Asif Youssuff

Blogging since 2021.

Dec 18, 2024

Is the Firefox add-on the real RoPro extension?

Original Post So I know that the firefox ropro extension got removed. But I saw this extension recently on the firefox addons page that seems to be the real ropro....

Dec 9, 2024

Leaving Reddit and Salvaging My Posts

It has been a while since the unsuccessful Reddit protests, whereupon I argued that Reddit ought to pay posters, lest they leave. Reddit crushed the protests, and unsurprisingly, they aren’t...

Oct 16, 2024

Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe.

We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the extension will soon...

Oct 13, 2024

Protecting Your Privacy While Eroding Your Democracy: Apple’s and Mozilla’s PPAs (Privacy Preserving Ad Attribution) Considered Harmful

The last few weeks have been interesting if you follow Firefox news. Mark Surman (President, Mozilla Foundation) and Laura Chambers (CEO, Mozilla Corporation) wrote posts saying that “Mozilla is going...

Oct 2, 2024

The Reason the List all tabs Button is Permanent is Because of Firefox View

(I would generally be inclined to post something like this post to social media, but I recently read Molly White’s) post on POSSE, so… here we are.) Firefox 131 is...

Jun 24, 2024

Mozilla Did a Reddit AMA About Their 2024 Firefox Priorities… See What You Missed

Mozilla did their biggest Reddit AMA yet on Thursday, June 13, with eight members of the Firefox leadership team. With 400 total comments on the post, they covered a lot...

Oct 14, 2023

Firefox 120: Searching Tabs in the Address Bar Will Work Across Containers

I was once told that Firefox users don’t always do enough to celebrate the small wins. Here’s something that I consider to be a big one, but might not be...

Aug 2, 2023

How Firefox Loses When it Tries to Copy Chrome

Prologue You might not know it, but Firefox was once widely considered to be an innovative browser. It wasn’t just an alternative to Internet Explorer (and now Chrome). Firefox introduced...

Jul 10, 2023

The Narwhal Kbins at Dawn: A Reddit UserStyle for Kbin

TL;DR: I made a styled version of Reddit for Kbin instances for people participating in the reddit migration. Inspired mostly by Old Reddit, but it actually has a dark mode!...

Jun 30, 2023

I Was Quoted in The Verge

“We see no reason to reopen as I don’t think we’re the bad guys here,” yoasif, an r/firefox moderator who received the message, tells The Verge in an email. “Reddit...

Jun 20, 2023

Reddit is Removing Mods Whose Teams Let Their Subreddits Post NSFW Content

Update: The Verge has now posted about this: “Moderators incorrectly marking a community as NSFW is a violation of both our Content Policy and Moderator Code of Conduct,” Reddit spokesperson...

Jun 20, 2023

Kawaii Firefox

Trying to archive some of the best posts from r/firefox over the years. Two years ago, mitcheecostelo posted about an “aesthetic firefox icon to replace the default icon!” that his...

Jun 18, 2023

Reddit is Trying to Sow Division in Mod Teams. That’s Because the Protest is Working

It is the weekend, and no one likes working on the weekend… but Reddit seems to have no issue making their teams do it. Screenshot of a message from ModCodeofConduct....

Jun 15, 2023

Unofficial Subreddit Migration List (Lemmy, Kbin)

A comprehensive mapping of old subreddits to new communities. With /r/startrek moving to Lemmy, I realized that Redditors are going to need a way to find their old communities on...

Jun 12, 2023

What’s Going on with r/Firefox? Reddit? What’s Next?

Many Reddit communities (sub-reddits) have shut down this Monday, r/firefox is one of them. Are you out of the loop? If you want to learn a bit more, and want...

May 10, 2023

Nvidia Video Super Resolution Comes to Firefox: How to Test

Firefox developers recently added support for Nvidia’s Virtual Super Resolution (VSR) technology. The idea received 278 votes on Connect Mozilla, so it is clearly interesting for people with the latest...

May 3, 2023

With its API Update, Reddit Should Start Paying its Users (Or They Should Leave)

Reddit is one of the most popular social media sites on the web, with millions of users and communities dedicated to every topic imaginable. The platform is known for its...

