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posted by martyb on Friday July 14 2017, @05:56AM   Printer-friendly
from the replacement-for-my-firefox dept.

After a few months of development, the Pale Moon browser has released its latest iteration. Along with security features, the key release for this version seems to be centered around expanding the browser's media support.

Release notes here.

Offtopic, but somehow relevant: they also published the results of their survey in March. The feedback says a lot about the browser's user base, and highlights the direction the team will take in the future.

[What browser(s) do you use? Do you use a separate browser for certain sites? Same browser for everything you access online? What browser differences lead you to use one browser over another? -Ed.]


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by FatPhil on Friday July 14 2017, @08:37AM (3 children)

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Friday July 14 2017, @08:37AM (#539023) Homepage
    "We won't be removing analytics entirely as they make it possible to improve our services."

    And because an exception proves a rule, the FF spokesdroid is saying "it is impossible to improve our service without analytics". How did people make things better before analytics? Well, clearly they couldn't have, because spokesdroid says so. Nothing ever improved ever until analytics was introduced. Or maybe people and companies listened to their users and customers, encouraging communities and discussion, and then acted in ways that would be most sensible?

    Nah, that's crazy talk - communities clearly don't work. Case in point - when people raise issues like "Dear Firefox, I've enabled the Do Not Track header - please Do Not Track me" on a community bug-tracker the company completely ignore the request.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 14 2017, @10:32AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 14 2017, @10:32AM (#539050)

    That's crazy talk, friend. That's why we integrated Pocket for you and enabled it by default. And removed tiresome things like the menu - there's addons for that you know? And we change the addon code base every 2.5 years, all for you, friend.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 14 2017, @12:12PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 14 2017, @12:12PM (#539080)

    They are using it for NHST A/B testing nonsense. It will destroy UI/UX development just as it has destroyed education research, psychology, etc.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @05:00PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @05:00PM (#541018)

    Amazingly, one of the Mozilla people commented that in-house analytics would be too much work. From the Github link:

    Hosting our own solution (eg. Piwik) would be a considerable increase in effort and time better spent on improving our own services–additionally I find Google Analytics a superior product to Piwik. While I can't speak for product managers and metrics people on AMO who rely on these analytics, I imagine they feel similarly and decided it was best to use a better tool.