Mastodawn

Chad McCullough Jul 25, 2025

Refreshed Firefox, today, on my laptop and all of the stuff that I disabled (Home content, search engines that I deleted, AI bullshit) all returned.

Mozilla, you are failing so bad right now. Just stop! What happened to you? At one point, in the not-so-distant-past, you were going to be the savior of the internet. What a major disappointment you have become.

I am trying so hard not to just give up on you, but you are making it really difficult.

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@cmccullough

On one machine, I let it update and it didn't forget those preferences - but it arguably did something worse.

I have Firefox set to open new tabs to a blank page. My "home" page is a blank page. I don't want anything loaded when I start the browser or open a new tab or window. So I have all the junk turned off in the "Home" settings.

And today, when it restarted after the update, it showed me a page that said (paraphrasing) "Hey, we know you turned off all our marketing junk for your Home screen, but here's a preview of what you're missing. Please click <here> to turn it all back on".

So Firefox is now going with the "Yes" and "Maybe later" model? FFS, Mozilla.

#NoMeansNo #No #MaybeLater #Mozilla #FFS #Firefox #marketing #advertising #AdvertisingShitsInYourHead

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Cristian Rasch 🇦🇷 🇺🇾Jul 26, 2025

@cazabon @cmccullough I feel the exact same way about my new tab page, that's why I have the following snippet in my user.js config file:

# /path/to/your/firefox/profile/user.js

user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.default.sites", "");
user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsoredTopSites", false);
user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.section.topstories", false);
user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsored", false);