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Re: Firefox Voice

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So let me get this straight. They break global keyboard shortcuts, which people could use to play/pause media on different websites three years ago: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1411795 and instead of fixing that, they introduce this shit? Fuck Mozilla. I am already using Waterfox, looks like that wont be changing any time soon.

Unless they only have one engineer, adding a new feature is not at the expense of fixing one bug.

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Yeah, Mozilla is not what it used to be. I guess it's just wishful thinking that makes it so easy to forget.

They just pushed an update on android on me that disabled all addons except uBO because they don't support them yet, a few hours ago. That was the last straw that broke the camels back for me, after using FF since 1.0. Just rm -rf'd my firefox profile on my desktop a few minutes ago. I've defended them for a long time even if I didn't agree with everything they did, but they're so completely off the rails, enough is…

What browser are you going to use now? Any tips?

Re: Firefox Voice

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post #37

So let me get this straight. They break global keyboard shortcuts, which people could use to play/pause media on different websites three years ago: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1411795 and instead of fixing that, they introduce this shit? Fuck Mozilla. I am already using Waterfox, looks like that wont be changing any time soon.

Unless they only have one engineer, adding a new feature is not at the expense of fixing one bug.

Yet somehow they haven't allocated 1/N engineers to fix a 3 year old accessibility bug.

Re: Firefox Voice

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

They just pushed an update on android on me that disabled all addons except uBO because they don't support them yet, a few hours ago. That was the last straw that broke the camels back for me, after using FF since 1.0. Just rm -rf'd my firefox profile on my desktop a few minutes ago. I've defended them for a long time even if I didn't agree with everything they did, but they're so completely off the rails, enough is…

What browser are you going to use now? Any tips?

Switched over to Brave, as they have extensions on mobile cooking with POC videos on twitter. Hopefully they can accelerate it a bit. I think the HN crowd doesn't like brave though, idk, I do. IMO a lot of shit they get flak for are people not actually understanding. Like no, they don't replace ads on websites without their consent, or at least that's what they say.

Re: Firefox Voice

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unless they only have one engineer, adding a new feature is not at the expense of fixing one bug.

Yet somehow they haven't allocated 1/N engineers to fix a 3 year old accessibility bug.

Whether they are non-profit or not, they still run like a business, and the business decision to allocate resources are likely to use the same metrics as any other businesses - maximize profit protential (however you define it).

It may just be that fixing accessibility bugs just doesn't produce much "profit".

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I'm sorry, but cloud based speech recognition in itself would already be a red flag, even if Mozilla was doing it in-house. Outsourcing it to Google though? I feel like a company as ostensibly privacy-focused as Mozilla should really know better by now...

Yeah, Mozilla is not what it used to be. I guess it's just wishful thinking that makes it so easy to forget.

hoping they are able to continue their efforts and be more respectful. they are the only company that i am fully lenient with to "allow analytics" in hopes that they are able to improve and compete with the more nefarious competitors.

Re: Firefox Voice

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, Mozilla is not what it used to be. I guess it's just wishful thinking that makes it so easy to forget.

They just pushed an update on android on me that disabled all addons except uBO because they don't support them yet, a few hours ago. That was the last straw that broke the camels back for me, after using FF since 1.0. Just rm -rf'd my firefox profile on my desktop a few minutes ago. I've defended them for a long time even if I didn't agree with everything they did, but they're so completely off the rails, enough is…

The writing's been on the wall for a while now. I call it "The Mozilla Shuffle". Power features start out built into the menu. Then they get pushed to settings. Then they go to a key in about:config. Then you have to make the key yourself. Then they start ignoring the key but there's an extension that puts support back. Then the functionality which runs the extension gets disabled but if you're really determined you can work some magic with userChrome to get it back. Then you have to make keys in about:config to make it take the changes in userChrome. Finally, it's disabled entirely with no way to get back.

But hey, at least these days I get the benefit of having to use two completely separate methods to tell Pocket to get the hell out of my browser.

Re: Firefox Voice

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, Mozilla is not what it used to be. I guess it's just wishful thinking that makes it so easy to forget.

They just pushed an update on android on me that disabled all addons except uBO because they don't support them yet, a few hours ago. That was the last straw that broke the camels back for me, after using FF since 1.0. Just rm -rf'd my firefox profile on my desktop a few minutes ago. I've defended them for a long time even if I didn't agree with everything they did, but they're so completely off the rails, enough is…

I'm guessing you are using the beta or nightly channel. Am I correct?
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