Nov 21, 2022

Save as PDF Arrives on Firefox for Android (Beta & Nightly)

One of the earliest Fennec parity items in the new Firefox for Android (Fenix) was the Save as PDF option. Longtime Firefox users missed the feature upon release of Firefox...

Oct 1, 2022

Firefox Switch: A Guide for Beginners

Firefox is experiencing a resurgence since the news of Chromium based browsers weakening ad blocking extensions has hit the public consciousness. You may be one of the people switching to...

Sep 6, 2022

r/firefox Monthly Wrap-Up - August 2022: A new Chief Product Officer

There are a lot of fun things posted on r/firefox, but if you don’t visit often, you might miss some things. This is the fourth post of an ideally monthly...

Aug 10, 2022

r/firefox Monthly Wrap-Up - July 2022

There are a lot of fun things posted on r/firefox every month, but if you don’t visit often, you might miss some things. This is the third post of a...

Jul 20, 2022

Discovered While Mapping: Little Free Library #93137

While mapping on OpenStreetMap last Sunday, I came across a Little Free Library. Florence the Holliswood Lending Library - Charter #93137 I added the library to the map. Forgive my...

Jul 19, 2022

MBNA Stops Supporting Firefox in August - Best Alternatives to Their Credit Cards

You’d think businesses would think twice before dropping support for the open web, but MBNA seems to not have learned the lesson that South Korea learned the hard way. I...

Jul 5, 2022

r/firefox Monthly Wrap-Up - May 2022

There are a lot of fun things posted on r/firefox every month, but if you don’t visit often, you might miss some things. This is the second post of a...

Jun 20, 2022

Killing the Page Action API in Firefox’s Manifest V3 is a Mistake

Mozilla has announced that part of the move to Manifest V3 in Firefox will mean that the page_action extension API will be merged into action. Documentation for action shows that...

Jun 1, 2022

r/firefox Monthly Wrap-Up - May 2022: Firefox 100!

There are a lot of fun things posted on r/firefox every month, but if you don’t visit often, you might miss some things. This is the inaugural post of a...

May 17, 2022

Update on my SoFi Experience: My Account was Opened

You may have read my post about the poor customer service experience and product issues that I experienced with SoFi last week. This afternoon, without any warning, I received am...

May 12, 2022

SoFi’s Banking Product and Customer Service Processes are Broken

Note: Since writing this post, SoFi has approved my application and my account was opened. It isn’t often that I experience a customer service interaction so unpleasant that I feel...

May 6, 2022

Opening linked URLs from external apps in the last active Firefox profile

Original Post TL;DR: Is there a way to quickly switch which profile is ‘current’ so that links clicked from outside the browser (e.g. a password manager) open as a new...

Apr 19, 2022

Should Mozilla Introduce a De-AMP Feature? (2018)

In September of 2018, I applied to a mobile product role at Mozilla. Part of the interview process included writing a take-home assignment with a writing prompt about AMP. Given...

Apr 12, 2022

Microsoft Edge is Now Taking Over as Your Default Browser… on Linux

If you are like most deskop Linux users, if you have heard of the various intrusive ways Microsoft has used to “encourage” Windows users to use their Chromium-based browser, Edge,...

Mar 13, 2022

(YouTube) Vanced is Dead: How to Replace it With Firefox (Nightly)

On March 13, 2022, Vanced announced on Twitter that Vanced had been discontinued. Vanced was a modded version of the official YouTube app that added features like ad blocking, sponsor...

Jan 26, 2022

Tested and Reviewed: The Most Wanted Add-ons for Firefox on Android, Part 1

In this post, I review some of the add-ons most requested for Firefox by the Firefox community on reddit. While Firefox for Android currently has 18 add-ons available by default,...

Oct 10, 2021

Firefox Suggest: An Anatomy of a PR Incident

Firefox 93 was released last Tuesday, and early reviews were positive. That didn’t last long though, as reports soon spread on tech media that Firefox was now showing ads in...

