Sheesh, Mozilla has really lost their way. Putting ads in the search bar? We already have a search engine that does that, we don't need two running at the same time.
@cuchaz
I mostly use #Brave now (with the shit turned off) because #Firefox was degrading in performance and stability, and became unusable on my cheap mobile. For now that's ok.
That #Mozilla are doing this is very sad. I am though hopeful better days are coming, with new ecosystems based on #p2p that will bypass the enclosure and unleash the next generation of openeness & creativity.
I'm literally working on a demo to publish and browse websites on #Autonomi, so it's not just work thinking.
#Mozilla Online Petition unterschreiben:
"Im Jahr 2024 finden für rund die Hälfte der Weltbevölkerung Wahlen statt. Doch die Integrität dieser Wahlen ist bedroht, weil WhatsApp noch nicht genug tut, um vernetzte Desinformationen und Hassreden auf seiner Plattform zu erkennen und zu stoppen. Inhalte dieser Art bergen ein enormes Risiko, da sie schnell in politische Gewalt umschlagen können."
I keep looking at rust and thinking "Gods it seems to be an awesome language"... Then I read and hear about a lot of hassels moving from C or C++ to rust and never really any massive success stories... are the massive success stories out there? #rustlang#development
@looopTools#Firefox is a massive success story for Rust. After multiple attempts to write a multi threaded style engine in C++, and getting completely destroyed by data races on each attempt, #Mozilla funded Rust #development, and then used it to write a high performance multi threaded styling engine (#Stylo) with no crashes or data races on basically the first attempt.
Giving the Waterfox browser a try. I like Firefox but it seems to be starting to get a little bloaty, and I want to continue using a browser that’s not Chromium based. Waterfox is basically an even more privacy-oriented fork of Mozilla’s Gecko, but not to the point of breaking the web like some highly privacy-oriented browsers might.
After importing all my bookmarks and settings, installing my usual extensions, and even recreating my custom theme in Firefox Color, Waterfox is visually identical to my Firefox experience, just minus the analytical tracking in the background. And I have full access to Firefox extensions and themes. Using Waterfox from here on out seems like an easy decision. It even has some features that Firefox doesn’t.
#Firefox 125.0.3 is out now to fix a text corruption bug when dragging text containing Unicode characters on #Linux systems, an issue with an extra blank tab with an address of https://0.0.0.1 appearing when attempting to launch Firefox when it's already running, an issue that could cause incorrect font selection in some situations for users with the Japanese locale set, and two other bugs https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/125.0.3/releasenotes/
#Mozilla fired the MDN team back in 2020 and, oh look, now they're telling me obsolete information. What a surprise.
Corporate dicks.
Reminder: the Mozilla Foundation doesn't develop Firefox so no donated money goes to it. Mozilla Corporation develops it, and their CEO believes that cutting his salary from 2.5M to a mere $500k would "to big a discount to ask people and their families to commit to"
"people" (plural) "families" (plural)... 🤔 I'm thinking he's the only one making that.
🦁💧 After 3 years I had to change my default desktop browser:
Brave ➡️ Waterfox
Reason: weird keyboard input bugs(?) in Brave for Windows (employer's machine), and of course it only happened to me (no word about it on the Brave forum). Maybe someone was spying on me, or simply a Windows bug.
On #AndroidOS I've installed Fennec (#Firefox) to sync my bookmarks with Waterfox via my #Mozilla account.
Both #Waterfox & Fennec are pretty nice browsers!
And Fennec has add-ons even on mobile 🙃 @Waterfox
Just rebooted and I’m up and running with Fedora Silverblue 40.
(Just tried reinstalling mozilla-openh264 – so videos work in Firefox – but it failed with the same error. Not a big deal, I’m using @Vivaldi as my main browser these days anyway and I guess the Fedora folks will fix this in time.)
More importantly, I wonder if the screen reader has been fixed yet. (Yes, Fedora ships with a broken screen reader.)
The current version of #Mozilla#Firefox is 125.0.2 #Librewolf is still stuck at version 124.0.1 & #MullBrowser from #FDroid is at 124.2.
Not sure, why both of them are not getting any further updates? Have they already given up? Time to switch back to vanilla #Firefox?
#Firefox 125.0.2 is out now to revert the new feature that proactively blocks downloads from potentially untrustworthy URLs as it caused unexpected problems with downloading files in some situations. It will be re-enabled in a future release once it works as expected! https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/125.0.2/releasenotes/
@Tutanota Firefox on all devices. I started using it in 2007 tried since then Opera, Vivaldi, Chrome, Brave, Falkon, Epiphany/GNOME Web, Edge (and DuckDuckGo on mobile) but always returned to #Mozilla#Firefox
WOW! Installed Thunderbird just before the weekend started and set my inbox to trust SpamAssassin for junk filtering. Only noticed my desktop has been amazingly quiet after checking mobile notifications. Is K-9 Mail the Android #email app for #mozilla?