Firefox 119 - Privacy Updates, Decades Old Bugfix, and More

[@nothingtoseehere449]

fixing a bug a year younger than you is based

[@Splarkszter]

He was born to stomp on that bug

[@AutisticBarbie]

@@Splarkszteror the bug was born to bug him

[@hahayes1122]

born to fix

[@DryPaperHammerBro]

Based on what?

[@xenajin6827]

The bug needed "correction"

[@neilbrideau8520]

Firefox is an outstanding browser with great compatibility and performance. Thanks for spreading the word.

[@tomverlaine728]

FF is amazing, it's shame about all the FUD. Some people want the entire planet on chromium... wont end well.

[@anero.]

While I like Firefox, I'll have to disagree on it having great performance. It's waaaay behind chromium-based browsers in terms of speed

[@Cha0sNicr0]

I wish encrypted, (oblivious,) third-party DNS would be more widespread. That plus HTTPS is probably better than a VPN. No need to detour all your traffic to a single point (that you might not own). But encrypted hello is way more approachable as a default.

[@firstNamelastName-ho6lv]

The deepfakes are just getting better and better! Keep it up!

[@TrggrWarning]

With all the walkthroughs he does I wish he’d show us how he makes those.

[@Sharp931]

RIP Luke

[@gaminggamingtm]

Hi Drake!

[@realcartoongirl]

no he just film himself

[@limpa756]

luke doesn't have to do blackface anymore

[@ui4lh]

Mozilla has also the Sync server available for selfhosting so you can host your personal sync server and not even use Firefox sync server for extra de-coupling and security.

[@yukiqt]

not the account server though so you still need a mozilla account iirc

[@BPTtech]

@@yukiqtthat doesn’t make sense

[@lazerusmfh]

Gonna look into this

[@DonVigaDeFierro]

Gonna look into this x2

[@InNominePraxis]

if that's is true and as good as it sounds, kenny needs to make a video tutorial on this yesterday

[@SIMULATAN]

So hyped to see firefox improve and advance 🎉

[@MatrixSanAndreasOfficial]

😅

[@qlippoth13]

Can't wait to run a diff between firefox and librewolf repos to see what gets removed.

[@Oh_So_Based]

Finally, a browser I can watch p0 ®n on without VPN 😌

[@Danominator]

I recently removed every iteration of Google Chrome from all my devices and switched over to Firefox, had to get used to some weird design things but other than that completely satisfied with the switch. Having my ad blocker extension on mobile is a game changer.

[@nickhomer40]

Dude, I've been using Firefox on mobile for a while now, but I didn't realise you could use extensions with it. Found out thanks to this comment, thanks!

[@Danominator]

@@nickhomer40 uBlock Origin is awesome on mobile!!

[@Wreighn]

@@nickhomer40 They used to be like on Desktop, but they broke them a while ago. Now only certain extensions work.

[@teamok1025]

Wait you can use extension on mobile I gonna make my switch asap!

[@Splarkszter]

​@@w花bUBlock being open and highly maintained we will always find a way due to the way filters work and can be programmed. We are on the edge.

[@senseal5462]

Started to use firefox ever since chrome started to crack down on some extensions

[@Basic-Grunge]

How has it been?

[@lussor1]

​​​@@Basic-Grungeslow i tried it for 2 years. I only like it because sound quality is superior

[@swettyspaghtti]

Should i go back to firefox and ditch crhome ? Like= ditch chrome

[@esquilax5563]

If you find an annoying bug, just wait 22 years, and someone will hopefully fix it. Open source truly is beautiful

[@CeasiusC]

The beauty of it is if it annoys you enough, you can dedicate a huge amount of time to learn programming, and fix it yourself

[@WIMMine]

And possibly by someone who today is still shitting in diapers :D

[@somedude5951]

I've been using Firefox for 20 years, and it rarely crashes, if ever. But than, when I opened this video, it crashed. Funny. The quick restart repaired it though, I am very content with Firefox.

[@CrittingOut]

firefox is what Tor browser is based on, so I am inclined to hope for their success.

