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posted by martyb on Tuesday August 25 2020, @11:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-way-back dept.

Mozilla seems to be hell-bent on alienating users, as they did it again:

An update to the Android flavor of Firefox left fuming punters thinking a bad experimental build had been pushed to their smartphones. In fact, this was a deliberate software release.

A Reg reader yesterday alerted us to an August 20 version bump that was causing so many problems, our tipster thought it was a beta that had gone seriously awry. "To sum it up, on 20th of August, Firefox 79 was unexpectedly forced on a large batch of Firefox 68 Android users without any warning, way to opt out or roll back," our reader reported. "A lot got broken in the process: the user interface, tabs, navigation, add-ons."

Meanwhile, the Google Play store page for the completely free and open-source Firefox has a rash of one-star reviews echoing similar complaints: after the upgrade, little seemed to work as expected.

Among the complaints are a missing back button, frequent browser crashes, and extensions not working.

Sounds like a buggy release for sure. But:

Unfortunately for our source, and the other Firefox for Android users, this isn't a mistaken release or a broken beta build: it's the new version of Firefox for Android, and it's set to hit the UK today, August 25, and the US on the 27th.


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  • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by barbara hudson on Wednesday August 26 2020, @03:54AM (3 children)

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Wednesday August 26 2020, @03:54AM (#1041987) Journal
    The gpvsaid there was no reverse. I said there is no need for reverse because both tracks are reversible independently. There is neither a reverse or forward " gear. " it's not like a car where a single reverse or forward gear actuator applies to all the drive wheels. It's like talking about the steering wheel to turn left or right with all-wheel steer independent steering front and rear wheels on a grader. You can turn all the wheels in one direction to crab , in different directions to pivot, or leave one axle straight and just the other for steering - but you don't want to do that when you're actually working.

    Also, on bulldozers and shovels and air tracks (pneumatic rock drilling machines) there's no actual gear that shifts between reverse and forward. Just valves to reverse the flow of hydraulic fluid or air to the independent drive motors. On a tank you can have gears for different speeds, but the reverse/forwards is still hydraulic, not an actual gear switching.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 26 2020, @05:15AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 26 2020, @05:15AM (#1042003)

    Oh wow.

    Dude, what if GP meant that there was no way to put either track in reverse?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 26 2020, @09:31AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 26 2020, @09:31AM (#1042052)

      Somples, they would jst reverse one of them. ::ducks::

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 26 2020, @12:36PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 26 2020, @12:36PM (#1042085)

    Hey Barbara - I don't get it. Do you mean there is no reverse? Or there is reverse? It's so hard.