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<title>Firefox begone</title>
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<published>2024-02-09T04:30:08Z</published>
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<p>Could also be titled “I'm never going to use Firefox ever again”.</p>
<ul>
	<li>The defaults are absolutely horrible and barely anything is changeable via <code>about:preferences</code>, you'll need to screw around in documentation-less <code>about:config</code>. I don't want to spend that time anymore, no one should have to.</li>
	<li>Always more and more nagging and advertisements (sponsored links in new tab and URL suggestions). I'd say this is quite comparable to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification">enshittification</a>, as if firefox wasn't loosing enough users already.</li>
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	<img src="/images/firefox-default-browser-dark-pattern.png" />
	<figcaption>
		Pop-in with the following content:
		<blockquote>
			<em>[Cartoon fox waving a paw]</em><br />
			<strong>Welcome Back</strong><br />
			Here's a quick reminder that you can keep your favorite indie browser just one click away.
			<ul>
				<li>[Highlighted button] Open my links with Firefox</li>
				<li>[Simple hyperlink] Not now</li>
			</ul>
		</blockquote>
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<p>
	Cute Fox sure, but that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pattern">dark-patterned</a> popin spawned right in the web-based game I was testing, well after it loaded. Thanks for stealing focus… And of course you cannot answer "no, never" maybe the folks at mozilla need a reminder of what <em>consent</em> means.<br />
	This should have never have ended up into a firefox release, there's a limit to how much you can nag users at <em>every</em> browser launch, this it way past tolerable.<br />
	For me this ended up being the final straw, I ended up uninstalling firefox. I'd rather just use chromium few times a year instead as fallback to when I need WebRTC <a href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235885">until GstWebRTC is viable</a> (btw Firefox grabs it's WebRTC implementation directly from chromium).
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<p>
	By the way, Firefox is <strong>not</strong> an <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/independence">independent</a> browser. It has been reliant on Google's money for ages, even while Google's main business effectively directly goes against values Firefox supposedly has.
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<p>Fucking <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/adware">adware</a>.</p>
<h2>Previously</h2>
<ul>
	<li>2017-07-09: <a href="/articles/www-client%20are%20broken">www-client are broken</a></li>
	<li>2015-11-11: <a href="/articles/Mozilla%20is%20Broken">Mozilla is Broken</a></li>
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