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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The only thing I don't like about Firefox (other than no PWA capability) is the 'dark pattern' of how when the home page loads, the first three of the six items shifts to the right after the page has started loading, and are replaced with sponsored links. So, if I go to click on YouTube when I launch Firefox, there's a fair chance that by the time I get to click there it'll suddenly jump over to the right and I'll end up clicking some other link.

To me, that's sketchy behaviour.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can disable those ads though...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't mind the ads. I just don't like the 'trickery' of them shifting the existing shortcuts after the page has already loaded.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The only good ad is a dead ad

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No PWA capability?

At least on mobile, I have multiple PWAs installed via Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Not on desktop though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Check this one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pwas-for-firefox/ It doesn't have super advanced capabilities of PWAs however the "pwa creators" already assume one is using Chrome etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yes I'm using that. It's fine if you only have one pc, but a pain having to set it up every time you set up another Linux install etc.