Re: TW Firefox 151.0.4 - pushing World Cup Widget Ads to users??

Knurpht <[email protected]> Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:42:24 +0200

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Op woensdag 17 juni 2026 03:44:16 Midden-Europese zomertijd schreef David C 
Rankin:
> All, Devs,
> 
>    What on earth is going on with firefox in openSUSE? I updated TW
> today to 20260615 and immediately upon switching to the newtab page I'm
> hit with an ad for a World Cup widget that will automatically be
> installed if I restart firefox. What on earth is going on with openSUSE
> firefox?
> 
>    Searching a bit in the registry I run across new entries in
> about:config at:
> 
> browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.sports.worldCup.matchesEndpoint
> 
> browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.sports.worldCup.teamsEndpoint
> 
>    Both are set to URLs similar to:
> 
> https://merino.services.mozilla.com/api/v1/wcs/teams
> 
>    Don't we sanitize firefox so the disto packages don't put out ads?
> It's just tacky.
I don't understand all the fuz. Go Settings - Startpage - Widgets, enable/
disable at will. To be honest, I think a lot of the FF users (like some 
friends that do like football) are in the "don't mind / appreciate it" 
-spectrum. Some people like no widgets, some weather and so on. If openSUSE 
would they could eliminate the widget functionality, Than others would have to 
go through about:config. Those who don't want the widgets can easily disable 
them( (ike I did btw).. 

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Gertjan Lettink a.k.a. Knurpht
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