Been using firefox ever since chrome became unusuable from a memory perspective to use without the great suspender a few years back. Been happy with the change ever since. Hope the company continues to thrive.
Thank you, Chris
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#72Using chance to comment, even though I like Firefox a lot and writing this comment from Firefox, I am switching to Chrome in Android. Every time when I need to pay something web sites redirect me to my bank site, which has good mobile app, Firefox doesn't open necessary app, which forces me to log in again and again from browser, Chrome opens banking app, where I already have all things set up. This is one example of…
I usually see a button of an Android next to the URL bar on sites that have a compatible app. Take for example watching a YouTube video on FF. If I click on it, FF opens the associated app.
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#73Chris was great from what I have seen, but I think Mozilla needs a CEO that knows how to increase market share.
When Firefox decimated Internet Explorer in the 2000s, it was just... better. And I think Chrome had some fairly obvious gains over Firefox and IE which led it to gain market share. I was an early adopter of Chrome, but that was in the days before Google seemed so sinister... I use Firefox now because I care about privacy, and I'd rather use a browser developed by a non-profit that cares about that as well. But I sus…
Chrome also has a persistent advantage in being able to advertise Chrome on google search results.
Which they do, if you access them using a non-Chrome browser, or at least used to... I confess I'm not sure because I still use Chrome. I agree with you about the advantage of "if you're already using it, something has to be a LOT better to get you to switch".
Re: Thank you, Chris
#74Using chance to comment, even though I like Firefox a lot and writing this comment from Firefox, I am switching to Chrome in Android. Every time when I need to pay something web sites redirect me to my bank site, which has good mobile app, Firefox doesn't open necessary app, which forces me to log in again and again from browser, Chrome opens banking app, where I already have all things set up. This is one example of…
Does the little Android icon in the address bar not open the correct app?
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#75Chris was great from what I have seen, but I think Mozilla needs a CEO that knows how to increase market share.
Mozilla is now openly peeing in Google's punch all the while being dependent on piles of money they take from it. At some point Google will get tired of this and will withdraw from the agreement. They won't be the default search provider, but that will play to their advantage - Firefox out-of-the-box user experience will take a sharp nose dive. Say all you want about DDG and alternatives, but they still can't hold a…
Are you sure the season that G gives you "better" results is not a consequence of them tracking you everywhere and know your preferences and habits?
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd be happy to support Mozilla financially, but I'm too lazy to go figure out how to do it. Link me to a Patreon, or shove some subscription model more prominently in my face, Mozilla.
https://donate.mozilla.org/en-US/?presets=50,30,20,10&amount... There's a monthly option right there
Yeah but I have to go remember to do it and stuff. Meanwhile at ArsTechnica.com, it shows a big banner telling me to subscribe, and I do. More reminders that I can give money to Mozilla would remind me to do it. Eventually they'd hit me at the right time/place to put in the effort to set up a sub, and I would.
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
How about not duplicating your post simply because the first one got downvoted?
Well to my defense, people seemed trigerred by my first sentence and then overlooked the proposal, that was my understanding. Thus I reposted without the sentence to gather a more useful feedback than dislikes.
Nobody was "triggered", which is a profoundly disrespectful co-opting of a term of art used with regard to mental illness. You should not use it as such.
I downvoted you because I think what you're saying is crank stuff. I flagged you because you were whining about all the haters--err, sorry, downvoters--in contravention of HN standards, and because you spammed about it.
Surely a "rationalist" can understand this, yes?
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
Leaving has a negative connotation
Does it? What alternative accurate wording would you suggest? Everything else I can think of is euphemism. Leaving a job is ... leaving a job. It doesn't say why .
When you leave, one has to be "left behind". It doesn't speak to an amicable outcome.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Say all you want about DDG and alternatives, but they still can't hold a candle to Google's search quality. I'm rather torn on this point. On one hand, yes, DDG for example feels some years behind Google in its relevance ranking. On the other, Google itself has been degrading the quality of its own results with ads, etc. so badly that they've seriously degraded their own "above the fold" relevant results.
I've always written off Duck Duck Go in the past, but lately after not being able to find relevant info on Google, I've been giving them a go and have been rather impressed. Especially on image results, which are way nicer to use and give you direct image links. Plus they don't obfuscate all the URLs with tracking redirects, so I can copy a link without visiting a page (that might redirect the URL on me again.) There…
> Especially on image results, which (...) give you direct image links.
Google removed that after pressure from the copyright lobby (they got sued by Getty). It'll happen to DDG too if they ever become big enough.
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#80I hope whoever replaces him will inspire the Firefox team to stop dropping support for features I use. Probably not, but one can dream.
Firefox is an open source project. I'm sure if you pitched in with time and / or money to maintain said features, they'd be much less likely to disappear.
Assuming this is naivete and not a deliberate attempt to mislead... Firefox is an open source project, but here is no openness in the product management. The decisions regarding features to keep or discard are determined by politics internal to Mozilla.