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commit: 0ea936bb58d54db0080f41b540db95989b2497ff
parent 28577762b46ea5ea2af69939e86365d721fcf35e
Author: lanodan <haelwenn@NightGlider.the-delta.lan>
Date:   Thu, 12 Nov 2015 01:13:09 +0100

few corrections + Unicode SHIT

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diff --git a/articles/Mozilla is Broken.html b/articles/Mozilla is Broken.html @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ <a href="/articles/Mozilla%20is%20Broken"><h1>Mozilla is Broken</h1></a> -<p>I’m quitting Mozilla, not that I have been really been into the community(mostly because they want me to do only thing, apply this to programs, not humans) but I was using and enjoying it for a long time(like since 2008). Also in about 2014 I switched from Thunderbird to mutt because I wanted something simple which does GPG, hard time to switch but I love it. And now it seems like Mozilla is killing Firefox for years :</p> +<p>I’m quitting Mozilla, not that I have been really been into the community(mostly because they want me to do one thing, apply this to programs, not humans) but I was using and enjoying it for a long time(like since 2008). Also in about 2014 I switched from Thunderbird to mutt because I wanted something simple which does GPG, hard time to switch but I love it. And now it seems like Mozilla is killing Firefox for years :</p> <ul> <li>Version numbering doesn’t mean anything(patches, big change, small change, security update ?)</li> <li>Have a very bad privacy and security (look at the differences between tor browser and Firefox)</li> @@ -12,8 +12,10 @@ <li>add-ons have to be signed and only by Mozilla, non-configurable at compile time</li> <li>tracks you even if you disable all tracking in about:preferences</li> <li>Geo location can only be totally disabled with about:config</li> + <li>Can’t choose a fallback(also weirdly called “Legacy”) encoding(old profile had it, about:preferences#content → Advanced(or Fonts, whatever) is shit, about:config is a mess)</li> </ul></li> + <li>No Unicode by default even if my Locale is en_US.UTF-8 and configured to "Default for Current Locale"</li> <li>more and more slowness and crashes and <strong>new profile doesn’t help</strong></li> </ul> -<p>Quick and Dirty solution while I make my own browser while keeping a good privacy : Tor Browser(which use ESR) with add-ons for more privacy/security</p> -<p>BTW if <strong>everyone</strong> have to use a LTS/ESR/real-stable version of a browser even if they are actual developers… well why is the Developer Edition based on Nightly ? For badly supported things like H.264 ? gstreamer works(can be an interface to ffmpeg). For brand new stuff ? Well most web-smiths have to support old browsers like IE6 or IE7. For marketing because we are the browser with tons of features ? Well I think so. I think Netscape did the same mistake, why Mozilla would do the same ?</p> +<p>Quick and Dirty solution while I make my own browser while keeping a good privacy : Tor Browser(which use ESR) with <a href="/browser-setup">add-ons</a> for more privacy/security</p> +<p>BTW if <strong>everyone</strong> have to use a LTS/ESR/real-stable version of a browser even if they are actual developers… well why is the Developer Edition based on Nightly ? For badly supported things like H.264 ? gstreamer works(can be an interface to ffmpeg). For brand new stuff ? Well most web-smiths have to support old browsers like IE6 or IE7. For marketing because we are the browser with tons of features ? Well I think so. I think Netscape did the same mistake in the browser-war, why change things?</p>