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You are annoyed with chrome's distracting home screen that shows your most visited sites but you are not annoyed with firefox's distracting home screen that sho
by vasvae3 3y ago
You are annoyed with chrome's distracting home screen that shows your most visited sites but you are not annoyed with firefox's distracting home screen that shows your most visited sites plus some ads?
- robobro 3y agoWeird, I don't see adds on my Firefox new tab screen. Maybe you accidentally checked ``Sponsored shortcuts" ? :-)
- martius 3y agoI believe it also depends on your location. I only see sponsored tiles when traveling in some countries.
- vasvae3 3y ago"Sponsored shortcuts" comes enabled by default, at least on Windows builds made by Mozilla. If you are using Linux I suppose your distro turns it off by default? btw in my case it adds two ads: Nike and Amazon. They come with tracking parameters that are unique to me (if I create a new browser profile, they change)
- squarefoot 3y agoDisabling them is one click away, however.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoI'm going to be pedantic and point out that it's two clicks if we count the one to pull up the settings pane in the first place
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- jb1991 3y agoLong time Firefox user here, I’ve never seen ads in the browser. I am on Mac, however. It looks like from the other comments, windows builds somehow have ads.
- makeitdouble 3y agoI think it's about the sponsored shortcuts in the default home screen. I've had them as well (3 or 4, can't remember which ones. Amazon's search engine might have been one of them), removed them, done and done. It's not a big deal, but it's still something.
- flir 3y agoYou turned them off at some point. To turn them back on: On a new tab, click the cog in the top right. Tick "Sponsored shortcuts". Compared to the Google panopticon... I can live with it.
- UberFly 3y agoAlso annoyed when someone I know cant be bothered to open the settings and customize. It's crazy how basic stuff goes over heads.
- kzrdude 3y agoIt's annoying that defaults everywhere are to be visually noisy and distracting. I guess it works for some kinds of people. Let's say MS Edge used to show news and other stuff on the new tab page, or in the start menu or wherever. Yes, good users customize this but the default means it's pervasive in people's average experience.
- mrweasel 3y agoIt continues to surprise me that people use the home screen, regardless of it being Firefox or Chrome. New window, new tab, I always set that to a blank page, in my mind that should be the default.
- tempestn 3y agoIt surprises me that you'd be surprised. It's convenient to have your most used sites a single click away on the new tab screen, and it still opens instantaneously, so I don't see any disadvantage. If there's something there you find distracting, you can remove it.
- mrweasel 3y ago> If there's something there you find distracting, you can remove it. Now you'll have me manage yet another thing, I just want stuff to require no management. On being surprised, I suppose you're right, there are about as many ways of using a computer as there are users. It's easy to get lured into the feeling that anything you don't utilize yourself is weird and pointless. I never use the "home screen", nor do I really use bookmarks all that much. For bookmarks I get why they are there, I have maybe a hand full myself, but it's not something that I use enough to pay for, or even require, a bookmarking service. So seeing someone actively use one or even depend on it because a curiosity.
- 632brick 3y agoI wish "new tab" could show me all my bookmarks instead because I have already plenty interesting pages bookmarked to read, but I never use them.
- williamdclt 3y agoIt continues to surprise me that people don't make their "new tab page" useful, it's probably the page you see the most everyday. Make it your own, put your bookmarks in there or whatever is useful (I use https://start.me/ https://start.me/)
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- kjkjadksj 3y agoMy new tab screen in firefox is a blank white screen