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parent c6ca5c3f59ea294ee20e5828c8e6efedaa6c8aa4
Author: Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact@hacktivis.me>
Date:   Tue, 16 Aug 2016 08:10:04 +0200

articles/Mozilla is Broken: Even more broken

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diff --git a/articles/Mozilla is Broken.html b/articles/Mozilla is Broken.html @@ -6,7 +6,9 @@ <li>No more choice for the user<ul> <li>Old one : JavaScript can’t be configured</li> <li>OpenH264(non-free) is installed by default</li> + <li>adb (android, non-free) is installed by default (Dev Edition ?)</li> <li>Pocket(non-free service) is installed, displayed, non-configurable at compile time</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>add-ons have to be signed and only by Mozilla, non-configurable at compile time</li> @@ -17,6 +19,7 @@ <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>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>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>