But it increasingly got more config-involving to make FF do what I wanted and maybe I overdid some settings/plugins and websites started to show incorrectly. Also the imho (much) too high salary for the CEO annoyed me (Mozilla is supposed to be "Internet for people, not profit").
Tried Brave and it was a nice experience after some initial cost to e.g. disable crypto. Some weeks ago I uninstalled FF on all my computers...
That being said, perhaps they should just piggyback off WebKit/Blink and save themselves a ton of resources.
It’s not too difficult to disable, but Firefox does push suggestions by default and has a revenue sharing agreement with Pocket.
"Mozilla Corporation" bought Pocket in 2017.
Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_(service) :
> On February 27, 2017, Pocket announced that it had been acquired by Mozilla Corporation, the commercial arm of Firefox's non-profit development group. Mozilla staff stated that Pocket would continue to operate as an independent subsidiary but that it would be leveraged as part of an ongoing "Context Graph" project.[6] There are plans to open-source the server-side code of Pocket,[11][12][13] with more than 50 repositories already available on the company's GitHub account, including their iOS app.
In fact, this little nugget supports my original post: “the commercial arm of Firefox's non-profit development group”
I miss a few features, but nothing major.
So when he launched Brave I wanted to give it the benefit if the doubt. But the early messaging about what conditions ads are replaced was hamfisted and I stopped using it relatively quickly.
That being said... all the browsers (FF, Brave, Chrome, Safari, etc.) embody the agenda of their respective organizations. The question you may want to ask is "what organization has the most motivation to address issues I care about most?"
This is why I use Lynx.
An old write up: https://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html
Clueless as I am I had a look at page 6-7 of https://nonprofitlight.com/page/6 where we find helm men of charities earning around 4 m.
This entry strikes me as funny:
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https://nonprofitlight.com/ny/new-york/trustees-of-columbia-...
TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
Total Revenue $5,554,552,356
Total Expenses $5,268,492,284
Net Assets $15,984,284,555
Lawrence Gerald Lenke PROFESSOR OF SURGERY $4,741,060
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https://nonprofitlight.com/ky/louisville/university-of-louis...
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
Total Revenue $126,934,461
Total Expenses $122,421,563
Net Assets $126,332,991
Fredric Scott Satterfield Head Football Coach $4,140,900
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https://nonprofitlight.com/ca/mountain-view/mozilla-foundati...
MOZILLA FOUNDATION
Total Revenue $28,388,184
Total Expenses $21,889,786
Net Assets $53,411,636
Mark Surman EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/PRESIDENT $286,990
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Right, now I'm more clueless than I started out.
Vivaldi works quite well as a thinner Chrome alternative IMO.
> ...Create and manage blockchain identities and assets. > ...access blockchain content... > ...Encapsulate the blockchain technology ... enabling developers to build powerful Apps.
The 2020 forum posts describes mx6 as:
> The main browser features of mx6 will be developed based on a deeply customized chromium code base and existing mx5 codebase. All bitcoin related features will be developed by Maxthon team. Mx6 also has an open API to enable other developers to integrate their code.
I went back to Firefox just because of Chrome api change against adblockers, and found it very usable and mature, but it's a tougher sell to my friends as the difference unnoticeable
Other browsers have a menu entry for this (File -> Open Location... in Chrome) so keyboard shortcuts can be switched in the Keyboard settings but Firefox doesn't have this. :|
I've tried various methods without success. If anyone had a working solution I'd be very grateful.
This issue requires action from Mozilla, there are no user solutions as far as I'm aware.
Edit: I moved off Windows around 2005 followed by a decade of Linux and since then Mac.
Here is a rule that does it (only for left command, but that's probably sufficient): https://genesy.github.io/karabiner-complex-rules-generator/#...
This might work: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/shortkeys/
For me it's "the key to the left of the spacebar" in terms of muscle memory, so Cmd on Mac.
Tried it, as well as modifying omni.ja... From the add-on page (I tried it):
> shortkeys cannot override Firefox default shortcuts
Then evil Google emerges, Chrome got fat, FF trimmed up and went privacy-as-a-default, and I'm back on FF again for the better part of the last decade.
Opera had a look-in around 2008 but it didn't last long, although some of the features were nicely done, it just had a clunky feeling and the rendering was ... Different.