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Firebug was really a pioneer in the devtools, but for so long Firefox just allowed it to be the defacto Dev tools that google ended up lapping them. And they we made to play catch up
Once developers started jumping, they convinced slowly got their relatives or non techs friends to switch.
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Hardware acceleration works just fine for me on Linux (granted, I had to flip a few values in about:config). And all the Wayland glitches have been fixed months ago.
It wasn't even enabled until this release for video. It has been working on Chromium for over 2 years, if not longer. The Wayland issues have improved after trying it out just now, but I still often get artifacts when resizing and switching between fullscreen and split screen.
I am a pretty ardent Firefox supporter and prefer it over Chrome but some of the issues are still jarring and really affect the user experience. E.g. this 10 year old bug which I still have to deal with multiple times every month where if you have couple of windows open with one having pinned tabs and close the other one first, the pinned tabs are not restored upon restart: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?i…
Agreed. I'm tracking a 7 year old bug to support ` ` that's probably an easy win, given the foundation work is completed by supporting other date input formats. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=888320
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57342
(this has become less relevant in recent years as "everyone" uses github to present source to the world, and websites in general vanish in favour of social media)
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Yes, I wish there was a clear way to fund Firefox development. You can (and I do) donate to the Mozilla Foundation, although the funding relationship between the Mozilla Foundation and Firefox isn't clear. I believe that if Google's funding were to become insufficient, then the Foundation would step in to fund it if they have the funds, which is why I donate to them. But I don't know if this is actually the case.
> the funding relationship between the Mozilla Foundation and Firefox isn't clear It's not really an unknown. Donations to Mozilla Foundation do not and cannot fund Firefox development. > if Google's funding were to become insufficient, then the Foundation would step in to fund it if they have the funds There are two assumptions here that are off. One is that the Foundation could come up with the kind of money that t…
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Agreed. I'm tracking a 7 year old bug to support ` ` that's probably an easy win, given the foundation work is completed by supporting other date input formats. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=888320
I have a 20 year old feature request to support "if type is text/plain (maybe text/*) and firefox brings up the download box, add the option to just view it in the browser in the first place". https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57342 (this has become less relevant in recent years as "everyone" uses github to present source to the world, and websites in general vanish in favour of social media)
[0] http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=3062694
So I'm on macOS using Safari for web browsing, chrome for work (web app + backend). I'm on the younger side so chrome has been omnipresent. I do not mean to understate the importance of privacy in the modern web, so don't misunderstand my question. Why would someone, as a developer and a user, want to use Firefox over Safari (mostly) and Chrome (for work).