It is Mozilla Corporation's leadership moral obligation to resign for their privacy scandals and mismanagement of Firefox.
> their privacy scandals and mismanagement of Firefox
Explain further? Haven't heard of these
It is your moral obligation to use Firefox
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Re: It is your moral obligation to use Firefox
#22No it is not. Why? - Browser fingerprinting protection? Nope - No ads on start page? Nope - Https everywhere? Nope - Ad block? Nope If you want to support firefox, download TOR browser. Else, use brave. But please don't support further degradation of privacy in the web.
I'd like to correct myself: the new nightly build from Firefox supports browser fingerprinting protection: https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/04/09/protectio... And thanks for downvoting the original comment despite valid concerns and a link to the TOR browser.
> No ads on start page? Nope
You can set your own startpage
> Ad block? Nope
You can easily add an extension for ad block.
Re: It is your moral obligation to use Firefox
#23I agree. I have tried Chromium at times, but the weight of Google hegemony always sends me back.
HOWEVER! I run it in a VM on a Qubes host, with UMatrix add-on and a Google Analytics blocker. It has no access to a GPU. It crashes, sometimes, hundreds of times a day. (Most usually this is a tab crashing, but frequently enough the whole thing goes.) Nothing else on the machine is even slightly unstable. At the moment, 66 is entirely unable to bring up a Google Maps tab for more than a half-second; it draws the map, then BOOM.
Frequently it can bring up a page, but then crashes at the first hint of scrolling.
Looking back, this seems to have started sometime around 60 or 61, and got really bad around 63 or 64. I really would like to see an end to its crashing.
Re: It is your moral obligation to use Firefox
#24It is Mozilla Corporation's leadership moral obligation to resign for their privacy scandals and mismanagement of Firefox.
> their privacy scandals and mismanagement of Firefox Explain further? Haven't heard of these
Here's a good start (the Pocket integration debacle): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9876016
Re: It is your moral obligation to use Firefox
#25No, thanks.
I don't like being told what my moral obligation is. I'll figure that out for myself, thank you.
Re: It is your moral obligation to use Firefox
#26Make GPU acceleration work, 1080p YouTube videos play under Linux and I'll consider it.
Re: It is your moral obligation to use Firefox
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
> their privacy scandals and mismanagement of Firefox Explain further? Haven't heard of these
Here's a good start (the Pocket integration debacle): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9876016
Personally, I wouldn't consider it Mozilla Corporation's moral obligation to resign over including an add-on by default, that can be disabled.
Re: It is your moral obligation to use Firefox
#28"With every year it is more likely that one day you will not be able to create a website using the technologies of your choosing and you will not be able to make it behave as you see fit. Others will make those decisions for you."
This is already how it is for almost everyone and it's... fine? I don't know about the rest of you, but I can't even be bothered to keep up with emerging web standards, let alone make any decisions about them.
Re: It is your moral obligation to use Firefox
#29FF was also behind in using auto update the software without user interaction. That was a big change from user’s perspective (who didn’t much care that a certain service was also always running behind the scenes).
That was a plus from my point of view. I don't want my machine getting independent opinions about how to manage itself; it's my machine, after all.
Re: It is your moral obligation to use Firefox
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here's a good start (the Pocket integration debacle): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9876016
Personally, I wouldn't consider it Mozilla Corporation's moral obligation to resign over including an add-on by default, that can be disabled.
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