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Update Regarding Add-Ons in Firefox

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Re: Update Regarding Add-Ons in Firefox

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Post by gpm »

firethief wrote: post #11
jimmaswell wrote: post #6

Mobile's still broken. Which is a browser Mozilla has apparently abandoned the userbase of in favor of focusing all their mobile effort on some silly pointless separate browser that caters to millenials more somehow or some other nonsense, instead of just working on the browser they already have. Really fed up with Mozilla at this point and considering switching to a fork or something.

Servo was a silly pointless separate browser once

I'm not sure I would call it "pointless", they've merged and are merging a lot of the code they used servo to experiment with into firefox.

Of everything mozilla has done recently, Servo is one of the things I'm most positive about.

Re: Update Regarding Add-Ons in Firefox

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Post by bwat49 »

jchw wrote: post #16
dralley wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can set app.normandy.first_run to true and then restart Firefox.

Thanks, that worked! Out of curiosity, how did you know that? What does this actually do?

I think it just triggers firefox to check for any new studies on the next launch

I stumbled upon this myself earlier

Re: Update Regarding Add-Ons in Firefox

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Post by chrisseaton »

asutekku wrote: post #17
dvanwag wrote: post #12

Mozilla has been on the downward spiral over the last several years. They took something (i.e. Firefox) that wasn't broken and "fixed" it until it was, first by killing off XPCOM and then suffering through the misadventures of such bastard products as Firefox OS. The folks at Mozilla should really stick to what their good at and focus on an all around open source browser that people will actually WANT to use.

That doesn’t make money which kinda is required to work on Firefox.

I thought they made money by sending searches to Google. A browser that people want to use means more searches and so more money to keep working on the browser. Childish stuff like TV show references, and this certificate issue, means less users, less searches, less money.

Re: Update Regarding Add-Ons in Firefox

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Post by dingo_bat »

I asked this in the other thread but I guess there's too many comments there: Is there a project for Firefox that is analogous to Chromium for Chrome? I need a Firefox build with all the Mozilla shit ripped out. I don't trust the org that decided their certificate expiration was more important than giving users the choice to run what they want.

Re: Update Regarding Add-Ons in Firefox

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Post by jimmaswell »

firethief wrote: post #11
jimmaswell wrote: post #6

Mobile's still broken. Which is a browser Mozilla has apparently abandoned the userbase of in favor of focusing all their mobile effort on some silly pointless separate browser that caters to millenials more somehow or some other nonsense, instead of just working on the browser they already have. Really fed up with Mozilla at this point and considering switching to a fork or something.

Servo was a silly pointless separate browser once

I still hold that the multithreaded performance benefit was nowhere near worth wiping away so many of hours of developer time and ripping so many good extensions out of users' hands with no replacement for so much of the lost functionality.

Re: Update Regarding Add-Ons in Firefox

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Post by ChrisSD »

chrisseaton wrote: post #24
asutekku wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That doesn’t make money which kinda is required to work on Firefox.

I thought they made money by sending searches to Google. A browser that people want to use means more searches and so more money to keep working on the browser. Childish stuff like TV show references, and this certificate issue, means less users, less searches, less money.

They've been attempting to diversify their income for ages. A lot of people have issues with Firefox being substantially reliant on Google.
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