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

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On Friday, June 26th, 2026 at 4:36 PM, David C Rankin <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 6/26/26 1:42 PM, Knurpht wrote:
> > 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 throughabout:config. Those who don't want the widgets can easily disable
> > them( (ike I did btw)..
> 
> The fuz is there are no settings that control this. In my new tab
> settings, I have "weather" enabled only. Everything is disabled and I
> still get this.
> 
> You have to pick thought about:config to find where Mozilla is
> activating and pulling in this stuff that shouldn't be in a distro
> package. Telling is I just disabled all the world cup adware in FF 151,
> you can see those two entries marked as highlighted in the screenshot I
> provided. The two new endpoints for the world cup promo now have to be
> disabled in 152. It has become a game of whack-a-mole to disable this
> adware and it should not be.
> 
> As I previously said, I'm all form Mozilla doing this in packages you
> download from mozilla.org/pub/, but openSUSE shouldn't be packaging adware.
> 
> openSUSE has a policy against packaging ads, firefox is no longer in
> compliance with that policy.

move to zen or brave and you will not see such problems.