[@CrittingOut]

@@sittlatticunadvis Is there any talks about this or any reason to do so?

[@Jose04537]

​@@CrittingOutMore independence from third parties, that's it.

[@CrittingOut]

@@Jose04537 Does Tor create Ladybird browser? Otherwise it's just swapping one third party for another.

[@nxb00]

@@sittlatticunadvis lmfao

[@roland985]

@@sittlatticunadvis You got me. Hahaha

[@JordanPlayz158]

That tooltip bug was actually really annoying so I am glad it got fixed

[@SadSadDeadM]

What's not mentioned in the internet discussions is that Firefox has fantastic devtools (Performance tab specifically)

[@qlippoth13]

ArcaneOS has some nice developer features also

[@aj8__8]

the client hello encryption sounds really cool, i've been using firefox for 15 years and idk if other browser have it, this my first time hearing about it, but it's definitely a good selling point to get more people to use FF, hopefully they market it well and not leave it as just something that we see in the release notes

[@GeldUndKokaine-kc1hp]

Firefox isn't already considered mainstream?

[@MentalOutlaw]

Lol no, more people use Safari, Edge, and probably Opera/OperaGX since they pay people to shill it online.

[@nikoraasu6929]

Was firefox ever considered mainstream ever since chrome got popular?

[@SIackware]

It was back in the early to late 2000s until Chrome appeared. Firefox had around 30% of the browser market share since it was the main alternative to using Internet Explorer. Today its market share is about 3% excluding forks like Librewolf, Pale Moon etc

[@nikoraasu6929]

yeah back in the day it was either internet explorer or firefox, pretty nostalgic times to be honest haha @@SIackware

[@GeldUndKokaine-kc1hp]

@@MentalOutlaw I suppose it's been some years but back when I first got on the web like a decade ago Firefox was listed right along with Google, Internet Explorer and Bing when people talked about search engines. perhaps it's fallen out of fashion or I ended up getting a weirdly warped view of how popular it was

[@DarkFaken]

Could you talk about Microsoft and their private Windows API's. I've worked in IT for a number of years and only just this week did it dawn on me that, whilst I know plenty of their secret sauce is kept from public view, certain API's are also undocumented and people who have attempted reversing them often have mixed success. Kind of ominous to think what they could be doing with some of those.

[@foeyloozer6299]

Once I really started getting good at red teaming/malware development I noticed there is so many undocumented APIs. Some of them have names like “SystemFunction1” so they dont even bother to name a lot of them. SystemFunction032 is RC4 encryption of a memory buffer I believe. SystemFunction036 is random number generator

[@arcwiz]

You're probably tired of the jokes so here's my last one: Jayson Tatum, how do you think your Celtics will do this year?

[@Slugbunny]

I love Brave's sync method for its expediency and anonymity, but it is very vulnerable. Not just to bad opsec, i.e. leaks, but there is no way to protect the browser in vulnerable environments - no master password. As for creating an account to use a browser... lol, lmao

[@qlippoth13]

Brave is still Google's Chrome

[@NorthernChimp]

@@qlippoth13 *mium

[@lussor1]

​@@qlippoth13🤡🤡🤡 its Chromium project not google chrome

[@Slugbunny]

@@qlippoth13 Indeed it is. I use it at/for work as a good all-in-one package - Shields makes the internet usable when add-ons are a no-no. I can also look past the questionable senior management, crypto connections and past link abuse in a work setting. Never for personal use.

[@Grainus]

Won't encrypted hello also prevent ISPs and network operators from censoring specific websites by making them unable to tell which site we're connecting to?

[@lussor1]

Thats it. All of the free online movies pages are available

[@umeng2002]

I never stopped daily'ing Firefox since the mid 00s.

[@qlippoth13]

mid 00s is when Netscape Navigator stopped being a thing

[@foxtailedcritter]

I use Firefox so this peaks my interest. Was never a fan of chrome on my android phone. Mental Outlaw what do you think is the best browser to use?

