I never did like the fact Mozilla was trying to branch out and sell us services such as VPNs. I'd be happier if they were diverting more attention to the browser and making more people aware of it.Hmmmmm
Obviously the browser side of things not affected, maybe it's just a refocus on the browser and reducing the focus on things people don't use. Awaiting the blog articles...
Why you SHOULD be using Firefox
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Soldato
Is anyone else getting weird YouTube issues on FF 123? I updated earlier this evening and couldn't work out why YT videos were showing previews in a smaller box.
Man of Honour
Smaller box?
Soldato
It was as if the preview for a video was squashed up and to the left but there was a normal space reserved for the video. It seems OK now.
Don't believe it was a Firefox issue, YT seems to periodically break things lately.
Man of Honour
No issues like that here on 123.
Soldato
I did not know until last week quite how low the firefox usage stats are. I admit that different sites will all have varying figures, but not wildly different surely. Oh this was mobile and desktop combined.
| Chrome | Safari | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Samsung Internet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 64.73% | 18.56% | 4.97% | 3.36% | 2.86% | 2.59% |
Edge is more popular than Firefox because Microsoft effectively pushed it in our faces after installing Windows. Way more tactics listed here, but either way Microsoft were quite brazen.
Chrome, I just don't get why more people don't see what Google for what they are - an advertising company. I've never trusted Google with my data, even though I have an Android phone with most/all of the Google tracking potentials turned off. That and their Chrome browser is bundled with some software, helping to trick people into using Chrome.
Firefox aren't perfect. It took them what felt like forever and a day before they released Firefox Quantum in Firefox version 57, which was a welcome improvement in the browser's performance. I do feel that perhaps Mozilla could and should do this again, which might sway a few more users over.
I do also think people are using desktop PCs less and less now. But you can still install and use Firefox on mobile phones, but again it's a question of promotion and getting people to change - most are happy with the default Chrome browser.
Chrome usage is significantly over-represented due to it being the default on android devices and desktop is overall a much smaller share of browser use than it was.
On my home pc I've been firefox for a long time, but at work it's either Chrome or Edge - a lot of our internal tools simply don't play nicely in firefox . Safari is straight up broken in most of our use cases.
On my home pc I've been firefox for a long time, but at work it's either Chrome or Edge - a lot of our internal tools simply don't play nicely in firefox . Safari is straight up broken in most of our use cases.
Soldato
Firefox 125.0.1, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes
www.mozilla.org
Firefox now supports the AV1 codec for Encrypted Media Extensions (EME), enabling higher-quality playback from video streaming providers.
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I just started using Firefox. I like it but the one thing I hate is I can't seem to copy text some times? I don't have this issue on chrome?
It's a known bug, click the plus sign at the top and open a new tab next to the window that doesn't copy and then it works.
Sounds like a joke but it's not.
I've noticed that too. It can get annoying sometimes. I suspect its got something to do with copyright or something & Firefox are just trying to cover themselves I dunno.
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Man of Honour
you can just press forward slash to show up search bar at any time (when not in a text input box of course).
Yeah it's annoying. Ctrl + C works most of the time when the right click menu option is faded out.
For the last few days I've been having issues with YouTube in Firefox, videos keep buffering/getting stuck until I refresh the page. Definitely not a bandwidth issue my end as I'm consistently getting 920Mbit+ on speed tests. Anyone else using firefox had similar issues? It could be YouTube's servers but would expect to hear widespread reports of it if that was the case...
It isn't a Firefox issue, but seems to manifest worse in Firefox - I've been intermittently getting the same thing ever since YT went to war against ad-blockers (I'm not blocking ads usually on YT) so I think it is a side effect of that. It doesn't seem to be reported widespread but I've seen a small number of people complaining about it - a bit puzzling.
Here is one of my earlier posts about it: