Post 9yH9XWltpTOFuAEFaS by brethil@mastodon.bida.im
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(DIR) Post #9yH0Mf2NrDl8lggOZs by Gina@fosstodon.org
2020-08-19T07:32:30Z
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Thanks for the mobile upgrade, #Firefox, I hate it.
(DIR) Post #9yH0R3p1eQHmnJX59s by danslerush@fosstodon.org
2020-08-19T07:33:24Z
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@Gina No DuckDuckGo or Qwant by default !? đ¤¨
(DIR) Post #9yH1GJnU11Md6pFiyG by nvsr@best-friends.chat
2020-08-19T07:42:28Z
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@Gina Try https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?query=%s&cat=web&pl=opensearch&language=english
(DIR) Post #9yH1RAi68lwQ70uQVs by turion@mastodon.art
2020-08-19T07:44:30Z
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@Gina Lol. We're a privacy browser! Also, please do your search on Google. It gives us $$$
(DIR) Post #9yH1bryK9JrbBKbFLs by amdg2@diaspodon.fr
2020-08-19T07:46:34Z
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@Gina you can move back the address bar to the top in the options, that may help a bit đ
(DIR) Post #9yH2OqFfKlfo2I3xsu by Steinar@snabelen.no
2020-08-19T07:55:26Z
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@Gina I don't like being the user who complains about change just because it's different, so I gave the latest Firefox on Android an honest try. I used it on my devices for several days. Then I simply gave up and moved to Vivaldi. The combination of really annoying interaction flows, removing about:config and so on, made it death by a thousand pecks for my personal user experience. Perhaps I'll return, but not today.
(DIR) Post #9yH2w6ZTgAj2CrBu2i by dwagenk@chaos.social
2020-08-19T08:01:27Z
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@Gina I settled on icecat mobile a while ago (when there was no Firefox for android available yet) and found it very usable! It's basically the free build of the last Firefox ESR version...
(DIR) Post #9yH3NAHPzxJlWleArI by RyuKurisu@fosstodon.org
2020-08-19T08:06:20Z
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@Gina because you've got to manually add Startpage?
(DIR) Post #9yH3cUjGFe3xIDyp9M by robin@mastodon.online
2020-08-19T08:09:04Z
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@Gina you can put back the search bar to the top and define you search engine but you get quickly over it.
(DIR) Post #9yH3sPPBoRSvPnBEOW by held@fosstodon.org
2020-08-19T08:11:58Z
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@Gina they do a lot of their financing with the Google search integration. Even if I hate Google, I see the necessity of financiation. And as long as you are able to change that, I think it's OK...
(DIR) Post #9yH4fP8Zb7Igm0lrH6 by deathcrush@fosstodon.org
2020-08-19T08:20:21Z
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@Gina I also hate Google, but it's important to have finnantion. I don't really see that annoying having to change the default search engine.
(DIR) Post #9yH5UnMZHpYog1p1Ps by arjen@idf.social
2020-08-19T08:30:04Z
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@Gina that's why it's still free... I worry about next year, when the google funding stops. Will the only alternative to google browser tech survive?
(DIR) Post #9yH9XWltpTOFuAEFaS by brethil@mastodon.bida.im
2020-08-19T09:15:25Z
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@GinaYou can add new search engines to Firefox by going to the search page and holding down on the search box, you'll get an option to add the search engine
(DIR) Post #9yH9llEmqGZApAWm48 by projectmoon@fosstodon.org
2020-08-19T09:18:00Z
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@Gina the new Firefox requires some getting used to. But it's way better and way faster than the old version. There are some things they should have waited on before launching though.
(DIR) Post #9yHAazT7gr9pjLf4Lo by appelgriebsch@fosstodon.org
2020-08-19T09:27:15Z
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@Gina âThe customers of the Mozilla Corporation are not the users of Firefox (among whom you may count yourself). The Mozilla Corporationâs customers are large corporations like Google that pay for things that will help them make money, most notably having their Internet search service be the default in the Firefox browser. And to complete the old saying, âIf youâre not the customerâŚâ, then the 200+ million Firefox users are the product, potential viewers of ads served up by Google or others.â
(DIR) Post #9yHDbszhY10fnn1CJE by Gina@fosstodon.org
2020-08-19T10:00:59Z
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To be fair, there's some good stuff to mention as well. The mobile browser looks a lot more like the desktop browser and it has more features now.
