The Mozilla Manifesto

Post by tsujp » Sun, Aug 16, 2020, 2:15 PM UTC

JBiserkov wrote: post #69

tsujp wrote: post #47

I _want_ to use Firefox, and Mozilla's kit but every single time I've come onboard after watching improvements etc I get shafted by updates which change major things every few weeks, this is mostly around Firefox having constantly had a different URL bar every update and them removing the ability to search for preferences in my preference list. It feels like they are fighting my ability to make Firefox exactly how I…

>removing the ability to search for preferences in my preference list They did what? frantically clicks Hamburger -> Options , which opened about:preferences, "Find in Options" is top and center. Firefox 79, Windows 10.

I meant `about:config` but regardless I stand corrected, it's back! Yes!

Post by nikitaga » Sun, Aug 16, 2020, 9:13 PM UTC

ekianjo wrote: post #65

nikitaga wrote: post #43

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I've never heard any person outside of tech forums complain about Firefox's default search engine being Google. Even those people who are privacy conscious who complain about google and facebook privacy all the time. Not once in so many years have they complained about Firefox privacy, in fact the opposite sentiment is prevailing among those people. I don't think Firefox is failing to retain market share because thei…

> Firefox is a consumer product, unlike BSD. I know this is disagreeable on this forum, but RMS' values although certainly commendable are not super useful in building popular consumer products. As evidenced by absolutely negligible proportion of consumer software created with values as uncompromising as RMS (measured by the number of users who actually choose the software, not people who use it without knowing, beca…

Ever heard of Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, Figma and other apps that the vast majority of people use over GPL alternatives? Outside of the tech bubble I mean, out in the real world.

VLC is one of the few exceptions that prove the rule standing out like that. For every GPL success story in consumer products there are 10,000 proprietary consumer product success stories.

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