That didn’t last long though, as reports soon spread on tech media that Firefox was now showing ads in the address bar, something only obliquely mentioned in the release notes. Since then, Support Mozilla has posted a note saying that they “haven’t quite hit” their mark, and that they are working to address it. How did this happen? Grab a cup of your favorite beverage, as I try to explain. The good news is that it isn’t as bad as it seems.Aug 2, 2021: Mozilla posts a video referencing upcoming features to “help Firefox users to get the best out of the web”. That means that youll see the browser history and all of the other stuff Firefox used to suggest, but now youll see results from Mozillas partners, which is basically an excellent way of saying that youll see ads in your navigation bar.September 7, 2021: Users begin to notice “Firefox Suggest” in their address bar with the release of Firefox 92.No mention of Firefox Suggest or the labeling change appear in the release notes.Mozilla announces Firefox Suggest in a blog post.Fast Company posts an article profiling Firefox Suggest: Firefox’s new feature is part of an ambitious plan to change how we search.October 5, 2021: Firefox 93 is released.Firefox Suggest is mentioned in the release notes, as the last “new” item as a “a faster way to navigate the web”. The second impact of Firefox Suggest is that the web browser will now collect your keystrokes and send them back to Mozilla, another Microsoft-like bit of functionality that’s aimed at. The notes link to a support article to learn more.
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A revision is posted to Support Mozilla clarifying how to see if users are opted-in to “improved results for Contextual Suggestions”.The Verge posts an article saying that Firefox’s address bar has ads now, but you can disable them.ladyaeva’s post gets shared to Hacker News.ladyaeva posts on Twitter that “ looks like firefox quietly added ads into the address bar.”.
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How-To Geek (incorrectly) reports that Firefox now sends your address bar keystrokes to Mozilla.The change was accompanied by a comment marking the revised update due to a “PR incident”.
# if was empty, default set to name of browser, firefox/chrome/opera/etc.October 9, 2021: Known tech blogger Paul Thurrott asks if Mozilla Firefox is getting sketchy.Jefferson Scher posts a clarification on reddit that address bar queries are not sent to Mozilla, with a link to the Firefox source. # whether to use SHIFT+CTRL+R to force reload without cache I'm a vim user, and I could see making an autocommand to automatically trigger this script whenever a given file was written, so the browser would refresh when appropriate, I know you can do the same. I use this often by putting browser in background, with editor window set to 'ON-TOP' so it's always visible, hot-key this script, or call it from your editor, and it'll return your focus when it's done. It should flip to your browser, reload the page, then flip back to whatever window you called this from. Go to a Specific Tab: Command+1-8 (The number 1 selects the leftmost tab, 2 selects the second tab from the left, and so on. Switch to the Previous Tab: Ctrl+Shift+Tab. You can set a default browser, so you don't need to supply one each time, and you can change whether you send a CTRL-R to reload, or SHIFT-CTRL-R to reload without cache. Here are the web browser keyboard shortcuts you need for macOS: Open a New Tab: Command+T. If you supply the name of the browser as an argument, it'll find and reload the current page. It uses xdotool, which lets you script windows/desktop actions.
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