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Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release

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Re: Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release

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Post by FeepingCreature »

mrguyorama wrote: post #316
causi wrote: post #228

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all this has accomplished in the last decade is a decrease in market share You are confusing cause and effect. We've been saying the same things as we watch Mozilla slowly strangle Firefox to death for a decade. That said, this is great news. I'm very much looking forward to being able to capture embedded videos on Android and maybe even get back my precious DownThemAll.

Here's the thing: Mozilla could literally be shipping 2012 firefox, and I wouldn't give a fuck, and I would still use it. Why? Because they don't spend their days trying to make the internet a more ad infested dumpster fire and prevent me from blocking ads. Google is actively doing that every single fucking day with thousands of people working towards this goal, with Chrome being an essential tool in that process, as…

> Mozilla could literally be shipping 2012 firefox

That's called "Waterfox Classic".

Re: Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release

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Post by FeepingCreature »

godelski wrote: post #403
worble wrote: post #167

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I know that its against the rules to imply this, but seriously, there is always so much vitriol that I just don't understand thrown towards Firefox every update that it really gets the old noggin get going. Can we seriously not even contemplate the idea that there might be a certain corporate entity out there with a vested interest in ensuring that Firefox usage is kept deliberately low while at the same ensuring the…

Honestly in my original comment I almost tried to make a joke about how this website calls conspiracy on far less. But I didn't know how to properly do it and so removed it. But yeah, you're not alone in thinking this looks like astroturfing. But I'm not entirely convinced it is not-natural. FF did fuck up in the past, but I think people are still angry about the browser 10 years ago and not updating their beliefs. I…

I'm seeing a lot of "boo Mozilla" in this thread, but honestly I'm seeing pretty much zero "yay Chrome"/"yay Google". I think it's more like saying "this democracy has a lot of issues that make me angry" and getting the reply "so you prefer the autocracy? Damn fascist."

Re: Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release

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Post by donkeybeer »

mrguyorama wrote: post #321
donkeybeer wrote: post #279

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This opinion might differ from others but my main complaint is with their useless and sometimes hostile UI changes rather than the occasional ad for other Mozilla services. For example recently the change to tabs floating disconnected from the pages, which I had to use userchrome to override. Next problem I am trying to tackle right now is favicon being hidden when the audio playing icon is on a tab that seems to hav…

>the change to tabs floating disconnected from the pages What does this mean? My experience using tabs in firefox has not changed in like twenty years!

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1339535 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1386107

Look what an unholy mess the new change to audio playing status has caused.

To summarize, in compact mode you will get the audio playing icon on a tab but it will hide the favicon in that case.

In normal mode, and only if you have a small number of tabs, you will find a tiny 'PLAYING' text instead. If you hover over it, you will find the playing icon...which will have hidden the favicon then.

UX geniuses with too much time on their hands.

Re: Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release

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Post by donkeybeer »

mrguyorama wrote: post #312
donkeybeer wrote: post #244

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And their constant user hostile redesigns. Suddenly tabs are floating separately from their pages. And now if a page is playing audio you can no longer see its favicon, etc Speaking of mobile firefox where did Save as PDF vanish and why? and so on edit: I have been told in a reply the save pdf feature still exists but has been changed for no reason to a different location in the menu

"The favicon will show a special icon to show you which tab started autoplaying some stupid video" The utter horror. It's so user hostile to make an easy way to see which tab is the source of the annoying sound you are hearing. Oh, and it doesn't hide the favicon unless you have so many tabs open each tab can only fit the favicon. So for probably the vast majority of users who don't spend their days with 300 tabs the…

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1339535 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1386107

Look what an unholy mess the new change to audio playing status has caused.

To summarize, in compact mode you will get the audio playing icon on a tab but it will hide the favicon in that case.

In normal mode, and only if you have a small number of tabs, you will find a tiny 'PLAYING' text instead. If you hover over it, you will find the playing icon...which will have hidden the favicon then.

UX geniuses with too much time on their hands.

Re: Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release

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Post by pmontra »

nfriedly wrote: post #227
flutas wrote: post #224

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Half that billion has probably been spent on interviews that they randomly decide they no longer are hiring for right before they take the entire company to Hawaii. I'm not salty about the 6+ interviews or anything.

Ha, you made it to 6, that's impressive! I only got scheduled for one interview, the interviewer was a no-show, and they never answered any of my attempts to reschedule or even find out what happened.

On the plus side, interviews work both ways. You got lucky to need less than one interview to understand that they would be a bad fit for you.

Re: Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release

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Post by Zuiii »

phatfish wrote: post #254
Zuiii wrote: post #24

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Tangentially related, but your comment reminded me of this classic: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/mozilla-now-only-...

Maybe if author of that comment put as much effort into developing their own browser as they seemed to put into that weird rant we would have a new Chrome competitor which meets their exceptions.

Don't be ridiculous. Voicing his disillusionment in a funny witty way is orders of magnitude less effort than writing an entire browser.

Re: Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release

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Post by Zuiii »

mrguyorama wrote: post #343
phatfish wrote: post #254

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Maybe if author of that comment put as much effort into developing their own browser as they seemed to put into that weird rant we would have a new Chrome competitor which meets their exceptions.

The entitlement and blatant hypocrisy of Mozilla haters is insane. "Mozilla does weird things to try and diversify their income so that Google cannot shut them down one day randomly if they're finally competitive, but that's not the one blessed thing of committing code to the single blessed repository of Firefox, so instead I'm going to use the browser built by a company that makes all of its money through advertisin…

Many don't see this way. His criticisms were funny and on point to boot ;)

Re: Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release

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Post by WASDx »

nottheengineer wrote: post #458

Finally! I hate having to regularly clear my browser data or navigating those horrible consent UIs when I don't have cookieautodelete.

I'm very happy with Consent-O-Matic for auto accepting cookie popups with privacy preserving choices done for me. Prior to that I used "i don't care about cookies".

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-mat...

Re: Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release

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Post by brucethemoose2 »

Mmm, too bad FF is so slow compared to Chrome/Chromite, at least on my older phone.

I suppose newer phones can handle it, but at the same time, I don't think many users realize the additional performance impact extensions can have on the browser.

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