Re:Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons
by Mirioron on Monday December 03, 2018 @12:28AM
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The reason I switched to Chrome way back when from Firefox is that they changed the UI and that broke some of the add-ons I used. At that point I thought "well, the browser looks like Chrome now, it has as much customizability as Chrome, but its JS engine is slower, so I might as well be using Chrome." At the time I was playing a browser-based game, where the speed of JS mattered a lot to me.
If all the add-ons had kept working on FF, then I probably wouldn't have switched browsers.
Re:Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons
by hakfoo on Sunday December 02, 2018 @03:47PM
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I used to default to Firefox for work. Then they killed the old addons, which broke a major part of my workflow (FireFTP's "open a file and as you edit it it automatically re-uploads" feature). So there was a lot less keeping me stuck to it. Recently, and this is past Quantum, performance on some things (Google Apps) became abysmal (now, this could well be Google being half-assed or deliberately malicious about testing) but that was enough that I gave up on Firefox for work.
Re:Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons
by Wowfunhappy on Monday December 03, 2018 @12:30AM
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I haven't used Chrome in a while, but I was under the impression sideloading was completely blocked in Chrome nowadays. So the fact that Mozilla allows sideloading at all puts them ahead in that regard.
Re:Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons
by gnicholas on Monday December 03, 2018 @03:11AM
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Nope — sideloading is still easy in Chrome.
Re:Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons
by Scarbutt on Monday December 03, 2018 @12:13AM
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The rise of Chrome is responsible for all of Mozilla's lost share. But major factors causing Chrome to gain share are being the default on the most popular mobile platform (Android) and being heavily promoted on google.com for many years.
Not giving any technical and ux credit to chrome for also being a major factor for firefox's loss of market share is disingenuous IMO.
Re:Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons
by happymellon on Monday December 03, 2018 @12:55AM
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Indeed. The lack of Chrome-like profiles keeps me off Firefox.
I want to have a profile for my work, and a personal profile. Chrome provides that, and Firefox, last time I checked, required multiple hoops to enable and also blocked me from having more than one open.
I would even contribute funding to that if Firefox had a "Fund this feature".
Re:Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons
by GonzaloQuero on Monday December 03, 2018 @10:21AM
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Do you need completely separate profiles? If not, containers might be enough for your workflow: https://addons.mozilla.org/es/firefox/addon/multi-account-co...
Re:Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons
by happymellon on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @12:57AM
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I'm looking at the "containers", but it isn't very self explanatory. So with this, I couldn't have two installs of Bitwarden, one for personal and one for work?
Re:Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons
by happymellon on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @12:38AM
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Does FF have a feature crowdfunding site? I would totally donate $100 a month until the bounty is high enough that someone would actually do it.
The rise of Chrome is responsible for all of Mozilla's lost share. But major factors causing Chrome to gain share are being the default on the most popular mobile platform (Android) and being heavily promoted on google.com for many years.
Making it harder to install addons (and breaking all the old ones) is one of the things contributing to Mozilla losing share to Chrome. People used to use Firefox over Chrome because of all the great addons, which they then broke, leaving users with less reason not to use Chrome (which was significantly faster until Firefox Quantum). In other words, the causation is exactly the opposite of what you're suggesting.