I stopped using ff when it stopped being a browser and became some weird political tool.
Firefox on the brink?
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Re: Firefox on the brink?
#172It’s not on the brink, it’s that Firefox shims GA[1] with Enhanced Tracking Protection, which is on by default.[2] analytics.usa.gov uses GA. So you really can’t rely on usage figures that don’t represent the truth of your situation. [1] https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/413b88689f3ca2a30b... [2] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-now-ava...
The US government's page it uses to track web browser usage uses an analytics engine made by a company that makes its own web browser? That sounds like a pretty big issue!
Weird that no one checks their own logs any more
Re: Firefox on the brink?
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There’s still safari at 34% usage. :badpokerface:
Only because of iOS, I assume. But it looks like Apple might be forced to open things up and allow other browsers to run on iOS. If that happened, I'd expect Safari to drop like a stone.
Fixing weird bugs like not loading cookies for a ~minute whenever the app needs to launch (as opposed to restore from background) would be a win too [1]
I switched to Safari on iPhone because I was always logged out of stuff on first load, super annoying. I miss the syncing, but not that much.
[1]: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues/11994
Re: Firefox on the brink?
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12s of your time is the cost of compromised morals? That seems p cheap and unfortunately indicative.
Compromised morals? WTF is the CEO of the Mozilla Foundation doing to earn $7M per year in salary? What about the Mozilla Foundation forcing out Brandon Eich because of a personal donation he made to a cause they didn't like? Morals my ass! I stopped using Firefox the day they kicked Brandon out and here's the kicker: I don't agree with the cause Brandon supported but I agree his employment shouldn't be affected by d…
So you shoot yourself in the foot to teach Mozilla a lesson?
We all lose if it's only Chrome.
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#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
12s of your time is the cost of compromised morals? That seems p cheap and unfortunately indicative.
Compromised morals? WTF is the CEO of the Mozilla Foundation doing to earn $7M per year in salary? What about the Mozilla Foundation forcing out Brandon Eich because of a personal donation he made to a cause they didn't like? Morals my ass! I stopped using Firefox the day they kicked Brandon out and here's the kicker: I don't agree with the cause Brandon supported but I agree his employment shouldn't be affected by d…
Brendan Eich was not forced out. He made the donation, he couldn't stand the heat of defending it, he left.
Also, personal donations can make you unfit for some positions. Significant parts of the community felt his donation was not in line with the values they wanted to see represented. And since you didn't agree with them you decided to leave.
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google finally beat my hands with a stick firmly enough to get me off Firefox. It was youtube. Not the ads -- I pay for premium -- but the fact that on FF they added an artificial 5s page load delay on firefox plus a bug has lingered for months where it always loads the last video, so you have to load every video twice. 12s/video is too much delay. Ah well, it was good while it lasted.
I have not experienced this. Could it be because I only browse the web with uBlock Origin enabled?
Yes. It is exactly that.
Re: Firefox on the brink?
#178Mozilla also just posted their State of Mozilla 2022 (this includes financial statements). From what I've read, it seems that expenses are up and revenue from search deals is down. https://stateof.mozilla.org/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38530382 https://www.ghacks.net/2023/12/05/mozilla-earned-close-to-60... Firefox's market share has been on the decline since 2010. https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market…
damn I wish I'd get x7 increase in salary in 7 years. This guy must know where some bodies are buried.
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That's exactly the problem though. I know it's somehow possible, but the fact that I have to search for what's the internal boolean name for whatever feature I want to disable is simply a bad dev UX. If there's a Firefox developer edition (I had no idea), they should enable all "I want to continue anyways" buttons by default. I mean, it's a developer edition!
Compared to typing a nonstandard string in a nonstandard place? Going to about:config where all the deep settings are and searching for "ocsp" is downright obvious.
Not really... I don't even remember `about:config`. I know of its existence, but is it `config`, `:config`, or `about`, or ...?
So what I do is, I google, right? First page that comes up references how to fix the problem on both Firefox and Chromium-based browsers.
So on Firefox, I have to type the config page, then search for ocsp, then disable it. Then, I can finally access the webpage, but of course, I should remember to re-enable it after I'm done on the misconfigured server.
On Chrome, I can fire up an incognito window, type a magic keyword, do what I need, close the incognito window and go back to default.
Honestly, the latter is a vastly better experience in my world (I do backend/integration dev, mostly Python nowadays, probably a FE engineer will not care either way).
Re: Firefox on the brink?
#180Mozilla also just posted their State of Mozilla 2022 (this includes financial statements). From what I've read, it seems that expenses are up and revenue from search deals is down. https://stateof.mozilla.org/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38530382 https://www.ghacks.net/2023/12/05/mozilla-earned-close-to-60... Firefox's market share has been on the decline since 2010. https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market…
If Mozilla is looking for a new CEO I’ll sign myself up.
I'll even give them a deal. I'll run the company into the ground at twice the speed for half the money.