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Re:Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations by wmf on Thursday January 06, 2022 @03:15PM (#29829372)
1. Start accepting crypto, get a PR bump

2. Stop accepting crypto because you're green, get another PR bump

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Re:Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations by rchaud on Thursday January 06, 2022 @03:59PM (#29830063)
Mozilla has been accepting it for years, 2017 at least. I imagine nobody donated anything of palpable value because they had to re-announce that they do in fact accept crypto. That's what kicked off the controversy.

Also, I haven't seen Mozilla associated with positive PR for a long time. Much as I love Firefox, it's dead on mobile.

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Re:Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations by voltagedivider on Thursday January 06, 2022 @04:22PM (#29830392)
> Much as I love Firefox, it's dead on mobile.

It's my primary browser on mobile and always has been. What am I missing?

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Re:Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations by phatfish on Thursday January 06, 2022 @05:37PM (#29831491)
I don't think you are missing anything. It is far more attractive on mobile due the the extension support and hence ad-blockers. That alone makes up for any (small) performance difference Firefox has.

Chrome on mobile without uBlock is as bad as you would expect.

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Re:Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations by rchaud on Thursday January 06, 2022 @07:08PM (#29832644)
It's not 2008 anymore, there are choices beyond Chrome and Firefox.

Kiwi and Brave are both Chromium based, and on mobile both are faster/less jittery than Firefox. Especially on web apps that have some level of interactivity with CSS transitions and transforms.

Kiwi has excellent support for Chrome extensions including UBO, and Brave comes with adblocking built in. Samsung Browser has adblocking as well.

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Re:Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations by yellowapple on Friday January 07, 2022 @07:13AM (#29838165)
> there are choices beyond Chrome and Firefox

And those choices are literally rebranded Chrome - which means they're likely going to be victims of Chrome Extension Manifest V3 nerfing content blockers in various ways (especially once Chrome fully sunsets MV2), no?

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Re:Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations by BrendanEich on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @01:58AM (#29888439)
No, V2 is being kept internally and exposed for Enterprise Chrome deployments. We at Brave have committed to keeping webRequest exposed to extensions too, while the underlying support remains and can be enabled for all Brave users.
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Re:Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations by jefftk on Thursday January 06, 2022 @04:09PM (#29830200)
> Much as I love Firefox, it's dead on mobile.

What's wrong with Firefox for Android?

(Firefox for iOS is just reskinned WebKit, like all other iOS browsers, but hopefully Apple has to open this up soon)

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Re:Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations by marcosdumay on Thursday January 06, 2022 @04:25PM (#29830435)
They rewrote it recently, and not only a lot of features didn't make it through, but it also lost most of the extensions.

Still beats Chrome hands down. But it used to be better.

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Re:Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations by suprfsat on Thursday January 06, 2022 @04:23PM (#29830400)
They had a perfectly working browser and replaced it with a broken one with no support for extensions, printing/PDF, and WebAuthn.

about:config is currently disabled, so for instance setting proxies no longer work. Ah, I see one of the … 18 supported extensions is a proxy setter.

Basically they shipped premature beta software and abandoned the stable working version.

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Re:Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations by yellowapple on Friday January 07, 2022 @07:14AM (#29838175)
I don't know about printing or WebAuthn, but I'm on Nightly and extensions (particularly uBlock Origin) work just fine AFAICT. And so does about:config.
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Re:Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations by suprfsat on Friday January 07, 2022 @11:47AM (#29841368)
WebAuthn works now, but it was a regression.

Nightly supports about:config but stable does not.

Only a specific short list of extensions are supported.

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Re:Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations by hammyhavoc on Thursday January 06, 2022 @04:07PM (#29830170)
And simultaneously flush what little good will remained with their users and existing donors. Patience is wearing thin for many when it comes to Firefox.
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