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Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture

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Re: Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture

#112

I was wondering : What is the purpose of picture in picture? I don't have any use case for it and was curious about who does.

I use it literally all the time: i watch a video while i do other low intensity stuff, like browsing or messaging.

Re: Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture

#113

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Ok, well suggest a different way they can make money then. No, donations are not cutting it.

> No, donations are not cutting it It probably doesn't help that you can't choose to donate to/for Firefox. If you disagree with other things Mozilla is doing, perhaps moreso than the things you agree with, then you don't really have much options. For many people, advertisements - especially ones enabled without announcement, sneakily - are simply an unacceptable red line, nomatter how important Mozilla thinks they a…

Right, now the goalposts have shifted. You aren’t donating because “you can’t donate specifically to Firefox, only to Mozilla as a whole”. What ridiculous excuse will you people come up with next?

Re: Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture

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Ok, well suggest a different way they can make money then. No, donations are not cutting it.

> Ok, well suggest a different way they can make money then. Don't. If that means not doing further development, great. Leave that to people who want to make the software better, not worse. If you can find a way to monetise software, that's fantastic, but if that monetisation requires degrading quality I have no respect for it.

Guess what, “the people who want to make the software better” can start today! Just fork it, it’s all open source! Wait, why hasn’t that happened yet? Is it because those people have bills to pay? Hmm...

Re: Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture

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And ads in the address bar search results. https://twitter.com/CohanRobinson/status/1364172683118866433 E: saved you a click on my own link. In about:config you can disable this by setting the following to false browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsored browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsoredTopSites

I would pay for an ad-free experience so they have a stable source of income.

Donate to the Mozilla Foundation and then turn that stuff off.

Re: Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture

#116
post #111

What do people use Picture in Picture for? I have still never found a use for it, on any of the devices I have that support it.

watching a video while you browse other stuff

Can’t you just...pop out the window like any other? I don’t get it

Re: Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture

#117
post #17

And ads in the address bar search results. https://twitter.com/CohanRobinson/status/1364172683118866433 E: saved you a click on my own link. In about:config you can disable this by setting the following to false browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsored browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsoredTopSites

reminds me of brave

Re: Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture

#118
post #52

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I would pay for an ad-free experience so they have a stable source of income.

Donate to the Mozilla Foundation and then turn that stuff off.

If only the Mozilla foundation would spend their money on Firefox only ...

Re: Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture

#119

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> No, donations are not cutting it It probably doesn't help that you can't choose to donate to/for Firefox. If you disagree with other things Mozilla is doing, perhaps moreso than the things you agree with, then you don't really have much options. For many people, advertisements - especially ones enabled without announcement, sneakily - are simply an unacceptable red line, nomatter how important Mozilla thinks they a…

Right, now the goalposts have shifted. You aren’t donating because “you can’t donate specifically to Firefox, only to Mozilla as a whole”. What ridiculous excuse will you people come up with next?

I would donate to specific bugs.

Re: Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture

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post #111

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watching a video while you browse other stuff

Can’t you just...pop out the window like any other? I don’t get it

You can, but it’ll just be a window then with all the rest of the stuff on that webpage and all the browser/OS chrome taking up space. PiP you just get that video independently and nothing else taking up space.
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