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by cecexacjrgec 7d ago
> Maybe I'm not enough of an Apple fanboy Maybe you’re too preoccupied trying to discredit valid criticism as “fanboyism” to realise how important UI and UX are for products such as browsers. Besides, Chrome itself is already an abs
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by cecexacjrgec 7d ago
If only privacy circles were big enough to matter.
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by cecexacjrgec 7d ago
Unfortunately “being the same everywhere” only works if your application is distinctive enough in functionality that it can’t be anything else but itself. Firefox is just a browser. Safari is also a browser. Chrome is also a browser. And no
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by cecexacjrgec 7d ago
On their own? Nothing. But Graphene doesn’t mean anything to the general public. People aren’t buying “an iOS device”, they are buying iPhones. People aren’t buying “an Android phone”, they are buying “a Samsung/Galaxy” or a “Pixel”. M
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by cecexacjrgec 7d ago
Not only that, but general colours are system-like but offputtingly different (dark theme is different from Mac dark theme just enough to be unsettling). Spacing (padding, margins, etc) is uneven on a lot of options, toggles and fields. Swi
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by cecexacjrgec 7d ago
> a few AOSP enthusiasts dropping off > I did Precisely my point.
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by cecexacjrgec 7d ago
Just because everybody does it wrong doesn’t make it right.
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by cecexacjrgec 7d ago
Yeah. It’s a tough balance to achieve but that’s the situation we’re in right now so Mozilla really ought to step up (and I totally wish they would). My biggest pain point at the moment (entirely subjective mind you) is not even the AI nons
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by cecexacjrgec 7d ago
If only Graphene had a better marketing team. It pains me to say this but it is the absolute truth: the public does not know Graphene and does not care about Graphene. Even it’s name is absolutely awful. This is like the Linux distro hell:
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by cecexacjrgec 7d ago
> Many people bought Pixels due to this and it wasn't fulfilled. Did they though? Or is this just conjecture? Because, honestly, Pixels are not even available worldwide so a few AOSP enthusiasts dropping off and going to Graphene ha
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by cecexacjrgec 7d ago
No one is forcing Mozilla’s hand (afaik) and no one is actually thinking “if Firefox had a chatbot that might convince me to move over”. Youre right that it is not a “both sides” thing, its a “Mozilla thing”. Through and through.
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by cecexacjrgec 7d ago
Me too. Too bad I had to abandon it because Mozilla seem more focused on making AI-nonsense than a browser nowadays. No, Firefox, you don’t need AI features. You do need a better UI. You do need smoother scrolling. You do need privacy focus
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by cecexacjrgec 7d ago
> or turn to alternatives like Firefox as a new foundation. With the way Firefox is heading, that might not be the best idea. Nowadays Mozilla seem more focused on riding the AI-hype wave than actually making an excellent browser people