Submitted 23 hours ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/14/mozilla_firefox_vpn_beta/
Lucky few randomly selected to trial the feature, which won’t fully roll out for several months
Sounds nice, ideally they’d just support drop in Wireguard configurations so you can use the VPN of your choice rather than being forced to use whatever Mozilla is offering.
The only browser that has a relatively unrestricted add-on ecosystem, and the best one capable of running mobile add-ons, shouldn’t need to add this as a baked-in feature.
I’m pretty sure this feature classifies as bloat.
mistermodal@lemmy.ml 23 hours ago
Would be really cool if Mozilla ordered up some browser features than yet another epic service doohickey to be shoehorned into it.
Fucjing dipshits. My kobo reader default launcher still has a Pocket button on it.
grue@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Features like what? Other than under-the-hood privacy/security improvements that normies would never notice, I can’t think of any new feature I want.
froh42@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Progressive Web Apps Modern Tab Management Cross Site Scripting (like “Web Macros”) Improved History Search Improved privacy containers (fighting browser fingerprinting) Clearer and more fine granumar permission concepts (like Android, “may this website do xyz”)
that’s just the first that I can think about in the first 30 seconds
Interestingly other than what you say, under the hood improvements still benefit the user, but Mozilla axed the Servo Engine (fortunately that project is still alive, now outside of Mozilla). I think a number of Javascript Apis are lacking in Mozilla compared to Chrome and others.
I almost hate Mozilla as much as I do hate Google, because they are slowly letting Firefox die a death of unpopularity.
But at least they can pay their CEOs a lot of money out of that sweet Google ad revenue.