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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I feel that Mozilla is making the case for the exact remedies being discussed. If they didn’t have financial entanglements with Google, they might still make the same choice, to offer Google Search as the default. However, substantial sums of money are at play. That, coupled with a lack of upfront choice for users (e.g., a first-run pick list), undermines Mozilla’s entire position here. It’s hard to believe they would be advocating to keep Google Search as the default if those large sums of money weren’t at stake.

    It is also disingenuous at best to equate choices being present elsewhere (search bar drop down) with the default choice when a user hits the enter key. That part bothered me quite a bit.

    I’m a daily Firefox user since before it’s 1.0 release, outside of some limited attempts with Chrome and Safari over a decade ago. Mozilla’s choices recently, including this defense of Google, have made me begin considering alternative browsers, even though there are so few user-respecting ones.


  • It looks like the png is getting word wrapped. Line spacing is so large that the png on the second line is getting pushed into the space of the icon below, and the icon below is given a higher Z value, so it goes over it. The different font has a different letter width and can influence the line spacing by being taller than the original font.

    See if you can find an option to reduce line spacing or an option to increase icon spacing (vertical or horizontal). I would expect these to be advanced settings though. Iirc, most Linux desktops don’t use ellipses on long names, like some other operating systems (macOS iirc).