Jeremiah

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Another unnecessary macOS global keyboard shortcut change inspired a bad change in Firefox. (alpaca.gold)
 

Another unnecessary macOS global keyboard shortcut change inspired a bad change in Firefox.

Apple hijacked ⌃↩ to open a context menu. Firefox used that to normalize input text to a .com URL.

⌘↩ in the address bar used to open a new tab. Firefox thought adding .com was more useful than opening a new tab, so moved new tab to ⌥↩, inconsistent with ⌘ + click opening a link in a new tab.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1949999&amp%3Bref=activitypub

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/136.0/releasenotes/?ref=activitypub

https://lifehacker.com/tech/right-click-with-your-keyboard-in-mac-os-sequoia?ref=activitypub

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255829818?sortBy=rank&amp%3Bref=activitypub

#Firefox

We don’t need a fork of Firefox. in c/firefox@fedia.io
[–] Jeremiah@alpaca.gold 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ok, this fork of Firefox actually is pretty great:

@zenbrowser@fosstodon.org is Firefox under the hood, but with a UX more like Arc. It’s already had over 2 million downloads. I am trying it out for a week as my primary browser and will report back.

https://zen-browser.app/

#Mozilla #Firefox

We don’t need a fork of Firefox. in c/firefox@fedia.io
[–] Jeremiah@alpaca.gold 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

@bluGill@fedia.io @rumschlumpel@feddit.org So far, the "evil" is not in the Firefox codebase. It's only in the Mozilla privacy policy.

Removing actual bad things from the Chromium codebase has proven to be very difficult to maintain.

We don’t need a fork of Firefox. in c/firefox@fedia.io
[–] Jeremiah@alpaca.gold 5 points 4 months ago

Oops. Broke my own thread.

Continued here: https://alpaca.gold/@Jeremiah/114075289692237708

We don’t need a fork of Firefox. in c/firefox@fedia.io
[–] Jeremiah@alpaca.gold 31 points 4 months ago (3 children)

We need more browser competition.

Switching to a Chromium-based browser (Arc, Brave, Vivaldi, Edge, et al) does not increase browser competition. It just further strengthens Google’s ability to control the web as a platform.

#Mozilla #Firefox

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We don’t need a fork of Firefox. (alpaca.gold)
 

We don’t need a fork of Firefox.

We need a fork of Mozilla.

#Mozilla #Firefox