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Re: Firefox 93

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Post by asddubs »

jiehong wrote: post #225
asddubs wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish browser makers gave more attention to implementing form widgets. Natively accessible widgets optimized for the device it's being displayed on? yes please I've been waiting for some of the more advanced options of for ages. is supported but often a bit clunky in its implementation. Hence people don't use them, hence they don't get improved. Some sort of drag and drop reordering widget would be really nice as we…

Range input is supported, actually: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/in...

Yes, but not the advanced options like the datalist labels on the mdn article you linked

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by Gigachad »

hda2 wrote: post #223
Gigachad wrote: post #213

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Mozilla needs a CEO for the same reason all companies need one. I find it disappointing how people grill open source or charity projects over spending money on management or marketing like it’s a waste. Do you think every other company spends this money just for fun? Or that it actually provides value to the business and helps them succeed?

Where's the value for Mozilla? A >80% reduction in userbase? A staggering loss in their ability to compete and recover their lost userbase due to laying off many of their highly-skilled technical staff? If this CEO is providing value, I'm not seeing it.

It's possible that the CEO is right and the position is going for 5x less than market rate so only the bottom tier people want to take it. But also that Firefox is doomed no matter what they do. Chrome, Safari, and Edge are now all very good browsers that come by default. No one has a reason to install a different browser. An even cheaper CEO may not even be able to preserve the slow burn Mozilla is at and may just immediately crash it.

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by account42 »

hda2 wrote: post #224
yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #221

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The entity working on the browser isn't a charity

Perhaps it should be.

I am waiting for the day it will be (either for Firefox or a replacement). Mozilla Inc. has shown again and again theat they do not have their user's interests in mind.

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by dr_kiszonka »

evilpie wrote: post #212
dr_kiszonka wrote: post #195

I'd love to move to FF, but it has a virtual desktop bug dating back to 2007 [0], which is a showstopper for me. When reopening FF, e.g., after restarting Win or Linux, all FF windows are restored to a single virtual desktop, even if they were on different desktops previously. Chromium-based browsers don't seem to have this problem. They tried fixing it a few times [1,2], but the bug persists, and I am not aware of a…

All the bugs you linked are marked as fixed, so unless you open a new bug with clear steps of reproducing your specific issue, it's probably never going to happen.

Right.

There a few more bug reports that I didn't link to. I have just found one saying that the bug will be fixed in FF 94. I don't have high hopes because this bug seems to come back from the dead soon after being fixed, but fingers crossed!

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by CamperBob2 »

jhomedall wrote: post #211
noteboom wrote: post #13

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Mozilla is foolish to buy into Google's bad faith attempt to create barriers to entry for small/old sites and further centralize the web.

Encrypting web traffic is a necessary step in making dragnet surveillance impossible.

I don't care if they 'dragnet survey' my users who are just looking for 20-year-old data sheets. Fact is, not everything needs unbreakable encryption, or a warning label for lacking it.
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