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Firefox 118.0.2 released (www.mozilla.org)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Fixed games not loading on betsoft.com

How nice of Mozilla to also think of the casino games

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If someone is wondering the change is not so site specific, but the bug report makes it look so. It's a media play fix.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Yeah looks like the ogg vorbis files the site uses just have bad data in one field, and an older version of firefox was able to play them anyway, so they added back the special case.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

Wouldn't that be nice, for a major corporation to denounce and actively deny a platform for a predatory industry that exists solely to take advantage of people's addiction. I'd respect that

[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Super anti-gambling industry but I don’t want my browser blocking me off from sites by default.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

once a browser starts choosing to block sites for you as some stand in moral compass, things can only go downhill from there

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Exactly. Hell I’ll take a quick warning even that I can opt in/opt out. But I literally have a blocklist of gaming sites available I turn on with little snitch mini if I really want to. Point being it’s opt-in.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think that would be nice but I think it would also raise a lot of eyebrows if Mozilla unilaterally decided to parental control your access to the Internet. It's governance that's the issue. Consider this https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/14/politics/sports-betting-ncaa-supreme-court/index.html

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I get that ending the "prohibition" on gambling is good optics for the economy, it's like legalizing pot. All the shady aspects of the industry are nearly eliminated, and assures a standard of quality.
I guess I view gambling differently cuz... with pot or alcohol, you at least know what you're going to get. And when working through addiction, its a lot more tangible of a thing to deal with.

With gambling, you're pouring money into something you're not even guaranteed to get at all.
And for some reason, Alberta loves to push gambling advertising really heavily.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I get what you’re saying, and agree that the gambling industry is predatory on its face, but isn’t the preference for Firefox over Chromium(amongst tech people on the fediverse) largely driven by the idea that the web should be an open platform with open standards that renders and functions the same on different rendering engines?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

True, sticking with foss morals definitely widens appeal and encourages firefoxes growth overall.
I just thought it odd to accommodate for a service/industry that could completely care less, and isn't generally something I thought the open source community would be interested in in the first place?

Maybe i'm wrong

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

They aren't accommodating the gambling industry. It's a bug fix for a media player issue. The text in the changelog comes from the bug report title. The bug isn't specific to that site, and neither is the fix.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

They’ll just go to edge or chrome to get their fix. We already have the rising Y’all Queda to be the morality police, we don’t need Firefox copying that mentality

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Wake me when it's more than a bugfix release.

Not EVERYTHING needs an announcement

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Bug fix releases are the best releases

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Should just have [Major] and [Minor] in the post title imo

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I fuckin luv Firefox, bros.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Waiting on the fake reviews detector feature