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Re: Firefox 77

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Post by smnthermes »

asldfhasdf2 wrote: post #37
ValentineC wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's dangerous to depend on a single company (that also happens to have a competing product). What happens if the money stops coming?

> that also happens to have a competing product Firefox is a "feature" for Google Chrome. The day Google stops paying mozilla and mozilla close shop, they will get the same treatment Google itself set up in courts against Microsoft for IE6. It's pretty much protection money for their past selfs.

Google doesn't actually need Mozilla to increase their search market share. When Mozilla switched to Yahoo in the U.S., many users switched back to Google [1], and those who care about privacy switch to things such as DuckDuckGo anyways.

[1] https://searchengineland.com/report-yahoo-search-losing-fire...

Re: Firefox 77

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Post by eitland »

kleiba wrote: post #29

The biggest item on my wish-list is still a user-option to restore the previous (sensible) click behavior for the address bar: one click places the cursor, double click selects (all, but if I need to triple click for that it would be fine, too). Sadly, this wish will probably not come true any time soon... or ever.

He. My biggest ux annoyance is navigation-disappears-from-context-menu-if-any-text-is-selected.

Expanding location bar is close though and unlike removing navigation arrows from context menus I cannot see any reason at all for it.

Re: Firefox 77

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Post by reitanqild »

sfink wrote: post #113
RandomBacon wrote: post #95

People keep recommending Brave, but I keep countering with Firefox. It's getting a lot harder to convince people when Firefox is doubling-down on BS like the expanding address bar, integrating articles/ads, telemetry, etc. When I see Brave recommendations, they're primarily because of it's built-in ad-blocking. People value sanity. Don't introduce more visual distractions (essentially what the average person gets fro…

I think a lot of people agree. And a lot of other people are pissed off about Firefox following Chrome's lead in stripping everything down visually. There's a solution, though -- as it happens, I happen to have the best opinion on this. Like, always the best. So really the Firefox designers should just ask me. I would think they would appreciate being able to confidently say that they're always doing the right thing?

You made me chuckle :-)

I have the same superskill.

We could make a consulting agency and people would pay us good money to know exactly how stuff should be done.

Re: Firefox 77

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Post by brmgb »

nojito wrote: post #140
brmgb wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 2. Developers shouldn't have to build software for the greater good by sacrificing their livelihood. No one is talking about the developers. Mitchell Baker received $2,458,350 in 2018. That's up from $1,035,114 in 2014. Have you seen the incredible results which justified this tremendous raise? Personally, I haven't.

Are you ignoring the negotiation with led to a great financial deal with Google in 2017? His raise is 100% justified...unless your implying that any software dev pulling in 150k would be able to negotiate a deal like that.

First that's her. Then I am going to entirely ignore yoir pointless jab at developers. The discussion was strictly about Baker 150% raise.

The 2017 deal was a 8% increase in revenue. That's a significant slow down of the increase trajectory of these deals. Meanwhile every other metrics were going down, most notably market share.

2017 also saw the rebranding and the Pocket deal go through. I still don't think it was worth a 150% increase.

Re: Firefox 77

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Post by throwaway_pdp09 »

smnthermes wrote: post #160
throwaway_pdp09 wrote: post #127

To all who aren't happy with the way FX is going, may I suggest palemoon. I've been using it a long while and it's just straighforwardly good. http://www.palemoon.org/ Perhaps the easiest way of letting Mozilla know how you feel is by helping them lose market share to another. PM is a good browser. Not affiliated, it just works for me.

Good suggestion. People shouldn't believe the FUD spread by Firefox fanboys: 1. http://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes.shtml 2. https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=22270 3. https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=22399 4. https://old.reddit.com/r/palemoon/comments/evywwj/how_secure...

Interesting. I didn't know this. BTW I wonder where the assorted silent downvotes are coming from - just from my suggesting an alternative browser and your posting useful info.

Re: Firefox 77

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Post by user48372 »

I’m sick of Firefox megabar. I’ve downgraded Firefox to the 76.0.1 already. It’s time to switch to another browser. Can you suggest any good ones? Or there is only one choice left?

Re: Firefox 77

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Post by jdofaz »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #51
sunseb wrote: post #15

No Firefox, no! Please don't embed distraction directly into the browser (pocket recommendations)! I don't want to hear about Coronavirus or ongoing politics bullshit whenever I open a tab! I just want to ignore this noise.

Just turn off pocket in about:config.

You can also click the > arrow next to "Recommended by Pocket" to close it, it will stay closed when you open new tabs.
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