[@MentalOutlaw]

Username checks out

[@zhon5311]

@@MentalOutlaw kek the motherfuckin profile pic too

[@miaisnotmortyick]

Yes

[@maxscott3349]

Internet Explorer 7, obviously

[@artempetrovsky9573]

(My personal preferences) I use 3 browser - Thorium (a Chromium fork with some patches to maximize performance); Firefox and Tor. And best to ensure your privacy obviously is Tor second Firefox and Thorium last. And the best for Google🥶🥶 (if you use google, i need it for school) only Thorium. Firefox is mid🤯, if i like to google something random in web i will use Firefox for the speed and if i don't need speed i use Tor👻.

[@replikvltyoutube3727]

Watched this on mobile Firefox with uBlock

[@motionthings]

Not exactly 'browser sync' but I think KDE-connect/GS-Connect deserves a honorable mention

[@j4yd34d5]

shout out to the 1.7% Internet Explorer chads for whom death comes before conformity

[@RealCyberCrime]

I’m thinking about making a similar video but hacking documentary format

[@LoopBooost]

What?

[@pashamoney]

Another reason to use Firefox, which was the reason to why I switched to it, is because of its ability to block KZbin's Anti Adblock. Damn, a lot of blockers... I can imagine seeing KZbin starting to block firefoxes KZbin Anti-Adblock-Blocker, which would be "Anti-Adblock-Blocker-Blocker". 💀

[@LilacMonarch]

and then we get anti-anti-adblock-blocker-blocker

[@Smougda]

in pc ublock origin. In phone revanced youtube

[@etz80808yy]

so that's why i haven't got the adblock notice on youtube. firefox da best

[@hammerheadcorvette4]

I have uBlock Origin and got the notice. How are you doing this?

[@belstar1128]

right now i never got that problem i am not sure if they are just a/b testing or if i got lucky because in use a lot of different browsers and i never got it

[@ManAdam712]

Thanks, Mr. Goldstein. Once the fighting comes to Oceania, Big Brother will likely try to control all of our communications. RESIST INGSOC!

[@qlippoth13]

Yes, and while you're fighting INGSOC don't forget to sync your browser using real-identity SAML authentication. Nice Emmanuel Goldstein reference BTW :)

[@OcteractSG]

Using Firefox for privacy is like using a hammer to drive screws. It’s really cool if you’re willing to modify the hammer for the job, but absolutely terrible otherwise. Also, if you don’t know what you’re doing, you’ll just make it worse.

[@cluxx8486]

Firefox is based af. Went back to them recently on my shitty $200 laptop and it runs great.

[@youdontneedmyrealname]

Or just don't use browser sync at all? Stop being a tab hoarder???

[@dzuchun]

unfortunately, tab syncing mentioned in the video never had worked reliably for me :( tab would be visible/sent to other devices only if Fx feels like it. this feature is amazing conceptually though.

[@donedane2269]

"they are fighting for privacy, unlike the others" remind is this the not same Mozilla that got in crap for doing just that?

[@VictorD264]

I love firefox, but it was unusable on the phone. I dont know why, but sometimes it would not open any site and the sync was terrible. I'm using vivaldi now, unfortunately is chromium based and not full open source, but at least it works much better.

[@angelsalinas8697]

From my personal experience, Firefox has improved a lot on Android in the last year, I now use it 24/7. Chromium based browsers are still better on lower end devices.

[@opfax163]

if they are still financed by the WEF it's a no go for me

[@MoneylessWorld]

I put my flag on it, that there is something wrong with this update. Why? Because 119 for numerologists is equal to 911 and that number is very important to the money magicians of this world. The money magicians own a lot, and likely Firefox too. As owners, I deem it likely they'll put a surprise, easter egg or vulnerability in the 119 update.

