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For aesthetics and anti-stupidity's sake, might I also recommend:

browser.urlbar.trimURLs

False.

It is possible that I'm so culturally eccentric that the obstruction of useful information fails to appeal to me.

In about:config, while it lasts -- if it's even available--, try flipping the bool for:

dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled

To false

Edit: my mental molasses delayed my seeing that the feature was removed and that you've moved on. I'll leave the comment though.

Interestingly different, yes. But still related to the barrage of vomit spewing from Mozilla lately, for example:

"Firefox Now Sends Your Address Bar Keystrokes to Mozilla"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28804588

Well, curious behavior for curious purposes isn't without precedent.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

Personal opinion:

There is an entire economy and ecosystem based on rewarding sinister web design. The complexity and resources involved in keeping pace with contemporary garbage while qualifying simply as a functional browser is too vast. So much that I suspect it's all downhill from here. I don't believe we'll ever see an all around user-friendly, privacy respecting, well designed, functional browser. I'd delight in being wrong here, but sincerely doubt it.

A 700+point related post from yesterday that was flagged as a dupe because another with 80 points had been posted previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28783381

For reference:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/oil-...

Trying to reinforce my comment?

Removing a whole toolset of configurability because one tool was causing trivial issues is practical? And you have evidence of jubilant hordes prostrating themselves in gratitude for this benevolence? Where are they? Did they all get disappeared along with this post?

This mentality goes down well-known paths.

Autoplay forever, whether anyone wants it or not!

Dear Dang, Semaphor,

To label a thread with 671+ comments a dupe and kill and abandon it for one with 81 comments is dubious. It should be the reverse. Not accusing, but this almost appears protectionism against scrutiny of Mozilla. Regardless, it's odd.

>No more about:config

So few realize the importance of this. Some say "well only in Android" or "use nightly". The plan is clearly to incrementally erode freedom to a final state of dysfunction under the guise of gaslit improvements and false switches. They actually argue that removing about:config was for our own good. Printing webpages to PDF is also something we're supposedly better without. But we shouldn't complain, for they've abandoned the crusty old obsolete concept of configurability for brave new ones. Pocket, guerilla advertising, binary over variety, cloudflare, dom.battery.enabled, privacy.resistFingerprinting.alwaysdisabled and an emoji level of privacy. Why design good software when they can design good users? They're not all bad though. At least they saved us all from the terrifying overwhelming burden of RSS, right?

They're attitude is that, yeah, the internet is becoming a roiling cloaca, which is accepted and inevitable, yes? So rather than resist and try to improve it, adapt and contribute to it's descent.

>>>You can use it by activating a few settings in about:config

Not. On. Android.

Correction accepted. Throwing 1/3 of the population to the gutter seems in alignment with the American way. Assuming once again, you appear to disagree not with my principles, but with a numerical error. I guess it's standard collateral damage in the quest for easy money. I sometimes forget that this is praiseworthy to many here.

Assuming Android is the most common usage platform for FF, one can't even use their choice of DNS. The DoH feature uses cloudflare and overrides system configs and without about:config, there's no way to change it. This isn't good compared to anything. It just sucks.

FF's concept of user benefit is restriction. How many users are now enjoying a better world because they can no longer save a webpage to PDF?

Fellow frogs, you're being boiled.