Firefox is on a slippery slope

Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope by Animats on Saturday December 16, 2017 @04:11PM (#15942134)

It's become so bad that F-Droid won't even distribute Firefox on Android any more. They have their own fork, called Fennec. It still has "Firefox accounts", Pocket (which can be turned off) and Sync.

Pocket is now an ad channel. There are Pocket "suggestions".

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Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope by steckerhalter on Sunday December 17, 2017 @03:29AM (#15944816)

Fennec is actually Mozilla's name for the Android version of Firefox: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Android

See also the filename of the latest release: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mobile/releases/57.0.1/android-x...

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Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope by Animats on Monday December 18, 2017 @03:58AM (#15950369)

"Fennec F-Droid" is a browser fork that F-Droid uses. It gets rid of some of Mozilla's junk in Firefox. They avoid mentioning Mozilla or Firefox, and use a different icon.

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Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope by gkya on Saturday December 16, 2017 @04:31PM (#15942246)

The suggestions annoy the heck out of me. I probably am going to dump Firefox altogether when I will find something similar to tabs sync with qutebrowser or the new nEXT browser (which is a very interesting thing because it's implemented in common lisp with emacs-like extensibility AFAIK).

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