• spacecadet@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I use Firefox because I want you use a web browser whose main focus is browsing the web.

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        Great, because it comes bundled with an extension to show you news article you may be interested in, occasional ads for their other paid services and will regularly nudge you into donating money so that it can be used for many purpose beside improving the browser.

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          This is interesting, maybe I changed a settingn years ago but when I start fire fix it just takes me to an empty window until I type something in. Doesn’t try to sell me anything

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          This is my biggest gripe about Firefox. It keeps trying to recommend “Search with Amazon” instead of google search and a bunch of small little ads baked into the home landing page.

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        I really really want to believe in firefox but the corporations behind it are way too fishy.

        The whole setup of mozilla foundation and mozilla coporation stinks. Mozilla asking for donations when the donation amount is barely 1 percent of their income.

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      I came to say just this…

      Why is the person downloading chrome in the first place. Firefox with ghostery and ublock origin is the way forward

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      Sadly Firefox on iPhone doesn’t translate [human languages]. I don’t want to use Chrome on iPhone and Firefox on PC because synchronising bookmarks and history is too important to give up.

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          Blame Apple for that bullshit.

          This one isn’t on Apple. There’s nothing stopping Firefox from having translate on iPhone. It’s on Chrome and Edge.

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              It’s available as an add-on for Firefox on PC. Language translation is built into the application for Chrome and Edge on iPhone.

              • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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                Yes, that’s what I’m trying to say. The browsers have different methods for providing same functionality. But due to restrictions on one platform, Firefox can’t provide the functionality that the users want.

                Also no-addons policy means no adblock either. Which is quite an L.

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                  But due to restrictions on one platform, Firefox can’t provide the functionality that the users want.

                  With all due respect, I don’t think you understand. There is no restriction on language translation on iPhone. Firefox merely doesn’t support built-in language translation. It might have been easier for them if Apple permitted add-ons on iPhone, but it definitely does not prevent language translation. Chrome and Edge have built language translation into their apps for iPhone to facilitate this. Firefox could do the same, but have chosen not to.

                  • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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                    Firefox doesn’t do that because modularity has been their thing for a long time while Google and MS would prefer if you’d start using their browsers as they are.

                    Apple’s restrictions aren’t targeted towards Firefox but inadvertently do exactly that.