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

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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...

Why autoaccept?

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

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post #459

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...

On uBlock Origin, the list "Easylist/uBO Cookie Notices" and the Annoyances lists help remove a ton of those cookie popups.

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

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post #459

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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...

Why autoaccept?

Because rejecting all tends to break things or make them work non-optimally, and practically speaking there are no negative consequences from accepting, so even the mental overhead of thinking about what to do with the dialogue is a waste of time. If you do really, truly, care that much then you would be better served by accepting everything and then simply throwing them out when some time has passed or the tab has been closed.

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

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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.

Firefox is significantly faster than Chrome once you install UBlock Origin.

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

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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.

Never stopped me from using it on all the phones I've had - maybe somewhat slower, but I can be a little patient in return for some semblance of data protection & nuisance blocking.

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

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

Consent UI's are not for putting cookies on your computer.

One of the things might be putting cookies on your computer.

I'm fine with just blocking and not giving consent.

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

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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.

Firefox is significantly faster than Chrome once you install UBlock Origin.

We have Chromite (formerly Bromite) for that, as well as its native dark mode.

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

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I see people hating on Mozilla, not Firefox. They absolutely deserve it too. They got one billion dollars and they're reducing software development spending to focus on agenda pushing instead. One would think they'd try to fix the web by making Firefox the dominant browser.

> They got one billion dollars and they're reducing software development spending to focus on agenda pushing instead Where have they announced that they're focusing on "agenda pushing"? Mozilla's "agenda" feels like a very tiny part of what they do, it's just that people talk about it endlessly.

Mozilla is a non-profit, and Firefox is explicitly a means (one of them) to an end, i.e. a healthy internet as described in the Mozilla Manifesto: https://www.mozilla.org/about/manifesto/

There's definitely an agenda. It's one that's good for users IMHO though, as opposed to the agendas of the for-profit browser makers.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I see people hating on Mozilla, not Firefox. They absolutely deserve it too. They got one billion dollars and they're reducing software development spending to focus on agenda pushing instead. One would think they'd try to fix the web by making Firefox the dominant browser.

Can someone elaborate why Mozilla gets hate? I don't pay much attention to that and just use Firefox.

Because it's the only non-profit browser maker, and the only one that explicitly has a mission to protect the free and open internet, so people care about it. There's just the risk of people killing it with love though.
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