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I always found the denials of this to be bizarre:
Given the intrusive nature of government surveillance, Mozilla—with its dedication to privacy and independence from corporate and government interests—should be more vital than ever. But in the age of social media and mobile devices, it has struggled to maintain relevance and failed to transition to a world where the desktop browser is fading in importance. Mozilla hasn't even dented the mobile market with mobile versions of its browser or its Firefox OS smartphone operating system. And the organization has done little to counteract Facebook's expanding influence. What's more, its foothold on the desktop continues to slip as Google Chrome grows in popularity.
[...] The good news is Mozilla has found some partnerships to supplement its search revenue. For example, the company quietly integrated the "read-it-later" service Pocket into Firefox along with a video conferencing feature powered by European telco Telefonica earlier this year. Although the company emphasizes that Pocket and Telefonica didn't pay for placement in the Firefox browser, Mozilla Corp. chief legal and business officer Denelle Dixon-Thayer told WIRED that Mozilla has revenue sharing arrangements with both companies.
takyon: Mozilla retires Firefox's sponsored tiles, hunts for new revenue streams
Previously: Mozilla Integrates Proprietary Pocket Plugin
Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket
(Score: 5, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Tuesday December 08 2015, @05:17AM
I don't customize the UI for eye candy. I customize it for functionality.
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(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Tuesday December 08 2015, @10:55AM
In theory that's true, in practice not so much. I've found that any real functionality that can be added to Firefox and not to Chromium can be more elegantly resolved on other ways.
For example, Firefox can use FoxyProxy, while Chromium's proxy support is lacking. However, a much more elegant solution is to run Privoxy and make Chromium use it.
Can you list essential functionality that can be added to Firefox and not Chromium, and can not be resolved in another manner (for example, using a competent tiling windows manager instead of trying to make Firefox play the role of a windows manager)?
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(Score: 3, Informative) by maxwell demon on Wednesday December 09 2015, @06:47PM
What is your definition of "essential"?
Anyway, here's some extensions I don't want to miss; are all of those available to Chromium?
* Add to search bar (allows to easily add any search field to the search bar)
* All-in-One sidebar
* Clean Links
* Lazarus Form Recovery
* Policeman
* QuietUrl
* Resurrect Pages
* Tree Style Tab [and no, a window manager is no replacement for that — at least none I know]
BTW, as far as I can tell, Chromium doesn't have good profile support.
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(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Thursday December 10 2015, @03:02AM
I can't be bothered to look all of those up, but off the top of my head
* Policman
uMatrix
* Lazarus Form Recovery
It's definitely possible, I don't know if one exists currently though
* Tree Style Tab
Tab Outliner is better. In fact I originally switched to Chromium for it.
* Add to search bar
Not sure if possible or not, but Chromium automatically adds all search fields that you have used to its search engines.
* All-in-One sidebar
Don't know what that is, but sounds like it should be possible.
* BTW, as far as I can tell, Chromium doesn't have good profile support.
That's such an odd accusation. What kind of profile support are you looking for? Because Chromium saves all of your settings, extensions, extension settings, open pages, cookies, history, bookmarks per user profile, just like Firefox.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by maxwell demon on Thursday December 10 2015, @07:58AM
From the Tab Outliner FAQ:
So an essential feature is not only not present, but not even possible in Chromium.
So in Chromium, I would actually need the opposite extensions: One to prevent overloading the search engines with everything I've ever searched in.
Per-profile root certificates.
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