Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony

Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony by the_duke on Monday November 29, 2021 @07:47AM (#29379178)

> greater configurability leads to greater code complexity and therefore greater maintenance costs

Firefox is extremely configurable. Settings being removed from the UI doesn't mean they are gone.

`about:config` has a crazy amount of toggles that allow customizing pretty much everything, including turning off all the Mozilla services (telemetriy, account sync, Pocket, VPN adds, ...). Compare that with the measly set of settings and undiscoverable CLI flags available in Chrome...

I personally feel removing settings from the standard UI is perfectly fine when almost no-one is using them, and power users can work just fine with settings.js or `about:config`.

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Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony by shultays on Monday November 29, 2021 @08:49AM (#29379819)

about:config is removed from (not beta) android version of firefox. Who knows if they will decide to remove it on desktop as well because "only x% of our users were using about:config!"

Also if a setting is hidden behind about:config, it probably means dev will care less and less about it and eventually remove if it is becoming a hindrance

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Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony by unsignedint on Monday November 29, 2021 @01:20PM (#29383202)

This precisely the reason I've dropped Firefox. (Previously I was using Firefox almost exclusively across all the platforms.)

I was using it to enable TRR on Android.

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Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony by aaron_m04 on Monday November 29, 2021 @10:21AM (#29380835)

It is present in Fennec F-droid, which I am using now, FWIW. It is based on Firefox.

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