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Re: Firefox 93

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Post by yepthatsreality »

Nextgrid wrote: post #44
samschooler wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whats the problem with uBlock Origin as an extension? https://ublockorigin.com/

It's yet another thing to install & configure manually. For a browser that boasts about privacy at every possible opportunity I'd expect something as standard & essential (in this day and age) to be included.

And I shouldn’t have to think about it. Why even build a browser if I have to understand the concept and reasoning of installing an extension myself? Does Mozilla think I have the seconds it takes to do this?

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by kongin »

slig wrote: post #51
kongin wrote: post #41

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> Give me a way to pay for Firefox, please, and use the proceeds to hire a full development team that can hopefully catch up and overtake Chrome? Please? Best we can do is spending the money on women who code outreach. Not sure what that has to do with web browsers, but I'm sure the CEO who managed to lose 80% market share knows better than me.

This chart is very telling [1] from [2]. [1]: https://calpaterson.com/assets/mozilla-boss-pay.svg [2]: https://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html

Yeah, I'd comment more, but the inevitable flagging that's coming up is really killing my interest in anything but one line quips.

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by chmod775 »

JonathanBeuys wrote: post #49

I am currently trying Ubuntu for the first time in a long while and it comes with Firefox as the default browser. My problem is that Firefox has a "snapping" scroll behavior that I find very annoying. When I move my fingers on the touchpad of my laptop, that does not immediately move the page. Instead, it waits until I moved a certain distance and then moves in one big swoosh. Starting Firefox from the command line l…

You can put

    export MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1
into your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc (edit: or just ~/.profile under ubuntu).

You'll have to logout/login to "apply" that.

Alternatively you can edit the .desktop file of Firefox, but that might not catch all the ways in which firefox may be launched.

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by up6w6 »

Nextgrid wrote: post #32

Still no built-in uBlock Origin (or equivalent) despite it being permissively licensed and Mozilla's "commitment" to privacy...

uBlock Origin blocks by default every single ad, even if they add the extension with other default setup, its just unrealistic to imagine they are gonna make even easier to block all google ads while a significant part of their revenue depends on that.

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by gpm »

akie wrote: post #17

Give me a way to pay for Firefox, please, and use the proceeds to hire a full development team that can hopefully catch up and overtake Chrome? Please?

Mozilla doesn't seem to be interested in this, but I wonder if there are any individual firefox developers with a patreon?

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by kadoban »

Lendal wrote: post #55
kongin wrote: post #43

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Edge is a chrome skin. They don't have engineers working on a browser, they have engineers working on a _theme_.

Really? So every time you bring in a dependency on a library written by someone else, your software is just a theme or wrapper? I guess that's one way to look at it.

If you're making a browser and your dependency is a browser...yes.

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by kongin »

Lendal wrote: post #55
kongin wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Edge is a chrome skin. They don't have engineers working on a browser, they have engineers working on a _theme_.

Really? So every time you bring in a dependency on a library written by someone else, your software is just a theme or wrapper? I guess that's one way to look at it.

Yeah, that's why it's called Linux and not Gnu/Linux.

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by sedan_baklazhan »

lifthrasiir wrote: post #50
Nextgrid wrote: post #30

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> Contributions go to the Mozilla Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organisation based in San Francisco, California, to be used in its discretion for its charitable purposes. This goes to the Mozilla Foundation and not to the browser's development. As far as I know there is currently no way to donate to the browser 's development.

Buy products [1] from the Mozilla Corporation if it's your concern. [1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/products/

It is not something I would want to do from abroad.
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