Re:Firefox tracks you with “privacy preserving” feature
by DidYaWipe on Monday September 30, 2024 @11:26AM
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Fair enough. Do the external password-managing apps integrate with the browser for auto-completion? I've never tried one.
I also don't sync tabs, so I'm not talking about that at all. Just bookmarks.
Firefox as browser-only browser is perfectly good for me. The surrounding UI is almost transparent to me, as if it did not exist.
The only point of contact between your and mine experiences are the bookmarks on mobile. I don't use them. I pin the sites I use most on the page that opens when pressing the new tab button and those are my bookmarks. Unfortunately there are only 16 possible pinned sites there but I'm not even using all of them. Most of the times I tap the URL bar, type one or two letters and Firefox autocompletes the sites I want to see. Example: I tap n and it suggests news.ycombinator.com. Faster than any bookmarks menu.
Anyway. If most users follow your workflow, Mozilla are not doing a good job. If most users follow my workflow, they are wasting a lot of engineering time in features we don't use. IMHO Firefox users are mostly power users so I think there are at least ten different workflows competing for the top spot and whatever Mozilla does people will be mostly upset. It's not an easy place to be.