What part of it doesn’t? Besides the massive banner added the bottom of the screen, everything looks like it’s the default. That icon in the top-left corner comes preinstalled. The search engine is still the default. The only customization I see here is an extra theme and a couple of add-ons.
This is something new. What’s under the 3-dot menu? And to cover our bases, can you look through your browsing history to determine where this copy of Firefox came from?
“thought-provoking stories” has been part of Mozilla’s Firefox for a while, originally tied to their Pocket branding. I guess Pocket is dead but sadly not this part of it.
I gotta say, knowing it’s a bit (but based on IRL testing) makes it even better. It’s like SomethingAwful met Mr Robot
Looks like the original post disappeared.
Right before it was, OP claimed in a comment that part of their post was a joke. Part of me hopes this is an exercise in technically correct creative writing, and based on their account…
what I would give to be you
Custom Search Engines: Firefox now supports adding even more search engines. To add a custom engine, right-click a search field of a supported website and select “Add Search Engine”, or go to Settings > Search > Add (below the search shortcuts table) to manually enter a search URL.
“Settings > Search > Add” was already available in Firefox for Desktop, but you manually had to travel to about.config to add the missing browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh boolean and set it to true. You’ve been able to do this for at least 4 years, and it’s worked on Android for a while too.
Maybe they finally finished polishing it up.
You seem knowledgeable on browsers, so when you acted ignorant of Firefox collecting your data via PPA, was that intentional or an authentic knowledge gap on your part?
Firefox doesn’t let you use alt text anywhere, except for the most ridiculously niche location.
People who want to see it when they browse webpages get nothing.
It’s only if you
If Mozilla cares about accessibility, what a weird niche of a niche of a place to put it.
The alt text thing is a niche within a niche within a niche. People on Firefox look at pictures all the time. They don’t generally open PDFs, then edit them, then insert a picture, then run out of ways to describe it.
I don’t need to be a source code expert to understand what Mozilla has done, thankfully. That’s not a technological hurdle the average person should have to overcome. I know more than most people have the privilege to know, and further gatekeeping (any gatekeeping) is unnecessary.
If that was not your intent, or for other people who are genuinely interested:
https://noyb.eu/en/firefox-tracks-you-privacy-preserving-feature
If gatekeeping my comment was your intent, I would be happy to track down the source code as long as you made an extensive effort to get Mozilla to remove the code that collects your data…
So true - data mining is performed by Firefox’s PPA, not its AI!
It’s good to watch Mozilla pouring their time, effort, and dwindling funds into the most important features - AI ones!
This narrows the possibilities down to
threefour interesting options.Some other comments have been annoyingly dismissive, but I hope you push onward to figure out what the hell this is. Because if it’s one of the first two, it’s a big deal.