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by yoasif_ 5y ago
> Nah, but they're UI tooltip-type mini-windows attached to the relevant UI element (the Pocket button, usually), IIRC, except not requested by user action. This sounds like a popover (not sure what the Firefox term is), but I have
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by yoasif_ 5y ago
> I've seen nag "notification"-type pop-ups advertising Pocket and other things, that I have to dismiss. Any chance you have a screenshot of this? I see those kinds of notifications for Safari and Edge (on macOS and Window
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by yoasif_ 5y ago
I'm seeing active misinformation/free floating hostility in this post. There are ways to express discontent that don't sound like Mozilla murdered your puppy, but that is somehow the tone of some of these posts.
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by yoasif_ 5y ago
> by default it serves less telemetry to external sources than default Firefox does What do you mean by this?
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by yoasif_ 5y ago
> In its default configuration, it doesn't bring anything to the table that Chrome doesn't already have That is clearly false, and you have replied to my comments referencing this demonstrating that you ought to know better. Se
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by yoasif_ 5y ago
> At least with Google the business model is very clear, while Mozilla pretends to be on your side and fight for a better web experience while in reality being as nasty (if not more) than the competition. Really? They are as nasty (or na
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by yoasif_ 5y ago
> You could argue that they're doing nothing in the sense that they're not doing anything extra that other browsers (who don't boast about privacy at every possible opportunity) don't already do. You could, but you wo
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by yoasif_ 5y ago
That is a different argument than doing nothing.
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by yoasif_ 5y ago
I feel like you are just ranting at this point. You can try to be part of the solution by making your case to the project - your choice.
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by yoasif_ 5y ago
From what I recall, the reason for the telemetry opt out telemetry is because they wanted to know whether the telemetry data was actually representative. Personally, I think it is totally fair to open a bug or submit an idea revisiting whet
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by yoasif_ 5y ago
> but at the same time making it nearly impossible to opt out of their telemetry It is one checkbox in the settings. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/share-data-mozilla-help... Two if you don't want to
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by yoasif_ 5y ago
> They have done 0 actions towards blocking ads and trackers Really? Take a look at https://blog.mozilla.org/security/category/privacy/
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by yoasif_ 5y ago
> While the comment above is certainly hyperbolic, a Mercurial link listing non-hyperlinked usernames of committers that may or may not be direct employees is a somewhat simplistic & ultimately insufficient response. The diffs are li
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by yoasif_ 5y ago
> What are their employees doing though? This really isn't hard to find: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/
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by yoasif_ 5y ago
Not really true - you can see my post for details https://www.quippd.com/writing/2021/10/10/firefox-suggest-an...
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by yoasif_ 5y ago
This is the section: >To help you find information faster, Firefox Suggest uses a service provided by us to offer relevant suggestions to the text you are typing. When contextual suggestions are enabled, Mozilla receives your search quer
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by yoasif_ 5y ago
Firefox Sync is open source: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver
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by yoasif_ 6y ago
You might want to ask Huawei what they think about the Android monopoly. I think the same issues apply to Chromium, but not Linux. I think you can probably figure out why.
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by yoasif_ 6y ago
Except for bad font smoothing on Windows on standard DPI displays.
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by yoasif_ 7y ago
You can.
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by yoasif_ 7y ago
They are meeting for an all-hands meeting in Berlin soon.
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by yoasif_ 7y ago
Personally, I run nightlies and report bugs -- I think that is more effective (but people who want more assurance may want to run beta instead) than most other things I might do (and doesn't really require a lot of commitment). You can
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by yoasif_ 7y ago
The person you replied to said "with Firefox no matter how many tabs I have open, they all remain usable" -- you then said "Chrome fixed that a few months ago." I understood that to mean that all tabs would remain usable
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by yoasif_ 7y ago
Try Firefox Preview: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fe...
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by yoasif_ 7y ago
I suspect this user is on Linux and doesn't have h.264 codecs installed. They should be able to do this fairly easily -- two distros here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats https://doc
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by yoasif_ 7y ago
>I'm not sure I follow. The popup shows you the tab you're hovering over. You wouldn't be hovering over the last tab because it's not in the visible area. That was my point. >But that's unrelated to the proble
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by yoasif_ 7y ago
> I'm not even sure if the linux version of FF has an auto-updater. It does if you download it directly from Mozilla.
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by yoasif_ 7y ago
> Chrome fixed that a few months ago. > > There's no tab scrolling, but the many tabs that are visible don't break any more. Not really. Resize your window to 1920x1080 and open 150 new tabs. In the last tab, open any sit
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by yoasif_ 7y ago
> Literally the only reason I keep using Chrome is that no matter how many tabs I have open, they're all visible at the top. That might be true for you, but on my 1920x1080 screen, Chromium appears to stop even trying to show any ne
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by yoasif_ 7y ago
It will likely make fake news less profitable, since I would bet that a lot of value in advertising on those sites is driven by the audience, not the type of content being posted. I think that would be a nice return to the "old interne

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