yoasif
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They likely need a monetization model in order to pay developers.
4·22 days agoI never used those, but I have been using Winger for a while. Not a strong recommendation, but I am continuing to use it. I also heavily abuse tab searching and switching via the awesomebar.
I’m using Fedia - must be an issue with replication or something. I have no control over that, sorry.
Would it be interesting to y’all if I wrote about how to capture performance profiles on Firefox for Android so that you can report bugs to developers?
I assumed that this would be standardized - not assuming that the Mozilla platform would be the one that was influential.
Perhaps – and maybe I can try exploring that.
Still, the supply curve of content shifting right is already happening. Quality content is already being crowded out. PPA is just part of the monetization story.
This would require increasing the number of people willing to accept that their web browsers are made by an ad company
There are billions of people using browsers built by an ad company.
More likely, the only substantial result will be Firefox losing ground even more quickly in the battle against a Google monopoly on web browsers
It kinda feels like you didn’t read what I wrote, but I didn’t really go into competitive analysis; I assumed that PPA was the new game in town.
You can grab a profile of performance issues and report them: https://profiler.firefox.com/docs/#/./guide-profiling-firefox-android
This would break inputs all over the web. Check out yahoo.com - type into the search box. That auto-suggest feature wouldn’t work based on your proposal.
Use the arrow keys?
Firefox translations are local and open source.
https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/components/translations may be a good place to start to learn. https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/components/translations/index.html may also be helpful.
There are issues on Fedia, unfortunately: https://fedia.io/m/fedia/t/91925/Can-t-access-some-magazines
Seems to be an open enhancement: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1808766
I think you can work that out for yourself. Good luck!
With desktop Linux trailing both Windows and macOS in popularity, there’s nothing unexpected or inherently malicious about this, and the point of the previous few paragraphs is not to complain about the state of Firefox for Linux or to suggest Mozilla transfers precious resources from the Windows and macOS versions to the Linux version. While I obviously wouldn’t complain if they did so, it wouldn’t make much sense. The real reason I’m highlighting these issues is that if Firefox for Linux is already treated as a third wheel today, with Mozilla’s current financial means and resources, what would happen if Mozilla saw a drastic reduction in its financial means and resources?
Clearly, Google would cut the macOS and Windows versions of Chrome and begin to deploy Chromebooks and Chrome for Linux exclusively.
What update have you seen?
This is fine and all if you have some low-end device without gapps, but… run Firefox Nightly. 😉