Firefox version 52 is intrusive

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cynthia ramon
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Firefox version 52 is intrusive

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How can I stop Fire Fox from blocking websites on the ground of insecure or ownership not known. Why is facebook secure and daily kos not? I have used Fire Fox as a browser for 12 years because it was an open, people's, user friendly site. I tried using the permissions page but find it does not work. Ironically even logging in here was a pain as the insecure password window was in my way. If there is no way to stop this overt censorship and intrusiveness in version52 how can I as a non- geek go back to a version that does not police my browsing. I do not want to use Google Chrome, I don't like google, and this is the reason I use Firefox.. I want to be able to read and sign into websites that I decide are secure without jumping through Fire Fox's insane hoops. Anyone have a suggestion on how to handle this. What's with this obsessive concern and intrusive policing of my online browsing? Blocking images because they are insecure and using defaults that I have not selected is another problem. Do I have to be a programmer to make it possible to browse on my own computer?
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Re: Firefox version 52 is intrusive

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Moving to Firefox Support as no bug has been identified here.
cynthia ramon
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Re: Firefox version 52 is intrusive

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How about a link to wherever you moved this? No bug but a major problem and no solution that Fire Fox support seems willing to address. Too bad I really loved this browser but Chrome here I come. I have tried for the last month to find a solution on Firefox support and all I get is a runaround and bs about how all this ridiculous security this is for my own good or some such nonsense. I'm a graphic artist and the loading of images censorship is just not tolerable. Adios it was nice being here for the 12 years that allowed me to browse freely.
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There is no link as you are posting in the very thread you posted as it was moved from the Firefox Bugs to Firefox support section of http://forums.mozillazine.org

If you look at the bottom of the right sidebar and at http://www.mozillazine.org/about/ you will see that this is a independent forum. Mozilla has had their own support site at support.mozilla.org since 2007/2008. Also there are no mozilla.org links on top/bottom like a typical *.mozilla.org page as another hint.

btw other web browsers are or will be doing a similar thing with insecure websites.
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Go to about:config and set "security.insecure_field_warning.contextual.enabled" to "false" to turn that off. That will get rid of the insecure login warning.
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why do people always start ranting instead asking for a solution? in special users which uses firefox for so long time - those should know all about changes for this product. and dont using the current release - crying at high level with an insecure product.
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Note that the dailykos website has a certificate installed, but loads a lot of content via an open HTTP connection which will make Firefox show the connection as insecure anyway.
https://www.dailykos.com/
You can see this in the Network Monitor
https://developer.mozilla.org/Tools/Network_Monitor
https://developer.mozilla.org/Tools/Web_Console

See also:
https://developer.mozilla.org/Security/MixedContent
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/mi ... ng-firefox

https://blog.mozilla.org/tanvi/2016/01/ ... tp-please/
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2017/ ... cure-http/
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