(DIR) Post #9yHDe9E4AZgaisoe8W by Gina@fosstodon.org
2020-08-19T10:01:25Z
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To be fair, there's some good stuff to mention as well. The mobile #firefox browser looks a lot more like the desktop browser and it has more features now.
(DIR) Post #9yHDuF8ZxUI5grvM8m by arh@social.tchncs.de
2020-08-19T10:04:24Z
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@Gina where did you get this update? There's nothing on @fdroidorg and I checked Google Play's website and last update was for 7 days ago.
(DIR) Post #9yHFKoBGOI5trIPXAO by bkhl@mastodon.sdf.org
2020-08-19T10:20:27Z
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@arh @Gina @fdroidorg I think they are rolling it out gradually by region, but 7 days ago sounds about right for when I got it from G. Play here in Thailand.My main peeve is I can't turn off web fonts any more. I even filed a feature request to make a better version of that, but it got misunderstood and closed: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/13375
(DIR) Post #9yHIMXsyFJkJlJNHgu by Matter@fosstodon.org
2020-08-19T10:54:09Z
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@Gina Did you manage to add the search engine? For startpage, put in this: https://startpage.com/do/search?query=%s
(DIR) Post #9yHMB6MqcJvR309EPY by publicvoit@graz.social
2020-08-19T11:36:59Z
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@Gina Oh c'mon. Give it a try.I, too, failed to remember the "q="-URL for startpage (there is one!). Currently, I'm testing duckduckgo which should be as good.Please note that I'm using startpage as default search service for many years so far.
(DIR) Post #9yHMCvsIbFE55GjRce by ajmartinez@social.librem.one
2020-08-19T11:37:10Z
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@Gina did they seriously remove ddg as an engine!?
(DIR) Post #9yHMVMBFXCwPskNhi4 by bumi@kosmos.social
2020-08-19T11:40:44Z
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@Gina is that startpage.com search entry there marked as invalid because the '%s' for the query is missing in your entry or because it can not be configured?
(DIR) Post #9yHONVtXjU51bPUG00 by honiden@mastodon.bida.im
2020-08-19T12:01:40Z
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@Gina I know it's not the main point but I'd like to ask you why you choose startpage as your search engine. I've never heard of it before and just looked up a bit of info about it. To me it looks like it focuses on privacy, like Duckduckgo, and I'd like to know why and how it's better/different
(DIR) Post #9yHV8vB09ZZZLadrpg by Gina@fosstodon.org
2020-08-19T13:17:18Z
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@Matter I did, it works now :)
(DIR) Post #9yHVbJKPx0rkMSaErI by Gina@fosstodon.org
2020-08-19T13:22:35Z
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@honiden because Startpage uses Google results on the background, which just worked a bit better than Duckduckgo's own search results.
(DIR) Post #9yHVeRb7f5V2sRtJpY by Gina@fosstodon.org
2020-08-19T13:23:07Z
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@honiden because Startpage uses Google results on the background, which just worked a bit better than Duckduckgo's own search results.Although Duckduckgo and Ecosia are amazing alternatives â¤ď¸
(DIR) Post #9yHVhJtikM8nrfxgX2 by Gina@fosstodon.org
2020-08-19T13:23:43Z
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@arh @fdroidorg no idea, it updated itself.
(DIR) Post #9yHWaK4bnN0qKvHWvg by honiden@mastodon.bida.im
2020-08-19T13:33:41Z
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@Gina interesting, thank you!
(DIR) Post #9yIM8EAlKsoxXm5J56 by edgren@fosstodon.org
2020-08-19T23:11:16Z
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@Gina I got interested and installed Firefox yesterday (since it's Thursday now) and have tested the new version since then.Like you said later after your first toot about the update, Firefox for Android does looks and works more like the desktop version which I absolutely like. I am all up for this update, especially when DuckDuckGo was in the list of search engines.
(DIR) Post #9yJ2nLL5n8EPibCjAm by duponin@udongein.xyz
2020-08-20T07:09:23.123211Z
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@Gina cool they made addons âofficialâ