Firefox 139 hides homescreen option to disable ads
Firefox 139 hides homescreen option to disable ads
After I noticed Firefox has removed the Pocket branding but kept the Pocket stories, I also noticed the settings screen on the homepage no longer lets you disable sponsored stories or links.
Firefox 115:
Firefox 139:
You can still remove these advertisements, but you have to leave the homepage and dig through the settings to find that option.
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U should really switch to a firefox fork. The official version is fucked.
Is it really fucked? Like, it works great IMO... What's wrong with it?
i love how you comment under a post showing you an example
This post shows me how it's fucked?
- Removing bullshit from the home page is great. Reduce clutter.
- You can still disable it in the settings (where settings belong).
🤷♂️ I don't see it.
Which one do you recommend and why?
Librewolf and Waterfox are good.
Waterfox isn't bad. https://www.waterfox.net/
I like floorp, it's very customisable!
I'm enjoying Zen, really gets out of your way nicely. Does a bunch of things I used to hack in userChrome.css better, still reasonably secure as best I can tell, it's not librewolf but it's still firefox so I add back the normal privacy add-ons, about:settings etc, but the UX uplift is worth it.
That said, without the firefox base we're all fucked, so this, and their general culture, is really quite disturbing.
What are you going to do when the paid Firefox dev team stops developing it?
Donate to the hopefully less greed driven and user data hungry people that will take up the development.
I don't think you understand, the majority of the heavy lifting browser development is done by the paid devs at Mozilla. If they stop updating the browser none of the down stream forks are going to be able to replace the work they're doing.
Why wouldnt they? The majority of money at Mozilla has been going to worthless management people and side projects nobody wants. Only a tiny fraction of the money Mozilla spends would be required to pay the devs that actually develop Firefox. Im saying Firefox needs to be hard forked and Mozilla can go to shit for all i care. As long as Mozilla exists, nobody will do it so maybe its even necessary for Mozilla to die.
Why wouldnt they? The majority of money at Mozilla has been going to worthless management people and side projects nobody wants.
While true, its unlikely the fork devs will fund raise enough.
Would you have a source that details how Mozilla spends money on the software development of Firefox vs other projects? I couldn't find it in the financial report, so I guess you have another source.
No, i made it the fuck up. But if you look at how many actual code changes happen on each release and then substract all the shit that nobody wants, there is little left. Firefox is basically in maintainance mode the way i see it. If you then look at all the other stuff mozilla is doing (ad tech, AI garbage, useless cloud features, marketing) you get a picture of where the management is placing priority. Things that lead to monetization. There are a few cool things like Thunderbird and Mozilla Location Service, but the latter has already been killed off sadly.