Firefox 99 Available With Strengthened Linux Sandbox, Web MIDI

[crystall]

- sharing instrument over internet, e.g., online jam sessions?

Yes, that's one of the use-cases and specifically the one that motivated me to implement it in Firefox. A friend and former Mozilla hacker wrote https://7jam.io/maj7/ and I felt it was a shame that it could only be used with Chrome. The Web MIDI API is problematic from a security perspective so we figured out it would be a good test-case to experiment with a new add-on based permission system. I implemented the Web MIDI back-end using the https://github.com/Boddlnagg/midir rust crate and the add-on team prepared the permission framework. The implementation still lacks some features (hot-plug support is notably missing) but it works.

[tuxd3v]

Dude why have you not installed adblock or got Phoronix Premium, even that screenshot is painful to look at

nope, they don't

[tuxd3v]

Well, till now, no hardware acceleration, and FF99 brings with it a lot of "Mozilla porn features", we loose a lot of privacy with this browser, with time..
My understanding is that we need a new browser in the block that starts by implementing Security in its core..
Like no cookies shared between windows,or instances, etc..

[Ironmask]

Well, till now, no hardware acceleration, and FF99 brings with it a lot of "Mozilla porn features", we loose a lot of privacy with this browser, with time..
My understanding is that we need a new browser in the block that starts by implementing Security in its core..
Like no cookies shared between windows,or instances, etc..

Well, it's not what you're directly asking for, but Brave is indeed in the forefront of "secure, yet usable/compatible" browsers. It's no wonder it's made by the original CEO of Mozilla. Firefox is a husk of what it was, it's nothing but a parody of Chrome now.

[Quackdoc]

Well, it's not what you're directly asking for, but Brave is indeed in the forefront of "secure, yet usable/compatible" browsers. It's no wonder it's made by the original CEO of Mozilla. Firefox is a husk of what it was, it's nothing but a parody of Chrome now.

i would rather just go the ungoogled chromium route myself.

[Ironmask]

i would rather just go the ungoogled chromium route myself.

I keep forgetting about that, I need to check it out myself. Brave is so optimized, I'm curious how much of that is Brave's own optimizations versus how vanilla Chromium is like before Google slaps all their bloatware on it. Because Chrome is so bad for me I've outright uninstalled it just because it used to take literal minutes to start up.

[evasb]

Chromium-based browsers are unusable without fractional scaling and proper VA-API support.

It is broken in Firefox, but at least they will hopefully fix this soon. Chromium project never gave a hope that VA-API would be supported officially, they accept the patches, but it will be always unsupported.

[tuxd3v]

i would rather just go the ungoogled chromium route myself.

I have some fears that chromium doesn't receives security updates

[tuxd3v]

Well, it's not what you're directly asking for, but Brave is indeed in the forefront of "secure, yet usable/compatible" browsers. It's no wonder it's made by the original CEO of Mozilla. Firefox is a husk of what it was, it's nothing but a parody of Chrome now.

Brave have some nice things, but then you are with brave search, yes you can disable ads, but then you have the Brave own network of adds too, a cryptowallet, and a cryptocoin BAT... this concept is a bit alien to me.

I just wanted to have a really decent, from a security point of view, of a classical browser.
Where you can choose your search engine, where you can choose to block ads or scripts and such..or even to isolate cookies that belong to a window, from the other windows, etc

One browser that starts to be appealing is falcon.the problem is heavy dependency in Qt..
It also added now a Screen capture feature that I think... its a bit dangerous..

[Ironmask]

Brave have some nice things, but then you are with brave search, yes you can disable ads, but then you have the Brave own network of adds too, a cryptowallet, and a cryptocoin BAT... this concept is a bit alien to me.

I just wanted to have a really decent, from a security point of view, of a classical browser.
Where you can choose your search engine, where you can choose to block ads or scripts and such..or even to isolate cookies that belong to a window, from the other windows, etc

One browser that starts to be appealing is falcon.the problem is heavy dependency in Qt..
It also added now a Screen capture feature that I think... its a bit dangerous..

You can ignore all those things and I myself ignore them. I use Brave search now as a replacement for DuckDuckGo since DDG is stagnating IMO (and now openly supports censorship), but I ignore the crypto stuff and I don't even really pay attention to Brave's adblocker, I think uBlock Origin is superior so I still use that. What I certainly make use of though is the built-in Tor mode.
I really don't understand this argument. "I don't know how to feel about Brave, because of all those optional opt-in features! I don't know what to do with them all!" it sounds sarcastic, how is this an actual thing people respond with when asked about Brave? What is this clown logic? Sorry, I'm assuming you use Linux since you post here? Do you know what options Linux has? It's a lot more than the couple opt-in things Brave has, I can tell you that.