Mozilla: The RIGHT or WRONG Direction? | Weekly News Roundup

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• firefox is the best browser for the present time. Especially if you dig through the about:config and turn off all the telemetry settings, it becomes the most private browser and with ublock origin, it becomes the most secure browser.

  If they lose their edge, then our next best option is brave, which I don't trust because its chromium.

  graphene os also is suspicious to me, because you have to run it on a google phone, which for all I know has active management technology with out of band access to all the sensors and instruments. Why wouldn't google do that? Of course they would. Now you want to build your OS on this?

  I would pay any amount of money to have a trust worthy graphene os phone, build on the fair phone architecture but with hardware switches for Microphone bluetooth wifi and cameras. That would be the end game phone.

• The biggest problem with Firefox is Mozilla's constant copying of Chrome. What they really need to do is go in an entirely different direction from Chrome. Leave the being like Chrome to the forks of Chromium. Instead, go all-out on customisation, which is the opposite from where Google's going with Chrome.

• never had issues recording under wayland using OBS

• Wokezilla.

• Kazam works good for me. Video with sound.

• I honestly think Mozilla just has an image problem. At least on the internet, if you present yourself as "the good guy" everyone and their cat will try to prove you're a hypocrite and scrutinize everything you do by the standards of Batman. On the other hand, if you own it and go with "hey, I can be a bit of an arse sometimes" no one would care about that one grandma you ran over.
  Fairphone is still getting angry comments about that one time they tried selling generic bluetooth earbuds; even though they were objectively more "green" than the competition, and the high profit margin would offset the biggest complaint about fairphones: the price. Now they're actually doing 100% modular over-ears with standard batteries and internal USB-C cables, and no one cares to listen anymore.
  Me point is that the EU is about to mandate some really annoying pop-ups related to accepting cookies on every single targeted ad, so there's room in the market for a "Generic non-intrusive Ads" network for mozilla to use their privacy minded expertise on.
  Ideally that, or some other trend-chasing Pocket AI VPN Email&Knuckles get-rich-quick scheme of theirs, would cover the costs to keep Firefox relevant. Or "good-enough" to accept all the ad-b lock refugees. Or at least fund Ladybird or Servo. If nothing else, because tor, mullvad and librewolf need to be based (on something).
  Now for the ranty bit
  Happy camper on /e/OS/Murena here. I love it, but bless their heart it's a bit buggy. Most of them are small visual glitches, the worst I got was that the Applounge crashed once and I had to "End task" from the settings.
  I get it, it supports many more phones than just pixels, and on my Fairphone it's probably better than stock, (they rushed the upgrade to Android 13 and people complain about crashes) while /e/Stable is still on 12.
  It has that bootloader re-locking thing too, but even their support guys told me not to re-lock it, just in case something goes wrong and I have to re-install. If I can't access the bootloader (from inside the os settings) then I'll get a brick. It does nothing for "security", it just prevents attackers from deleting internal storage.
  The only downside to leaving it unlocked is that I get a "The device has been modified" at boot, which I see as a badge of honour and reminds me of that Portal fan-made song (v2) every time.

• The problem is X-11 is abandon-ware. Lets remember context matters.

• I use GPU Screen Recorder on Pop!_OS Wayland and can record my desktop audio along with microphone audio. I too am frustrated with the state of affairs concerning X11 and Wayland. Just trying to get my desktop working to run games is a pain on both display managers (I have an AMD card btw). Wayland imo has a better out of the box experience (no screen tearing and smoother display) however it suffers from a lack of basic features (No keybinds for apps for example).

• I'm a novice running Linux Mint and dabbling in Qubes. Wayland seems to have broken Redshift in Mint and my eyes at the same time 😂

• Google is the Tower of Babel, speaking "one language" in order to fight YHWH in the heavens.

• I think we have come to the point of no return and we can safely say that google won, and I can't blame Mozilla to desperately try everything they can to stop being dependant on firefox. It's not a pretty image when 90% of all your income comes from just one customer, and that customer is your main rival. At this point I would just support independent projects like LadyBird or Servo since Firefox is just a sinking ship that not even Mozilla can save. What external projects like Tor will do after this would be a great question…

• Like these news videos quite a bit. Thanks for doing these! Many Linux "reviewers" only focus on the distro "features", so thanks for bringing the news. Love the FOSS aspects and de-googling
  news. It's crazy how much time it takes to go through devices and stop all the nonsense. Go Linux!

• Gtk ruined Firefox for me. It's like using a Gnome app.

• Thunderbird and Firefox must be their top priorities.

• Mozilla should double down on firefox, and not their other services. i understand why they want to push for their vpn and such but the reality is, many people are jumping ship specifically because firefox hasn't been great for a long time. If they keep neglecting firefox, soon, everyone will give up and migrate to a chromium browser. It will set a very dangerous precedent. Once Google controls the web entirely, it's over. No more ad blockers, no more privacy focused extensions etc.

  Projects like tor, mullvad and librewolf, will vanish. It's very dangerous, what is about to happen.

• Wayland is miserable failure, use Arcan instead

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