It's never been a better time to switch to Firefox
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• Firefox offers better privacy and security than Chrome, with upcoming support for 200 new add-ons. • While Chrome dominates, Firefox gains ground with user-friendly browsing experience and open-source model. • Mozilla's focus on user privacy and transparency challenges Google's ad-centric approach, making Firefox a viable alternative.
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It's still there, it's just off by default since people rarely use it these days.
Go to Customize Firefox controls, buttons and toolbars. Pick the Home button or whatever else you want on the toolbar, and just drag it up there. Some items might be in the overflow menu on the right.
What's the use case for a home button? Why not just set the default url for new tabs?
I guess, it's so you can make your current tab navigate to the home-page rather than closing the tab and opening a new one...
You can't set it to a custom URL... I have a selfhosted dashboard that I want to load by pressing the home button. Having a "home" button that forces you to use their dumb start page isn't really a home button. That isn't how any home buttons on any other browsers work including FF desktop.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-to-set-the-home-page
You realize that there is difference between FF mobile and FF desktop, right? This has been a known issue for a long time now. I'm not mistaken and I'm not mentioning it because I just glanced over some settings.
Damn, you sure are mad for being correct
And you're annoying... it would have taken you 5 seconds to open FF on your phone if you use it to see that you were wrong instead of trying to incorrectly correct me.
I can't comprehend how someone can be able to self host something but not able to find literally the first configurable option on the "home" settings page.
Tell you what, you show me how to set a custom URL to the homepage button on Firefox Mobile in the current build and I'll send you $2000... let me know when you're ready to admit you're wrong.
This is one of the reasons I still use Chromium primarily. Firefox fanatics are just too much like cult members. You can point out real issues to them, like that Firefox was slow to implement hardware-accelerated video decoding on Linux, or that Firefox also enables a bunch of telemetry by default... but half of their identity is based on using Firefox, so they take it personally. I'd love to have a technical discussion with some of these Firefox cultists, but to be honest most of them will just resort to ad-hominem attacks because that is the only argument they have.
For real... I got downvoted into oblivion for a valid criticism.
And listen, I'm a huge FOSS nerd... I only use linux on my computers. I selfhost a shitload of FOSS services to maintain control and privacy. I run LineageOS on my phones and 90% of my apps are from f-droid. I say all that because obviously I would love to use Firefox mobile instead of another chromium based browser, but it's a turd... it doesn't have a functioning home button for fucks sake, it's been a known issue for over 5 years, and they haven't fixed it.
And why is something so seemingly simple not been fixed? Is it spaghetti code? Is it on purpose to force you to use their start page? I don't know, but I know there is no way around it. There are no extensions that fix it and none of the forks have added the functionality... despite plenty of people wanting it.
I can't comprehend how you fail to understand that on FF mobile you do not get an option to set a custom URL for the home button. But yes, please open your FF mobile right now and show me how you can set the home button to something like dashboard.home.lan or a local IP address, I can't wait!