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>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/save-firefox

Apparently Firefox is dying. Can somebody explain why?
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"The Google told me to install Chrome, so I did."
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Nonstop retarded design choices from the firefox team for the last couple years
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They thought they could compete with the competition by copying them. Always steps behind.
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>>54521513
>>54521572
/thread
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>we copied chrome but it's worse than chrome itself
>surprised no one uses that shit anymore.
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>>54521487
Because it became a bloated, slow piece of shit. Using Naked Browser on my Android devices. Firefox is only being used on my laptop/desktop because of lack of a better option.

>I also use Chrome on my Chromebook because no choice.
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>>54521487
You have to think for yourself to use Firefox. 98% of users can't do this. I actually wish the world would adopt Linux just so the 98% would fuck off.
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Mozilla is reimplementing memory management and extensions which breaks compatibility. Firefox will come back better than ever in the future.
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>>54521487
Sure, I can explain why.

They just spent the last several years chasing off anyone who had a clue what they were doing in the name of "diversity" and "social justice" and are now left with a "diverse" workforce of people who don't know their ass from root.

The place is chock-full of people(?) who have no idea how to code, and are only there to push an agenda. This explains the current shitshow you're seeing with Firefox. About the only thing you can do is just sit back and watch the whole thing burn to the ground.
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>>54521925

some1 didnt read teh article
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>>54521967
It looks like nobody read the article 2bh...
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>Fire CEO
>Hire SJW team
interesting tb h
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>>54521967
What was there that was so interesting? The SJW's are getting conned into adding a DRM component into Firefox? Big fucking shock. Probably promised them free hormone therapy.
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>>54521487
I mean, they spent big bucks on removing the word slave from their code base
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Because Mozilla wants Firefox to turn into NotChrome

They're removing all the features that people enjoy in Firefox and making the browser look and act exactly like Chrome. I am convinced that Google sent in agents to undermine Firefox, there's no other explanation for how utterly retarded the company's recent decisions have been.

Have they removed the traditional extension system yet? I can't wait to see that shitstorm. I've been using Palemoon for the past 6 months or so, so I haven't been following the progress on Firefox (if you can even call it progress).
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I honestly dont give a fuck, the internet has become such shit since normies took it over.The sooner it collapses the better.
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>>54521487
Sjw cancer killed it
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>>54522044
wat - this can't be real.
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>>54522186
Habeeb it.

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/12/10/mozilla-open-source-support-first-awards-made/
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>>54522198
Going to use edge from now on - fuck my freedom and privacy. It's better to go with materialistic, founded in reality corporations rather with delusional fucks.
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>>54522044
>vim
%/slave/nigger/g
done, wheres my 15 grand?
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Notice how the Firespergs aren't even attempting damage control in this thread? They know it's over just as much as everyone else.

15 fat stacks of Americlapistanian Dolleridoos spent to remove the word "slave" from their fucking codebase and documentation so overprivileged white fucktards can avoid being triggered.

Yet more caving to corporate pressure (and financial compensation, no doubt) to include yet more draconian DRM in their browser, as per the faggot OP's article.

CEO's getting rousted from their positions due to "problematic" personal beliefs.

Just get off the sinking ship. These people aren't programmers. They don't give a fuck about free software. They probably don't even understand the concept. They only care about their agenda, and any methods to spread it further.
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>>54521693
0/10
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>>54522253
>so overprivileged white fucktards can avoid being triggered

Stopped reading there, retard fuck off to your socialist college and never leave.
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>>54522290
You're a very confused man.
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>>54522299
Pretty nonsensical response from a drone like you.
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>>54522320
>fuck social justice
>"you're socialist!"

You're either quite confused, or a troll.
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ive been using firefox for 60 years
you aint changin' this old mans mind
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it offers no advantages over chrome
there is a better option
there is no reason to use firefox
it's dead
bye firefox
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>>54521693
desu people couldn't think for themselves and used firefox because they were told to in the first place
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>>54522334
You said fuck social justice trough social justice vocabulary, and you're keep telling me that I'm confused - you know what this mean? Your subconsciousness is aware of what you said and it's trying to project his reflection upon yourself over me.

