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Re: Mozilla Thunderbolt

#191

Wow this is a confusing name. At a glance it looks identical to Mozilla Thunderbird, but has nothing in common. And then of course it's also the same as a well-known hardware interface. I know it's hard to come up with names and pretty much everything is used by something else, but this seems particularly bad.

I mean there's already an established theme... how hard can it be?

Fire-fox

Thunder-bird

River-wolf

Stone-raven

....

Re: Mozilla Thunderbolt

#192

For anyone reading this that has worked on the launch of this new product (or the many others of their ilk throughout the years) under the various Mozilla orgs, I mean no disrespect, however I feel it's important to not mince words these days.. I implore ANYONE at Mozilla org to please, please stop working on projects distracting from the complex and necessary work of browser and web standards stewardship. That alone…

> already painful and readily apparent, stagnation of your browser What's wrong with Firefox? There are several things Firefox does that it's annoying to live without in other browsers (video pop-outs, competent ad blocking, etc). Is there some core feature that's missing? I'm subjected to Edge at work and I couldn't tell you a single thing it does that I'd want FF to do. > and our standards bodies as entities distin…

Yes there are things that Firefox does better than others, and that is one reason I use Firefox. But there are definitely things I would like to see improved, like:

- PWA support on Linux

- better performance

- devtools should be able to handle sites with large amounts of js with sourcemaps

- fix a number of bugs that have been open for a long time

- don't lag behind standards as much (I'm not talking about things where they intentionally don't implement problematic "standards" pushed by google)

- make it feasible to embed gecko in other projects similar to how chromium is used by electron and webkit is used in "webviews"

Re: Mozilla Thunderbolt

#193

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> already painful and readily apparent, stagnation of your browser What's wrong with Firefox? There are several things Firefox does that it's annoying to live without in other browsers (video pop-outs, competent ad blocking, etc). Is there some core feature that's missing? I'm subjected to Edge at work and I couldn't tell you a single thing it does that I'd want FF to do. > and our standards bodies as entities distin…

I'm building a fairly complicated browser extension [0]. Debugging the extension on Chrome, it works great. On Firefox, it is nearly impossible. There are a litany of compatibility issues that make it "different" than Chrome, despite the extension being very much standards based. It is really frustrating and makes me dread getting bug reports. To be fair, Safari is even worse and I haven't even touched Edge yet. As m…

The standards used to be there. Chrome decided they made ad blocking too easy and unilaterally changed the standard. Firefox is still on the standard. Chrome is what deviated, and while performance was improved, that was definitely not the motive.

Re: Mozilla Thunderbolt

#194

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Firefox on iOS still doesn't support extensions or adblocking - something Safari (and other browsers as well) do.

Firefox on iOS isn't really a Firefox because Apple doesn't allow alternative browsers. It's a Safari skin.

Orion on iOS is also a Safari skin and supports extensions

Re: Mozilla Thunderbolt

#195

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Firefox is pretty cool. Use it every day. Blocks ads Multi account containers Dev tools very good I never notice that it is in any way slow, except for those sites that need infinity cpu on any browser, like jira. What specifically is the issue? To my mind it quietly just gets on with things.

Here are a couple: 1. The inability to set a specific page for new tabs to open on. That is ridiculous. 2. The mobile version sucks, specifically because bookmarks are buried under an absurd number of menu levels. And they're also broken up (without user approval or any way to stop it) into "mobile" and "desktop" bookmarks. WHY? The entire point of syncing is to have them all the same. I want to like Firefox. I went…

> The inability to set a specific page for new tabs to open on. That is ridiculous.

I've been using the "New Tab Override" extension for almost a decade at this point. Sure, it would probably make sense to have as a baseline feature, but I installed it so long ago and it's continued working the whole time that it's not really something I think about anymore.

Re: Mozilla Thunderbolt

#196
post #187

For anyone reading this that has worked on the launch of this new product (or the many others of their ilk throughout the years) under the various Mozilla orgs, I mean no disrespect, however I feel it's important to not mince words these days.. I implore ANYONE at Mozilla org to please, please stop working on projects distracting from the complex and necessary work of browser and web standards stewardship. That alone…

These two goals: > ... please stop working on projects distracting from the complex and necessary work of browser and web standards stewardship. > Ditching any direct financial ties to Google or any other browser vendor is both important and necessary... are inherently contradictory. If you do not want Mozilla to have revenue from search vendors that also have browsers, it has to come from somewhere else. Or are you…

There are plenty ways to fund digital commons, including people volunteering their time.

Re: Mozilla Thunderbolt

#197
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reddit tab, firefox: 428mb. same tab, chrome: 78mb.

I get 80mb for reddit on firefox. That number can be down to any number of different factors on reddit itself. Having an autoplay video running, etc.

Firefox often groups tabs from the same site into one process. With large numbers of the same tabs open in both, check the total memory for all firefox processes and all firefox processes. You will likely find firefox actually uses less memory than chrome.

Re: Mozilla Thunderbolt

#199

For anyone reading this that has worked on the launch of this new product (or the many others of their ilk throughout the years) under the various Mozilla orgs, I mean no disrespect, however I feel it's important to not mince words these days.. I implore ANYONE at Mozilla org to please, please stop working on projects distracting from the complex and necessary work of browser and web standards stewardship. That alone…

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