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They should bring back Brian Eich, things were better for the users when he was in charge.
1) That's not his name. 2) "Things were better before so let's revert to where we were five years ago" is a terrible strategy.
I mean, if things really were better before, reverting to how they were sounds like a pretty good strategy. That's kind of a tautology.
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Yup I wasnt saying we shouldnt provide .deb files, I dont know why we dont and sounds like a perfectly reasonable request. I was just replying to the comment making a point about being accessible to the average user, the average user of Firefox is not manually installing updates on Ubuntu
Hehe, point taken. That's the paretto principle too, spending a bunch of time on a small segment of your users wouldn't make much sense either, especially since most of them are fully capable of working with the system as it is. Also, since it updates in place anyways, which is nifty, I guess this comment mainly applies to other software I've used which is a royal pain to install...
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> They could try to offer some kind of "pay us to forgo marketing partnerships" deal, but I somehow doubt even most of the well-paid privacy advocates on HN would sign up. I would pay for this, provided it was a one time payment! (I feel I need to add that caveat nowadays, since subscriptions are all the rage.)
> I would pay for this, provided it was a one time payment! The problem is that web browsers require some of the most intensive software maintenance of any software, ever. They're one of the most exposed attack surfaces to external security threats; and piles of new features are unfortunately getting continuously added to web standards, which need to be supported for compatibility reasons. I think a one time tip-jar…
Subscriptions are just difficult to manage, I can't deal with individual recurring costs for so many pieces of software.
I feel like I've been waiting a long time for autoplay blocking - does this keep being pushed back or have I missed a feature cancellation/config setting/extension announcement?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/disable-autop...
>Firefox will now warn you when closing a window (regardless of whether you have automatic session restore enabled for restart). To whoever is responsible for pushing this change through: Thank you.
Source: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=502908#c68
> We don't intend to add a third, separate pref/warning for people who do want to have a quit warning, don't turn on session restore, and don't want warnings when closing windows / multiple tabs (ie making browser.tabs.warnOnClose = false + no automatic session restore + browser.warnOnQuit = true show a dialog is not something we're interested in doing.
Recently switched from chromium to Firefox. Very pleased with its performance. Android Firefox demolishes chrome too but probably just because I no longer need to download and render all the ads (thanks ublock.) While I was at it I also took the chance to migrate passwords out of Google land into Bitwarden. Session restore is amazing, my .cache is tmpfs but it still manages to instantly recover all my tabs on reboot.…
Are profiles something available on vanilla Firefox (no extensions)? Thanks!
Recently switched from chromium to Firefox. Very pleased with its performance. Android Firefox demolishes chrome too but probably just because I no longer need to download and render all the ads (thanks ublock.) While I was at it I also took the chance to migrate passwords out of Google land into Bitwarden. Session restore is amazing, my .cache is tmpfs but it still manages to instantly recover all my tabs on reboot.…
Are profiles something available on vanilla Firefox (no extensions)? Thanks!
Manager:
firefox -p
Ordirect access:
firefox -p "account name"
I believe containers are available without an add-on using aboutconfig but that may have changed or it may not be full functionality.
I have turned on Webrender in FF66a (nightly) and it’s fantastic; it sped up a site I quickly threw together for a friend no end [1] and almost everything with lots of graphical painting is buttery smooth. Even though they are only starting in nightly to make it the default on Nvidia hardware it seems to work without incident so far on this 2016 AMD Radeon’d MacBook Pro. [1] https://uparchitects.co.uk/ [2] https://di…
Is it just me, or the font used by FF is changed on OSX? It's a bit crispier and it's not antialiased
Fonts are much beefier for me on OS X. Here is a side by side of Chrome looking at the same PR. https://i.imgur.com/U5eQdqZ.png https://i.imgur.com/wHKa4Zu.png Edit: This made a difference for me, but it's also changed the feel of every UI element on my mac. I think it's a net win but will take getting used to: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/aj3p2v/fonts_too_b... tl;dr - disable 'use font smoothing when av…
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Have they ever tried crowdfunding campaigns? I don't think so. Wikipedia seems to be doing fine with it. At least they should experiment with some ideas in that line and see what works.
And then people will complain that Mozilla is nagging them for money. I doubt anyone likes the nag screen that Wikipedia pops down about 15 seconds into reading a page and it covering almost half the screen. Wikipedia has sufficient marketshare to survive despite that. The ads that mozilla shows are fairly privacy-friendly, much more than any other ads you'd find on most websites. That's an improvement. If you don't…