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Another unnecessary macOS global keyboard shortcut change inspired a bad change in Firefox. (alpaca.gold)
 

Another unnecessary macOS global keyboard shortcut change inspired a bad change in Firefox.

Apple hijacked ⌃↩ to open a context menu. Firefox used that to normalize input text to a .com URL.

⌘↩ in the address bar used to open a new tab. Firefox thought adding .com was more useful than opening a new tab, so moved new tab to ⌥↩, inconsistent with ⌘ + click opening a link in a new tab.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1949999&amp%3Bref=activitypub

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/136.0/releasenotes/?ref=activitypub

https://lifehacker.com/tech/right-click-with-your-keyboard-in-mac-os-sequoia?ref=activitypub

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255829818?sortBy=rank&amp%3Bref=activitypub

#Firefox

We don’t need a fork of Firefox. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ok, this fork of Firefox actually is pretty great:

@[email protected] is Firefox under the hood, but with a UX more like Arc. It’s already had over 2 million downloads. I am trying it out for a week as my primary browser and will report back.

https://zen-browser.app/

#Mozilla #Firefox

We don’t need a fork of Firefox. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] @[email protected] So far, the "evil" is not in the Firefox codebase. It's only in the Mozilla privacy policy.

Removing actual bad things from the Chromium codebase has proven to be very difficult to maintain.

We don’t need a fork of Firefox. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Oops. Broke my own thread.

Continued here: https://alpaca.gold/@Jeremiah/114075289692237708

We don’t need a fork of Firefox. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (3 children)

We need more browser competition.

Switching to a Chromium-based browser (Arc, Brave, Vivaldi, Edge, et al) does not increase browser competition. It just further strengthens Google’s ability to control the web as a platform.

#Mozilla #Firefox

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We don’t need a fork of Firefox. (alpaca.gold)
 

We don’t need a fork of Firefox.

We need a fork of Mozilla.

#Mozilla #Firefox

The FBI is warning Americans to use encrypted messaging apps as a result of the "Salt Typhoon" hack, which one U.S. Senator called “the worst [in] our nation’s history.” Read more at @Gizmodo. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

@[email protected] @Gizmodo I considered writing this exact exploit scenario as an argument for opposing the proposed EU #ChatControl regulation, but thought it would be too tinfoil hat and yet here we are.

https://www.jeremiahlee.com/posts/after-chat-control/?ref=Mastodon