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Re: Firefox 91

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Post by ksec »

DavideNL wrote: post #106
brink wrote: post #28

So much negativity. Just here to report that I am a happy Firefox user, no complaints here. Thank you Mozilla for making a browser that respects me.

Agreed, i’m also a happy FF user… The satisfied users don’t post comments as much i assume. Haters gonna hate, that’s just how it is.

>Haters gonna hate, that’s just how it is.

I think that is the wrong end of the stick. People complain about Firefox not because they hate it. They complain because they care. It is the same thing with Apple or in fact any other brands. They want it to be better, they want to come back or keep using Firefox. And they want more people to use it ( for one reason or another ).

So the saying good there is no such thing as bad publicity. Firefox still getting the upvote to front page or being complained is a good sign many user or potential user still give a damn.

I still love Firefox, I just dislike Mozilla's management.

Re: Firefox 91

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Post by camgunz »

svnpenn wrote: post #51

Id like to note that Android Firefox has explicitly disabled support for installing custom add-ons [1], while they try to force developers into registering on AMO. 1. https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/20647

Sorry I looked but, what is AMO?

Re: Firefox 91

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Post by [deleted] »

nguyenkien wrote: post #74
Renaud wrote: post #55

I'm always glad when I see Firefox churning along a new version. My overwhelming feeling is one of gratitude to the devs and people working on Firefox. It's the last bastion of Browser independence with super-high customizability. I also tend to use Edge over Chrome now. MS has done a pretty good job of making that a nice experience, BUT they are also pushing some less palatable ones. For instance, t used to be simpl…

"Try that on Edge now. It's basically impossible from the settings." Not that hard: https://imgur.com/a/yVBOnjY clean new tab page: https://imgur.com/a/YdLyWrt

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Re: Firefox 91

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Post by jamienicol »

dandellion wrote: post #125
jamienicol wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Equally a lot of users are happy with it. Should those users have been disregarded instead?

If that many users are happy why does it keep losing market share? Personally every other release they remove features I like and make arbitrary UI changes. The only reason I'm still complaining and not using something else is because I don't like the alternatives either.

Its losing market share long predates recent UI changes. UI changes are completely and utterly irrelevant to that.

I was just pointing out that the grandparent was conflating their opinion being ignored with all users' opinions being ignored

Re: Firefox 91

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Post by jamienicol »

FiveOhThree wrote: post #131
jamienicol wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Equally a lot of users are happy with it. Should those users have been disregarded instead?

It's a good way to further push away a chunk of your userbase. They're moving towards a touch-friendly UI, but a lot of us just want a compact desktop app that doesn't waste screen space with excessive padding. The proper solution to this would be to have different modes if this is so critical. To their credit they did put in a "compact" mode after beta, but this is explicitly "unsupported" and even then still has mo…

So they did exactly what you describe as the "proper solution".

> and even then still has more padding than "large" mode in the old UI.

This is objectively false. Your hyperbole undermines your argument.

Re: Firefox 91

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Post by Renaud »

rofrol wrote: post #137
nguyenkien wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Try that on Edge now. It's basically impossible from the settings." Not that hard: https://imgur.com/a/yVBOnjY clean new tab page: https://imgur.com/a/YdLyWrt

It is not new tab but what pages are open on restart. This is where you customize new tab https://imgur.com/a/Jzpq7Rs This gives empty page https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/empty-new-tab-page... Via https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftedge/forum/all/...

It boggles the mind that you have to install an extension to get that simple basic feature that was present in all browsers before.

Also, for some reason, I setup a new machine today, with latest Win10 updates and the only section I have on that setting page is _New tab page_

The other two, _When Microsoft Edge starts_ and _Home button_ are not even there...

On the customize page you show, I don't even have a setting to turn off the bing search, quicklinks, etc.

Re: Firefox 91

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Post by wintermutestwin »

jseigj43 wrote: post #71
FiveOhThree wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd feel a lot more 'respected' if they didn't keep forcing unwanted UI changes on me.

If UI changes needed everyone's approval, we would still be looking like a 1990's browser.

Changing menu item names and locations is just stupid. A month later and I am still looking for "Undo Close Tab." Was it really that important to change the name to "Reopen Closed Tab?"

Re: Firefox 91

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Post by orra »

_joel wrote: post #63

> We've added a new locale: Scots (sco) Congratulations to my friends north of the border! It's a slippery slope for the UK government, first firefox gets it's own scots locale, next 2ndIndyRef :)

As a Scots spikkar, thanks for your support o language diversity.

> first firefox gets it's own scots locale, next 2ndIndyRef :)

Altho ye're jokin—an A'm a supporter o Scots independence—it wad be guid gin spikkin Scots wis no langer seen as political.

Monie minority languages in the UK hae muckle stigma anent thaim. A juist wiss they war aa seen as /normal/, insteid o controversial (like politics).

Tae be clear, A'm no blamin you.

Re: Firefox 91

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Post by orra »

camgunz wrote: post #142
svnpenn wrote: post #51

Id like to note that Android Firefox has explicitly disabled support for installing custom add-ons [1], while they try to force developers into registering on AMO. 1. https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/20647

Sorry I looked but, what is AMO?

addons.mozilla.org

Re: Firefox 91

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Post by wintermutestwin »

shell0x wrote: post #33

My favorite thing about Firefox is the "Multi-Account Containers" extension. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account... It's really handy when having a private Microsoft account as well as an enterprise account. If I don't use this, my MS sessions get all mixed up.

So much this! I have multiple business entities that all use separate accounts on many different services. I use the Window Titler extension and different windows for each business entity. This is the only way I can keep them all straight and it makes switching roles so easy. I just wish Firefox allowed me to Move Tab to a specific already opened window - seems like such a simple addition.

Unfortunately one of the services doesn't function properly on Firefox and so I have a constant nightmare of sign-in / sign-out / disable automatic sign-in (that somehow get auto checked) on de-googled Chrome.

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