Firefox to regularly nag users to change their default browser
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Firefox to regularly nag users to change their default browser
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Re: Firefox to regularly nag users to change their default browser
#2Does that complete the circle now, where you'll have a nag from one of the top browsers no matter what you install?
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#3I wish Google nagged every 5 weeks, and only if you were already on chrome, instead of every time you use it with any browser.
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#4I think the fail here was that it continued to nag Linux users who already had Firefox set as their default browser.
Re: Firefox to regularly nag users to change their default browser
#5Still nowhere near as bad as Windows popping up a system level notification on consumer configurations of Windows 10, with a big advertisement for Edge and trying to get people to change their browser to Edge.
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#6Title doesn't match.
Re: Firefox to regularly nag users to change their default browser
#7The bar appeared for me on dev. edition and as I use that as a secondary browser (To Firefox standard), I dismissed the bar. If many people are like me, the measurements could very well be wrong, no?
Re: Firefox to regularly nag users to change their default browser
#8I think the fail here was that it continued to nag Linux users who already had Firefox set as their default browser.
Sufficiently secured systems that don't allow certain read/writes in /home have the issue where Firefox can't tell if it's the default browser, so even if it is default it will continue prompting forever. I had that issue on a few Linux systems, and the default config on OpenBSD (specifically the 'unveil' setup for firefox).
It's not a good user experience, even for people who are used to things not working perfectly.
Re: Firefox to regularly nag users to change their default browser
#9Heh, this won't annoy me in particular since Firefox is already my default. Instead, it'll specifically annoy web developers who prefer some other browser, but are being good netizens and testing in Firefox too. I'm not really okay with making Firefox more annoying for these developers. It's their preference, and the checkbox in settings that is meant to control this prompt should actually control this prompt, all the time.
Re: Firefox to regularly nag users to change their default browser
#10> I hope this is either a bug, or misunderstanding: this apparent change does not respect the "Always check if Firefox is your default browser" setting.
We absolutely continue to respect that check box. We won't always check at startup if Firefox is your default browser. When that box is left checked, you get a modal/prompt at every single startup. It literally always checks if Firefox is your default.
In contrast, the work resulting from this bug is just checking every 5 weeks and we happen to not be default, we'll ask with a more gentle infobar. We won't display the more disruptive modal/prompt.
I love Firefox, just stop shooting yourself in the foot. There is no way that is a fair interpretation of that option.