61–70 of 166 posts
I don't understand the utility of it. Yes, I can see how this might be considered cool and hip, but.. which my problem as a user does it solve, exactly?
It's not the kind of people I would expect to comment here, though.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I built something like this 7 years ago, it's called Hands Free for Chrome, a now languishing project that I lost interest in a long time ago, unfortunately. It made the top 10 of HN back then though! My site's design is not nearly as nice as yours. https://www.handsfreechrome.com/ I just didn't get enough users or support to really care about it. But I wish you the best. It was an exciting thing to build and using i…
Never saw yours before, but I discovered "Handsfree for Web" a few months after I started - and thought he had ripped mine off. But I no longer think so. Yes, seems like many commands are the same. Shame that so much wheel reinvention is going on. One thing that makes LipSurf "special" is the deep integration with sites. I wanted to use Duolingo, Reddit, HN and some others more with voice - so they get special plugin…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, stable. Oh, and they decided about:config is off-limits too for stable users.
I have both installed on this phone and that does not appear to be the case
Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, stable. Oh, and they decided about:config is off-limits too for stable users.
I have both installed on this phone and that does not appear to be the case
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…
uBlock Origin
Dark Reader
HTTPS Everywhere
Privacy Badger
NoScript Security Suite
Decentraleyes
Search by Image
YouTube High Definition
Privacy Possum
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…
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…
I managed to do it with a combination of two extensions, some about:config flags and userChrome.css some years ago, but it may already be broken by now.
Mozilla keeps trying to get to the mainstream market while ignoring its dedicated users... The only times I got people to switch over to firefox was because things like ublock support on android. Nobody I've talked to has ever been interested in their side products (Pocket, that file transfer thing...), and something tells me this new voice engine is going to go the same route.
OTOH it's nice Mozilla is working on improving their voice dataset (which powers the DeepSpeech model, iirc). And again kind of sad they use Google Cloud while they could have their own version...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Wow, that's extremely accurate! Disabling the tab bar has also went this exact route (when you use a tiling wm with tabs, some people like to disable browser and terminal tabs as it's redundant) I managed to do it with a combination of two extensions, some about:config flags and userChrome.css some years ago, but it may already be broken by now. Mozilla keeps trying to get to the mainstream market while ignoring its…
It makes me so angry. Firefox was the chosen one. It slew the evil giant IE. Then Mr.moneybags Chrome came around and scared Mozilla so shitless they completely forgot why people chose them over IE in the first place. Their solution to every problem is "be more like Chrome while being less like Google".
Newsflash, Mozilla: you really suck at that. Maybe try something else.