[elcritch]

The newer Firefox quantum has become my goto browser since it was released. Slower than Chrome but less memory hungry. Unfortunately anytime I hear about Firefox it's often "Firefox removes features" or worse "Firefox disables feature for your good". I literally couldn't log into some old wifi router at an airbnb because Firefox refused to let me visit a non-standard port, with no way to override it. It's not adtech surveillance big brother, it's patronizing we know better big brother.

[xemdetia]

That's interesting because I feel it's the opposite. Chrome ends up being the one that I have the most trouble with when it comes to usage nannying without providing overrides and removing features without thought. I don't think I've heard of a feature that was in core Firefox that was removed since quantum. Do you have a good example?

[elcritch]

On Android at least: https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/09/03/firefox-update-face...

[Retric]

Does this no longer work? http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.security.ports.banned.over...

[avhon1]

It works, but it's a pain to have do it, and to remember how to do it (especially when you don't yet have internet, because you can't log into the wifi!)

[antman]

Maybe they should all those features it under patronizing.*.Network.security.ports.banned.override? Looking forward for patronizing.disable.old.addons=false patronizing.copypaste.shenanigans=false

[elcritch]

Not sure, though perhaps I should rephrase to "obvious method" to disable. I tried one config setting and gave up and just used Safari.