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On mobile? From 2007-2022, and it's still not as fully featured as FF.
Anything is more fully featured than Firefox, since it didn’t have them at all.
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Anything is more fully featured than Firefox, since it didn’t have them at all.
Did you mean "Safari"? Because it was Firefox that had them the whole time, albeit significantly fewer after Quantum update.
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There's an ever increasing number of settings I need to change every single time I install firefox. For example network.security.banned.override allows connections to ports firefox blocks by default. I also disable things like prefetch/seer, service workers, WebRTC, autorefresh, normandy, experiments, shield, redirects, searching from the address bar, autoplay, webgl, webassembly, autofill, fingerprinting (battery le…
>normandy Do I even dare ask WTF William the Conqueror has to do with Firefox...? :V
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/shield
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-opt-out-studies-fir...
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Did you mean "Safari"? Because it was Firefox that had them the whole time, albeit significantly fewer after Quantum update.
Except the story you're commenting on is Firefox getting them soon.
Regardless, my point stands, Safari mobile lacked extensions for over a decade while Firefox was offering some on Android. Can iOS browsers even offer meaningful extensions so long as Apple forces them to be a skin on Webkit? (With Safari getting privileged access of course.)
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Firefox Android had broader extension support before it was temporarily restricted, in response to an architecture shift. Still, there has been an addon capability for many years before Safari mobile saw any.
3 years is "temporarily"? https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/introducing-a-n... And again, mobile Chrome, a much bigger competitor than Firefox, has no extensions.
3 years is a long time, yet for the impatient there is an escape hatch. I've been using it for years to get more add-ons into my Firefox install. And there were some extensions available during that period, which is more than none. Mozilla has been offering more choice and customization than a trillion dollar competitor for over a decade, and for some cases still does.
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Okay, that's an impressive hack! One that should be totally unnecessary, but wow, nice job working around limitations! By the way, seems like you could use inotify to detect new screenshots rather than polling the Syncthing API. Probably not enough of a functional difference to change something that is already working though.
Thanks for reading through that long convoluted post! I appreciate the comment. Syncthing was necessary to get the files onto my desktop machine, and I don't know how I could have automatically pushed from my android phone otherwise. Syncthing was so ridiculously easy to use, I basically just started a docker container, and then added the backend on my Android device. Zero firewall configuration. So simple. I suppose…
You make a good point about Syncthing. It's just that polling kind of offends my sensibilities if there's something better. But.. I'm one of those hackers running multiple bash processes per second just to update my status bar... For about ten years now! So, don't mind me. ;)
Syncthing is great software and I'm using it on all my devices. I'm glad it provided an easy solution to your use case.
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uBlock doesn’t, but plenty of browsers have built-in adblocking, with one of the very browsers missing it being.. drumroll.. iOS Firefox! Mozilla refuses to address how having no adblock is a security risk, so I have moved all my friends and family over to iOS Brave. Firefox built its own demise by having a bizarre focus on woke stuff instead of features that users direly need.
iOS Firefox is just a re-skinned Safari, just like iOS Chrome because Apple has some rule against "dynamic code execution" in their AppStore. Which sure is nice to combat some malware but not really MY problem. It also coincidentally happens to also rule out ANY browser engines. Firefox and Chrome can only use the provided webkit "WebView" component. Apple has effectively crippled Browsers on iOS to Safari, or a wors…
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Well... there are a few reasons but i believe the biggest ones are that - they fired lots of good devs to cut on expenses but then keep paying more and more to top execs (and we're not getting any anomalous good results that justify it iyam)... - from what i understood, they also "kind of" kicked Brendan Eich (yeah, Brave's CEO, the guy that invented JS, etc...) out over some "personal" things that had nothing to do…
> - from what i understood, they also "kind of" kicked Brendan Eich (yeah, Brave's CEO, the guy that invented JS, etc...) out over some "personal" things that had nothing to do with Mozilla Was it for public statements that might be construed as creating a hostile work environment? I don’t know why it’s so hard for leadership to just keep their nose clean, avoid making any sweepingly bigoted statements, do their jobs…
I mean, I realize that's a lost cause, but I still believe it.
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Firefox randomly broke all my extensions and workflows one day in the pursuit of some obscure technical goal, via forced update that I couldn’t roll back. I asked about it, and they banned me from their subreddit, so I deleted that stupid browser and never went back
"Sam Adams stopped making the beer I like so I went into a random pub to complain loudly and got thrown out. Now I just drink Bud Light!" Today Mr. Firmwarrior stands in the public square shouting about Firefox some more.
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Firefox lost power-users because 1) performance was bad 2) Chrome does very aggressive marketing and various Google sites break randomly on Firefox. And performance was very often bad because of extensions. Perhaps anecdotal, but whenever I ask a Chrome user why they don't use Firefox, that's the main two reasons they cite. I do ask often though. What "certain features" do non-tech-savvy people need? I know lots of d…
>Firefox lost power-users There is no better vertical tab solution than FireFox + Sidebury. If you are using horizontal tabs, you are not a "power-user" of a browser.
Even still works on newest Firefox, assuming you install a sketchy extension and disable signature checking. Thanks for your contribution, Firefox, I guess, though I can't help but notice that you spent the past decade trying your hardest to make this addon not work.