This tether not only allows them to push notifications at any time THEY think it's convenient with whatever content, they can also use it to indirectly monitor you and get data from your browser. Push notifications will have you permanently tethered to whatever push server(s) in use whenever your browser is open. You may want to check started on new year's day. With all due respect, I think they need to go ASAP. Mozilla has them disabled, I doubt they would disable them if they were essential (even if there might be technical reasons to disable them, if they were high priority for websites, they would be there). They do intercept network traffic, are sitting in the background, and install themselves silently.Īctually, I have yet to find a site that breaks due to service workers being disabled. Or mute the then again, they are a bad thing. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Moon team both consider it safe to disable them. to displayĬorrectly) in the vast majority of cases. Notifications, but then again I wouldn't allow push notifications inĮxchange for a permanent entity that sits in the background and interceptsįortunately, they are not required for sites to work (i.e. The only good reason to have them installed is when a site uses push They are even more advanced than cookies,Īnd only a few people out there know about them apparently. They won't getĭeleted when you delete cookies. Networking traffic(!) and sit permanently in the background. It is meant more for Testers and not regular Firefox users.Service workers are a very bad thing. The Nightly channel builds can get two build updates a day and the checkins can sometimes leads to issues until fixed, finished or reverted. If you see a '''a1''' on end of a Firefox version then it is a Nightly build. Nightly is a development channel name for Firefox and is not a third-party or a codename. It is meant more for Testers and not regular Firefox users.Ħ4-bit Firefox (Win64) for Windows has existed since Firefox '''42.0''' Release (November 3, 201'''5''') and has been listed on since Firefox 43.0 Release. If you see a a1 on end of a Firefox version then it is a Nightly build. Theses third-party builders did it even though the code for Win64 builds was not close to being stable for Release state for a good while still at time.Ħ4-bit Firefox (Win64) for Windows has existed since Firefox 42.0 Release (November 3, 201 5) and has been listed on since Firefox 43.0 Release. Waterfox and Palmoon are third-party builds and were started by the authors in part because Mozilla did not have Win64 builds of Firefox for Releases then. So who am I supporting, and/or does it matter? I prefer Warerfox because it supports 64bit. Seems only Firefox is mentioned as the main browser for Mozilla. Palemoon has moved to using their own '''Goanna''' web browser engine. Firefox is transitioning to using '''Servo''' and '''Quantum'''. What Firefox shares '''''now''''' with the others is the '''Gecko web browser engine'''.īut that is changing. Palemoon has moved to using their own Goanna web browser engine.Īs far as Waterfox is concerned, I have no idea if that project will transition, too or how the developers of that 3rd party fork of Firefox / Gecko will proceed.įirefox and the others are '''Web browsers''' which can use a search engine such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo among many others. Firefox is transitioning to using Servo and Quantum.Īnd by the time the transition is complete very little of "Gecko" will remain in Firefox. What Firefox shares now with the others is the Gecko web browser engine.īut that is changing. įirefox and the others are Web browsers which can use a search engine such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo among many others. The other browsers are based on Mozilla Firefox's search engine.
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