[@dwavenminer]

Considering firefox users are more privacy focused than Chrome users...I wonder how many of those 66.2% of chrome users, are just firefox users with a user-agent that claims to be chrome? (I know at least 1 person is doing that....totally a friend and not me 😜)

[@sprinklednights]

Great update! Didn't remove any telemetry though

[@jim8790]

Question - Can you create shortcuts for each of your Firefox profiles? Or what’s the best way to access/open the many FF profiles you may have? If you click on the FF Icon on your Windows task bar I assume it’s just going to open the one you have nominated as your default. Also, say you have multiple FF profiles open at once. How can you quickly and easily tell which profile you are on? Other than giving each one of them different themes and having different extensions and layout of the toolbar. Thanks in advance

[@Timm2003]

OMG THAT FCKING 22yo BUG IS FREAKING ME OUT FOR SOOO LONG, nice to see it got fixed, hope firefox 119 gets shipped to debian soon...

[@busterdafydd3096]

big firefox fan, use it where ever I can. technically have it on work computer. but strangely performs a little worse and work related webservers loves who chrome will eat the RAM on peoples computers.... instead of just building a native app?!?

[@Marshall1914]

Are you going to be doing a video on the PinePhone Pro?

[@kenasuma61]

Any pale moon chads here?

[@salty_deez]

Yesss.. right here ❤

[@qlippoth13]

Palemoon leads to developmental bronyism.

[@jeremycronic]

Always blows my mind how many ppl use Chrome. I've always used Firefox, prolly since 2008 or earlier. Never liked the interface of Chrome.

[@LeonAlkoholik67]

Let me guess: Firefox is still so bad that it auto-executes malicious JavaScripts in PDF by default?

[@artempetrovsky9573]

Cool Win XP theme🥰

[@lordvordemolt7893]

What browser do u use Kenny?

[@MentalOutlaw]

Several but mostly Firefox, Tor, and Brave

[@MrTheinfoman]

@@MentalOutlaw used to use Firefox until the Google deal with Firefox in 2020

[@GerhardTreibheit]

7:20 WAIT WAIT WAIT DOES MY ISP KNOW IM USING TOR OR NOT?????

[@qlippoth13]

Um... flow data / ipfix. Yes, they have known since the days of Narus sta6400.

[@Cookiekeks]

Brodie Robertson has a good video on the encrypted client hello thing for those curious

[@SIackware]

I'd try out Thorium but the fact that it's named after an element that glows in the dark is rather off-putting

[@duckmeat4674]

CIA - GLOW IN THE DARK N-

[@nightmarezer0507]

*This comment has been expunged by the Central Intelligence Agency.*

[@tech3425]

You forgot the part where Google basically owns Firefox and Mozilla, by being their number one source of revenue. So much for "free internet"

[@UndercoverDog]

Im not a fan of Mozilla anymore. I use Waterfox, a Firefox Fork.

[@kythrathesuntamer9715]

All the techies of ole were like Firefox doesn't do enough for your privacy today it's like you judged prematurely, as it turns out Firefox privacy was merely under construction. With a slow rollout.

[@seventhtenth]

have you done a video on decentralized apps like remotestorage enabled ones?

[@innywymiar2887]

What about Vivaldi?

[@davinhunt7558]

I use Firefox daily and have for a long time now. But they need HDR support. The only reason I have to use any other browser for me personally is because of the lack of HDR streaming capabilities. I think that would have a significant impact on user base

[@internallyinteral]

I doubt it tbh I don't even know what hdr is and I spend most of my life on my pc

[@bigbang2a]

I know that HDR is a technology to enhance image "beautifulness" on-the-go, but I thought it was handled by the GPU or the OS level and not by apps themselves (other than games)?

[@MCPEngu1]

also WebHID.

[@NatetheNintendofan]

​@ZaHandlemy monitor does it support HDR it only supports 1080 and it's Asus gaming monitor

[@chinoto1]

From what little I've looked, HDR bumps up the bits per channel from 8 to 10, but there might be more to it than that. I would expect every part of the system (app, window manager, GPU driver and hardware) needs to support it, otherwise you'd have down-sampling, distorted picture, black screen, or maybe even a crash for very badly/lazily written software.

[@Ultrajamz]

Going to fix the memleak I see if I leave pc on?

[@keylanoslokj1806]

Will you make a Firefox hardening guide? On how to make it more private and secure.

[@mark8200]

1st don't make firefox account, and don't sync.