Let's stop shitposting and tell me what browser to use, I've been only using Firefox for years and I don't want to use Chrome as I never had any pleasant experience with it.
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>>54522220
Use Pale Moon.
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>>54522372
>You said fuck social justice trough social justice vocabulary
Literally what?

>you know what this mean? Your subconsciousness is aware of what you said and it's trying to project his reflection upon yourself over me.
All of my whats. All of them. With an extra huh? to go with them on the side.

>Let's stop shitposting
Why? You started the shitposting, so it must have been what you wanted to do.

>tell me what browser to use
Chromium.

>I've been only using Firefox for years
Then keep using it. No one here is going to change your mind, of that I'm quite sure.
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>>54522373
that's just an obsolete version of firefox that was forked before they removed 64-bit support (reintroduced into main long ago).
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>>54522373
Their website looks like an retard made it.
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>>54522399
>>54522400
It gives me all my freedoms without supporting Mozilla.
I have never been as satisfied with a browser as I am right now.
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>>54521487

because they keep pulling bullshit like pic related

This was the last fucking straw, gonna force myself to get comfortable with chrome
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>>54521487
Got infected by SJWs.

I have changed 3 companies I worked at from firefox to chrome, this is well over 2000 users.

I told them it was because firefox sucks, but the real reason is sjws.
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>>54521925
Yeah it's all the fault of the SJWs /pol/ , the world is so simple just like your brain, I'm sure it's all one big boogeyman.
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>>54521487
SJWs
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>>54521487
>We need more browsers that treat their users, rather than publishers, as their customers.

is that why Firefox is forcefully downloading binary blobs (OpenH264) and blackbox-DRM-modules (EME)?
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>>54522480
>everyone who sees what's happening is a /pol/tard

Ok.
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Firefox is dying because they don't listen to the end user. They're too bust ramming down features like pocket and web extensions that no one asked for.
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>>54522501
Yeah you're always the holder of the truth right?
There are many factors why thing end HP happening, and one of the reasons in this case is states in the very article OP posted. Of course no one here read it because you just come to push your old tired alt right agenda.
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>>54522549
>15,000 spend on removing the word "slave" because it's triggering them
>fuck eich, he's "problematic" due to his personal beliefs
>oh boy, more drm!

Yeah, it's all just a big conspiracy. No SJWs here.
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>>54522447
wait they prevent you from going to the website at all? WOW fuck them, I haven't updated FF since FF 40 and don't plan on to
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>>54521693
Holy shit this superiority complex from a FUCKING BROWSER
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>>54522447
chrome canary doesn't do thisâ„¢
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>>54522480
SA pls
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>>54522580

Yeah and I checked whether chrome was pulling the same you cant access the site no matter what. Nope, let me access it after saying are you sure you still wanna access it
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>>54522596

whats the difference between chrome and chromium?
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>>54522447
That's part of HSTS. HTTP Strict Transport Security. The word "Strict" is literally in the name. It means you don't have an option to use invalid or non-HTTPS connections. Mozilla didn't create the standard, the IETF did. Mozilla just implemented it. The same thing happens in Chrome.
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>>54522673
it does not happen in chrome
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>>54522663
chrome has google botnet, chromium doesn't

chrome is based off chromium

chromium on windows doesn't have proprietary codecs (you won't be able to run mp4 nativelly in the browser for example) or on youtube.

chromium on linux can have the proprietary codecs easily if you google


you used to be able to "hack" windows-chromium to make it play proprietary codecs but they patched that out
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>>54521487
the developers don't even fucking use it

to put it in retard terms, firefox is a garage queen hot rod for mozilla. they pour effort into useless shit that nobody who would actually use it cares about just so they can say "it does this!"

and they can get away with it, because FOSS is never a product, just a sponsored effort. as long as they have sponsors they are turning some sort of profit.
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>>54522663
Chrome ships pre-compiled and with proprietary Google technology. Chromium is fully open source.

