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Last week I was complaining to co-workers that I don't want to donate to Mozilla. But if Firefox was separated, I would donate in a heartbeat. Imagine something

by pvinis 5y ago

Last week I was complaining to co-workers that I don't want to donate to Mozilla. But if Firefox was separated, I would donate in a heartbeat. Imagine something like neovim. A Firefox repo on GitHub and people can donate. A team that works only on that, and they make decisions that are best for the user. I tried Chromium yesterday as the next best thing, since I will not use any browser with "rewards", like Edge and Vivaldi and the rest. And today I found out that Chromium does not block autoplay and has no option for it. smh Firefox is the best and I hope it lives for ever and it becomes even better that what it is now.

cyber_kinetist 5y ago
What do you mean by "rewards"? I've heard there are crypto rewards for watching ads in Brave, but I've never heard of anything from Edge and Vivaldi.
- pvinis 5y ago
  that was it actually. brave, not Vivaldi. edge has some Microsoft rewards when you click on news or whatever. I don't remember exactly but I tried edge and saw it and was immediately turned off.
thrdbndndn 5y ago
What do you mean by "block autoplay"? I use both Firefox and Chrome, and they behave the same, despite Chrome doesn't explicitly say "autoplay blocked": when you open a tab in the background, nothing plays until you switch to that tab, just like Firefox.
- pvinis 5y ago
  There are two things here. One is that by "autoplay" I mean on a foreground tab. Say I open a youtube tab in the background, then switch to it. The video starts playing. I don't want that, and FF was blocking that autoplay. Two is that I talked about Chromium. Apparently there is a way to do this for Chrome, for Edge, but not for Chromium.
  - prirai 5y ago
    Apparently, Chrome gets earlier fixes and in some cases Chromium is completely overlooked. It's like feeding on the goldmine (chromium, which gets contributions from other developers) and building up your own with extra features. Same for Android, VS Code or any other commercially backed so called 'open source' project. Imo, these projects should be in the hands of the community or some legitimate non-profit.
  - tech234a 5y ago
    The AutoplayStopper extension works well for me: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/autoplaystopper/ejddcgojdblidajhngkogefpkknnebdh https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/autoplaystopper/ej...

by pvinis 5y ago

cyber_kinetist 5y ago

What do you mean by "rewards"? I've heard there are crypto rewards for watching ads in Brave, but I've never heard of anything from Edge and Vivaldi.

pvinis 5y ago
that was it actually. brave, not Vivaldi. edge has some Microsoft rewards when you click on news or whatever. I don't remember exactly but I tried edge and saw it and was immediately turned off.

thrdbndndn 5y ago

What do you mean by "block autoplay"? I use both Firefox and Chrome, and they behave the same, despite Chrome doesn't explicitly say "autoplay blocked": when you open a tab in the background, nothing plays until you switch to that tab, just like Firefox.

pvinis 5y ago
There are two things here. One is that by "autoplay" I mean on a foreground tab. Say I open a youtube tab in the background, then switch to it. The video starts playing. I don't want that, and FF was blocking that autoplay. Two is that I talked about Chromium. Apparently there is a way to do this for Chrome, for Edge, but not for Chromium.
- prirai 5y ago
  Apparently, Chrome gets earlier fixes and in some cases Chromium is completely overlooked. It's like feeding on the goldmine (chromium, which gets contributions from other developers) and building up your own with extra features. Same for Android, VS Code or any other commercially backed so called 'open source' project. Imo, these projects should be in the hands of the community or some legitimate non-profit.
- tech234a 5y ago
  The AutoplayStopper extension works well for me: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/autoplaystopper/ejddcgojdblidajhngkogefpkknnebdh https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/autoplaystopper/ej...