Firefox 115: some add-ons may be blocked from running on certain sites 😮

[r0ckhopper]

Let’s hope the forthcoming UI improvements are sufficient.

[fbodymechanic]

So I was watching ads today on the new Firefox and I couldn’t believe how much I enjoy not getting to the thing I was trying to watch, and instead watching a thing I don’t care about and closing out pop ups.

Thanks Mozilla.

They do know almost no one uses Firefox, and pretty much the only ones of us who don’t use chrome or chrome browsers are almost exclusively the type of people who use ad blockers.

Are they trying to kill off the final few of us? Really??

Also this isn’t really true, I haven’t updated still. But when I do. . . Maybe it’s time to just use ungoogled chromium. I already need it for looking at plane tickets cause Delta site won’t work on Firefox anyways

[ricklinux]

I use Firefox and I have no issues.

[fbodymechanic]

Ah, the famous I have no issues.

FWIW - I also am having just a grand old time over here watching baseball and playing cyberpunk. Everything is great on my end

[ricklinux]

Cyberpunk sounds good. I just don’t know what sites you have all the pops ups or ads on with Firefox because i don’t seem to get that and i tried the Delta site and it seems fine here.

Edit: Honestly I just don’t get very many issues.

[Locutus]

@r0ckhopper

Firefox version 115 introduced Quarantined Domains to protect user privacy and security when we discover significant security issues presented by malicious actors. This feature allows us to prevent attacks by malicious actors targeting specific domains when we have reason to believe there may be malicious add-ons we have not yet discovered. Users can also control this behavior for each add-on in the Add-on Manager (about:addons) starting with Firefox version 116. We will be further improving the UI for users in future releases.

Translation we know what is best for EVERYONE so please F off and deal with it.

[pebcak]

@r0ckhopper

This feature allows us to prevent attacks by malicious actors targeting specific domains when we have reason to believe there may be malicious add-ons we have not yet discovered.

This sounds quite convincing

Beware of the Unknown Unknowns

[fbodymechanic]

@ricklinux

Delta site and it seems fine here

Book a ticket.

It doesn’t work, it hasn’t got a couple years. AA also. . .

[joekamprad]

@dalto

It seems to read the list of domains from a preference at the moment. Namely, extensions.quarantinedDomains.list.

where should this list be stored?

[pycrk]

what do the values mean here? never visited the sites

autoatendimento.bb.com.br,ibpf.sicredi.com.br,ibpj.sicredi.com.br,internetbanking.caixa.gov.br,www.ib12.bradesco.com.br,www2.bancobrasil.com.br

[anon49550872]

These are bank sites in Brazil, bb means Brazil Bank (Banco do Brasil).
Let me search sicredi.com.br

Edit:
sicredi is also a bank in Brazil.
Caixa is also a bank in Brazil (Caixa econômica).
Bradesco, same thing.

[pebcak]

Was extensions.quarantinedDomains.list already populated on your browser?

[anon49550872]

My list has the same things

[dalto]

@joekamprad

where should this list be stored?

That is the actual list. Am I understanding your question?

@pycrk

what do the values mean here? never visited the sites

It means you visit one of those sites, some of your addons might be disabled for those sites depending on your other settings.

@anon49550872

My list has the same things

Interesting, my list is empty. Does it somehow populate those if you are in brazil I wonder?

[pebcak]

Yepp!

Now mine is populated as well! It wasn’t yesterday.

GODzilla at work!

[anon49550872]

@dalto

Interesting, my list is empty. Does it somehow populate those if you are in brazil I wonder?

Could be… I really don’t know.
I wonder if these sites were included after yesterday’s update of Firefox… (115.0.1)

[pebcak]

@dalto

Does it somehow populate those if you are in brazil I wonder?

I am not. Yet mine is populated as well.

I wonder which one of my extensions the Guardian Angels have “reason to believe” that might be “malicious” and “not yet discovered”

[sammiev]

I never been to any of the sites listed and they are populated in the browser.

[dalto]

Mine is empty. Oh, maybe because I have been testing this feature with the nightly version of Firefox? Perhaps it behaves differently?

[pebcak]

I am on nightly right now.
Perhaps they are just rolling it out at different stages?