answered by James (On Vacation) 1 year ago

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After migrating to T-Bird I get mountains of spam.

I migrated one (just one) of my personal email accounts (from Outlook) to Thunderbird - around 6 months ago. I have other email accounts such as Gmail and Yahoo that I DO… (read more)

I migrated one (just one) of my personal email accounts (from Outlook) to Thunderbird - around 6 months ago. I have other email accounts such as Gmail and Yahoo that I DO NOT use with Thunderbird.

Ever since I migrated that ONE account, I have been inundated with junk/spam emails sent to that same migrated account. No change in junk/spam volume received on my other non-Thunderbird accounts, just this one. I'm asking as it's seems strange, and is the ONLY account that suffers this major annoyance.

Any thoughts as to why?

Thanks,

Asked by CSF User 2 months ago

Answered by CSF User 2 months ago

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block specific content types

i am looking for a way to protect myself and my children from accessing or having to see / have shoved down our throat content promoting lgbtq. please provide me a blocke… (read more)

i am looking for a way to protect myself and my children from accessing or having to see / have shoved down our throat content promoting lgbtq. please provide me a blocker to block agenda driven sex ed and ALL LGBTQ content.

Asked by thirdday.31b 2 months ago

Last reply by markwarner22 2 months ago

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Since update: Firefox prevented this page from reloading error

Since the update I've had a few issues, most I was able to fix but this one eludes me. Opening up various news sites I get the "Firefox prevented this page from reloadin… (read more)

Since the update I've had a few issues, most I was able to fix but this one eludes me. Opening up various news sites I get the "Firefox prevented this page from reloading" error at the top and clicking allow does nothing. Anyone know how to get around this error? I'm not looking to totally disable the FF feature that prevents other pages from loading a different one, but just to browse the website after hitting 'allow'.

Thanks in advance.

Asked by w2dsx 6 months ago

Answered by cor-el 6 months ago

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Safety and privacy

For highly encrypted messages and sensitive information each time renewed or discovered for the first time cam be very intimidating for certain people. Based on the facts… (read more)

For highly encrypted messages and sensitive information each time renewed or discovered for the first time cam be very intimidating for certain people. Based on the facts and past experiences, this has become extremely important to discuss and share knowledge with true and trustworthy people only to ours and others peace of mind and safety.

Asked by Ahnaz 2 months ago

Answered by Ahnaz 2 months ago

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Simple Tag Groups extension: security and privacy concerns surrounding its permission requests.

Hi all, I have a question regarding the permission requests of the Simple Tab Groups extension by Drive4ik. As I'm sure many of you know, this extension needs to: This … (read more)

Hi all,

I have a question regarding the permission requests of the Simple Tab Groups extension by Drive4ik.

As I'm sure many of you know, this extension needs to: This add-on needs to:

  • Download files and read and modify the browser’s download history
  • Monitor extension usage and manage themes
  • Display notifications to you
  • Access recently closed tabs
  • Hide and show browser tabs
  • Access browser tabs
  • Store unlimited amount of client-side data
  • Access your data for all websites

This add-on may also ask to: Read and modify bookmarks

Theoretically, I find this extension useful but I am concerned about the "Access your data for all websites" requirement. I read through Mozilla's permission request messages for Firefox extensions documentation and it seems like granting this extension these permissions would be a huge risk for the work I do– investigative journalism. It seems like I'll trade organizational benefits for a wider attack surface.

Can anyone speak more about the risks involved with using this extension, the trustworthiness of the developer, and why it needs the "Access your data for all websites" capability?

Thank you.

Asked by secure.amaretto120 5 months ago

Answered by secure.amaretto120 5 months ago

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Firefox Suggest and personalized websites while in Private Browsing

I look at porn on my Android phone. I use Private Browsing to do so. Why are my Private Browsing addresses appearing as Firefox Suggest results that appear outside of Pri… (read more)

I look at porn on my Android phone. I use Private Browsing to do so. Why are my Private Browsing addresses appearing as Firefox Suggest results that appear outside of Private Browsing as well? And why does Pornhub show me a personalized home page when I'm using Private Browsing? None of these pages are in my browser history because I've only accessed them via Private Browsing. But these "features" sort of defeat the purpose of it don't you think?

I've just switched from Chrome to Firefox and never had this issue with Chrome.

Asked by appstoreuk 3 months ago

Answered by appstoreuk 3 months ago

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Does deleting Junk affect adaptive junk mail filtering?

If marking messages as Junk help train TB, does deleting ALL messages in the Junk folder also undo that training, by getting rid of junk mail "models" TB uses for evaluat… (read more)

If marking messages as Junk help train TB, does deleting ALL messages in the Junk folder also undo that training, by getting rid of junk mail "models" TB uses for evaluating incoming new messages?

Asked by mrw9 3 months ago

Answered by david 3 months ago

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refresh/reload feature needs to be changed

Lately I've had to reload/refresh pages more frequently because of download issues. In order to the in FF I need to press the F5 key. To do the same thing in either Edge … (read more)

Lately I've had to reload/refresh pages more frequently because of download issues. In order to the in FF I need to press the F5 key. To do the same thing in either Edge or Chrome all I need to do is right click and a little popup screen shows me the reload/refresh right there. Much more convenient to use. FF should use a similar technique.

Asked by arejfour 3 months ago

Answered by TyDraniu 3 months ago

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I can only put 5 digits out of 6 to create 2FA.

So basically, I'm trying to add a 2FA code, homever when I scanned the code using google authenticator, everything went normal. Homever, when I try to put in the code, fi… (read more)

So basically, I'm trying to add a 2FA code, homever when I scanned the code using google authenticator, everything went normal. Homever, when I try to put in the code, firefox only lets me put 5 digits but not 6. Any solutions?

Asked by TomeQ_537 3 months ago

Answered by TomeQ_537 3 months ago