Vincent

I fail to understand how they haven't figured out a way out of this seems to me they're using all the money they from Google as if there is no tomorrow... Why on earth also if Firefox is so clearly their main product does it seem to not always be at the centre of their attention?

The answer to the second question is the answer to the first - there have been a ton of attempts at alternative sources of funding, but it's hard to come close to the ~half a billion USD the default search deal provides. So far the branded services you're calling for don't seem to have been able to pull it off, and I haven't seen any signs that donations would be able to either.

(Although as for email with Thunderbird...)

I think you're grossly overestimating the share of volunteer contributions if you think it might even be over half. It's amazing what contributors do, but the vast majority, and especially thankless-but-important work like web compatibility or security, is done by paid staff.

They're saying they want something like Synaptic (mostly for its "multi-select", apparently, though I'm not sure what that means?), but have it support AppImages, Flatpaks, Snaps, etc., instead of just Debs like Synaptic does.

I only really hear 3 (or at least, hear people imply it) in reality, and maybe a small nod to 7 recently. For 4, I see people think arbitrary numbers like 90% or 80% code coverage are things that matter.

In that case I'd recommend posting at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ instead, where it's far more likely that the right people will see it than on a random online post.

Possibly that even is the joke :P

The release notes don't mark it as a progressive rollout, although it does say "is now available to almost all users worldwide" (emphasis mine). I would expect the tutorial to only be shown to people to whom it's available though - if it's not for you, maybe file a bug?

I'm sure if we all dunk on it they'll start to give more.

Private windows already have stricter tracker protection by default, and I also have my blocker extension enabled there as well because I do also use it for other things. And of course, all my settings apply there too. So yeah, there are existing workarounds, but as you say, this is much neater.

Yeah that's why I said easy access - I preferred about:profiles, but in practice that was still too much of a hassle to actually use 😅

As far as I can see this is mostly separate from your existing profiles though, as in, those aren't listed in the new UI.

Profile management is going to be useful as a web developer; having easy access to a profile without e.g. adblockers and anti-tracking settings and such to test things, while still having them all available for my regular browsing, is going to be a boon.

Thanks MacStadium!