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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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