>>54522681
Yes, it does. I know this for a fact because I have to deal with it all the time at work. Google uses HSTS on their website. People connect to our network, try to go to a Google service in Chrome, and they see an HSTS rejection page because we have a captive portal and Chrome doesn't like it.
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>>54522447
that site works fine on FF with http because their https implementation is fucked up
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>>54522673

I can access Torrentz.eu from Chrome but still cannot find a workaround to access it from FF

So I dont what to tell you
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>>54522447
HSTS is a cross-browser standard. No user recourse is part of the standard. It's meant to protect retards who fall for phishing scams.

You can always patch your browser to disable it, but having no control is part of the standard in case some retard figures out how to gain control
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>>54522719
If that's the case, they probably had HSTS enabled at some point, and you visited it while it was enabled. Once that happens, it stays on for the time period specified in the header it received, even if they disable it. The default is usually a year. I can visit that shitty site in Firefox just fine because they currently do not use HSTS and I never visited it while they did.

Instead of blaming Firefox you should try to understand how shitty standards work, since it works the same way in Chrome.
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>>54522290
>>54522320
>>54522372
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because instead of innovating they just spin the same old junk, with more stuff that nobody wants

servo should be good though. hope they don't shit it up
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>>54522793
>anime
>trying to ever say anything
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>>54522809
You just proved his point.
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>>54522809
>I don't know the difference between an anime and a drawing.
The post
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>>54522702
Yes but you can opt to bypass it.
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>>54522839
No, you can't. Not without patching your browser.
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>>54522849

Where can I find a patch ?
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>>54522731
this.. it protects retards like
>>54522447
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>>54522702
>People connect to our network, try to go to a Google service in Chrome, and they see an HSTS rejection page because we have a captive portal and Chrome doesn't like it.
GOOD

FUCKING

RIDDANCE
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>>54522853
You write one yourself and compile Chromium or Firefox. Compiling them will probably take the longest.

By the way, pic related is the Chrome version of the HSTS rejection. You'll notice there is no proceed link. It's a massive pain in the ass for my organization.
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>>54522879
I'd agree with you if we weren't ass deep in Google for infrastructure. Also, Google isn't the only site that uses HSTS, just the one that causes the most issues.
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>>54522873

Why am I a retard ? I just want to access that site and know the risks. I just dont have the freedom to do so now
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>>54521487
Their browser is so bad people would rather give their data to Google themselves than put up with it every day.
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>>54522447
That's not a problem with Firefox Developer Edition.
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>>54522902
Blame the site operator for enabling HSTS then. Mozilla and Google just implemented the standard as put forward by the IETF. It's an optional security measure that server administrators need to manually turn on.
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>>54522899
I meant good fucking riddance that your captive portal stops working.

HSTS is the way forward. I hope every single website forces it, along with HPKP.

Go fuck yourself and your MITMing. You are no better than the NSA, at least they hide it.
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>>54522945
Not sure exactly where your anger stems from. We don't do HTTPS inspection. We just use the portal for authentication and authorization.
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>>54521487
I dunno, but when my browsing experience began to deteriorate and I couldn't find solutions to my problems, I just migrated to Chrome, which did fix them.
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>>54522368

>it offers no advantages over chrome

it cater to my autism. can't do shit with chrome's UI
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>>54522902
it has nothing to do with the browser you use, dumbshit
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A woman CEO took over
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>>54522368
>it offers no advantages over chrome
large number of high-quality addons, fantastic customizability, color management support, ability to turn off google tracking, need I go on?

Gecko also handles some things much better than WebKit, e.g. text selection.
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>>54521487
Good, it deserves to die. The people in charge of it are fucking retards who spend more time on outreach programs and tinkering with the UI than fixing basic fucking funtionality. It's 2016 and e10s is STILL not stable, seven years after work began on it.

