• Panda (he/him)@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 months ago

    Flaming hot take that’s probably gonna get me downvoted to hell: releasing a new version of Firefox on mobile before there was a high level of extension compatibility killed a lot of the momentum it had going for it.

    I know that maintaining two separate codebases is a huge challenge, but having the power of all desktop extensions on mobile was a pretty big draw and being told that only a small fraction of them work probably turned off a lot of people. I kinda wish they just put the old codebase in maintenance mode with bug fixes since it was pretty feature complete while rolling out Fenix as a beta.

    Sandboxing also still sucks even after the rewrite, (still no Fission!) which is unacceptable in today’s day and age. I say all this as a Firefox diehard on all platforms, but I’m tired of people acting like it’s a magic bullet to kill Chrome. It still has a lot of problems, including its resource usage. I’m hoping Servo takes off soon, because that’s what made Firefox so fast on desktop even though only a fraction of it was implemented.

    /rejerk So glad my furry porn website userscripts work again!

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      6 months ago

      I kinda wish they just put the old codebase in maintenance mode with bug fixes since it was pretty feature complete while rolling out Fenix as a beta.

      They kind of did that, fenix was under testing for a long time. Just the add-on wasn’t implemented