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Re:Mozilla to Explore Healthy Social Media Alternative by BlueTemplar on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @07:13PM (#34088112)
What makes you say that Firefox isn't a top tier browser ? Including on Android ? (Where the cards are stacked against it, better dump Android at this point anyway.)

This goes double for when Firefox OS was around : 7-9 years ago.

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Re:Mozilla to Explore Healthy Social Media Alternative by quanticle on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @11:38PM (#34089867)
If Firefox were a top tier browser it wouldn't have bugs that were old enough to legally purchase alcohol in the United States [1]. Or have bugs that are old enough to have a drivers' license [2]. It wouldn't have decade-old bugs that break AJAX forms [3]. It would correctly support prefetching links [4].

And those are just the outstanding bugs. In terms of performance, Firefox is still slower than Chrome. It still has more UI jank, even on Linux. The new plugin API still doesn't give extensions the same level of functionality that they had with the old API, despite years of promising otherwise. Its responses to interaction media queries are inconsistent, necessitating the creation of a test page [5] to determine what its actual responses are (W3C specifications? what are those?).

No, Firefox is not a top-tier browser. It's more privacy-preserving than Chrome, which is why I use it, but I will never claim that Firefox is a better browser.

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10212

[2]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317081

[3]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654072

[4]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1527334

[5]: https://demos.obormot.net/interaction-media-query-test

EDIT:

    better dump Android at this point anyway
Dump Android for what, exactly? An even more user-hostile platform, like iOS?
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Re:Mozilla to Explore Healthy Social Media Alternative by BlueTemplar on Friday December 23, 2022 @11:02PM (#34113842)
Being worse than Chrome doesn't mean it's not top tier. Agreed about the old loss of functionality. At least performance is better now.

No, most people should be using a dumbphone these days, at least until we hackers get our shit together enough that alternatives Librem/Pinephone are good enough.

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