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Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by burtonator »

RussianCow wrote: post #388
OrgNet wrote: post #382

Its a bit late for this .... not sure if it will make any difference... the people still using firefox are using addons to do that... but sure its a step in the right direction

We need to eradicate this myth that only power users use Firefox anymore. There are plenty of laypeople still using it that never switched to Chrome, or recently switched to Firefox for privacy or other reasons, and those people generally don't use many addons (if any at all) or change the settings from the defaults. I don't know what the actual percentage is, but I'm sure Mozilla knows the answer, and I'd be willing…

So far I'm seeing very few people using my app in Firefox... they're mostly chrome. By about 80%... and a ton are from Hacker News... Makes it hard to justify coding for Firefox but I'm trying.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by geofft »

RussianCow wrote: post #388
OrgNet wrote: post #382

Its a bit late for this .... not sure if it will make any difference... the people still using firefox are using addons to do that... but sure its a step in the right direction

We need to eradicate this myth that only power users use Firefox anymore. There are plenty of laypeople still using it that never switched to Chrome, or recently switched to Firefox for privacy or other reasons, and those people generally don't use many addons (if any at all) or change the settings from the defaults. I don't know what the actual percentage is, but I'm sure Mozilla knows the answer, and I'd be willing…

The nice thing is that Mozilla makes this data easily available. You can see from the "Latest Version" graph on https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity that a) about 75% of Firefox users are getting updates to the latest version and b) that number did not appear to change with the release of Firefox 57. So there are approximately zero users staying on pre-Quantum versions of Firefox.

(Perhaps there are users of Pale Moon or other pre-Quantum forks?)

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by tzhenghao »

I think the core problem is still tab clutter. Every time I hop onto my iPad to do some light browsing, I have less anxiety. I don't keep many tabs open on mobile/tablet, but I'm already counting 8 opened here as I'm typing on my laptop.

Sure, almost everything mentioned in the article is problematic. Then again, maybe it's just us programmed to hit Ctrl-T too much over a decade...

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by pacifika »

burtonator wrote: post #391
RussianCow wrote: post #388

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We need to eradicate this myth that only power users use Firefox anymore. There are plenty of laypeople still using it that never switched to Chrome, or recently switched to Firefox for privacy or other reasons, and those people generally don't use many addons (if any at all) or change the settings from the defaults. I don't know what the actual percentage is, but I'm sure Mozilla knows the answer, and I'd be willing…

So far I'm seeing very few people using my app in Firefox... they're mostly chrome. By about 80%... and a ton are from Hacker News... Makes it hard to justify coding for Firefox but I'm trying.

RIP IE6

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by Improvotter »

sercand wrote: post #367
yogthos wrote: post #322

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I've been using FF on macOS for the past year and haven't noticed any problems with the battery. I'm not sure what the problems are with scrolling, downloading, or playing media are either to be honest.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=909760 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1104146 are the issues for downloading which are 4 and 6 years old. Chrome and Safari support keyboard multimedia keys to play/pause video and audio which firefox does not. Picture in Picture is not available on Firefox. Pinch and double tap gestures to zoom are not available. Scrolling does not follow system conventi…

> Pinch and double tap gestures to zoom are not available. Scrolling does not follow system conventions like overflow kinetic scrolling.

I find this hugely annoying as well on MacOS when using the touchpad. This is also the reason why I stick to iOS instead of going for Android. All of these details are great on my laptop and phone, though they're not what I really need on my desktop.

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