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I dont want to dislike firefox, but I am starting to find new reasons to resent it. It seems like every other week there is something new I'm finding out about
by 0des 4y ago
I dont want to dislike firefox, but I am starting to find new reasons to resent it. It seems like every other week there is something new I'm finding out about that gives me pause before running updates. Every new 'feature' brings me further and further away from feeling like it's a browser I can trust to be just a browser. Something has to change. Pocket, Allo, still taking the google allowance, absolutely squandering their endowments on salary, too much focus on social signaling and politics. Just be a browser, please.
I won't be going to anything chrome-like, but I do see myself spending a lot more time using and sponsoring qutebrowser, or simply passively consuming offline.
- judge2020 4y ago> still taking the google allowance, Doesn't Mozilla's revenue breakdown still show Google as the majority of their revenue, and pocket et al are efforts to diversify?
- xalava 4y agoI wonder how that compares with Google Chrome relationship with Google...
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- jamal-kumar 4y agoNot having some proprietary debugger thing for this to work with when you can just set location in about:config seems like the pettiest nitpick
- 0des 4y agoIf wanting a browser to be just a browser is petty, then I am the pettiest. If you havent tried qutebrowser yet, give it a shot. When I say just a browser, this hits it pretty close, if you ask me.
- jamal-kumar 4y agoVim mode is pretty neat. It seems like the whole app is kind of just like a python gui app wrapper around webkit? Looks like it would be pretty good if I was using linux and a tiling wm as my main thing but these days I'm pretty bound to Windows for the type of development I'm working on. Most of my linux desktop usage these days is stuff like writing scrapers in cloud containers that need a real browser that I can control using selenium or puppeteer or whatever though, is it supporting anything like that? If this works on Windows too that would be a bonus.
- 0des 4y agoI don't know if it supports that type of workflow yet, but I hope something fills that void soon. It's a very real need with a clearly defined utility.
- irrational 4y agoBut, what will you go to? Chrome is worse by any metric.
- Karellen 4y agoEpiphany (aka Gnome Web) works pretty well on 99% of websites for me
- withinboredom 4y agoThere’s always Edge if you want Chrome without the Google and want some closed source bits (for streaming or whatever).
- 0des 4y agoqutebrowser, like i said in the comment.
- ajvs 4y agoAllo? I think you confused this with something else if you're referring to Google Allo chat app.
- 0des 4y agohttps://www.pcworld.com/article/435884/firefox-hello-is-mozillas-more-open-plugin-free-take-on-voice-and-video-chat.html https://www.pcworld.com/article/435884/firefox-hello-is-mozi...
- BEEdwards 4y agoChrome is about to kill add blockers and you're complaining that Firefox doesn't have a super niche feature?! You can literally accomplish this in firefox by other means.