Anybody with half a brain switched to Chromium a long time ago.
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>>54522083
>I am convinced that Google sent in agents to undermine Firefox, there's no other explanation for how utterly retarded the company's recent decisions have been.
That's an utterly retarded thing to say.

Google doesn't need to send in "agents" when they already bankroll half of Mozilla's revenue stream. It's not a secret, it's right there in Mozilla's public reports.
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>ITT:
>click bait title with entirely different content
>people shitposting because they are too dumb and lazy to read a proper article

/g/ is stupid like usual
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>>54522650
Use an old, insecure, browser that doesn't implement HSTS then.
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>>54523116
>when they already bankroll half of Mozilla's revenue stream
How? Mozilla switched default search providers to Yahoo! so I'm not sure where Google funding would come from.
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>>54523163
>implying I even know how to read
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>>54522549
It's almost as if making political and social causes your primary objectives over the quality of your product and management may lead to bad decisions.
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>>54523171
Pretty sure Google was also donating money directly to them, Mozilla is a not-for-profit organisation after all.
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>>54522368
Chrome doesn't support my trackpad properly and has no real alternative for one of the extensions I use. I have no choice but to use Firefox.
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tfw no rikaisama on chrome
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Well that tears it, Chromium here I come.

>which means that 4-5 different users are going with me
>not near the 2000 that >>54522465
pulled along but still
>I'd do just because sjws are the single worst group of living oxygen thieves
>But this thread is full of enough valid other reasons (read: those same sjws fucking everything up) that I'd do it anyways
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>>54523463
Check out Opera first, it's pretty much an objective improvement over Chrom*
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>>54522368
Chrome does not support high DPI text as well as Firefox. With Chrome the spacing for text is messed up.
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>>54523491
That depends on your system. Firefox uses system font rendering while Chromium-based browsers use their own font rendering.
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>https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Web_browsers

Someone ought to update this page to reflect current developments. There's a lot of people who don't post to /g/ but still use the wiki for advice.

Hell according to that page using Chromium is a bad idea for those of us who like our privacy.
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>>54523514
Indeed. Well, I use Windows 7 and Firefox can display correctly through it.

If I knew a way to fix Chromium's fonts I'd use it as my main browser. It lacks some video playback but I can live with it.
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Ad-block is what is making Firefox sluggish. It affects Chrome too to a lesser extent.

Turn off ad-block and a lot of pages become 10x more responsive. But then you have ads...
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>>54523477
In what way? I'm interested.
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>>54523544
>using a shitty adblocker
Use uBlock Origin senpai.
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>>54523546
Not him, but
>way better new tab page
>native adblocking
>native VPN
>pop out videos
>full compatibility with Chrome extensions
Only downside is that you're stuck with a white UI.
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>>54523554
I use it and it still causes slowdowns.
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>>54523639
Not on my system. In fact, pages load slower because it's not having to download ads as well.
What lists are you using?
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>>54523691
default

Lists don't have much to do with it. Iframes are what are causing the slowdowns. The worse a site is designed the worse the slowdown will be.
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>>54523722
I meant to say that pages load faster.
And what fucking websites are you using? Any processor from the past twenty years shouldn't struggle just from blocking ads, unless you're using a website specifically designed to run like shit only if ads are blocked.
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Oh, I just disable javascript to block ads. It also works fast.
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>>54521487
Countrary to "popular" belief, Firefox works just fine.

Mozilla did make some stupid shit, but it's not that bad considering the mother fucking alternatives. Shit gets me.
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>>54521487
SJWs, took over, SJW logic was in charge of decisions, naturally they failed on their own merits due to a lack of rational thinking. The authoritarian mindset alienated the userbase, and with focus on things like a shitty clone of Skype in browser, a shitty rip-off of C++ for people too retarded to use C++, and a lot of other retarded shit.

