Is Firefox OK?

Mozilla’s privacy-heavy browser is flatlining but still crucial to future of the web.

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[nevernow]

I'm not business-minded at all, but the sheer numbers baffle me: 242 million dollars in software development and 137 in "general and administrative" in 2020.

I mean, making GTA4 from scratch cost an estimated $100 millions and one year of what is essentially maintenance of Firefox and the other software products Mozilla offer cost 242? Does not compute to me.

This said, I don't think finance has much to do with Firefox's tragic loss of market share, but I want it to survive and with the possibility of losing 94% of their revenue... it would probably be revolution or death.

 

[nevernow]

I recently switched from Safari to FF on my desktop Mac for the extensions, but I miss the easy access to certain functions that I had in Safari. For example, is there an easy way to toggle Javascript in FF? Other than that, no major issues.

Yes. Click the lock icon next to the URL bar, then two more clicks and you get the Page Info window, then Permissions tab. Yes, it's convoluted. For the convenience of a one-click bar icon, use extensions (I use YesScript). To disable JS globally, there's a "hidden" option in about:config, can't find a non-hidden setting right now.

 

[nevernow]

In my own experience, I prefer Brave. It's a de-Googled Chrome.

Have you heard about Chromium?

I use Chromium on Linux for work, but on Windows the update process is not particularly smooth. Using a managed, lightly customized version of Chromium like Brave is not a bad idea there.