[@chanpasadopolska]

Mental will you record video about GrayJay?

[@mojojomo6750]

Never understood the popularity of Chrome, particularly given Google's involvement. Firefox has been my browser of choice for decades. That said, I recently downloaded Opera and I gotta say, I like it.

[@chubbycatfish4573]

Going to make a video about the keepass vulnerability that was recently discovered?

[@morgan-n5e]

how does thorium compare against firefox? might be a good topic for a new video?

[@HerbyDigitalTV]

Commenting to appease the algorithm

[@mytech6779]

I could swear that I was doing browser sync with Firefox 10 years ago. Turned out for me it wasn't something useful or wanted, but I clearly recall testing the ability to sync a session at work with my home desktop.

[@anon_y_mousse]

As a Slackware user I update about as often as Slackware updates, yet I always update FireFox immediately when a new version is available.

[@greenjihad3390]

I haven't posted on this channel in a while. I enjoy your videos and I do like Firefox too. However, I think there's an issue that needs to be raised that I think answers why there are more Chrome-based browsers than FIrefox ones. The reason for this might be due to Firefox's source code. It is my understanding that Gecko source code has a bad complexity problem whereas Chromium may not. I have come to find out that Firefox’s source code is made up of half a dozen or more different languages. In order to build a Firefox fork, one would have to use compilers for every language in Firefox’s source code. It could very well be that Chromium source code does not have the complexity issues that Gecko does, hence the reason for the many browsers based on Chroumium. If someone on these threads knows differently or knows if Mozilla has changed this please reply but I think this would be an excellent subject for one of your videos. In my view, it is self-defeating to make the source code for a browser so complex that hinders people from wanting to use it.

[@dafff08]

i switched from chrome to firefox years ago and its a pretty fine browser. ive seen quite a decent amount of videos claming that firefox is bad and how it has supposedly falled etc etc. i cant really confim it tho. its even on my work pc.

[@derram0k]

Hopefully that bugfix is for all tooltips and not just things in the bars. I get floating tooltips whenever I launch a game with youtube open in the browser in the foreground pretty frequently.

[@obconoby7395]

I have been using Firefox forever. I do find myself drifting astray and trying other browsers from time to time. However, I always come back to the Fox. Why? ..... because the Fox Rox!!!!! That's why!!!!!

[@theultimateogrelord2783]

i just wish I could save my history from over a year permanently

[@theultimateogrelord2783]

@BarryStanton1488 no you do t understand I NEED to know what I googled at 6AM 5 years ago

[@belstar1128]

I would love to find my search history from 2008 i pretty much forgot most of the stuff i did online before 2013 and even stuff i did before 2016 is hazy

[@ludwig2345]

What is that titelbar above Firefox? It almost looks like Windows XP but the minimize icon is slightly different. Please don't use XP...

[@talesfromspace]

Damn, I was hoping the bug fix related to the browser theme breaking every time Firefox gets restarted. Sometimes this would even happen randomly while using it. Very annoying because the only way to fix it is to go in theme settings, then disable and re-enable it. Happens multiple times a week.

[@tomverlaine728]

On windows? Been using custom theme on FF for 15 years, never encountered that.

[@talesfromspace]

@@tomverlaine728 I've dealt with it on both Windows and MacOS

[@Rozbujnik_Rumcajs]

I really tried to give Firefox chance. But its so slooow. When i open few cards with video it's chocking so much. With 32gb ram on board! Chrome based browsers works way faster.

[@janzibansi9218]

Chrome does ad blocker blocking on KZbin now. 2024 year of the Firefox desktop!

[@mark8200]

Bro actually syncs his firefox account. I wouldn't. I wouldnt even make an account.

[@LaughingOrange]

The bug was older than Firefox. Mozilla wasn't using that branding until after the report was made.

[@cybelisk1526]

Yeah… I quit FF when they disabled add-ons and got completely pozzed. Everything woke turns to shit.

[@Redhotsmasher]

9:47 That's Mozilla 5.0, not Firefox 5.0. I still remember when Firefox 4 dropped in 2011 (though I had to google the exact year) and even broke the record for browser downloads in 24 hours or something, I believe?