Atheists: ???
SJWs: 0
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>>54521487
Was a loyal Firefox user for 4 years. Every version after 28 is cancer. It's only got worse.
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Sjw
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It's a good thing /g/ has a thread for bitching about Firefox on a regular basis. Keeps me reminded to check the progress of Fedora's negotiation with Mozilla on extension signing.

On the actual topic, though, W3C messed up big time. I guess they were desperate to kill off Flash and Silverlight, but damn, not worth it. It was going to eventually happen anyway. Mozilla had to cave in when the standard was set in order to keep any relevance in the browser world, as sad as it is.
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>chromium disables disable-directwrite flag on v52
GOD DAMN IT
Where the fuck do I go now?
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>>54522044
That's node actually
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What other browsers can I 4chanx on?
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>>54523567
so no advantages whatsoever
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>>54521487
Jewgle shilling and forcing Chrome into everything.

Also, lack of extremely important staff like a 64 bit version that got delayed by many years and the fact that it STILL doesn't make every tab a separate process.
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>>54523064
>this
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>>54525118
64 bit has been in Firefox Linux version next to forever. It's only the closed source Windows where they didn't make it until recently.
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>>54525241
And the Windows version is all that actually matters if we are talking about adoption. So yeah, my argument still stands.
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>>54522253
>due to "problematic" personal beliefs.
due to their belief based donation causing public backlash.

you can believe what you want, but if you express it or act on it and it causes bad PR for the company then get the fuck out.
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>>54526277
Because Mozilla is doing so well, right?
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>>54526574
>Because Mozilla is doing so well, right?
Mozilla's doing alright. Last I checked they were financially afloat, and their usage share isn't dropping nearly as badly as it used to be. They're not browser #1 anymore, but then the only reason they ever were that popular was because IE basically gave them the entire market on a platter.

Plus, I know /g/ likes to dismiss it as "useless hipster shit", but Moz do still have some pretty interesting projects they're working on. If (say) Rust really takes off, they could well start going up in the world again.
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>>54526686
Rust is just a meme. You can have the same features with well written C++ code.
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>>54526574
if the guy's new browser is anything to go by, it's a godsend he was thrown out
>we'll integrate ads, but don't worry, we'll pay you a little bit of the revenue!
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>>54522480
.02 cents has been deposited into your I'mWithHer account.

Thank you for your service.
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>>54521487

So I'm a regular pleb and I've basically stuck with Firefox because, hey, it's a browser, and the addons are neat.

What would be the advantages of Chromium vs. Firefox?
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>>54521487
Try Firefox Aurora (dev edition) with e10s and dev theme. Superior to Chrome by far.
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why doesn't firefox just bundle itself with crapware installers to force up their marketshare?
chrome does.
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Well, Chrome is a better browser in every way. That makes Firefox obsolete.
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>>54533030
Chrome isn't open source so only plebs would use it. You must be talking about Chromium which is the actual browser to consider to replace Firefox.
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>>54533059
>Visit site in incognito mode in chrome often
>It accidentally shows up on an unrelated google query
>Chrome adds to the search result that I visited that site very often

PANIC
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>>54521487
>alienates its userbase
>alienates volunteers contributing to their project, like addon devs
>fails to produce practical results, keeps promising more
>only "progress" ever made is controversial shit nobody wanted for plenty of reasons
>putting politics and other bullshit before the goal of making a browser
>wasting donated money on frivolous shit

It deserves to die now. I've been a loyal user for 10 years and have written a dozen addons, and despite that even I gave up on them recently.

In a few months, vivaldi has made all the progress firefox/mozilla has failed to make in years. Out of the box it has more features (I needed a dozen or two addons to make firefox decent) and at the same time better performance in every way.

I was happy to port all my addons to chrome and refuse to support any of the firefox versions besides my most popular one now. When the other ones go legs up because of the next stupid radical change they implement, I'm done with them.

Mozilla has been nothing but hostile, arrogant, distracted, wasteful and inproductive, and this is what happens then.
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>>54522683
>chromium doesn't

except it does.
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We need someone to fork Firefox so something new comes along to replace it. Not yet another reskin, I mean something unique
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>>54533059
Honestly who gives a fuck anymore? Do you care about muh edgy use cases that have nothing to do with the primary use of a product, or the fact that said product actually works well?

