As expected, nobody cares about "reader mode".
Whaaat? Reader mode is fantastic! I feel like everyone who knows about it, loves it, it's just that few people know about it.
Edit: ah, it's top 10, so actually one of the most popular features.
And of course, we can all agree on what "the rest" is. For example, surely tabs are a function for the window manager, so ditch those. And we don't need synchronisation across devices, there are specialised apps for that. And I'll have my download manager handle downloads, thank you very much. And do you know how many vulnerabilities have been found in image codec support? Why not just leave that to my dedicated image viewer? So much bloat, just give me a browser, darnit. Just use an addon if you want to render bold text.
But it hasn't landed in a Firefox release yet. Nightly is literally "someone wrote some code yesterday, and it's in Nightly today". Anything can still change, e.g. settings, defaults, anything. There is still lots of room for the community to give input before actual users encounter it.
We didn't used to have tracking, you know? You used to just put up a billboard or put an ad in the newspaper and you just hoped it'd lead to new customers.
Even back then people tried to find ways to measure the effectiveness of the campaigns. For example, you'd get a discount if you passed a coupon or a coupon code, which would tell the seller that your purchase was in response to the ad.
That's some fine future Dutch soil you got there.
Seems like a bit of an overreaction. From what I can see, it's mostly that Ubuntu don't seem confident enough to ship this without more rigorous testing (i.e. they think it might introduce other/more severe bugs), so they want resume doing that testing before shipping it. Doesn't really seem harmful to anyone that didn't explicitly choose to use Ubuntu.
Then there's Mozilla, which is an actual nonprofit and builds its own engine for Firefox, ie does not solidify Google's grip on the internet (eg can feasibly keep supporting tracker blockers like uBlock Origin).
(Which is not to say that I'm not sympathetic to Vivaldi as well.)
And when you do this, you are now more fingerprintable than you were with resistFingerprinting off, as the specific combination of anti-fingerprinting measures and canvas-enablement makes you more unique. Which is why it's hidden in about:config.
Yo, wtf. Their VPN, Relay and Monitor are basically the only Mozilla services I'd use and pay for.
If the "'d" means that you're not paying for it... That might be the problem 😢
Vincent
joined 1 year ago
Doing the lord's work, thank you.