Firefox lost ~16M users since last year

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  • uBlock-issues

    This is the community-maintained issue tracker for uBlock Origin

    > to use it but done freely without Google's complete control.

    This will never happen. In fact, Google's intention is to sabotage every other browser, and shove ads everywhere.

    https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338

  • web-bugs

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  • serenity

    The Serenity Operating System 🐞

    Talking of open source browsers, I'm super excited by the Ladybird Browser [0] from the SerenityOS [1] project. They have made such incredible progress in such a short time. For those that don't know its a completely new browser + renderer + js engine, everything from scratch.

    Andreas has hinted that he is considering pushing the browser project to be a bigger thing, and positioning it as a legitimate and viable alternative to browsers with a corporate influence (which Firefox unfortunately is):

    > Hypothetically, would you consider sponsoring a completely new web browser (no big tech companies involved) that refuses to take money from the advertising industry?

    https://twitter.com/awesomekling/status/1612856174965129216

    This could only be a good thing, and I for one would happily sponsor a browser (and rendering engine) that is independent and only serving users needs.

    0: https://awesomekling.github.io/Ladybird-a-new-cross-platform...

    1: https://serenityos.org

  • Fenix

    Discontinued ⚠️ Fenix (Firefox for Android) moved to a new repository. It is now developed and maintained as part of: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android

    Maybe all the features still missing in the Android Firefox played some role ?

    Stuff like no print support, no keyboard shortcuts or no tab-bar on tablets ?

    Not to mention general extensions support being a shit show as well, with basically just a very small curated list of extensions (mainly add blockers) being supported out of the box.

    All of these features were supported by Firefox on Android until ~2 years ago, when they did a rewrite and then ignored requests to bring this functionality back ever since.

    A couple links to the Android Firefox open issues:

    keyboard shortcuts - https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/3729

    print support - https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/10217

    tab bar in tablet mode - https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/2344

    tablet UX improvements - https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/4498

  • iceraven-browser

    Iceraven Browser

    I switched to Iceraven [0] last year and never looked back. It is a fork of the new Firefox for Android but with a much longer list of extensions and about:config support. I specifically need the latter to route traffic through a local proxy before.

    [0]: https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser

  • Firefox-UI-Fix

    🦊 I respect proton UI and aim to improve it.

    BUT this UI fix exists [1] and is wonderful. You just paste it into your User profile folder and the custom CSS and user.js fixes the ugly UI.

    1. https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix

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