I'll use it when they bring back RSS functionality, make it possible for me to configure its UI like I could before, and stop tracking me by default. I'm sick of updates stealing functionality from me, and I'll use qutebrowser or something similar until Firefox is no longer run by people intent on destroying the software.
It is your moral obligation to use Firefox
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Re: It is your moral obligation to use Firefox
#32Earlier 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.
I agree that there isn't/wasn't a need for them to resign.
Just wanted to provide some historical context.
Re: It is your moral obligation to use Firefox
#33Great browser. It has really been improved over the last months.
I think that extension portability is needed in order to compete with the chromium family.
Why firefox? It is the next major browser (after chrome) in desktop. Promoving the use of another may lead to the parity in the very long term.
Re: It is your moral obligation to use Firefox
#34Great browser. It has really been improved over the last months. I think that extension portability is needed in order to compete with the chromium family. Why firefox? It is the next major browser (after chrome) in desktop. Promoving the use of another may lead to the parity in the very long term.
What is needed in extension portability? You can use Firefox Sync to sync extensions between devices.
Re: It is your moral obligation to use Firefox
#35lol firefox. i wouldnt hate the guys if they had stuck to their guns on DRM and didnt kick the guy because he made a religious donation.
Calling it a "religious" donation is pretty reductive IMHO.
Re: It is your moral obligation to use Firefox
#36Actual paying users would be better than millions of users that just want to complain. At this point with so much immorality online, what browser you use is just a matter of taste.
I was a paying user (at least a donated to them) before they started breaking extensions, putting tracking in, putting DRM in, rewriting things in rust and working on crap like webasm that will make the web even more user hostile.
At this point paying them to literally do nothing all do would give me a better return on investment than the direction they're heading.
Re: It is your moral obligation to use Firefox
#37No 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.
The point isn't that Chrome doesn't do things to help privacy. But having a monoculture web built around Blink is terrible. We know this from experience with IE. Brave uses Blink. Chromium uses Blink. IE now uses Blink.
Re: It is your moral obligation to use Firefox
#38lol at firefox in 2019. It's a joke of a browser. Gimped to the biggest extreme. It's basically a chrome clone. edit: I mean I use it (not the latest version anyway) but with distaste.
Care to elaborate why you believe it is a chrome clone?
Yeah, Firefox predates Chrome by quite a few years. Even more if you count its Netscape lineage. I don't know how you could honestly claim it's a clone of Chrome.
Re: It is your moral obligation to use Firefox
#39"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 d…
Fortunately you still have the option of not keeping up with modern web standards and just writing some html 3.2 into a text file.
Re: It is your moral obligation to use Firefox
#40Although I also despair the lack of choice in web browsers nowadays (not to mention certain coworkers of mine who try to spin "standardization" on Chrome/Chromium as a good thing), I wouldn't go so far as to claim there's some moral component to one's choice of browser. While I have strong feelings about this, I can't judge people who choose the path of least resistance when picking the software they use. Sometimes you want stuff to just work. People's priorities are their own and not everyone has the luxury of being able to be different because of their views. Some people just need to get things done.