I don’t see how being a non-profit suddenly makes it cheaper to build a secure, modern and compatible browser. (Although I know lots of people underestimate how much effort that takes. But just consider that already Mozilla’s doing it for far less money than Google invests in Chrome, for example.)

I fail to understand how they haven’t figured out a way out of this seems to me they’re using all the money they from Google as if there is no tomorrow… Why on earth also if Firefox is so clearly their main product does it seem to not always be at the centre of their attention?

The answer to the second question is the answer to the first - there have been a ton of attempts at alternative sources of funding, but it’s hard to come close to the ~half a billion USD the default search deal provides. So far the branded services you’re calling for don’t seem to have been able to pull it off, and I haven’t seen any signs that donations would be able to either.

(Although as for email with Thunderbird…)

They’re saying they want something like Synaptic (mostly for its “multi-select”, apparently, though I’m not sure what that means?), but have it support AppImages, Flatpaks, Snaps, etc., instead of just Debs like Synaptic does.

If you do a reinstall, I’d recommend going with a Kinoite install. It’s like regular Fedora KDE, except that it avoids this risk of traces of past experiments everywhere.

thelibre.news is woefully underappreciated.

Huh? The article says:

it is generated locally, on your device

Did I misread something?

(Agreed that this should be the norm and not luck.)

Except without the shitty parts where it keeps a log of everything you do and sends it off your device, luckily.

I’m not sure how you’d do it through clicking, but I can press Esc to close the suggestions, and then Esc again to get the original URL. So instead of my usual Ctrl+L -> Ctrl+C, it’s now Ctrl+L -> Esc -> Esc -> Ctrl+C.

In settings, the first checkbox under “Search” is “Show search terms in the address bar on results pages”, so it should be relatively easy to disable if you really don’t like it. I’m going to try to see if I can get used to it first though.

Someone might want to check that, because IIRC it was someone else’s alter ego.

Keep in mind though that with Firefox Sync, all your data is encrypted, whereas a generic sync of your profile folder will have all that data on your sync server without encryption.

CEO salary is paid mostly from default search engine deals. But the same holds true for Firefox development, so you’re right that the money doesn’t go towards developing Firefox.

This was a bug

And looks like it’s been fixed :)

Ads are one thing, but this seems excessive and probably unintentional. Looks like someone just filed this bug, which is another sign that it might be an unintentional problem: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1944704

Ha OK, I don’t know what ozon is and I don’t think I’ve had to edit .desktop files so far, so I’m probably good. I’m on Silverblue, so I suppose they’re still doing system installs, or are looking at existing packages and following their lead.

Thanks for the clarification!

Wait, if I run flatpak list --system --columns=application, it looks like all my Flatpaks are system Flatpaks. Running flatpak list --user --columns=application shoulds just a couple of platform packages. What am I missing out on? What is this needed for:

like forcing crappy electron apps to use wayland

(Either way, thanks for writing up a detailed guide!)

I think it’s for the Hacker News crowd that’s always clamoring for smaller phones, or phones with a physical keyboard. Potentially for parents to give to their young children, to be able to contact them without getting them addicted to screens right away.

Not sure how big those markets are though.

Yeah and the reason they get away with it is because a single person’s (exorbitant) pay in the end hardly affect what’s left for the shareholders, whereas giving all employees raises costs a lot more.

Yeah I’m not against the CEO earning similar amounts to those of organisations doing similar things and bringing in similar amounts of money… But those CEOs, too, are compensated disproportionately.

I mean, come on.

This (vertical tabs) is still an experimental feature that isn’t even in Firefox Labs yet. It’s not that surprising that all edge cases have been ironed out yet. I mean, come on.