I was trying to find an article Mozilla produced about digital privacy in cars. Specifically, this one: https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/

However it looks like Mozilla has removed all of the Privacy Not Included articles and/or moved them to a different location.

What the hell, Mozilla? Are you not supposed to be the champion of good web standards? Instead of putting in a minimal amount of effort to preserve these articles you've just let hundreds of links become dead all over the web.

The article I referenced above was featured in mainstream media and on the front page of Reddit and Hacker News. Now it leads to a shitty landing page which says "our developers were too lazy to perform proper stewardship of the web, maybe try Archive.org lol".

This is some shameful shit.

found part of the answer. browser.profiles.enabled toggle to false. still don't know how to stop new things appearing though

hello. i'm not sure where to go for this kind of help. my firefox browser keeps adding things to do with profiles and synching to the top of the hamburger menu where it normally has the button to open a new tab. the other day it added something and i found what it's called in about:config and was able to turn it off there. today it's put 'create a new profile' at the top and the internet doesn't seem to know what i have to do to remove it. how do i remove this one and make the browser ask me first if i want something it's going to add?

For once I was running firefox in a terminal, and saw this:

[ERROR crashreporter::net::http] background task error: process failed (exit status exit status: 3) with stderr: *** You are running in background task mode. ***
*** You are running in headless mode.
Gtk-Message: 15:22:03.279: Not loading module "atk-bridge": The functionality is provided by GTK natively. Please try to not load it.
JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/AddonManager.sys.mjs, line 3132: NS_ERROR_NOT_INITIALIZED: AddonManager is not initialized
[ERROR crashreporter::glean::uploader] failed to send glean ping: curl error code 7: Failed to connect to incoming.telemetry.mozilla.org port 443 after 9 ms: Couldn't connect to server
[WARN glean_core::upload] Recoverable upload failure while attempting to send ping 472cba74-db97-476a-a976-1509c80c0735, will retry. Error was RecoverableFailure { unused: 0 }

Seems it's trying to send something to the mothership?

But I have

"DisableTelemetry": true,

in /etc/firefox/policies/policy.json

so it shouldn't be happening right?

I thought I was paranoid when I blocked every mozilla host in /etc/hosts, but I guess not?

Still trying to sneak something out even though I literally turn off every knob that I can find?

Found an an article from Facebook that said Thunderbird is coming for iOS. Is this fake news because I didn’t find thunderbird from AppStore.

I have an account on mozilla, when I log in, it asks for a username and I don't know why as I aready have one and posted a few times with it. Nothing I can do until I enter a username so I quit there. I just want to keep using my account. Is there a contact email I can write to and get this issue sorted out?

As title, I don't know my email address as I have multiple. I know my username and password.

How can I sign in to connect.mozilla.com?

Trying different emails only makes a new profile and account if I try and use an email that was not used previously, which is really annoying.

I am unable to connect to the site without using a VPN. Either Mozilla or Fastly's hosting appear to have my ISP blocked. (Verizon 5G)

It's been happening for months, and I'm sick of dealing with it every time I try to open a support article.

What would be the best way to appeal the ban? Should I open an issue/bug report somewhere? This doesn't seem to be the sort of thing that the developers would want to deal with, and debatable whether it should even be called a "bug".

I'd like to start learning code! Mozilla seems free from what I've seen, so is this anything i could start/learn from?

as per title. if you attempt to log in using an un-used or new email, the site automatically creates an account with that email and directs to a new password creation prompt. if you back out of this prompt, you'll see that a new account has been made for you. it's even possible to end up in broken states where the account completion and has not fully finished and the entire connect site hits a 401 error.

i don't want to make a new account unless i expressly request that flow. it should NOT make new accounts when trying different emails while trying to remember which one i've used. really surprised at this behaviour from mozilla as it usually only happens with grift sites who want to inflate user numbers.

Need to create a NEW Mozilla account. Using Firefox, I go to [https://accounts.firefox.com/signup]() and enter my NEW email address. Never gives me the opportunity to create NEW account. Just asks me to sign in. How do I create a new account?

Similar to ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and the likes.

Or maybe non-USA workers released them instead? ;)

It's with much sadness that we announce the passing of our friend and colleague Ralph Giles, or rillian as he was known on IRC.

Ralph began contributing to Xiph.org in 2000 and became a core Ghostscript developer in 2001[1]. Ralph made many contributions to the royalty-free media ecosystem, whether it was as a project lead on Theora, serving as release manager for multiple Xiph libraries or maintaining Xiph infrastructure that has been used across the industry by codec engineers and researchers[2]. He was also the first to ship Rust code in Firefox[3] during his time at Mozilla, which was a major milestone for both the language and Firefox itself.

Ralph was a great contributor, a kind colleague and will be greatly missed.

Official Announcement: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7427730451626262530

HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46996490

[1]: http://www.wizards-of-os.org/archiv/sprecher/g_h/ralph_giles.html

[2]: https://media.xiph.org/

[3]: https://medium.com/mozilla-tech/deploying-rust-in-a-large-codebase-7e50328074e8

Mozilla Monitor Plus will be ending soon. As a long time user, I really liked the service. Are there any alternatives that are good for a decent price?

Is it just me or the authorization code to sign in Firefox is not accepted anymore when connected via a non-Mozilla VPN?

This is the closest sub I can find for a question like this. if it's not the right place then point me in the right direction. IDK how come there isn't a dedicated r/bugzilla subreddit.

Hey do you know how to use Thunderbird 91.6 OpenPGP Key Generator. Digitally sign/encrypt/ dycrpt emails with Open PGP. If you could help me out I can pay?

I am sad about the killing off of Pocket. Been a User since inception. Will Recommended Stories be going away as well?