Hacker News: ReadCarlBarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ReadCarlBarksHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 01 Jul 2026 07:49:59 +0000<![CDATA[Japanese Mozilla volunteers quit over AI plans]]>Article URL: https://www.quippd.com/writing/2025/11/20/mozilla-support-update-end-of-japanese-community-mozilla-doubles-down-on-ai.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46008515

Points: 10

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]]>Fri, 21 Nov 2025 20:19:02 +0000https://www.quippd.com/writing/2025/11/20/mozilla-support-update-end-of-japanese-community-mozilla-doubles-down-on-ai.htmlReadCarlBarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46008515https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46008515<![CDATA[Firefox celebrates its 2000000th bug]]>Article URL: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2000000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45924020

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]]>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 05:02:14 +0000https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2000000ReadCarlBarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45924020https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45924020<![CDATA[Firefox 145.0 Release Notes]]>Article URL: https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/145.0/releasenotes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45887886

Points: 9

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]]>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:52:41 +0000https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/145.0/releasenotes/ReadCarlBarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45887886https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45887886<![CDATA[Early Access for Firefox Support for Organizations]]>Article URL: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-support-for-organizations/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45857194

Points: 3

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]]>Sat, 08 Nov 2025 15:17:01 +0000https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-support-for-organizations/ReadCarlBarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45857194https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45857194<![CDATA[Firefox expands its Recommended Extensions program]]>Article URL: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2025/10/29/new-recommended-extensions-arrived-thanks-to-our-community-curators/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45761190

Points: 42

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]]>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:35:23 +0000https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2025/10/29/new-recommended-extensions-arrived-thanks-to-our-community-curators/ReadCarlBarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45761190https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45761190<![CDATA[New in Firefox: Visual search powered by Google Lens]]>Article URL: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/new-in-firefox-desktop-only-visual-search/m-p/106216#M41026

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45398900

Points: 62

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]]>Sat, 27 Sep 2025 20:01:15 +0000https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/new-in-firefox-desktop-only-visual-search/m-p/106216#M41026ReadCarlBarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45398900https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45398900<![CDATA[Copy Link to Highlight in Nightly – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 185]]>Article URL: https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2025/07/28/copy-link-to-highlight-in-nightly-these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-185/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44716315

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]]>Mon, 28 Jul 2025 22:08:28 +0000https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2025/07/28/copy-link-to-highlight-in-nightly-these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-185/ReadCarlBarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44716315https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44716315<![CDATA[New comment by ReadCarlBarks in "How to Firefox"]]>It has everything to do the browser feature known as "custom search engines", which is a URL replacement capability that was never limited to actual search engines.

As I said before, Mozilla is going to merge your bookmark keywords with custom search engines: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1650874

]]>Wed, 23 Jul 2025 15:56:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44660645ReadCarlBarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44660645https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44660645<![CDATA[New comment by ReadCarlBarks in "How to Firefox"]]>That's by design:

>This feature is separate from the about:profiles experience, and we currently have no plans to change how about:profiles works. You may continue to use about:profiles if that is better for your workflow.

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/try-out-firefox-p...

]]>Wed, 23 Jul 2025 15:31:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44660352ReadCarlBarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44660352https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44660352<![CDATA[New comment by ReadCarlBarks in "How to Firefox"]]>These so-called "hardening scripts" cause a lot of issues and volunteers have to waste their time helping clueless users who copied them without understanding what they do.

]]>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:52:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44648745ReadCarlBarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44648745https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44648745<![CDATA[New comment by ReadCarlBarks in "How to Firefox"]]>Disabling anonymous telemetry just harms the project. It doesn't give you any "privacy" benefit.

]]>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:50:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44648705ReadCarlBarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44648705https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44648705<![CDATA[New comment by ReadCarlBarks in "How to Firefox"]]>Browsers discard tabs by default, but only when your system is running out of memory. You can use Auto Tab Discard to discard all or most tabs automatically after a certain time.

]]>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:48:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44648674ReadCarlBarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44648674https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44648674<![CDATA[New comment by ReadCarlBarks in "How to Firefox"]]>Use this extension created by a Mozilla employee: https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/chrome-mask

]]>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:46:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44648647ReadCarlBarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44648647https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44648647<![CDATA[New comment by ReadCarlBarks in "How to Firefox"]]>Chrome has always had the capability of adding custom search engines. They are just not entangled with your bookmarks.

Firefox is actually going to remove this feature from bookmarks, and you'll have to create new engines from this page: about:preferences#search

]]>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:43:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44648612ReadCarlBarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44648612https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44648612<![CDATA[New comment by ReadCarlBarks in "How to Firefox"]]>If you want them to fix it:

1) Generate a profile performance with https://profiler.firefox.com/

2) Submit the link with your results to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/

]]>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:41:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44648560ReadCarlBarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44648560https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44648560<![CDATA[New comment by ReadCarlBarks in "How to Firefox"]]>Updates aren't supposed to reset any setting. Submit a bug report for them to fix whatever is doing that for you: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/

]]>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:39:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44648539ReadCarlBarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44648539https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44648539<![CDATA[New comment by ReadCarlBarks in "How to Firefox"]]>File an issue on Bugzilla with your latest crash ID to help the developers fix it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/

]]>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:37:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44648504ReadCarlBarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44648504https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44648504<![CDATA[New comment by ReadCarlBarks in "How to Firefox"]]>Power users interested in this niche feature can use a script: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1m594nv/multi_tab_...

]]>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:35:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44648472ReadCarlBarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44648472https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44648472<![CDATA[New comment by ReadCarlBarks in "How to Firefox"]]>> both to isolate stuff to break cookie tracking

You don't need containers for this: https://total-cookie-protection-test.netlify.app/

]]>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:34:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44648441ReadCarlBarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44648441https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44648441<![CDATA[New comment by ReadCarlBarks in "How to Firefox"]]>You're either not using uBlock Origin Lite or do not know what the "per-site switches" are: https://github.com/gorhill/ublock/wiki/Per-site-switches

]]>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:31:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44648386ReadCarlBarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44648386https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44648386