It used to be a buggy mess, but it has become pretty stable in recent years. I'm using it daily and can't remember the last time I encountered a severe bug.
If testing continues to progress well, we anticipate unveiling a fully open Firefox for Android extension ecosystem sometime in December. Stay tuned for details.
Apparently the number of deaths on the Autobahn is pretty average compared to other european countries, but it could still be much lower with speed limits.
German here, I'm pretty sure I've never seen a gun irl, except when used by the police or military. They are just not really a thing here. Nobody I've ever met owns one, nobody wants or needs one, nobody even talks about them.
There are legal ways to get a gun, but I never had to care about the details. That's pretty amazing imo, if you consider how big of a topic and problem they are in the US.
No way the Fedora user figured out how to configure partitions in the installer without having to google it at least five times! I've installed Fedora a few times over the years, and that UI still makes no sense to me!
It's multiple social media sites that send each other messages to sync the content between them. You create your account on one of them, but you can see posts and can contact and follow people from all of them. They are run by different people, and if one goes offline or rogue the others preserve the content but stop syncing with it. So the sites keep each other honest, and no one person or company is in control of the whole thing.
Imo the easiest way to think about it is different servers that send each other messages to sync all the content between each other.
You connect to one of those servers, but it doesn't really matter which because the content is the same and you can contact people on all servers. For the same reason it doesn't really matter if one of the servers goes offline, and if one goes rogue the others can just not sync with it anymore.
I just watched a video by a German tech magazine the other day, with Fabian Bräunlein (the original researcher) demonstrating a keylogger using the Find My network. It's only 3 days old, so I don't think the main problem is fixed at all.
I think the main concern is how easy and ubiquitous it is, while also being pretty hard to detect. No other transmission method lends itself so perfectly to this kind of attack.
And I wouldn't say it's that unlikely. Every publicly accessible keyboard could be targeted, like in schools or universities. Buy an identical model to those that are used in the computer room, modify it, switch it out, and wait for people to enter their emails and passwords.
Definitely. I have a bunch of devices with FF installed, so syncing them makes things much easier, and because it's selfhosted my data stays with me. Although just using Mozilla servers is pretty safe as well, because sync is e2e encrypted. That's not the case for Google sync, so switching from Chrome is the important part.
You can do that, but afaik it's quite a bit more involved and not really worth it for me. I have a Mozilla account anyway, and the account server doesn't store any more personal data if you use it for syncing. But if you don't want a Mozilla account then it might be a good option.
Replacing Google services with selfhosted or privacy preserving cloud solutions. The biggest one of those was probably switching to Firefox with selfhosted sync server.
The problem is the network effect. It's hard to switch from YT if all your favorite channels and creators are there, but it's also hard for them to switch if all the users are using YT. And because it's many different people we cannot coordinate a simultaneous transition either.
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The latest stable release is still 0.18.5.