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by vord1080 5y ago
> Did you not realize that the repo contains a copy of every third party lib they use? Except it doesn't. And even if it did, my point is valid. Those libraries are being used in Chromium, and thus need to be maintained for use in C
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by vord1080 5y ago
> With desktop-to-mobile sync with real cryptography Firefox Sync is end-to-end encrypted? My understanding is that Mozilla cannot actually read user sync data. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/11/firefox-sync-pri
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by vord1080 5y ago
The limited extensions on Android is for technical reasons. Instead of having zero extension support on release, they focused on supporting the APIs needed for popular extensions first and are working on adding the rest. It's an entire
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by vord1080 5y ago
Lost marketshare is an observation. We can speculate all day. Did Firefox lose marketshare because of: Google intentionally making their sites worse in Firefox? The lack of multiprocess for so long? No support for Google Earth until 2020? G
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by vord1080 5y ago
Cosmetic adblocking shouldn't be included in browsers, no. It doesn't scale and is easy to break. It just puts a gigantic target on your back. Firefox already blocks a lot of ads by blocking tracking scripts. Including a cosmetic
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by vord1080 5y ago
Lost marketshare is the silliest criticism of them all I think. What to change that? Use it and tell your friends, that simple. It's like a meta-criticism, same as CEO salary. The quality of the product has only increased. Just in the
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by vord1080 5y ago
My friend, your [0] is almost a decade old. I can pull the repository and prove that Chromium is even more than 35 million sloc. There's also nothing "incomplete" about what I said. I did say that they claim they're leav
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by vord1080 5y ago
The compat story for Brave and Firefox is about the same. Tracking protections in Brave broke sites more often than Firefox when I used it for a few months, and there was a recent incident where iCloud was being blocked in Brave. And despit
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by vord1080 5y ago
I completely agree with you. Seems unlikely though :(
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by vord1080 5y ago
Firefox has pretty rich search settings, better than any other browser IMO. It's very easy to use different search engines for different things and changing the default is one click in about:preferences. As easy as it gets I think
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by vord1080 5y ago
For what technical reason would it be a proprietary blob? The Firefox frontend has been html/xul/css/js forever. Pocket would be implemented the same. I can't see why it would need to be a binary.
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by vord1080 5y ago
Pocket isn't proprietary. The bundled extension is OSS and maintained in-tree. It's also not deeply integrated. You can turn it off or use artifact builds to create a custom Firefox with it completely gone, and nothing will break,
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by vord1080 5y ago
Chromium is more like ~35 million lines of code. And Brave is implementing Manifest V3, there's no choice in the matter. They'll be forced to because they rely on Google's Chrome Web Store (and chromium itself), which will st
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by vord1080 5y ago
You can change when the overflow scrolling starts by setting browser.tabs.tabMinWidth to 50 (or any number you want, the unit is pixels) in about:config
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by vord1080 5y ago
I was curious if this is true, so I created a new profile. The first two tabs were the normal onboarding and the privacy policy. When I opened a new tab I did get the silly news feed so I clicked the gear icon in the top right and turned it
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by vord1080 5y ago
Well, yeah. I was talking about besides the actual terms of their agreement.
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by vord1080 5y ago
They don't? I've gone as far as disabling all account functionality with about:config and am using containers right now.
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by vord1080 5y ago
I haven't seen any real evidence that Mozilla has made any decisions designed to explicitly benefit Google. They've been pretty antagonistic actually. The foundation is investigating YouTube and the Mozilla employees I've spo
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by vord1080 5y ago
The marketshare on desktop is more like 8%, up to 60% depending on the country.
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by vord1080 5y ago
If I'm trying to get away from Google, why should I switch to a Chromium derivative that also depends on the Chrome Web Store for add-on distribution?
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by vord1080 5y ago
When did Firefox stop being competitive? They're keeping up with standards better than Apple (ElementInternals just shipped in v93) and it's fast. None of my 'normal' friends have complained about Firefox since switching
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by vord1080 5y ago
Seconded. Firefox is better than ever. Can't believe there isn't a Chromium derivative with multi-select, table selection, and shift+right click. Containers are also incredibly useful.
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Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web into a walled garden(twitter.com)
653 points by vord1080 5y ago|318 comments
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Mozilla integrates client-side page translation into Firefox(ghacks.net)
2 points by vord1080 5y ago|0 comments
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Bergamot: Client-Side Machine Translation in Firefox(browser.mt)
6 points by vord1080 5y ago|0 comments