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I tried downloading Firefox on my phone and was greeted with... the inability to even set my home page to a URL of my choice? [1] I couldn't believe my eyes. Do
by dataflow 4y ago
I tried downloading Firefox on my phone and was greeted with... the inability to even set my home page to a URL of my choice? [1] I couldn't believe my eyes. Do they think this kind of thing will increase their market share?
[1] https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/7551 https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/7551
- TuringTest 4y agoWhat are you talking about? You can set several URL links in the home page, the feature is called 'shortcuts'.
- jhanschoo 4y agoThey mean that when they open a new tab it should immediately load a certain web page.
- TuringTest 4y agoWell, that's called a shortcut. You can have that feature by opening a shortcut instead of a tab.
- genezeta 4y agoDifferent thing. They are asking to set [some URL] as the homepage, that is, the equivalent of this setting -available on desktop Fx- https://imgur.com/a/flHTSNe https://imgur.com/a/flHTSNe This makes it so that when you open Firefox initially or when you open a new tab, it loads the chosen URL instead of loading the about:newtab (the page where the shortcuts you mention can be found). This setting was available in some -old, Fennec- versions but not currently.
- pessimizer 4y agoYup. It's another piece of software that hates its users. Another company where people are having meetings discussing the best methods to prevent their software's users from doing something with their own computers. Protecting users from their own preferences. Antiuser interfaces.