Firefox Asinine Grinning Balloon Crap
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Firefox users will already know about the smug-git balloon thing that appeared recently (version 35 I think). It's for some asinine chat thing, built into the browser. Anyway, I removed it from my toolbars.
Today, Firefox updated itself to version 36.The smug-git balloon returned to stare at me with its whacked-out grin.
And they also changed how the search bar works, and made it fucking retarted as shit.
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Just them whoring for money after losing the Googlebux.
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Is this the state of Firefox nowadays?
They really let themselves go.
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Seems like it's a race to the bottom between all the browsers. Except maybe IE, but who knows what IE is up to.
Filed under: at least Chrome doesn't put that stupid bell in the notification area anymore, small victories
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Every person should just fork chromium and give it the UI that suits them.
I'm not sure if I'm kidding
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I know this thread is about Firefox and how terrible it is, but I just wanted to say that my organization finally dropped support for IE8 and I'm really happy about that.
Also, I don't know what "telefonica" is so why would i agree to their privacy/ToU policies? What the hell, Mozilla.
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telefonica
Telecoms company. They own O2 in the UK, and networks in a few other European countries. Possibly further afield too
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Ah, I'm on the other side of the Atlantic. That raises even more questions about what Mozilla is doing for money! Well, maybe, telecom companies in the US/Canada are not exactly.. trustworthy entities. Could be different in Europe?
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There are many things I'd call Telefonica but "trustworthy" is not one of them. They're scumbags like every other telecom company. But for some reason they have a "startup accelerator" and like to spend money on "innovative stuff". They seem to have taken a liking to Mozilla's crazy projects, and Mozilla's desperate for money, so now they do silly stuff like Firefox Hello or Firefox OS together.
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Seems like it's a race to the bottom between all the browsers. Except maybe IE, but who knows what IE is up to.
It's being killed off and replaced with 343 Industries' "Project Spartan", where your browser is actually the in-game UI for Halo 5.
Filed under: One of these things is actually true, we need a new tag cloud to attack
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I didn’t even notice this new icon before reading this thread. Granted, I use the classical menubar (how long will it last?), so I tend to ignore the top right corner of Firefox windows...
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I didn’t even notice this new icon before reading this thread.
Me, neither, though I mostly just use FF for logging into my VPN. I think it probably got lost in the other stuff there that I mostly ignore.
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Hmm, curios. Started Firefox after many weeks and updated.
Ugh. What does this shit have to do with browsing web?
No thanks. After it closed, I got this thing in toolbar.
I clicked customize and removed it. Seems gone for good. So it's crap, but luckily, they still give you reasonably functional customize option that can hide the bloat.
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Seems gone for good.
It'll be back in the next update.And you beat me to posting about that stupid fucking popup and default tab.
Hello is a stupid name for a chat app. Hello is a stupid name for anything.
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They also disable my chrome lookalike theme and revert to their godawful default.
It's a shame. I like their ideology and behind the scenes work, but any actual product they touch turns to shit.
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What browser isn't garbage these days?
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IE11
ducks
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Lynx?
Do they even still make that?
I don't know if it's still maintained, but it's still in my Cygwin install (by default? I'm pretty sure I didn't go out of my way to add it).
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I don't know if it's still maintained, but it's still in my Cygwin install (by default? I'm pretty sure I didn't go out of my way to add it).
Latest preview release 5 Jan this year, according to Wikipedia
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Ah, I'm on the other side of the Atlantic.
Telefonica (Spanish FTW) is also present in many LATAM countries. But oh well, you're in the USA, the world ends in the Mexican frontier.
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And they also changed how the search bar works, and made it fucking retarted as shit.
This can be disabled in about:config, setting "browser.search.showOneOffButtons".
Which is good for us computer-savvy people, but Granny will... no wait, Granny just googles Google in the address bar anyway.
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This can be disabled in about:config, setting "browser.search.showOneOffButtons".
*immediately toggles feature VERY MUCH OFF*Also, why is that not an option in the Options dialog?
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You signed up to post XKCD.
We need to ban XKCD again. Either via Rosie photos, or just outright deletion. Because fuck that shit.
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Too affected from FF 36, couldn't help it.
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Um, I am certainly not an American.
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Telefonica (Spanish FTW) is
presentalso robbing their users in many LATAM countries.
FTFY
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Hello is a stupid name for a chat app. Hello is a stupid name for anything.
Looking at about:config, its internal name seems to be Loop*. Which is so much better :ΡFWIW I've set
loop.enabled
to false.
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Looking at about:config, its internal name seems to be Loop*. Which is so much better :Ρ
FWIW I've set
loop.enabled
to false.
*immediately does the same*
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WHY DO PEOPLE CHANGE SOFTWARE EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! zOMG IT MAEKS ME SO ANGRYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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Nobody cares.
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And? That just means you're a pedantic dickweed, it doesn't mean you care about anything.
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You are a pedantic dickweed, yes.
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WHY DO PEOPLE CHANGE SOFTWARE EVER
At the risk of sounding like @blakeyrat, when it's a change for the worse, I'll happily rage about it
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Am I being punked or are you just slow? You're arguing that someone, you specifically most likely, cares how people refer to "Americans". This is not a productive area of discussion, ergo nobody cares.
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Meanwhile the graybeards use SeaMonkey and an UI that hasn't changed since the 90's. Because it works just fine, thank you very much.
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FWIW I've set loop.enabled to false.
Closed Firefox, updated to 36, re-opened. Smug balloon was not only not back on the toolbar, it was even gone from the rest of the rejects under Customize!
Just because "why not?" I've temporarily put loop.enabled back to true and after a new restart sure enough the icon was back on the toolbar.
Customizing it away seems to have stuck after that, even after toggling loop.enabled and restarting a bunch of times.
The filter on about:config survived all the restarts, which wasn't something I was expecting to happen.
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[Telefonica] own O2 in the UK,
Do they even still make that?
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Clearly it lacks proper Unicode support
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This should speak for itself.