DUMP FIREFOX... or at Least Hit 'em Where it Hurts!

Reaganite Republican ^ | 09 April 2014 | Reaganite Republican

[Reaganite Republican]

If disposing of a CEO for donating to an unfashionable political cause didn't repulse you enough to keep from using the (overrated imho) Firefox web browser, perhaps their online POLITICAL censorship will... or maybe you don't mind being told what you can read, either.

Mozilla Firefox users this week were finding articles pertaining to imploding 'progressive' WH causes/initiatives ('gender equality', 'war on women') 
blocked and substituted by leftist propaganda...

American Thinker:

Nanny Firefox posted a political opinion on my screen before allowing me to proceed to read the article. This message didn’t appear when I accessed a second article which met with Firefox’s political commissar’s approval. 

Here’s what Firefox said:

Careful Now! (shouldn’t they have said “Achtung! or “Verboten!” or something similar?).

This website could not be displayed by Firefox because it is 

not consistent with Mozilla’s corporate values. 

May we suggest visiting another site instead?

Click anywhere to continue

Notice that there is the implication in the “This website” sentence that one cannot access this Red State article under Firefox before, indeed, allowing one to go to that Red State piece by following a link further down the page. This is a totalitarian move on the part of Mozilla Firefox but with a smiling facing – and a plausible deniability of censorship, nudging people to not access the site and also discouraging those readers who didn’t fully understand the written message from even attempting to click on the page...

I myself haven't used Firefox in years, and Safari is more than fine with me. But if you really must keep this browser, behold... it's easy to stay with Firefox yet still cost most of the (Google referral) revenue the product earns for Mozilla...

Fire Andrea Mitchell:

To really send the message to Google as well, make some other search provider, such as h your Firefox search provider by building a bookmark and using it. As good as Google is, they are the main source of Mozilla income, and so you want to cease using them while using Firefox until the message has been sent.

For those of you who love Google as I do for the quality of its search results, I suggest that you install an alternate browser just for Google searches, so no possible revenue stream reaches Mr. Eich’s tormentors that way. 

I'm using Midori — which is based on the Webkit engine rather than Mozilla’s Gecko engine. This lets me search Google without sending a dime to Mozilla. In addition, having a separate browser aids you in avoiding Google-itis, in which your gmail account becomes a nexus for knowing your habits...

It's about time patriots cut off doing business with major threats to our freedom like the PC Nazis at Mozilla-- the Techie Left is a great place to start in general, even California hippies are sick of them.

And its not just the left we should boycott:
Chamber of Commerce/Rove donors, you're next...

[Reaganite Republican]

***ping***

[madison10]

Stopped using the Google KGB long ago. Currently using Opera, but some items just don’t work on that browser yet. Need to check out other browsers mentioned.

[Dr. Thorne]

Dumped Firefox last week and tweeted Mozilla that I was just as intolerant as they.

[Reaganite Republican]

I was just playing around with this one

http://midori-browser.org

[bigbob]

I’m going to play with Palemoon, which is based on Mozilla, but can be customized to specific requirements.

http://www.palemoon.org/

This isn’t because I think I can alter their liberal thinking, after all it *is* (still, sorta-kinda) a free country and I don’t expect everyone will agree with me, but because Firefox has been becoming increasingly unstable with memory leaks and other issues going unaddressed.

Thankfully, we have the freedom of choice.

[MeshugeMikey]

“Warning!

You appear to be using Mac OS X, and this application is not compatible with that system.

Continue at your peril.”

well i guess I wont be adding THAT particular browser

[Gamecock]

I started using Dolphin on my tablet and phone. Installed Palemoon on my laptop last night. So far so good.

[Da Coyote]

Dump on all my home machine and also in office.

Shove it, Mozilla. Evidently you like the folks that do.

[CedarDave]

It was a hoax (but drop Firefox anyway):

Update: Red State has admitted this is a hoax:

Firefox users: We sent you a little message today.

By: The Directors (Diary) | April 8th, 2014 at 06:41 PM | 74

Today, users of the Firefox web browser were given a message when accessing most of our Front Page content at RedState. They were told that this site could not be displayed, because of a conflict with the values of the Mozilla corporation, and they were suggested to visit another site.

We put that message up, because we wanted to remind people that the totalitarian impulse of the Mozilla corporation is real, and if you haven’t been Made to Care yet, you will be soon.

Send a message that you won’t take it lying down. Get another browser.

I deeply regret passing along a hoax, and am angry at Red State for publishing something that is untrue. Red State has lost my respect and any future presumption of credibility. They may also be hearing from Firefox's attorneys. This is an excellent way to scarifice a good cause in the name of sensationalism. Much though I hate it, I must hereby apologize to Firefox, and I blame Red State.

-Thomas Lifson, editor

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/04/firefox_expands_into_censorship.html

[Reaganite Republican]

I see no reason to leave Safari anyway, fine with me

[Genoa]

Redstate says THEY put it up:

We put that message up, because we wanted to remind people that the totalitarian impulse of the Mozilla corporation is real, and if you haven’t been Made to Care yet, you will be soon.

[Spirochete]

Pale Moon or Waterfox. Both are functionally indentical to Firefox, but not associated with Mozilla.

[Edward Teach]

“I suggest that you install an alternate browser just for Google searches”.

Better yet, use Startpage.com or duckduckgo.com as a search engine, as they search Google for you.

[Kenny]

Uninstalled Firefox yesterday. I don’t know how to set it up but there should be a “Dump Firefox” site where people can just click if they’ve participated.

[MeshugeMikey]

Safari is a fine browser.

i use a lot of em to check the code for web pages I build to make certain that everything works on as many browsers as possible.

come to think of it making SOME pages works STRANGELY when veiewed using FIrefox...might have some entertaining advantages

[ShadowAce]

This lets me search Google ...

There's your real problem. As long as you use Google, you are supporting their decision to force out Eich.

I heartily recommend ixquick. They do no tracking.

[bigbob]

Thanks, I’ll try Dolphin too. The native Android browser also sucks ;-)

[Larry381]

I quit using Google last year and I'm now in the process of moving sixteen years of bookmarks around so I can dump Gestapo-Fox!

[twyn1]

I just changed my main home computer to Pale Moon and uninstalled Firefox (which I loved!) — it took literally 5 minutes and transferred over all of my bookmarks, my history, passwords and even my “persona” (the special graphic I had for the top and bottom bars of my browser. New default search is DuckDuckGo, that’s the only difference I can see so far. Will change over my tablet later if this works out well after a day or two of testing.