As a Firefox user, articles like this are just noise, not a possible attack on my personal privacy. When was the last technical scandal with Firefox? Adding an optional bookmarking service? How are people still defending chrome?
Also if you compare from a fingerprinting side of view then Brave is better than Firefox+uBlock (and all privacy lists involved). You can compare that easily between your Firefox and Brave here: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
For me personally I also don't want to miss Chromecast capabilities (it's a nice system and unfortunately there is no good alternative) in my mobile browser.
1) You go to https://i.imgur.com/vuUyLnz.gifv.
2) You decide to skip the beginning so you "Right Click > Show Controls" and use the controls to skip the beginning.
3) You decide to skip to the end so you move your mouse over to where the controls should be but they don't reappear.
4) They're gone and the only way to get them back is to "Right Click > Show Controls" again.
There are a lot of rough edges like that. I'd almost rather not use browsers than use Firefox in its current state.
Your other commentmentions i.imgur.com being the case? Maybe libredirext can help you never hit the i. Site?
Afraid not. In Chrome and Safari the controls reappear in step 3. In Firefox step 4 is required.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was an imgur thing but I have seen it in non-imgur embeds on reddit.
> Maybe libredirext can help you never hit the i. Site?
That could work. Thank you!
Chrome seems to ignore this attribute being set to false and continue to show controls anyway, which appears to be a spec violation from my reading of it. Of course it ends up being a desirable behavior in this case.
Just skimming through the first few pages and it looks like all of the videos are gifv:
NSFW
cough Proton cough
That being said, most of the extensions I use have survived the last two years of Firefox development.
I'd take Proton any day over a neutered ad blocker
I mean, sure it's great that ad blockers still work, but let's not pretend that Firefox is some kind of bastion of pro-user sentiment.
It's like one setting in about:config
> Switching to Firefox means accepting ads built-in to the browser, something that (AFAIK) Google has never done
Google might not build ads into the browser, but if you use it as they intend and log into the account all of your activity gets tied to your account. I would rather have pocket then not be able to sign into a google account without google signing it in across the browser
> I mean, sure it's great that ad blockers still work, but let's not pretend that Firefox is some kind of bastion of pro-user sentiment.
Yeah mozilla has a shitty track record I'll admit and firefox is a lower quality product, but at the end of the day it's still the lesser of two evils
Oh really, which one?
> at the end of the day it's still the lesser of two evils
Never said it wasn't.
Unfortunately it does not, as other replies and plenty of HN Firefox posts demonstrate.
> I honestly don't understand why more people, especially on hn, haven't switched over still.
There are several important areas where Firefox is lacking. Automation on macOS is one of them (it’s the sole major browser without AppleScript support) but in every thread I see people complaining of something different.
I use neither Firefox nor Chrome. I don’t want to support Google, but it’s also not feasible to use Firefox as my daily driver or to support it in the tools I release.
Mozilla gets 95% of its revenue directly from Google.
No it fucking doesn't. Firefox have been aping chrome since version 4 and really sealed the deal with version ... 29, I think.