I'll take a closed-source browser that satisfies all my needs and more over a defective piece of open-source shit that's been forked a million times any day.
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>>54533197
By edgy use cases I mean stupid shit like forking the code to implement a single stupid change literally nobody but you needs, modifying finnicky little shit or adding placebo/copy-paste features (I'm looking at you, waterfox and cyberfox and whatnot), fapping over the About screen that mentions a particular license/legalese bullshit, etc

Open source is only useful when it concerns base utilities (libraries) and shit like that. End user products can be proprietary for all I care as long as they fucking work well.
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>>54533193
I'll make the logo!
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>>54533193
pale moon?
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>>54533237
theres literally nothing wrong with waterfox, it's ok. i agree about cyberfox though.
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>>54521487
>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/save-firefox

after skim reading a bit I see they are calling on OPen sorce "like Firefox" clones or something for free that have none of the useless bloat Freefox has at the moment and allow free webbrowing with popup blocking and some better port with flash and HTTP5 support and 64 bit (whitich fire fox cant do with out addons that use up memory)

So in summary its just freetard shilling for more open source web browers.
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I think they meant that the ability for another browser to rise like Firefox is dying, not Firefox itself.
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>>54533197
>Honestly who gives a fuck anymore?
What the hell do you mean "anymore"?
It's to keep the actual internet browsing independed of any commercial companies. If you don't have an option to browse the web without using a product from a commercial company, then the internet is no longer free as in freedom. Internet browsers are so big part of today's computer use that they should have no hidden code in them. Which company would you trust enough to give all your online data, past, present and future? What if they turn evil? You have no options but to swallow it all.

Nobody owns the internet and nobody should be able to rule it. It's a global network and everyone from every country should be able to connect to it. It's more than just Facebook and Youtube.

Honestly I'm wondering why I even have to explain this, it's so obvious.
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>firefox on downloading images
>yes, you already have it cached, but we'll re-download it anyways
>if you want to download from the cache you'll need an addon, its not mozilla's job to add every feature you want. that's why we have addons.

>firefox on stability and security
>sorry, we were working on hello, an important feature many people use
>if it affects you, fix it yourself. it's free software.
>we won't do shit unless you give us a bad enough rep for us to lose our funding.

>firefox on design stability
>you don't like it make a fucking fork faggot it's our software and we're trying to make it better
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I blame the gays
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>>54522253
>Just get off the sinking ship. These people aren't programmers. They don't give a fuck about free software. They probably don't even understand the concept. They only care about their agenda, and any methods to spread it further.

As much as I agree with this statement, where is there to go? Chrome/ium is a NSA datamining botnet, and every other browser (Opera, Seamonkey, Midori, etc) is putrid shit.
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>>54533371
that's all true but also very idealistic. The ideal only holds up when open source can actually produce results. As we have seen with firefox and plenty of others, open source fails miserably all the goddamn times and those shitty evil companies are the lesser evil from a user POV since their products at least fucking work well and don't constantly fuck you over or go legs up.
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>>54533371
>Nobody owns the internet
NSA does.
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>>54533471
Palememe, perhaps?
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>>54533489
those companies are often the ones trying to fuck you over in the first place. when you have the kind of marketshare chrome does you de-facto dictate standards, and then because other browsers have to play catch-up to you they're almost always less effective at "just working", which helps to maintain your marketshare.

that's not the only problem with FF - far from it - i need so many fixes for firefox that i've got them all bundled together for when i need to install them on a new PC - but it plays a part in why it doesn't "just work": it isn't chrome. it shouldn't BE chrome but apparently mozilla never got that message.

