LXer: Deciding for ourselves: 98% of people want a browser choice screen, Mozilla study finds
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LXer: Deciding for ourselves: 98% of people want a browser choice screen, Mozilla study finds
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What if we got to easily choose our internet browser, and didn’t have to rely on complex operating system settings to change the pre-installed default? At Mozilla, our mission has always centered on empowering people to shape their own experiences online. But these days, big tech too often trumps individual choices, whether that’s through the […]
I find it rich Mozilla arguing for making choice easier when they dropped ALSA support in their prebuilt binary releases forcing people to use pulseaudio.
Not having pulseaudio on my system I had to build and install apulse, then write a wrapper shell script for launching firefox under it. That was considerably more "complex" than changing file associations in a gui settings dialog, so where's my "choice screen" for that Mozilla?
I've never been convinced Mozilla ever had the plot, but they're certainly getting worse.
On the audio front, you had me worried that might be yet another hurdle for the Devuan system I'm gradually putting together, but since pulseaudio is only a "Suggests", I checked and it seems Debian explicitly re-enable ALSA support, so hopefully I've dodged that one.
...it seems Debian explicitly re-enable ALSA support[/url], so hopefully I've dodged that one.
Yes, Slackware do the same, it's the "official" binary releases that are the issue. Problem is, building Firefox from source is a complete pain, so unless your distro do that for you, you're pretty much reliant on the binary releases.
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