yoasif @ yoasif @fedia.io

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I actually wanted to help make Firefox a better product. 🤷

And then later I learned it was a cooperative effort, just not under the same name

Source?

They developed the "privacy sandbox" together.

Yeah that's not true.

You have to remember that sometimes when that shiny new CSS feature comes out, it is underspecced, with unhandled corner cases -- "just do what Chromium does" is not a standard -- or is it? Having multiple implementations of a spec prove that it is interoperable - without that, you might have a good spec, or you might have a spec that says "whatever Chrome does is what is expected". Not sure that is what we want from new CSS (or any) features.

The 2FA thing sounds like it's all on the Dropbox side if you are just entering a code you got from an authenticator app. The Google login issue may be a real issue -- did the Google login specifically work on another browser?

There is nothing about MV3 that stops you from improving things.

What about this stuff?

Uhh, that doesn't seem normal at all. Is this a default config? Any extensions in use?

Probably simpler to just "Forget" the site from the site's context menu in the history sidebar.

What are you a captcha?

"Vivaldi is closed source, therefore it's harder for users to investigate", which is clearly an inaccurate statement.

Why is it an inaccurate statement?

What user are you thinking of?

You really felt misled that it was harder to inspect? What makes you think I have the expertise to inspect this? I'm not even a user and I wouldn't know where to start to find the ad blocker within that tarball. Would you?

In any case, I clarified why it was harder to inspect - to me it felt obvious that being closed source made it harder to investigate. The fact that it is also shared source really has no bearing to the general observation, especially since we're talking about a 2GB tarball where I don't even know where to start. And I'm a pretty technical person.

How would a user easily investigate this vs. an open source browser?

It is, it is just source available. Still closed source.

You're awesome!

Who's a bot?

I don't feel like talking to posts proxied from reddit.

Given that Eich was the leader of Mozilla for a short while but he found it hard to stay kinda makes me think Mozilla's leaders are currently better (or at least more acceptable). Can you point to leadership at Mozilla as "bad"?

Opera GX has promised to keep MV2 in their code. So I'll just keep using that until I see something different. The other thing is that Opera GX has built in ad-blocker which is pretty much on par with third parties.

I couldn't find a source for either of these claims. Can you help me out?