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commit: 77b4f07b51568271c50fc83a2866397d04908d31
parent e94b528fd8cdaa81d633a0102681285473f67f58
Author: Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact@hacktivis.me>
Date:   Sun,  9 Jul 2017 03:56:12 +0200

articles/Mozilla is Broken: 2017-07 update

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diff --git a/articles/Mozilla is Broken.html b/articles/Mozilla is Broken.html @@ -10,17 +10,18 @@ <li>Pocket(non-free service) is installed, displayed, non-configurable at compile time → <a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/02/27/mozilla-acquires-pocket/">And now is integrated in it</a></li> <li>DRM (adobe EME) is active by default (can be disabled)</li> <li>Firefox Hello is installed, displayed, non-configurable at compile time</li> - <li>Other New web stuff(WebRTC, HTML5 audio/video, …) have to be disabled/configured into about:config which is a total mess with no help</li> + <li>Other New web stuff(WebRTC, HTML5 audio/video, …) have to be disabled/configured into about:config which is a total mess with no help (seamonkey/opera/linux-menuconfig are very good examples)</li> <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> + <li>Broken multitasking. With chrom* when a tab crashes there is only one, in firefox it’s multiple/all tabs. (I had this issue with e10s and I still got it since the first days)</li> + <li><a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=858839">Do Not Track is not respected on Mozilla Websites</a>: Ignoring Do Not Track header, knowing nothing about what "tracking means" or what a "third-party" can do, being in this stupid reasoning where there is colateral tracking by Google Analytics and/or Ads Companies, also badly using the word "anonymous"(It means no name/identification).</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><b>No Unicode</b> even if my Locale is en_US.UTF-8 and configured to "Default for Current Locale", I have to change <em>every single time</em> to Unicode instead of Western (is that even a thing?)</li> <li>more and more slowness and crashes and <strong>new profile doesn’t help</strong></li> </ul> <p>And there is potentially way more shit (just look and the old but still open tickets)</li> -<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>Current solution: None, all browsers sucks and none sucks less, so I’m in a constant change of web browser everyday. See: <a rel="next" href="/articles/www-client%20are%20broken">www-client are broken</a></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> - -On social media : <a href="https://friendica.eu/display/5a727f9b125643c641caf1e584230451">Fediverse(Friendica, Diaspora, GnuSocial, …)</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/lanodan/status/664576292805849088">Twitter</a> +<p>Apparently since like… middle-late 2016 Mozilla Firefox is now better in Nightly than ESR. Whatever, it’s still broken for me.</p>