Mozilla’s struggling for income, so if you value Firefox you might want to visit (opens in new tab) to help secure its future. The lack of in-house quality assurance teams was also highlighted – much of Mozilla’s QA is outsourced – and in early 2020 the QA leads were reportedly let go in a round of layoffs. 2019 wasn’t a great year for Mozilla, with a major add-on crisis in May that Peter Saint-Andre and Matthew Miller claimed “was the result of having an interlocking set of complex systems that were not well understood across the relevant teams”. Last year’s overhaul dramatically improved its performance, which was starting to lag behind the likes of Chrome, and it’s smooth and solid even on fairly modest hardware.Īs much as we love Firefox – right now it’s still our favorite browser – we’re worried about its future. It can alert you if your email address is included in a known data breach, it blocks those annoying allow-notifications popups, it blocks “fingerprinting” browser tracking and it brings its picture in picture video mode to the Mac version.Īs before it’s endlessly customizable both in terms of its appearance and in the range of extensions and plugins you can use. Similarly, the number of sites that allow Google and Bing may decrease in the future if these companies do things to tick off the operators of those sites.Firefox has long been the Swiss Army Knife of the internet and our favorite browser.
The number of web sites that allow Brave will increase as Brave’s search engine gets more popular because users will demand it. Microsoft’s history hasn’t exactly been spotless either and I suspect many users (especially Duck Duck Go users) would prefer a privacy-focused search engine that doesn’t support them. But there’s no guarantee about this either. Right now, people seem to be moving to Bing (and Duck Duck Go, which I believe uses Bing’s back-end). Lots of people are moving to alternative search engines as a result.
Not just over privacy concerns but over censoring news/search results, biasing search results in favor of other Google-operated sites and other issues. Google is very high profile in the news and they have been offiending quite a lot of people. There is absolutely no guarantee it will be this way in the future.
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