I'm not sure why people keep putting up with this kind of stuff from google. I really hope more people start using Firefox again
Don't get me wrong, I use Firefox myself, but every once in a while I have to disable Pocket, or Studies, or whatever-the-colors-thing-was-called. I have to click the "what's new" button in the menu on Android and immediately close that tab so that the obnoxious blue dot goes away. A new persistent tab thing appeared this week, I am probably going to have to fiddle with my userChrome.css to remove it.
I think it's the better browser but I definitely don't feel in control.
Edit: I have another comment below, I agree there’s no excuse for Firefox either.
I’m guess just pointing out this particular case is especially bad, why couldn’t Google start to hijack searches on internal company sites in the future? This feature seems ripe for abuse or errors causing issues.
If you know how, yes. The problem with all mainstream web browsers (Edge, Chrome, Firefox) is that with every release you need to disable something.
This must be done after every update, not just once.
No CSS mods required, you just right click on it and click "Remove".
Theming and introduction of new features are legit features. Not even remotely the same as Google hijacking competing search services.
If that is enough to put you up in arms against Mozilla, you should see Google's PR notice when they suddenly kill off one of their services.
It's not a comparison to Google, just something silly that Mozilla does. Google is a boring kind of evil. There's no fun to it.
Exactly. Next example: 2 weeks ago they introduced a new version of the internal pdf viewer and set it as default (that I accept - it's their application). However, when you set FF as the default browser in Windows they make the browser a default pdf application too (see Release Notes 106.0).
But the color theming thing on the page tries to show me how virtuous it is to pick a color theme, and turns my stomach. they couldn't just let me pick a color, they have to try to talk about why its a good thing for society to pick a color on my firefox theme. The exact text says:
>Color can change culture. The latest colorways celebrate voices making the world a better place.
This is stupid nonsense and should never have made it out to users as if picking a color does anything other than picking a theme color. Stop trying to co-opt social nonsense to justify a theming feature. It's incredibly difficult to understand who reads this tripe and feels good about picking a color to 'celebrate voices making the world a better place' by 'changing culture'.
The people who release a theme color feature under the flag of social change need to be removed from the product development team, they are already driving down the average IQ. They are buffoons, advertising features in a way that only buffoons would appreciate.
It's not quite the same. Firefox will push Pocket et al as extensions, which can be disabled. Annoying, but that's a pretty reasonable approach.
In this instance of Chrome's behaviour, it looks like it's reading the contents of text fields the user has entered, then feeding that data to back to Google's mothership. It's not clear whether it sends the data when the user opts to view more search results, or if it has already sent it by that point, but either way, Mozilla is doing nothing that egregious.