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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.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by barbara hudson on Wednesday August 26 2020, @04:05AM (4 children)
You spelled "burning tires" wrong :-) Maybe there's an opportunity tor a browser that doesn't try to support every whacked out W3 "Standard". That refused to run obfuscated JavaScript - or even any JavaScript. That didn't allow sites to override user prefs with stupid "!important" rules (because they're never important enough to override user preferences, you arrogant UX-monkey idiots).
Just show me the data - the way *I* want it.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 26 2020, @05:19AM
I browse the web on my phone via ssh to my cloud where I run elinks.
(Score: 3, Informative) by maxwell demon on Wednesday August 26 2020, @08:42AM
Educated users use !important themselves on their user prefs. That way the user preferences overrule the site CSS even when the site CSS has !important.
No need to fix the specification or have browsers not follow it in this case. If your browser doesn't follow it and gives site !important preference over user !important, it is broken and should be fixed.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 26 2020, @09:13AM (1 child)
!important is NOT about page authors overriding user preferences. It allows CSS writer to sidestep cascading rules whenever it gets painful due to the way weights are calculated. The fact that your browser does not allow you to override calculated value with your own is browser's own problem.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 26 2020, @12:44PM
It's -1 Redundant to correct Barbara Hudson's posts.