[@Pasi123]

I still remember Firefox 1.5 was the last one to support Windows 95 and Firefox 2.0 was the last one to support Windows 98/Me. We used quite old computers in our family lol Though back in those days Firefox didn't get new versions that often, it wasn't until Firefox 5 when they started the Chrome like version number increments

[@belstar1128]

I thought Firefox came out in 2003 wikipedia says 2002 so only 21 years ago regardless quite old

[@innywymiar2887]

I was using Firefox for something about 10 years, sticking to the older versions as long as it possible. But now it become unusable. On PC there are couple of decent forks like LibreWolf but on Android we have very bad situation.

[@KartonRealista2]

Why older versions? Are you hardware limited?

[@innywymiar2887]

@@KartonRealista2 Because of old addons, more customization and overall aestethics. But those days are gone, now I'm on Vivaldi which is very customisable and mainly because it have excelent Android version.

[@Stahl_und_Eisen]

Just removed Firefox. Searches using Google and other things were extremely slow and behaving strange. I know this is bluepilled but I tried a clean install, thousands of settings etc. but nothing could change it.

[@abattleborn]

i don't know, Mozilla works like ass for me, run super slow even though i have pretty strong computer both on linux and windows, while chrome and Vivaldi run ok.

[@pax256]

God I wish they would fix the mouse scrolling jump to the bottom problem. Makes the browser almost unusable. I only use it for youtube now.

[@OwenC1]

How dare you sell flat network cables. That is a violation of human rights.

[@glass7923]

>implying mozilla doesn't spy on you

[@i_am_rohit_saini]

Bro, i'm using the Firefox sync tab feature from last 6 months...🤷

[@danielkruyer5425]

I'll confess to being a more recent Firefox adopter but now I'm a Firefox shill. It is *baffling* to me that there is such a difference in sheer raw performance between Firefox and Chrome. The largest corporation in the history of ever should not be getting so done in by a non-profit, but they are.

[@oalfodr]

I would like to support firefox, but I cannot support a browser that is shitting in my home and dumping files wherever they want

[@severonnorth]

Isn’t brave just as bad as the others since it’s built on chromium?

[@itsawill9268]

Chromium isn’t bad its just that monopolies are

[@belstar1128]

Yea but they made it better.

[@renaisnisbett]

@Mental Outlaw Curious. Will your merch store be available to those internationally?

[@etz80808yy]

i love firefox so much >:3

[@hahahahaha525]

Are you real? For someone who talks a lot about privacy, I find it weird. 🤨

[@senditall152]

Go! My little firely fox.

[@rwx-zach]

I like Firefox Nightly because I want to help Mozilla developers improve Firefox. Also, Ublock Origin is a godsend.

[@motherchuckair404]

and also because firefox has a api for dns lookups so that ublock can block those stupid fake legitmate websites that are actually ads or trackers in the background. I hope a chromium browser implements a dns api so that ublock will be used to its fullest potential.

[@lussor1]

​​@@motherchuckair404isnt that the option impossible to enable in unblock?

[@motherchuckair404]

No, browser specfic. I am quite surprised no browser has implemented this api feature. So useful for network lookups for many extensions and uncloaking sites that look legitmate that turn out to be bad sites.@@lussor1

[@gralha_]

That bug has annoyed me for so, so long. I never noticed the problem was only with firefox, thought it was something with my OS.

[@lands1459]

hasn't sync existed since firefox 3? you log in with an email and you can sync bookmarks, unless this is something new? even sending webpages to another device isnt new, i've been doing this since firefox 90 something

[@derpysean1072]

That said, a corporation is not to be trusted in any ways, shape or form. I am still using Chromium.

[@notreallyme425]

7:22 encrypt hellos, but can’t my ISP see the IP addresses I go to and do a reverse lookup to see what sites I’m going to?

[@unstable_7071]

switch to firefox about a month ago and im glad I did

[@WelcomeToDERPLAND]

Why use firefox though when Mullvad and Libre exist?