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As much as I love the way #vivaldi_browser handles tabs, tab groups and workspaces, I've reluctantly moved back to #firefox. Poor memory management and regular freezes make #Vivaldi almost completely unusable and it's been getting worse with every new release. Shame.

*EDIT* - Added 'workspaces'.

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@gabrielesvelto I still remember #FirefoxOS and I'm still mad at @Mozilla / @mozilla_support / #Mozilla for self-sabotaging because neither me nor @fuchsiii nor anyone else I knew who did #WebDev / #AppDev / #MobileDev could even buy a device.

  • The only device that I was aware of launched in the #EU was a #SimLock'd & #NetLock'd #prepaid phone in #Spain which wouldn't sell it to us since they demanded #KYC with a spanish residency address.

I mean it's cool that one could just use #Firefox as #Emulator but no #mobile #OperatingSystem will have any chance of market attraction if one cannot buy the bloody thing!

  • Same like #OpenMoko: I'd love to get a #Neo1973 but none of the phone and electronic stores had it (and back then I was under 16 so I couldn't just make an account at an online shop)…

Apparently the #Firefox bug with drop-down menus was introduced 3+ years ago, and only affects window managers with a focus-follows-mouse policy... and it's been reported several times and never fixed because they just don't care about people who are using the standard window manager (the only one shipped with X since 1988!), only users of bloated desktop environments (which I guess are now universally click-to-focus). The bug was introduced as a workaround for a different bug.

A friend likes to watch TV/VIdeos on her Windows laptop, but using the speakers, not ear phones.

Now: Some films and series (especially on Netflix) are not loud enough to understand the dialogues properly.

She was desperate.

However: I quickly checked for browser plugins to boost volume and there are (for #Firefox for sure, but most certainly for #Chrome, too).

Worked perfectly, and now all her friends (wrongly) think, I am kind of a tech wizard.

Becoming "famous" made easy.

Cool thing I’ve discovered recently: in #Firefox on macOS you can use CMD+SHIFT+TAB keyboard shortcut to restore recently closed tab.

I wish I knew it before, would save me a lot of time each time I accidentally close a tab, which happens quite often 🤦

A bloated organization with a lot of money (not so much after the verdict in the Google antitrust case) making bad decisions on what to integrate into Firefox.

I wish the Firefox project would go the way of the Thunderbird project.

Ask the community for donations, give them a say in most wanted features to implement on the roadmap and get rid of the company CEO structure or at least of the board of directors.

theregister.com/2025/07/08/fir

The Register · Firefox is fine. The people running it are notBy Liam Proven

🦊 Firefox is fine. The people running it are not • The Register

「 Stop copying Chrome. The Australis theme in 2013 is what drove the Pale Moon project to fork the code. The all-in-one Seamonkey project still exists, too. We occasionally use its WYSIWYG HTML editor – even today, there's nothing else like it. It used to be official. Maybe it should be again 」

theregister.com/2025/07/08/fir

The Register · Firefox is fine. The people running it are notBy Liam Proven