Jul 26, 2021

Firefox Privacy or: How I Learned to Stop Hardening and Love Strict Tracking Protection

Firefox is popular in online privacy communities because it is a high quality, open source web browser that is extensively configurable. Unfortunately, those communities often instruct new Firefox users to...

Mar 21, 2021

Supporting Compact Mode in Firefox Proton

Mozilla recently proposed that Firefox remove its compact UI density setting as part of its Proton UI Refresh. Resulting coverage has resulted in consternation among Firefox users. As a member...

Sep 8, 2020

A real world example of how running Nightly builds can help you, a Firefox enthusiast or power user

I have often extolled the virtues of running Nightly and Beta versions of Firefox since it helps you to never be surprised about changes coming to Firefox, and to have...

May 10, 2020

Why doesn’t Firefox switch to Chromium? Opera did it.

Opera did it. Is opera bigger company then Mozilla. Mozilla also have community behind. Now opera works very very stable. Most of my friends use opera. Opera is a shell...

May 1, 2020

How to Force Dark Mode on Every Website in Firefox

Some people like Dark Reader, others like Dark Background and Light Text. The latter is faster, the former is better looking. Good luck! If you liked this material, please consider...

Apr 7, 2020

Why do people use Firefox but want a Chrome-like UI?

For the people who are using Firefox but want UI to be like Chrome, why are they here? Not everything is so black and white. I have used: Netscape 2.0...

Mar 29, 2020

Which extensions do you have on Firefox?

These are my enabled extensions: Always Right Bitwarden - Free Password Manager ClearURLs Display #Anchors Duplicate Tabs Closer enhanced-h264ify Extension source viewer Firefox Pioneer First Party Isolation Forget Me Not...

Mar 26, 2020

For those of you who use Firefox, what is the primary reason you still stand by it?

Firefox has gone through various changes, some controversial, over the course of over a decade. What is the primary or sole factor that makes you decide to stay with the...

Jan 22, 2020

Does Firefox support Chromecast and Accelerated Mobile Pages?

Original Post I know these are things found in Chrome, but curious if Firefox supports them. My Comments AMP pages are just web pages, so they work in Firefox. I...

Dec 31, 2019

I deleted Firefox Preview Nightly and installed Firefox Preview for Android. Now my Collections are gone. Do they sync?

Original Post I wasn’t really thinking and deleted Firefox Preview Nightly due to the constant crashing and downloaded Firefox Preview. I never thought about my Collections, which I had several....

Mar 2, 2019

UI Changes make for bad UX: “Recently Closed Tabs” and “Bookmark Tabs”

Original Post Recent update changes have changed two functions that now require more click throughs to complete. Recently Closed Tabs Previously: ☰ History ► Recently Closed Tabs Now: ☰ Library...

Mar 2, 2019

Is Firefox really fighting against freedom and trying to censor people?

I’m curious – what do you disagree with on the linked page? After reading Firefox’s tweets and some other sources, and it seems like Firefox is really trying to hinder...

Feb 28, 2019

18th year old Firefox bug: Web page controls are unreadable if you use a dark GTK theme

text box and text both black ..or both white so can’t read text in menus and boxes unreadable if using dark GTK theme this bug reported 18 years ago and...

Feb 15, 2019

Mozilla to add cryptomining blocking. Why not ad blocking?

Why does society tolerate obnoxious ads? Because they are a monetisation model for websites. Mozilla agrees. They are one of leading causes, if not THE leading cause of violated privacy...

Feb 14, 2019

Is Firefox planning on adding support for conic-gradient?

Original Post I can get a circular progress indicator very easily with it in Chrome. Is there another simple way in Firefox? previewElement.style.backgroundImage = "conic-gradient(#BBB " + pieValue + "deg,#FFF...

Feb 13, 2019

Is there a blog for Fenix or upcoming features planned for it?

Original Post When is it planned to come out? My Comments You can watch the issues on GitHub. You can already download builds, but they aren’t very good yet. You...

Feb 13, 2019

Can we get a permanent fix for the tab strip accent color issue with Firefox 65 version in Windows 10?

