@cire901 and one of the ways to that is not having yet another email client on Apple Store, which helps strengthen their apps' catalogue.
I trully believe the only way @thunderbird, #Firefox, thus Mozilla to thrive, is both strengthening and weakening Apple's ecosystem, and that means not being present there and help to strengthen where it thrives - and it's not that it thrives that much - on Android.
Seems it's time. Are there any #chromium or #chrome derivatives which will still support #ublock origin, or do I really need to start migrating to #firefox?
@OctaviaConAmore It's not too clear whether donations to the new MZLA entity are earmarked exclusively for #Thunderbird development, or can be harvested by the parent organization to fund other projects.
I'd want to know because recently I've been donating to Thunderbird and I wouldn't like my donations to be redirected to #Firefox, given its current leadership and direction.
Er is veel te doen om de nieuwe 'regels' van Firefox. Nu gebruik ik Thunderbird, wat ook van Mozzila is, voor mijn mail accounts. Weet iemand of Thunderbird ook de nieuwe regels , zoals die van Firefox, heeft? Ik heb het nergens kunnen vinden. Zo ja: wat is een goed vergelijkbaar alternatief voor een desktop pc? Voor m'n android tablet heb ik K-9 mail, maar die is er niet voor een 'gewone' pc.
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So, bottom line. The colors settings in #firefox is deceiving and useless to the modern user. Or is it really useless? I don't think so. If you use it correctly, it allows you to unleash the browser's powerful color contrast features that forces a specified foreground and background color on all web content.
Anyway, since two days ago, #firefox had the same dialog that has persisted in the browser for almost 30 years! What does it do? Nothing much. That is because the web today uses a technology called cascading style sheets. Websites are thoroughly themed through and through (or "skinned" if you prefer). Using a default foreground or background is almost unheard of...
Yesterday I had the satisfaction of tearing out a 30 year old Netscape-era feature from #firefox and introducing something that should be more useful in the modern #web. Hang tight and I will give you a visual history...
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@thunderbird I have been delaying my financial donation to #Thunderbird until I am able to confirm that NONE of it will go towards #Mozilla .
I've been using #Firefox for years and donating for years.
But with the recent 'spyware' TOS changes, Firefox is now dead to me.
So, can you confirm that when I click the 'Donate' button on the default Thunderbird start page, NONE of my donated cash will go to Mozilla?
(If so, perhaps the 'start page' of Thunderbird could be updated to make that fact clear. I suspect that there may be many others like me who've assumed FF and T'bird are funded by 'consolidated' revenue streams.)
Due to @mozillaofficial 's change on #Firefox, I'm trying @brave and probably phasing out from Firefox. I'm also looking for a @thunderbird replacement as well, open for suggestions!
Does anyone know if #LibreWolf or any other privacy focused #firefox forks keep #screenreader and other #accessibility features? Sadly, most of these projects seem to consider accessibility an unneeded feature that ads bloat and security issues and just strip it out completely, so I don't have high hopes. This just seems to be the latest one getting popular after the recent #firefox issues. #a11y
There will be a lot of necessary debate over Mozilla’s original mistake and this hopeful change. This is a good move, and as a long-term user of Firefox I find it very welcome.
Organizations are made of people and make mistakes.
Can you imagine Google or Apple so quickly changing their stances like this in response to user input? Or even at all?
Brave has many integrations with third party vendors. How quickly would they sever financial ties in a similar situation?
DuckDuckGo has a lot of gaps in their privacy models.
We need more open browsers developed by communities for the public good, not unlike Firefox.
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I've switched to lurking here for a while due to the effects the current political situation in the US is having on me. I am making some big changes to how I do things, including how I livestream and host various products of my math research. I'll be posting about the steps I take as I take them.
I have switched from #Firefox to #Librewolf on my desktops. This was pretty easy since I have been storing my bookmarks as a plain text file on my desktop for a while now. Very portable. I just wish #VideoDownloadHelper worked on Librewolf.
I am looking into #XMPP now and trying to find a server to sign up for. Does anyone know any with open registration?
I have also recently gotten into #IRC again, and am excited to get more familiar with the #Pidgin client on desktop.
We’ve been listening to some of our community’s concerns with parts of the TOU, specifically about licensing. Our intent was just to be as clear as possible about how we make Firefox work, but in doing so we also created some confusion and concern.
Why can't #Mozilla just hire some competent management that stops the dumb decisions?
The only real USP of Firefox is Privacy, why would you drop that and just be the average thing that google keeps alive to avoid an anti trust lawsuit?
That's not a smart business decision, or is it? if so, could you explain what I'm not seeing? I really want to keep liking #firefox and mozilla, but I'm really on the verge of loosing faith here.
Looks like we all need to find replacements for #Firefox and #Thunderbird.
I'm trying out LibreWolf on Windows, but what can replace Thunderbird that's cross platform (Win, Mac, Linux, at least)? SeaMonkey, maybe? Is that independent from Mozilla?
#Mozilla seems intent on profit at the expense of users.
#Mozilla isn’t addressing the number one question: why did they remove this section from their #firefox terms of services?
> * Does Firefox sell your personal data?
> Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise.
I used to be a big fan of the #Opera #browser. And what I see happening now with #Firefox is very similar to what happened with Opera.
Opera Software ASA acquired AdMarvel, a mobile advertising company, in 2010. Advertising became the primary business, and the browser was sidelined, dropped its own engine, and was eventually sold to Chinese investors, who completed the enshittification. The spirit around the original Opera was reborn with #Vivaldi, but the engine was lost.
#Mozilla acquired Anonym, an advertising company, in 2024 and started making really worrying decisions about Firefox...
I just hope it doesn't go the same way, for the sake of the Web.
Please do criticise #Mozilla – we need an independent, privacy-preserving, feature-rich web browser, not another tracking-infested piece of garbage software.
However, the frequently expressed opinion that “Firefox should be abandoned because Mozilla is the worst bullshit company” is not helpful. Without #Firefox, all your favourite forks (Tor, LibreWolf, Zen…) would struggle to survive and the Google-Apple complex would fully control the browser market.
New Mozilla TOS diff. This is what they just removed:
* Does Firefox sell your personal data?
> Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise.
The purpose of the new TOS appears to be to enable them to do this - such as for their advertising and AI sidelines.
"When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox."
so, let it be clear:
I DO NOT CONSENT to Mozilla Corp. accessing or using ANYTHING i type in my browser, whether to serve ads, train LLMs or ANYTHING.
