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[YT] How Mozilla Ruined Firefox

Actually pretty good video.

  • Search engine
  • Google location service instead of their own (which they quit)
  • FakeSpot & Pocket collecting crazy personalized data

Also info about difference between Mozilla Corporation and MZLA Nonprofit.

If you donate to Mozilla, nothing goes to Firefox. Instead they host petitions and beg big tech companies to be more transparent.

They dont focus on old users at all, and it seems they are unable to implement basic stuff.


I still recommend using Firefox, but with the Arkenfox userJS.

Or just use Librewolf.

Firefox is not usable. And dont donate to Mozilla I guess.

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  • The video is probably factually correct, but very disingenuous with its interpretations and conclusions imo.

    Of course Mozilla and Firefox have their own share of problems and bad decisions, and they are pretty well known and talked about from what I've seen, but equating it to Google and Chrome is just pure cynicism. Mozilla having to earn money somehow (1% donations!) and Google trying to maximize profits at all costs is not the same thing, even if it might look similar sometimes.

  • Firefox has a massive data leak issue, this is unfortunate but nothing new and it's quite easy to stop.

    The thing is, the foundation goes in the completely wrong direction. Instead of developing the browser and create an actually good mobile version of it, they sink money in useless hypetrain bullshit.

    For example: on Android Firefox you cannot even change the homepage.

    • I never see the homepage even. It shows up if you close the browser? I never do that on my phone.

      Most important thing is you can change your search engine to whatever you want.

      • It shows up if you close the browser?

        If you close all tabs, if you open a new “empty” tab, if you restart the browser, etc. Having a settable homepage is a no-brainer and I never ever stumbled across a browser that cannot set it.

        They are going to make a new tab organizer though.

        So we can finally have normal tabs in Firefox, too?

    • And the Android version doesn't even have a bookmarks toolbar. You have to go through the menu -> bookmarks -> bookmarks toolbar -> search for the bookmark

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