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On the other hand, saying that there’s way too much javascript in it is objectively factual.

CustomCSSforFx comes with a bunch of options for tab style.

Twitch. I figure their corporate masters are about equally evil, so if you really have to choose one you may as well go with the one that still has better discoverability, community, and chat. #AlternatePlayer makes it tolerable.

bans on pay toilets dating back to the 1970s

It’s like my grandpa always said, the problem with pay toilets was that without a way for a VC-funded startup to monopolize the market and take a cut of every transaction they just didn’t feel sleazy enough.

Indeed, that we tend to write such scary-looking rants and post them all over the Internet is one reason it was perhaps a bad idea for Mozilla to alienate their most geeky users in so many little ways over the years.

Firefox itself is still the least scary of the available full-featured web browsers, of course.

I don’t think the zdnet article adds much but it does link to https://news.itsfoss.com/firefox-continuous-decline/ which gets it about right. If anything has changed since it was written, evidence of it has not yet reached me.

People listened to records, cassette tapes and CDs

Recording formats often get mentioned, but they are not the important music thing of which kids today are often unaware. The important thing is that we used to have record collections (which were mostly composed of CDs by the time I was old enough to have a modest one.)

I now have a more extensive one and enjoy it greatly, only now it’s in mp3 form.

It’s not difficult to understand why Mozilla has become difficult to root for. This is the news story more people heard about so far this year: https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/02/mozilla_in_2024_ai_privacy/

“… exploring ways to better integrate advertising while adhering to our focus on privacy and choice”

I still do root for them of course, since there aren’t really any other web browsers. But they’re not making it easy.

I’m not quite paranoid enough to believe that all of these anti-VPN articles are propaganda sponsored by people who want to make mass surveillance easier, but when it’s from someone whose other recent posts include one titled “Youtube ads aren’t actually that bad” and two explaining why Google’s Manifest V3 is great, I’m at least going to suspect it as a possibility.

My lawyers will argue that this willful infringement of my rights as the orignal author of the famous 1997 Internet comment “So true” means that you now owe me $4000000 in damages, but I’ll settle for one bitcoin.

That’s not quite how I learned it…

99 bugs in the code that I wrote, 99 bugs in the code; do one real quick, mark it as fixed, 100 bugs in the code that I wrote.