Original Post Can we get a permanent fix for the tab bar color issue with the latest FF version in W10? This looks absolutely terrible now. Firefox 65 with red-orange...

Feb 6, 2019

Prevent Firefox from inheriting system font size

Original Post I’ve recently changed my Windows 7 system font size to 110%. I notice Chrome and IE don’t apply the system size, and continue to display the base font...

Feb 5, 2019

How can I set a manually installed browser as the default on Debian-based distributions like Ubuntu and Mint?

Original Post Hi I am trying to set my Firefox developer as default in GNU/Linux, But I am stuck. Firefox Dev didn’t shows up in sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser. In...

Feb 5, 2019

What ever happened to native Windows notifications in Firefox?

Original Post Mozilla announced they were working on it shortly after Chrome introduced them early last summer. Where did they go? I could’ve sworn they said something about launching the...

Feb 4, 2019

How do you export Firefox passwords to a CSV file?

GitHub overview of the ffpass project ffpass - Import and Export passwords for Firefox Quantum If you liked this material, please consider supporting me. You can also message me on...

Feb 4, 2019

Is there any difference between Facebook Container and Firefox Multi-Account Containers?

The Facebook container makes it so that links clicked on Facebook that lead off site don’t use the Facebook container anymore. The regular multi account container add-on will keep clicked...

Jan 29, 2019

Dashlane doesn’t work with Firefox

Original Post Hello fellow community, so as the topic says i got some issues running dashlane in firefox. i already searched for related threads in this subreddit but it couldn’t...

Jan 24, 2019

Is there a maximum time limit for syncing History with Firefox Sync?

I cannot see history items that I visited a long time ago. Is this a bug or some config thing? Sync history is 60 days per mconnor: However, Sync does...

Jan 23, 2019

Text in fonts too bold or blurry in Firefox on macOS Mojave?

Original Post Hello Dear Firefox Community! Since the last update of Firefox Developer Edition to v66.0b1 (64Bit) on macOS Mojave I’ve got a weird problem: It looks like the browser...

Nov 14, 2018

What search engine do you use?

What search engine do you use? Startpage uses Google results for their search, and doesn’t track you. This is the most “drop in replacement” available for Google search. If you...

Oct 21, 2018

Firefox should focus on being a great browser that integrates well with each operating system

I think platform specific code is worth doing, especially since the Mac forks like Camino are dead, and browsers like Epiphany no longer use Gecko. Firefox shouldn’t ask users to...

Sep 18, 2018

When Linux native software isn’t available, why do we “emulate” the Windows version? Aren’t Mac and Linux more similar?

Original Post I’ve probably used a bunch of incorrect terms but please bear with me. I was just thinking from what I’ve gathered MacOS/OSX seems pretty similar to linux, and...

Aug 12, 2018

Does Airsonic support Opus?

I’m having trouble trancoding from flac to opus, my command is the following: Name flac > opus Convert from flac Convert to ogg Step 1 flac --silent --decode --stdout %s...

Jun 6, 2018

A Firefox Color theme inspired by the Classic Mac OS “Drawing Board” theme

Firefox Color showing the Classic Mac OS Drawing Board theme Classic Mac OS “Drawing Board” theme inspired theme Context When Mozilla introduced the Firefox Color Test Pilot experiment, I excitedly...

May 25, 2018

How to get started contributing to OpenStreetMap

I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of some resources to get me started contributing to OSM. I recently discovered OSM and have found it is...

Nov 22, 2017

What cool features does Firefox have over Chrome?

Sidebar API makes it easy for you to dock extensions or bookmarks. Containers (including temporary ones) allowing you to separate identities (even for the same site) full open source project...

Aug 9, 2017

Post 57, what is Firefox’s unique selling proposition?

After version 57, what will be Firefox’s USP? Being the best browser. Look at WebVR, the CSS Grids dev tools, the tab handling improvements in v55, the plain better UX...

Mar 2, 2017

MovieLens: Personalized Movie Recommendations

I was looking for a good tool to use to review movies and then have that tool provide movie recommendations back on what to watch next. I know Netflix does...

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