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I remember Mozilla were pretty pissed off at Chrome’s inaccurate versioning that induced a feeling of “chrome is 60 but ff is still on 3.5 so chrome has to be better “.
That's definitely the impression non-techy people seem to get from the numbering.
The release notes for 98.0.1[0] are more clear: > Yandex and Mail.ru have been removed as optional search providers in the drop-down search menu in Firefox. [0] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/98.0.1/releasenotes/
Note that is the first ever straightforward announcement of the removal accessible to the end user, and it wasn't even available when release happened (about 12 hours ago). It's like giving a hard hat to a man that has already got to the emergency room.
I applaud this decision. My friends are killed by russian forces in Ukraine and majority of russian public is kept in dark about this war thanks to support by Yandex to spread the official propaganda.
If we are going to permit US govt Agitprop, maybe we should permit historicals, and their Agitprop as well.
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Eh, I honestly don't know about that. I think the average user struggles telling the difference between an app and a website.
The problem with a website is your cookies get deleted every once in a while. This is is inconvenient since you have to re login. Also, push notifications for a regular website isn't great (pwas might be better?)
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People are dying in Yemen every single day, and the world doesn't exclude Saudi Arabia from everything. The double standard happens right now even.
Once the war in Ukraine is over, maybe there's an opportunity here to focus a boycott on them ?
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If an organisation can be in financial trouble with an annual income of half a billion then it's poorly run. That's ample resources even for something as complex as a browser.
You could do a lot of science for $500M. I wonder where all that money goes for a mostly complete piece of software.
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Even if that were true (it’s not - high collateral damage is not the same as not making a distinction), that doesn’t justify us deciding to also treat Russian civilians as military.
Putting pressure on Russian citizens motivates them to protest and take action inside of their country. The Ukrainians didn't have a choice either. I'd much rather have the US heavily-handededly knock down the Russian economy than the alternative of involving itself militarily.
Is there any evidence this has occurred in the past? Didn't work in Iran, Iraq, North Korea...
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Your only options are Webkit-based browsers or FF forks that are frequently behind and will probably croak sometime in the future.
I realise that. That is exactly my concern, however sometimes one has to make concessions.
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I realise that. That is exactly my concern, however sometimes one has to make concessions.
Hope you made the right one and stuck with FF. Using a Webkit browser is actively contributing to a disgusting monopoly that doesn't give a fuck about the end users.