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It's never been a better time to switch to Firefox (www.androidpolice.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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• Firefox offers better privacy and security than Chrome, with upcoming support for 200 new add-ons. • While Chrome dominates, Firefox gains ground with user-friendly browsing experience and open-source model. • Mozilla's focus on user privacy and transparency challenges Google's ad-centric approach, making Firefox a viable alternative.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Neither network.security.ports.banned nor network.security.ports.banned.override are defined by default in Firefox so I suspect the distro set them for you. Same for FTP. And I've never had any issues playing Twitch streams.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Generally curious how that would work. So how/why should a distro do that?

The port issue is a common one if you google it and I even had it in windows. The variable is empty because you set the exceptions there. No value = all ports are blocked.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know why distro maintainers do what they do, but they can use policies or autoconfig to set non-standard default values. It's commonly used to set the distro homepage as the default page when you open Firefox but I guess some distros take that a bit further.

As you can see from some of the other replies many of us don't have those config options by default, and according to the Mozilla Knowledge Base these options are not set by default in Firefox: "This preference does not exist by default."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for elaborating, this is really much appreciated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know why distro maintainers do what they do, but they can use policies or autoconfig to set non-standard default values. It's commonly used to set the distro homepage as the default page when you open Firefox but I guess some distros take that a bit further.

As you can see from some of the other replies many of us don't have those config options by default, and according to the Mozilla Knowledge Base these options are not set by default in Firefox: "This preference does not exist by default."