WTF? Do you see this as well?
Look, this sucks, FIFA is a shitty organization, but it’s possible that the devs are just soccer fanatics. You think Mexicans are boycotting FIFA for instance? They probably mistakenly believed this was apolitical
Boycott
The laast update re-enabled shortcuts on Ironfox
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I did see that and was wtf about it. And “Nimbus experiments” (per Katy’s post below) means “ads”? Give it a break, Mozilla. Ok I’ll turn off the experiments before they start injecting AI slop into pages.
Added: there appears to be no way to turn off all the experiments permanently. You can only change them one at a time, and sometimes it’s unclear which setting turns the experiment off. In most there is a “control” setting and one or more “treatment” settings, where “control” presumably means off. FIFA is an experiment all by itself. Sheesh.
Go to Settings -> About Firefox/Fennec
Tap the logo until it says “Debug settings enabled”
Go back and enter the new “Secret Settings” menu. There you can turn off Nimbus and Labs permanently. Also toggle “Keep Debug Menu revealed” so you don’t have to enable it every time you want to change something.
Thanks. I already had the Nimbus settings turned off but got that FIFA thing anyway. I’ll see if it happens again.
God forbid devs be excited for something.
The Devs need to be as emotionless and devoid of personality like me
I wonder how much the FIFA paid Mozilla for this.
Probably nothing…
That would be stupid.
You can just disable it with Debug mode > Nimbus Experiments
Is it an advertisement? Looks more like a countdown to a world event.
Widely corrupted organization, and why this date in particular ? why not something actually useful ?
it’s (functionally) an ad
The organization is corrupted but what alternative is there to watch professional football? Isnt every professional sports league corrupted tho? If youre going to just boycott it because of that i guess you wont be watching any basketball or tennis or whatever. Wouldnt fifa advertise on chrome instead of firefox which has like a very minor share compared to chrome? Why would they advertise on firefox?
Dude, it does not even say fifa word up. Get out of your buble. Many people actually care about the word cup
Which world cup does it count down to?
i was expecting more from the fennec team
Yep, came with the AI update yesterday for me on Fennec. Wish they would leave Fennec as the no-bullshit version as it should be.
What AI update for Fennec??
The Firefox AI controls got pushed out with the latest update, everything’s on by default but can be disabled in the settings
I use regular Firefox and dont have any ads.
Me too
Who cares? Billions of people enjoy the world cup, whats wrong with a little timer? I think its fun that they added this idk also if fifa did pay mozilla for this it just wouldnt make any sense no? 2% use firefox while majority use chrome, why would fifa pay mozilla and not chrome? They clearly have enough to advertise on chrome. I think its the devs appealing to people who enjoy world cup
It’s not on my waterfox mobile :)
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Chillest devs in existence
Nor on Firefox for Android. But I’ve removed the “sponsored stuff” on my new tabs page. This is more user error than intrusion IMO.
I remember some early version of Firefox all the way back in 2002 or 2006 had some world cup promotion kinda thing. But I guess it wasn’t a payed promotion or anything like that and the event was perceived to be a lot less corporate then nowadays.
