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(even) more privacy with Firefox Containers

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Being wary of all things tracking by Google & Facebook, both of who’s products I love but data capturing practices I hate, for the last 4 years or so I always logged in into these in “Private browsing” sessions in Firefox (because why trust the worlds biggest advertising platform with your privacy, right?)

Now I just “discovered” that the Mozilla team have rendered that somewhat clumsy procedure -which required me to log in each time I restarted my computer or browser- redundant with their “Firefox Multi-Account Containers” add-on, allowing you to contain entire sessions to one (or more) tabs;

Firefox Containers

Watch this video on YouTube.

So now I have one browser window with a couple of tabs in the Google container, one tab in a Facebook container and all others in the “default” container where Google & Facebook can’t track me (fingerprinting aside, but there’s an option for that).

Autoptimize featured on The CommonSenSEO Show

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I had a nice chat on The CommonSenSEO Show, if you want to hear me ramble you can do so in this video;

Google Pagespeed Insights: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly on The CommonSenSEO Show No.20

Watch this video on YouTube.

And if you’re into SEO, do subscribe to the channel!

We just joined the club!

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Autoptimize just joined the “1+ million active installs”-club. Crazy!

I’m very happy, thanks everyone for using, thanks for the support-questions & all the great feedback therein and especially thanks to the people who actively contributed and especially-especially to Emilio López (Turl) for creating Autoptimize and handing it over to me back in 2013 and to Tomaš Trkulja who cleaned up al lot of the messy code I added to it and introducing me to PHP codesniffer & Travis CI tests.

Google Font display swap in Autoptimize?

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Autoptimize 2.5.1 (out earlier this week) does not have an option to enforce font-display on Google Fonts just yet, but this little code snippet does exactly that;

add_filter('autoptimize_filter_extra_gfont_fontstring','add_display');
function add_display($in) {
  return $in.'&display=swap';
}

Happy swapping (or fallback-ing or optional-ing) :-)

Easter bunny special: Autoptimize 2.5

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Autoptimize 2.5 has been released earlier today (April 22nd).

Main focus of this release is more love for image optimization, now on a separate tab and including lazyload and WebP support.

Lots of other bugfixes and smaller improvements too off course, e.g. an option to disable the minification of excluded CSS/ JS (which 2.4 did by default).

No Easter eggs in there though :-)