What is the best thing about Mozilla Firefox?

Indeed.

I created a script to several icons, including for Firefox, but it’s still a manual action to execute that.

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It’s open-source and has a ton of extensions.

They should’ve changed their other products accordingly.

Thunderbird > Thunderfox
Sunbird > Sunfox

They didn’t put the logo in a box.

Interesting note with Firefox: It seems to do delta updates, and the icon swap I did for Big Sur is maintained between updates. YMMV, but I only had to swap out the icon once. :blush:

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Oh, thanks for letting us know! :+1:

Firefox used to be my main browser because of its customizability and privacy features. But since the company became SJW, I can no longer trust it with my data. I am using Brave now, can use Chrome extension and even the development is faster.

But since the company became SJW, I can no longer trust it with my data.

Maybe I should refrain from asking for an additional explanation but

  • I don’t see how or when the company “became SJW” (didn’t that expression die years ago, by the way?)
  • How both parts relate together? In my candidness, I would believe a company that would stand for individual rights (which is what I understand from the acronym) would pay more attention to personal data, and indeed it seems that they have always been on the vanguard of privacy?

I humbly do not understand that statement :sweat_smile:

The term is sadly very actual. The acronym defines actions that go against individual rights. Companies who buy into such cult-like beliefs feel entitled to arbitrarily decide who may be on the given platform or use its services. That is a big red flag when it concerns privacy oriented apps or services.

May I ask for one (or rather a few) examples of the Mozilla foundation buying in such a « cult »?

e. g. We need more than deplatforming - The Mozilla Blog It went on for years but since BLM riots, Mozilla went to overdrive and I went to Brave.

I found Bookmacster difficult impossible to configure. I’m thinking a separate bookmark app, like Raindrop.io, might be the way to go for multi-browser users. Don’t even bother with the browsers’ native bookmarking.

Everything in that post seems reasonable to me and makes me want to support Firefox more.

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Thank you for the link. I disagree with your take and conclusion and agree with @MitchWagner, but this is certainly not the forum for such a discussion.

To broaden the discussion however, it increasingly goes to show that tech and politics are not separate, have not long been for a long while, and the discussion of “features” as if they were removed from any real-world reality is becoming more and more illusory (alas), just as the personality of a CEO will reflect on a company as a whole; you can’t wholly separate Apple from Jobs or Cook nor Microsoft from the vastly different Gates and Nadella eras for instance.

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It wasn’t to bad I found - import and then sync.

The biggest issue is so many prompts and checks - it’s all there for good reason, but it does make doing setup clunky.

I’d say it’s a power user app as it needs some care, otherwise it can wipe bookmarks and the on boarding could perhaps be made a bit clearer.

It also makes my bookmarks alphabetical which appeals to an OCD part of me.

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Anyone who values individual freedom and free exchange of ideas does not agree with current SJW narratives and insane deconstructing of the basis of our culture and society. Mozilla is a long-time supporter of this insanity and thus does not deserve my trust. But as you pointed out, this not a forum to discuss it, anyway.

Tech and politics are not separate, and the power of Big Tech is frightening. But not much I can do about it so I at least try choose and affect my personal app space.

Speaking of reporting posts to the mods…

I just did so.

Sigh…

Yeah, I am out…

PoliticalCompassMemes to the rescue.

(Don’t take it seriously!)

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Remember when this thread was about web browsers? That was a cool time.

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