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Re: Firefox 77

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Post by jfk13 »

vmateixeira wrote: post #26

So... what kind of nonsense do I need to disable in about:config this time?

What a pointless question; how can any of us know what your individual preferences are like?

Mozilla aims to ship a default configuration that works well for a large number of users. Of course there'll be people -- like yourself, apparently -- who'd prefer some things to be configured differently, but what you'd like changed is entirely up to you.

Maybe you should be grateful Firefox offers (quite a lot of) customisation opportunities, instead of just posting snarky remarks.

Re: Firefox 77

#42

Post by elkos »

pcx wrote: post #24

Everyone not happy with pocket recommendations, what is the alternate source of revenue? Not enough will pay for the product. On the other hand Mozilla has to compete with Apple, Google & Microsoft, all of whom are fighting hard for the Web. Mozilla is doing good overall. They are doing some fundamental work to get back the technical edge, still trying to keep the future of the platform open with WebAssembly and thei…

I will be honest, I used to be a very active Pocket user as soon as it got bought by Mozilla, hoping that Mozilla would have open-source a significant part (in not all) the tech behind Pocket (so I could use my own install if wanted) and because the personalized recommendations it provided were very relevant to my interests.

Sadly, Pocket hasn't become open-source nor has it kept its awesome personalized recommendations.

Re: Firefox 77

#43

Post by pcx »

bzb3 wrote: post #30
pcx wrote: post #24

Everyone not happy with pocket recommendations, what is the alternate source of revenue? Not enough will pay for the product. On the other hand Mozilla has to compete with Apple, Google & Microsoft, all of whom are fighting hard for the Web. Mozilla is doing good overall. They are doing some fundamental work to get back the technical edge, still trying to keep the future of the platform open with WebAssembly and thei…

They could use the donations to improve Firefox, to pay the salaries of the engineers, instead of all the political nonsense they do with the foundation. Yes, your donations go towards that. And they could cut the salaries of management instead of giving themselves raises. Instead we got ads in the home page.

1. They are doing it with substantially less budget than their competitors.

2. Developers shouldn't have to build software for the greater good by sacrificing their livelihood.

3. I am pretty sure many people building all this amazing tech can definitely get paid better in other places

4. These days when someone like Facebook fails to be bold, I would prefer to support someone like Mozilla who walks the talk.

Re: Firefox 77

#44

Post by cannam »

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.

Same here - I've pinned my Linux machines to Firefox 74 for the moment, in the no-doubt vain hope that someone upstream will see sense before too long.

I was previously using the option (that was removed in Firefox 75) to make the URL bars on the Windows and Mac versions behave in the same way as on Linux - I was really happy to be able to do that, since I've never understood why the single-click-highlight behaviour in some other browsers was supposed to be a good thing. But those Firefox installs are self-updating rather than managed through the package manager, so they got the new behaviour automatically. It's been a couple of months now, but I still don't like it.

Re: Firefox 77

#46

Post by CaioAlonso »

I would financially support a fork of Firefox with all the garbage removed. The home page bullshit, Pocket, all the automatic requests made without user action, and more that I probably don't know of.

Re: Firefox 77

#47

Post by kilroy123 »

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.

I use the extension momentum to display a nice image. There are many alternative extensions for the new tab background.

Re: Firefox 77

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Post by bzb3 »

pcx wrote: post #43
bzb3 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They could use the donations to improve Firefox, to pay the salaries of the engineers, instead of all the political nonsense they do with the foundation. Yes, your donations go towards that. And they could cut the salaries of management instead of giving themselves raises. Instead we got ads in the home page.

1. They are doing it with substantially less budget than their competitors. 2. Developers shouldn't have to build software for the greater good by sacrificing their livelihood. 3. I am pretty sure many people building all this amazing tech can definitely get paid better in other places 4. These days when someone like Facebook fails to be bold, I would prefer to support someone like Mozilla who walks the talk.

I don't think you get what I said. I said: if they stopped throwing money down the drain with the politised foundation and the executives stopped raising their salaries they wouldn't have to run ads and maybe they could even pay their engineers more money.

Re: Firefox 77

#49

Post by msl »

vmateixeira wrote: post #26

So... what kind of nonsense do I need to disable in about:config this time?

Oh, don't worry: more options have been removed again: setting browser.urlbar.update1 = false no longer gives you back the old, unintrusive urlbar behavior. Mozilla UX people have once again shown that they know best and you won't need to worry about getting a bad user experience just because you mistakenly thought you liked it.

Edit: Changed 'disabled' to 'removed' in the first sentence, as it's probably clearer.

Re: Firefox 77

#50

Post by dblohm7 »

okasaki wrote: post #25
jakemal wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It looks like they are already monetizing it. A few of the articles have a "Sponsored by X" below them. I don't love that, but at least they set it up in a way where they aren't collecting data on users to show them. They have to pay the bills somehow.

The $500M per year they get from Google isn't enough to pay the bills?

Not when you're up against billion-dollar budgets.
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