You can actually fairly easily unload tabs with about:unloads right now, but you have to do it in the order Facebook Firefox thinks they should be done for some reason.

Honestly, I don’t know why, but sidebar tabs have just never worked for me. It makes no sense, but for some reason my brain just doesn’t process them correctly.

But I agree, in general more fine-grained control of tabs would be the thing I would need in order to feel like Firefox was feature-complete.

Edit: Facebook? Wtf?

Uh, no, they definitely need tab grouping before they get into making CSS theming easier.

It’s not exactly a regex, but Buzzkill lets you get pretty granular with your filters.

That they’re everywhere. I have uBO on my browser and actively choose against places and experiences with advertising whenever I can, but it still feels like it’s everywhere. Hey, that’s a nice mountain. Can you not with the billboard? It’s like sponsored vandalism.

Cookie autodelete would be great, though then you potentially have to deal with the cookie popup every time you visit. Not a terrible thing, but worth noting.

ETA: Yeah, you can zap it with uBO, but then you might have to do it again if it comes back.

If you’re on Firefox, you can also have certain sites automatically open in containers. “Sure, put cookies on my machine if you want. You can see me only browsing your website ever.”

I think whether it was intentionally one or not, it’s become one

And they’re ALL DIFFERENT

Seriously, how did they find SO MANY completely different chandeliers?

Money has a definition, but “income” is the word used, and that’s a euphemism that could be remapped.

It, uh…makes…food…uh…come in…?

Replicators, which are universal and basic.

Firefox is not eliminating MV2 extensions. You can stick with Firefox.

They said “seemingly.”

Nice. I’m planning to install it after work.

The tab previews are pretty nice. Good QOL, assuming it doesn’t kick my GPU into overdrive to make it.

Maybe so, but I would say they’re more alternatives to Firefox than any of the Chromium forks are to Chrome (except Arc, I guess) by nature of the fact that you don’t have to strip telemetry out of the Gecko codebase in order to ship a private fork.

It’s also worth noting that almost all of this stuff was open-source. If you wanted to, you could still use most of it, continue development on it (and in some cases, such as FirefoxOS, its development is continuing without Mozilla’s involvement). Not so with stuff killed by Google.

You currently only have three choices in web rendering engine, unless you want to go REALLY esoteric:

• Blink

• WebKit

• Gecko

Blink is Chromium, meaning Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Arc, Vivaldi, ug-c, Konqueror, etc. It is built, maintained, and controlled by Google, and currently has an approximately 81% market share on the internet.

WebKit is Safari, and is only really usable on Apple products (and is the only engine available on Apple’s mobile products outside the EU). It enjoys about a 9% market share as a result of its wide install base.

Gecko is developed by the Mozilla Foundation for Firefox, yes. But if you want any sort of web independence, you have to have a browsing engine that is not controlled by a major corporation. Otherwise, you’re just going to have a duopoly that can make whatever web decisions they want to.

WebKit is really only available on Apple devices in any meaningful way.

Yep. And underscoring that more than almost anything else is the fact that the TMI facility continued to operate without incident for forty years after that accident.