To be fair, the article itself recommends it.

Probably both. Climate change raises ambient temperatures, tech companies are lazy and enjoy selling more chips for more AI data centers…

They’re already going that direction. Mozilla needs a change of heart, not just a change of income

Text fragment linking already works in the latest version of Firefox, although you’ll need to install an extension like this one to create links.

Custom Search Engines: Firefox now supports adding even more search engines. To add a custom engine, right-click a search field of a supported website and select “Add Search Engine”, or go to Settings > Search > Add (below the search shortcuts table) to manually enter a search URL.

“Settings > Search > Add” was already available in Firefox for Desktop, but you manually had to travel to about.config to add the missing browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh boolean and set it to true. You’ve been able to do this for at least 4 years, and it’s worked on Android for a while too.

Maybe they finally finished polishing it up.

Apology accepted.

Crazy how Mozilla has done so much stuff that people just forgot

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Firefox doesn’t let you use alt text anywhere, except for the most ridiculously niche location.

People who want to see it when they browse webpages get nothing.

It’s only if you

• open a PDF in Firefox
• and then choose to edit it
• and then choose to add an image
• and then choose to add alt text to it
• and then choose to generate alt text instead

If Mozilla cares about accessibility, what a weird niche of a niche of a place to put it.

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I don’t need to be a source code expert to understand what Mozilla has done, thankfully. That’s not a technological hurdle the average person should have to overcome. I know more than most people have the privilege to know, and further gatekeeping (any gatekeeping) is unnecessary.

If that was not your intent, or for other people who are genuinely interested:

https://noyb.eu/en/firefox-tracks-you-privacy-preserving-feature

If gatekeeping my comment was your intent, I would be happy to track down the source code as long as you made an extensive effort to get Mozilla to remove the code that collects your data…

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It’s good to watch Mozilla pouring their time, effort, and dwindling funds into the most important features - AI ones!