[a better example is probably word processors - poor compatibility with microsoft proprietary formats is a mark against open source options, even though microsoft's formats are a case of microsoft being bastards and not the "fault" of the open source program, in terms of "Just werking" nobody gives a fuck. microsoft set the standard because they had great marketshare.)
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>>54533861
>No extensions
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>>54521487
>not reading past the headline
typical /g/
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>>54533892
Yeah, that might be a problem.

Well, there's Otter Browser but that development is slower than a snail on anesthesia.
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>Mozilla is boycotted because of the CEO's actions
>Conservatives chimp out, claim oppression
>"Muh free speech!"
>Chimp out further when he's forced out for the good of the company

>Target is boycotted because of the CEO's actions
>"This is the free market in action :)"
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They caved in to SJWs demands and fired their CEO for some donation he made years ago
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>>54534046
Has nothing to do with Firefox, you brainless conspiratard
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>>54534046
Eich is spineless.
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>>54521500
Found the hipster.

Once upon a time, /g/ would have chosen Opera or Chrome over Firefox because it was quickly becoming bloated garbage. Now that Chrome is popular and much more useable than before, suddenly /g/ hates it.
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>>54534046
he resigned.

and given he went on to create a browser that pays you to view ads, i don't think he'd have managed firefox any better than the current shower of retards. indeed he may actually have made it even more of a botnet.
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>>54521693
>I actually wish the world would adopt Linux
Wish granted: The world uses Linux regularly. The 98% adapt and now use Linux for the majority of their computing needs.
Caveat: It's Google's Android. If anything it dumbs them down even more than Windows. As a bonus because Chrome is built in it further pushes Firefox down in marketshare.

Have you never played corrupt a wish before, anon? It's babby's first forum game.

I'll make a wish that can't backfire: I wish for a turkey sandwich, on rye bread, with lettuce and mustard, and, AND I don't want any zombie turkeys, I don't want to turn into a turkey myself, and I don't want any other weird surprises. You got it?
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>>54523554
That hides the ads.
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>>54534246
>I'll make a wish that can't backfire: I wish for a turkey sandwich, on rye bread, with lettuce and mustard, and, AND I don't want any zombie turkeys, I don't want to turn into a turkey myself, and I don't want any other weird surprises. You got it?

Sure, but the turkey is raw.
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Fuck firecucks
All hail our lord and savior
Brendan Eich

https://www.brave.com/
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>>54534297
niceme.me
That was disproven literally years ago. It only hides ads if you intentionally turn off everything but cosmetic filters.
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>>54534087
>thinks his vapid non-technical moaning about "bloat" is representative of the rest of the board and blames hipsters when his notions of imaginary groupthink start to falter

I was trying to think of something scathing to put here, but to keep things short I wish people like you would stop posting.
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>write unit test
>passes in chrome
>test in firefox
>it fails

good riddance
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>>54534246
the lettuce is icerberg and the mustard is heinz
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Them making Yahoo the default search certainly didn't help. Most normies wont touch the settings ever so they just know firefox as the browser that gives shittier results
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>>54534450
No, /g/ hates Chrome because it's a botnet. A botnet and is becoming less and less able to customize. Same shit they hate on Firefox too.
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>>54521487
They realized that them shiny happy people laughing can't write good software. I just hope this whole SJW bubble bursts someday and takes away all these fags with it.
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>>54535974
when that happens, it will be a good day.
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>>54521513
Yes let's make the Preferences pane IN JAVASCRIPT.

Fucking genius. They are ahead of the curve.

I'm surprised they haven't done a whole OS in Javascript that boots right into Firefox.
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Anyone know any good native webkit browser for OSX that isn't safari?
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So, what's the best open-source browser to jump ship to?
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>>54538051
>wanting webkit
Safari
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>>54538080
lynx
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stopped using it when they fired that guy for donating to a traditional marriage advocacy charity with his own wealth
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>>54538080
Amaya, lynx, or line mode browser.
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>>54521487
RTFM.
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>>54534487
Stop being pajeet.
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>>54521925
Man, you are really stupid aren't you?
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>>54534487
Wow you're elite.
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