Yandex and Mail.ru have been removed as optional search providers in the drop-down search menu in Firefox.
Yandex and Mail.ru have been removed as optional search providers in the drop-down search menu in Firefox.
If you previously installed a customized version of Firefox with Yandex or Mail.ru, offered through partner distribution channels, this release removes those customizations, including add-ons and default bookmarks. Where applicable, your browser will revert back to default settings, as offered by Mozilla. All other releases of Firefox remain unaffected by the change.
Bugzilla: 1759009 - Update Distribution Config
lemmy.ml: Firefox v98.0.1 removed Yandex search option and used misleading bug name to hide it
PSA: Yandex has the best reverse image search by a mile. It can even find Instagram posts.
It's a shame that Russia has to be Russia because Yandex has some good stuff. I like their maps and street view equivalent (it only works for places like Russia and Belarus but I've played around with it out of curiosity) - it's less clunky than Google's and it lets you change the year to view streets scenes from different years. If only that could have gone global.
it lets you change the year to view streets scenes from different years
Google Street view lets you do this too, but only on the desktop site. It goes back to 2010 in some areas near me.
Google Earth (the downloadable Windows app) lets you see historical satellite images, more than what's available via Google Maps. There's satellite images going back to the 1940s in some areas, in varying levels of quality.
Why did this post from 1 year ago pop up today?
The Putin Regime is diabolical, of course. And divestments and boycotts helped bring down South Africa apartheid, so such actions they have their place. But I think what bothers a lot of people is the double standards of corporations doing business with, say, the likes of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia who trample over human rights and whose brutality has created the worst humanitarian crisis in Yemen. It's definitely worth debating the targeting and effectiveness (and consistency, or lack thereof) in such pulling of services.
And there are still many folks who believe that Mozilla is still a foundation. Yet another corporation.
Aged like fine milk