Almost all the links in my front homepage are sponsored now. What’s next, a few ads in the bookmark bar? How about when I enter a URL, I then have to type “McDonald’s” before I can actually navigate there?

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Also, not being able to set the home button to a custom URL is fucking crazy. I want the home button to take me to my selfhosted dashboard that has all my services and links on it. I don’t want the home button to take me to the dumbass firefox page and have to click another link to get to it.

Been using Kiwi instead for this sole reason but now Kiwi is dead. I’m not willing to concede this workflow and make an extra click because Mozilla is braindead and can’t implement a functional home button like every single browser since the beginning of time.

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What part of it doesn’t work? Rather than resorting to name calling I would instead say what the problem is. You will get way more help when you aren’t being a jerk.

Are you talking about Firefox based browsers or is my link broken? Firefox allows pinning a web page to start and setting a home page.

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You can set it to custom and to my knowledge that’s always been true.

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What a nice person

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???

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Well first of all, rude! Second, where was that stated? Oh it wasn’t? You just felt like being a little bitch on the Internet for no reason? Honestly, relatable.

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I think they mean on mobile as opposed to PC. I can’t find any option besides the dashboard-style homepage offered by default. I can customize it, but I can’t make it a specific URL.

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I think the best viable option for them is to either offer a subscription model. Or increase requests for donations.

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what would a subscription even do?

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Id say support Firefox development, maybe premium access to some of Mozilla’s services, possibly cosmetics in browser

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support ff development: thats called donating

premium access to mozillas services: that’s already a thing but you subscribe to each one, like their vpn, pocket, etc

cosmetics in browser: thats just https://addons.mozilla.org/

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Breaking news: Businesses need to make money, more at 11

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Either that or they go bankrupt. Design your own browser and give it out for free if you don’t like it

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A for profit company is not a charity

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Their profit motive is capped by their only shareholder being a non-profit.

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Again, not really. Mozilla wants to bring in as much money as they can. They are really bad at actually making useful products but that’s a separate issue.

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Whether it’s for profit or charity. It can’t accomplish its goals without financing.

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I thought you said “What’s next, a few ads in the URL bar?” …because Mozilla has put a few ads in the URL bar.

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And even if you disable this, your address bar still randomly breaks, but instead of suggesting an ad it just doesn’t suggest anything.

Fuck you, Mozilla.

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Was trying to reference this

Maybe I should have added a paragraph somewhere in there. I was typing fast because I only get so much time on my break at work.

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Your writing is better than serviceable, I just had a brain fart while reading it

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