Mozilla recruits beta testers for a built-in Firefox VPN
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: Lucky few randomly selected to trial the feature, which won't fully roll out for several months

Lucky few randomly selected to trial the feature, which won’t fully roll out for several months

  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Progressive Web Apps

    Modern Tab Management

    Isn’t that already an extension?

    Improved History Search

    Could also be an extension, I bet.

    Cross Site Scripting (like “Web Macros”)
    Improved privacy containers (fighting browser fingerprinting)
    Clearer and more fine granumar permission concepts (like Android, “may this website do xyz”)

    That’s the sort of thing I meant by “under-the-hood stuff normies won’t notice.”

    I think a number of Javascript Apis are lacking in Mozilla compared to Chrome and others.

    No, that’s a good thing. Fuck JavaScript; it has way too much access to stuff it shouldn’t already. If anything, APIs need to be removed.

    I almost hate Mozilla as much as I do hate Google, because they are slowly letting Firefox die a death of unpopularity.

    But at least they can pay their CEOs a lot of money out of that sweet Google ad revenue.

    I think Google still deserves to be hated a lot more, but otherwise I agree. IMO there’s no good reason for Mozilla Corporation to exist; it should only be Mozilla Foundation (the non-profit part) and all board and management should be replaced with non-overpaid people who actually believe in the mission.