Honestly I'm still not used to the new tab style that was introduced last time. 90 seems fine, but not much to get excited about from the user perspective.
I just made mine look like the old black tab bar again with userChrome.css.
Firefox 90
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Re: Firefox 90
#12I think Firefox has ~5% of our user base. It's hard to justify running separate tests for it anymore. I wish they'd just become a privacy-focused Chromium fork because I don't see them crawling back to a meaningful marketshare at this rate. (Yeah I know multiple implementations and all that, but we don't have many people running FreeBSD just to give Linux some competition.)
I wish more people would run FreeBSD because it would make both Linux and FreeBSD stronger.
Single platforms stagnate, we’ve seen it before with IE6 and we’re starting to see it again.
Re: Firefox 90
#13I think Firefox has ~5% of our user base. It's hard to justify running separate tests for it anymore. I wish they'd just become a privacy-focused Chromium fork because I don't see them crawling back to a meaningful marketshare at this rate. (Yeah I know multiple implementations and all that, but we don't have many people running FreeBSD just to give Linux some competition.)
> wish they'd just become a privacy-focused Chromium fork because These already exist, and Chromium is far from perfect. I'm glad there's a viable competitor.
I'm not sure I'd classify it as viable with how Mozilla middle management has acted the last few years.
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#15> FTP support has been removed sigh
Did you use it?
Re: Firefox 90
#16I think Firefox has ~5% of our user base. It's hard to justify running separate tests for it anymore. I wish they'd just become a privacy-focused Chromium fork because I don't see them crawling back to a meaningful marketshare at this rate. (Yeah I know multiple implementations and all that, but we don't have many people running FreeBSD just to give Linux some competition.)
> wish they'd just become a privacy-focused Chromium fork because These already exist, and Chromium is far from perfect. I'm glad there's a viable competitor.
Safari and, especially, its iOS monopoly (for the engine, at least) are the only thing keeping Google from dominating and nearly everyone from only testing against Chrome, now that MS switched to using Chrome's engine and IE is finally nearing the end even in the important niches where it had been hanging on. FF doesn't have enough "normies" using it, isn't the default anywhere, and its trend-line is heading the wrong direction.
Re: Firefox 90
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
> wish they'd just become a privacy-focused Chromium fork because These already exist, and Chromium is far from perfect. I'm glad there's a viable competitor.
I'm not sure I'd classify it as viable with how Mozilla middle management has acted the last few years.
It's at least technically viable for now
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#18> Now, SmartBlock 2.0 in Firefox 90 eliminates this login problem. Initially, Facebook scripts are all blocked, just as before, ensuring your privacy is preserved. But when you click on the “Continue with Facebook” button to sign in, SmartBlock reacts by quickly unblocking the Facebook login script just in time for the sign-in to proceed smoothly.
I wonder how it does that, and if it's open to exploitation by a malicious website like Facebook.
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#19I think Firefox has ~5% of our user base. It's hard to justify running separate tests for it anymore. I wish they'd just become a privacy-focused Chromium fork because I don't see them crawling back to a meaningful marketshare at this rate. (Yeah I know multiple implementations and all that, but we don't have many people running FreeBSD just to give Linux some competition.)
Google already singlehandedly controls the web standards. Firefox and Safari are the last obstacles to them basically privatizing the web.
The independent Chromium distributions do very little to that effect, as they're not incentivized to specifically disable features Google puts in.
If Firefox goes away, kiss the open web goodbye. We'll have it on paper, but just that. It'll be Google's web.
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#20I think Firefox has ~5% of our user base. It's hard to justify running separate tests for it anymore. I wish they'd just become a privacy-focused Chromium fork because I don't see them crawling back to a meaningful marketshare at this rate. (Yeah I know multiple implementations and all that, but we don't have many people running FreeBSD just to give Linux some competition.)
I wish more people would run FreeBSD because it would make both Linux and FreeBSD stronger. Single platforms stagnate, we’ve seen it before with IE6 and we’re starting to see it again.
> Single platforms stagnate, we’ve seen it before with IE6 and we’re starting to see it again.
They do, but at least chromium is open source. If it stagnated like IE6 then someone would fork it.