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<p><i>I wish you good fortune.</i><p>Thank you!</p>
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<p>Awesome bug report! I hope the media folks can find out what's wrong.</p>
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<p>We're as far as automatically fixing reported issues - where possible - FWIW: <a href="https://github.com/marco-c/autowebcompat" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/marco-c/autowebcompat</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://github.com/mozilla/enterprise-firefox" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mozilla/enterprise-firefox</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1746557#c21" rel="nofollow">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1746557#c21</a> seems to suggest Android WebCodecs development is currently in progress.<p>Note we provide updated Debian packages: <a href="https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux#w_install-firefox-deb-package-for-debian-based-and-ubuntu-based-distributions-recommended" rel="nofollow">https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux#w...</a></p>
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<p>Noted! Thanks for the suggestion.</p>
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<p>As I've mentioned elsewhere, the delta is control over login/logout, much easier/low friction deployment of policies, live policy changes, centralized security related logging, additional features like built-in DLP, corporate VPN/proxy, device posture checks, profile encryption, forced update/restart, guaranteed support, etc etc.<p>You also get the ability to deploy all browser infrastructure on-premise, to effectively decouple yourselves from us and get sync data, telemetry, and so on all stored on-prem, serve updates from your own servers, etc. This is something that wasn't really practical before.<p><i>I'm not sure why we would be okay with breaking a browser's trust in that way</i><p>I'm not sure what you mean here. If we accept that this is something a lot of Enterprise deployments require, wouldn't you prefer to have things like DLP, VPN and security logging be built-in in the browser, rather than being provided by third-party products that intercept or hook the browser traffic somehow?</p>
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<p>Can you please file a bug in Bugzilla with all the details? A colleague who works on this feature may be able to help get any relevant logging out of it to pinpoint the bug.<p>If the site is public and the issue happens in a fresh profile, just a link here would likely do the trick.</p>
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<p>Given that the initial market is Europe, where "surveillance of employees" has pretty strong legal limits, the answer to this is actually no! You can still report security relevant information and events of course, within reason.</p>
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<p><i>Of course with AI one could go as far as adding a "Report this site doesn't work in Firefox" button that magically sends a report (+ suggested fix) to the people operating the website/app.</i><p>Not sure if you're aware, but this button does actually exist in the help menu, at least for getting a public report filed. I looked through our tracker and didn't find any report similar to yours though (..and Office365 has <i>a ton</i> of webcompat bugs on file...), so I'd recommend you and "others" to actually file those bugs.<p>Finding and fixing those bugs in websites (unless they're behind a login that you can't easily sign up for) typically isn't the issue, but getting ahold of the site owner sometimes is.<p>If we can't get ahold of the website operator, or they're slow or unwilling to fix it, we can ship compatibility shims in the browser.<p>Take a look at about:compat to get some idea.</p>
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<p><i>you don’t need 750 employees to make a browser, and probably can’t effectively use even a hundred</i><p>Browser <i>engines</i> are incredibly complicated, yet at the same time are very performance and security sensitive while needing insane backwards compatibility and full multi-platform support. That unfortunately requires large teams, which is why there's only Gecko and WebKit/Blink left.<p>"Making a browser" you can do with a team of 1 person. Just search & replace the branding in the Chromium source.</p>
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<p>Only browser with an independent engine? Everything else is a Chromium reskin these days.</p>
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<p>Part of the sales pitch of Firefox Enterprise is that the management console includes a sync server that you can run on premise.</p>
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<p>It's a paid product aimed at the Enterprise market.</p>
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<p>What do you specifically mean with "risk management"? Device posture?<p>I think we hit all the features you mention but not sure about the above.</p>
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<p>a) it's much easier to work with b) you have much more monitoring possibilities c) it adds a pile of features d) you can host all supporting services (sync, updates, telemetry, etc) on premise - if you want</p>
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<p>Always happy to get bug reports about audio/video playback issues or performance gaps. We have a built-in profiler that makes it very likely we can narrow down the cause and fix it: <a href="https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/performance/reporting_a_performance_problem.html" rel="nofollow">https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/performance/reportin...</a> ... IF someone actually submits a bug with a profile.</p>
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<p>Firefox Enterprise does include similar functionality :-)</p>
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<p>There are no such plans.<p>(Regardless of one's feelings about generative AI, I think some features like local translation or alt text are too nice to be labeled "LLM shit", but I admit I am biased)</p>
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<p>Yes. You have some control by including/excluding certain sites from the rules, i.e. you could exclude common shopping sites from the CC rules, and we imagine most folks trying to stop (accidental) exfil through AI chatbots are going to block most common providers there.<p>Warning (instead of blocking) is possible. Due to the security logging (plus, if wanted, SIEM integration) you get the flagging.<p><i>Can you run data through a local or corporately-situated LLM instructed to "Assess whether this looks potentially sensitive" via a given set of rules, and flag it to the user or a supervisor to proceed/abort?</i><p>Not in the first version, but this <i>is</i> an area we are working in.<p><i>what kind of hooks and feedback/UI interaction is available for third party integrations?</i><p>We support the standard SDK for this which is also used by Chromium based products:<p><a href="https://hacks.mozilla.org/2025/03/improving-firefox-stability-in-the-enterprise-by-reducing-dll-injection/" rel="nofollow">https://hacks.mozilla.org/2025/03/improving-firefox-stabilit...</a><p>That's how Trellix and Broadcom integrate with it as well.</p>
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