Re: Slight OT: Making Firefox behave the same on FreeBSD and windows

On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 11:15 PM Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> wrote:
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> On 25 December 2022 12:42:43 pm AEDT, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote:
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>  > It seems like there are enough people with this issue that if we
>  > complain collectively (petition?) to chase that they might fix the
>  > problem on their end.    Now the question is this a framework issue
>  > for them and if so who made the framework (i.e. so other sites work
>  > also) and we should complain to them.
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> I think you've mis-parsed the issue, which is that some corporations seek to exclude use by their clients of products of other than those who fit their BigCorp image.
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> At least they're not excluding Firefox, unlike some, but FreeBSD.  Who knows why, maybe it's the "Free", maybe some big shareholder finds Beastie scary; who cares?
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> No, please don't alert them - or others of their ilk - how easily we can work around their stupidity and/or cupidity.  They may make it worse.
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> Bob is right, and details how to fix it.

With thinking like this we would still be living in caves!   Seriously
the only way to make an improvement is to make the powers that be
aware that a problem even exists.    I doubt it is "free" that makes
them have a cow since they offer openoffice/libreoffice as one the
upload formats they understand.

According to https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide
FreeBSD is not that smaller in absolute terms then Linsucks (in
relative terms it is a lot smaller though).   And they don't say so
but my guess is 99.999...% of the linux people are actually Android
users who wouldn't know what an OS or Browser is if it came and bit
them.

-- 
Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org