Mozilla has stopped working on developing and improving their products, and is now entirely focused on adding trendy terms and garbage, to feed money to their C*Os.
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58008@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Literally no one on this green earth asked for this shit. In fact, we’ve been pretty direct about how much we don’t want it.
It’s exhausting.
swordgeek@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They in the last year or so added built in vertical tabs , much better hardware support for decoding video on Linux, continue to support manifest v2 and high quality ad blocking. Have increased performance and memory usage.
In the last 7 years performance is night and day different as is multiple process performance and switched away from unmaintainable old broken addon system.
They also created one of the premiere programming languages which is making in roads in the Linux kernel.
angrystego@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
All right, but apart from the vertical tabs, better video decoding, support for manifest v2, high quality adblocking, increased performance, and the useful programming language, what has Mozilla ever done for us?
glog78@digitalcourage.social 3 weeks ago
@michaelmrose @swordgeek I 100% agree that Mozilla is important but it's also clear that currently their is not enough business to keep Mozilla going. I don't blame them for trying to make a Business , i blame them for not following their former values. You can make a business and still mostly follow values ( look for example to GOG ).
And for what i don't like is the change from opt in to opt out. Every new feature most users don't want and they know this and make it harder and harder to turn off. The last time it was hidden in a sub menu in the settings ( switching off sending data to their ad service ) now it's hidden in config:about.
I guess next time you need 3rd party patches and compile the browser yourself to switch a "feature" off.Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I would argue that it’s a bit easier to still follow your values if your business consists of mostly selling games.
btaf45@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Literally no one on this green earth asked for this shit.
This is why I use the version of Firefox that does not update.
BJ_and_the_bear@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Maybe check out LibreWolf. It’s Firefox except with good defaults. Otherwise, it’s exactly the same
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Well, stupid people want it and they do use it when its shoved in their face. Like how samsung updated and BLATANTLY made their peice of shit AI button TAKE OVER THR POWER BUTTON so when you try to turn off your phone little old granny gets confused that an ai agent pops up and starts recording you. Absolutely infuriating and I wish torture on whoever implemented that shit.
btaf45@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Was that part of OneUI 7? I’m so glad I never installed that downgrade.
swordgeek@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
It was. I’m struggling to find anything that was an actual improvement in the UI. Most of the changes were trivial and change for change’s sake; but some were awful, and none are clearly better.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Yes, it was forced on me. I have updates disabled too. Pieces of shit.
NotKyloRen@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
It’s not their UI. It’s Gemini. But yes.
CertifiedBlackGuy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Pretty sure this goes back to the second to last Note. It’s been a thing for years now
Power button became the bixby or google assistant button. It’s annoying as hell
somethingsomethingidk@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Holy shit I had no idea until I read your comment. I thought “surely they will have respected all of my opt outs”. I guess this is my last samsung phone lol
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You can rebind it
JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
The kinds of people who want that switched to Google Chrome years ago. Only people who care more about software freedom than convenience are still using Firefox today.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
It’s not a new updated it’s been that way for years.
Univ3rse@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
Bixby was not llm based, originally, and sometimes updates will rewrite a user’s custom settings. For instance, I had a galaxy on which I made pushing the power button three times turn on the flashlight. An update occurred that overrode that setting by deleting it and turned on five presses to call 911. I ended up accidently calling 911 at 3am (accompanied by a blasting alarm sound) trying not to wake someone by turning on the light.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
I’m not really sure how that really makes any difference though. I’m not defending their decision I’m just saying that it’s been around for a while now.
I’ve just pressed my power button five times and it does call, what I’m assuming is, emergency number. It’s the wrong one for my country (genius Samsung) so God knows what that would actually do, but it doesn’t auto call I have to actually press the call button. Maybe they received some user feedback?
Seems a bit pointless given the fact that I have to press the button five times to call the emergency services but their phone number is only three digits long.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
No my s23 has no bixby buttons. Just power and 2 volume. Samsung DELIBERATELY updated so the POWER BUTTON activated their shitty agent. Only software shutdown was avilable until I changed.
Getting a linux phone when this dies. Fuck samsung.