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Re: Firefox 77

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Post by dtech »

pcx wrote: post #24

Everyone not happy with pocket recommendations, what is the alternate source of revenue? Not enough will pay for the product. On the other hand Mozilla has to compete with Apple, Google & Microsoft, all of whom are fighting hard for the Web. Mozilla is doing good overall. They are doing some fundamental work to get back the technical edge, still trying to keep the future of the platform open with WebAssembly and thei…

I would very happily pay a couple of bucks a month (I already do through their donations) to get the "ad-free" version of Firefox.

Not sure if it can work for Firefox, but there are enough freemium apps on mobile which seem to make it work

Re: Firefox 77

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Post by tgv »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #54

And now my address bar expands on click, because browser.urlbar.update1 was removed from about:config. I knew this day was coming, but I'm still not happy it's here. The movement is distracting, and the alignment of the bar's expanded state is terrible. There's a reason most graphic design follows a grid system. We need a way to turn this off. I realize the old about:config flag was tied to a legacy code pathway, but…

It's really obtrusive. It takes up too much space, perhaps only by 2 pixels on each side or so, but it's too much, the contrast is too large, the outline is too heavy, and the a m o u n t o f w h i t e s p a c e is plain annoying.

Why do they persist in these ugly design shenanigans?

Re: Firefox 77

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Post by [deleted] »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #54

And now my address bar expands on click, because browser.urlbar.update1 was removed from about:config. I knew this day was coming, but I'm still not happy it's here. The movement is distracting, and the alignment of the bar's expanded state is terrible. There's a reason most graphic design follows a grid system. We need a way to turn this off. I realize the old about:config flag was tied to a legacy code pathway, but…

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Re: Firefox 77

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Post by gonational »

CaioAlonso wrote: post #46

I would financially support a fork of Firefox with all the garbage removed. The home page bullshit, Pocket, all the automatic requests made without user action, and more that I probably don't know of.

+100

I will pay $100 annually, but I would need assurances that the telemetry is also 100% removed (no calls home, WHATSOEVER).

Re: Firefox 77

#85

Post by ekianjo »

jfk13 wrote: post #28
sunseb wrote: post #15

No Firefox, no! Please don't embed distraction directly into the browser (pocket recommendations)! I don't want to hear about Coronavirus or ongoing politics bullshit whenever I open a tab! I just want to ignore this noise.

Fortunately, you can turn it off if you don't like it.

There will be a day where the option to remove it will be gone.

Re: Firefox 77

#86

Post by [deleted] »

sunseb wrote: post #15

No Firefox, no! Please don't embed distraction directly into the browser (pocket recommendations)! I don't want to hear about Coronavirus or ongoing politics bullshit whenever I open a tab! I just want to ignore this noise.

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Re: Firefox 77

#88

Post by MikusR »

For me his release broke uBlock Origin (Dashboard shows only menu without options and doesn't block anything), Twitter doesn't load, Reddit doesn't load

Re: Firefox 77

#89

Post by brmgb »

pcx wrote: post #43
bzb3 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They could use the donations to improve Firefox, to pay the salaries of the engineers, instead of all the political nonsense they do with the foundation. Yes, your donations go towards that. And they could cut the salaries of management instead of giving themselves raises. Instead we got ads in the home page.

1. They are doing it with substantially less budget than their competitors. 2. Developers shouldn't have to build software for the greater good by sacrificing their livelihood. 3. I am pretty sure many people building all this amazing tech can definitely get paid better in other places 4. These days when someone like Facebook fails to be bold, I would prefer to support someone like Mozilla who walks the talk.

> 2. Developers shouldn't have to build software for the greater good by sacrificing their livelihood.

No one is talking about the developers. Mitchell Baker received $2,458,350 in 2018. That's up from $1,035,114 in 2014.

Have you seen the incredible results which justified this tremendous raise? Personally, I haven't.

Re: Firefox 77

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Post by cygx »

butz wrote: post #72
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #54

And now my address bar expands on click, because browser.urlbar.update1 was removed from about:config. I knew this day was coming, but I'm still not happy it's here. The movement is distracting, and the alignment of the bar's expanded state is terrible. There's a reason most graphic design follows a grid system. We need a way to turn this off. I realize the old about:config flag was tied to a legacy code pathway, but…

I'll probably try fixing that horrible location bar improvement with some custom userChrome.css https://www.userchrome.org/megabar-styling-firefox-address-b... I already removed some unused items from context menu and it feels great. Sadly, userChrome.css modifications are considered "legacy" and probably one day will be removed. Why can't we have customizable browser UI? I'd prefer Firefox to be more like KDE and le…

Great minds think alike. My userChrome.css now looks like this: https://pastebin.com/L0PWz5BG

Note that this also removes the search stuff from the dropdown list, which may or may not be what you want (I prefer the separate search bar).

edit: depending on context, the

    .urlbarView-row:first-of-type { display: none !important }
rule does not necessarily remove the right thing; I can live with that, but your mileage may vary...
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