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Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Post by ryandrake »

cerberusss wrote: post #728
ryandrake wrote: post #708

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> Maintaining your own email server is crazy and not feasible unless you're passionate about email servers. Sorry but I think this is FUD and it potentially discouraged people from taking steps to be part of the solution and not the problem. I’ve run my own mail server for years on a $5/mo Linode VPS, and am not passionate about email servers. It was a little difficult to set up but no more difficult than a lot of we…

And you have no problems sending mail to Hotmail, and other more stringent mail providers?

The toughest problem I had was for a brief time, Comcast rejected mail sent from my host, but the reject log was sufficient to diagnose the problem. I just needed a fresh IPv6 address.

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Post by cerberusss »

ryandrake wrote: post #741
cerberusss wrote: post #728

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And you have no problems sending mail to Hotmail, and other more stringent mail providers?

The toughest problem I had was for a brief time, Comcast rejected mail sent from my host, but the reject log was sufficient to diagnose the problem. I just needed a fresh IPv6 address.

Thanks, very heartening to hear that this is not a problem!

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Post by triangleman »

triangleman wrote: post #668
red023 wrote: post #178

Mozilla is way better then the others but still not great. The numbers are so low because people do not care about any privacy whatsoever. I hope the pay the price one day and regret it. To name just one reason FFX sync is prate and secure by default unless all the others who use your bookmarks to sell them. You by default (you can disable it) share all you bookmarks with Google. Hell yeah hi Google I have torrent si…

Red, you're dead. It looks like you were banned some time in 2017.

I can read you because I went to my settings and turned on "showdead". But you are shadowbanned, so you don't know you're banned. It sucks and it's really mean; it's a big thing I don't like about this website.

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Post by adminu »

trynewideas wrote: post #692
r3bl wrote: post #582

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I use Firefox Focus as my primary browser (every crap I click on opens in it), and Firefox as my secondary (when I need tabs).

For those on Android, Focus does tabs. The interface is different and more hidden, which is feature-not-bug territory for Focus: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/open-new-tab-firefox-fo...

True, but not very nice to use. For example, if you change the tab, all other pages get unloaded and will reload if you change back to them. Very good for loosing where on the page you where.

It is not a big issue really as FFF (as I understand it) is not meant to be used for tabbing a lot and it prevents the usual tab accumulation.

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Post by Spastche »

internalfx wrote: post #597
bad_user wrote: post #480

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> “ I am tired of listening to people screaming their lungs out about privacy when their actions don't reflect their opinions. ” Those screaming for privacy, like myself, are in fact a small minority. Also regardless of the topic, double standards are rampant in this community. You’ll often see people screaming against Google but still using @gmail.com because paying for a domain and the price of one coffee per month…

I have run a Zimbra server for several years now, it's a full size enterprise grade email server. I can run it on a $10 droplet from Digital Ocean. $10 is kinda high just for my email, but the bonus is I host _all_ my family's mail. Wife, kids even mom and dad! It's been nice not being concerned about email privacy. Zimbra is a great piece of software. I think more people should look into it.

I hope you're checking to see if your IPs are blacklisted or not.

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Post by 0xADEADBEE »

pmoriarty wrote: post #234
0xADEADBEE wrote: post #183

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I am an edge-case but my favourite extensions are AdNauseum [1], CookieAutoDelete and NoScript. The first isn't even available on the Chrome store (although you can install it via Dev Mode [2]), and that's before I weight concerns like Google's dragnet. Totally agree with the Network Effect point though, and I hear Chrome's dev tools are quicker than Firefox's in DOM rendering. With regard to 2, I've not found it to…

I used NoScript forever, but recently switched to uMatrix, and it's so much better in that it gives you much more fine-grained control over what to block/allow. I'd recommend giving it a try. uBlock Origin is a great complement to it, for when I want to block specific page elements.

Thank you for this - I'd never looked into uMatrix but I'm test driving it today.

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Post by red023 »

triangleman wrote: post #743
triangleman wrote: post #668

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Red, you're dead. It looks like you were banned some time in 2017.

I can read you because I went to my settings and turned on "showdead". But you are shadowbanned, so you don't know you're banned. It sucks and it's really mean; it's a big thing I don't like about this website.

Thanks, I used political incorrect opinions or "evil" words I think. Fuck HN then.

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Post by luxecalendar »

dorgo wrote: post #680
eternalny1 wrote: post #593

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I've been using Firefox since it was Phoenix and Firebird in a zip file as a faster alternative to Netscape. I am loving Quantum, and I don't understand why Firefox continues to slide. With this Edge announcement (a new Microsoft Chromium browser), I'm nervous we're getting into not a duopoly, but potentially a monopoly.

> why Firefox continues to slide They broke extension support. Half of the extensions disappeared (didn't migrate to Quantum). The other half works only partially. One year after Quantum i still have a blank new tab because a custom html file in new tab would require an extension AND a web server. Sure, it is harder now for non-technical users to shoot themselves in the foot. On the other hand, Mozilla took away cont…

There might be a problem with your session history files getting locked and therefore Firefox doesn't update them. Could you take a look here and let me know what you find:

Open your current Firefox settings (AKA Firefox profile) folder using either

"3-bar" menu button > "?" button > Troubleshooting Information (menu bar) Help > Troubleshooting Information type or paste about:support in the address bar and press Enter In the first table on the page, click the "Show Folder" button.

In your profile folder, scroll down and double-click into the sessionstore-backups folder. You may see numerous files here. Of particular importance:

recovery.js: the windows and tabs in your currently live Firefox session -- if you check the modified date/time, is this fresh or is it from the time frame that keeps coming back? recovery.bak: a backup copy of recovery.js previous.js: the windows and tabs in your last Firefox session upgrade.js-build_id: the windows and tabs in the Firefox session that was live at the time of your last update Do you see any numbered files, such as recovery-1.js? Firefox may create those when it is unable to store your current session history in recovery.js. Unfortunately, at the next startup, those files are not used automatically.

Note: By default, Windows hides the .js extension. To ensure that you are looking at the files I mentioned, you may want to turn off that feature. This article has the steps: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/show-hide-file-na...

source:https://www.luxecalendar.com/

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Post by johnny22 »

snaky wrote: post #449
johnny22 wrote: post #430

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so they switched to browers that have less powerful extensions? No current popular browser matches firefox's extension power, even after the change.

They switched to browser with the same powerless extensions indeed. Because the difference is no more. An attitude of Mozilla Firefox team is against power users clearly for so long, and that's an only logical outcome.

that is nonsense. Mozilla offers more than Chrome even via web extensions.
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