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Why I use Firefox

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Re: Why I use Firefox

#91

How can we as users provide funding for open software like Firefox, in the same way that Wikipedia receives crowdfunding? At the very least as a supplement to the money they receive from Google. And even better, to fund more research projects, like their sponsorship of research into Rust and WebAssembly.

Mozilla is poorly managed with an overcompensated CEO that likes to sprawl off in directions no one asked for that aren't Firefox

Re: Why I use Firefox

#92
> No other major browser uses Gecko.

I got the impression that the Qutebrowser project /would like/ to use Gecko, but finds this infeasible because of the manner in which Gecko is developed together with Firefox.

Re: Why I use Firefox

#93
It works fine for me, and I figure that Mozilla will do less crappy stuff than Alphabet or MS.

Also, if you say you don't like this - corporate monopoly ==>> corporate abuse of monopoly - then how about a bit of action, to go with your words?

Re: Why I use Firefox

#94
post #78

Sometimes I wonder where Firefox might be today if, in the last 10 years, it had competent leadership singularly focused on delivering the absolute best browser in existence.

I can't even recall the names and purpose any of their other side projects other than some janky mobile phone OS and hardware attempt. But clearly they've put a lot of staffing resources and money into some of them.

Re: Why I use Firefox

#95

> xn--ime-zza.eu > šime.eu Looks like HN needs Punycode support [1] when it displays the domain name after the article title. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode

Or maybe it's good that HN doesn't support punycode so that you can know immediately that you're visiting an IDN domain name, and people don't try to sneak in submissions with IDF homograph similarities to troll or pretend to be a site that they're not.

Re: Why I use Firefox

#96
post #58

On desktop, FF supports the best vertical nested tab tree I have seen. What I’ve seen on chrome is laughably amateurish with huge chunks of wasted space due to unmodifiable(?) padding elements

Extension name?

Tree style tabs is more stable and performant but also has a few nice addons (TST Colored Tabs being one of my favs). Sideberry can be infinitely customized but I found it to be extremely slow with 100+ tabs across multiple windows.

Re: Why I use Firefox

#98

If only they properly supported PWAs, I would be all in. I like having certain websites in my taskbar and the future is looking like a lot of software is going to be web-based, with the OS becoming a "launcher" for websites if you will (cf. ChromeOS)

My solution is to use (ungoogled if you insist) Chromium for PWAs.

Re: Why I use Firefox

#100
post #79

> xn--ime-zza.eu > šime.eu Looks like HN needs Punycode support [1] when it displays the domain name after the article title. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode

What does it mean for HN to "support" punycode? That `Apple Vision Pro 2 | xn--80ak6aa92e.com` will appear as `[...] | apple.com`?

Literally what they said. The site for this post doesn’t display properly.
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