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Microsoft's Edge browser moving to Chromium

Microsoft's Edge browser moving to Chromium

Posted Dec 11, 2018 8:34 UTC (Tue) by k8to (guest, #15413)
In reply to: Microsoft's Edge browser moving to Chromium by patrick_g
Parent article: Microsoft's Edge browser moving to Chromium

How about making user-friendly changes, which would drastically separate them from chrome?

Let users easily resize badly laid out pages.
Let users easily fix broken low-contrast designs.
Let users stop carousels (these are on the way out finally) or autoplay videos.

There are so many easy wins, but Firefox is not pursuing them.

Heck Firefox/Mozilla *never* addressed the single most popular ever ticket in bugzilla, the request to use external editors for textareas and similar. In fact, they killed the sane solutions for this that grew up in the extensions space.

There's a lot of room to make a better browser for users, and they aren't really trying.


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Microsoft's Edge browser moving to Chromium

Posted Dec 11, 2018 10:57 UTC (Tue) by excors (subscriber, #95769) [Link]

> Let users easily resize badly laid out pages.
> Let users easily fix broken low-contrast designs.

Isn't that basically what Reader View does? (https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/reader-view/)

> Let users stop [...] autoplay videos.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1222694#answe... says Firefox 63 has new preferences to disable autoplay, and soon they should have proper UI for it.


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