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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by afefers on Saturday December 02, 2023 @08:25AM (#38498462)
Firefox doesn't have support for AppleScript and this is crucial to my browser habits/workflow. Both Safari and Chrome/Chromium-based browsers have it. Once/if Firefox adopts it, which I doubt but hope so, I'll consider using it.

Here is the 22 years old ticket: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125419

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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by ssbash on Saturday December 02, 2023 @09:31AM (#38498834)
There are probably hundreds of macOS specific bugs that Mozilla will never fix.

Firefox is probably the worst browser in the terms of feeling native to macOS.

These aren’t minor, cosmetic issues but glaring omissions in functionality.

Here’s one on the missing support for the macOS password autofill api. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1650212

Safari and Orion are much better options.

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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by meepmorp on Saturday December 02, 2023 @08:38AM (#38498533)
> Add AppleScript support and capabilities to Mozilla on Mac OS 9 and X.

That was 3 whole CPU architectures ago, damn.

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