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1. xg15+ac[view] [source] 2023-05-26 00:08:39
>>ReadCa+(OP)
One of the related tickets [1] seems to give some hints on the root cause - which in a way almost makes it worse IMO.

Basically, what they wanted to do was to build a background process that detects when you're away from the PC and then pops up the message, so it's the first thing you see what you get back.

Unfortunately (or maybe not) the detection logic had a bug, which caused the message to pop up right away sometimes, spoiling the whole thing.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1835175

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2. isaacr+kl1[view] [source] 2023-05-26 10:59:37
>>xg15+ac
This is terrible. I don't want their popups ever. Why do they feel they can block popups by default from others but their popups are fine?

Really hate Firefox doing this kind of thing. It's supposed to be a browser that cares about the user.

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