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I switched back to Firefox a few months ago due to the incoming Manifest v3 debacle and I’m glad I did, it’s an excellent browser.
It’s really come a long way in the past few years. It used to be so slow when Chrome came in to take over
That perceived slowness comparison lasted less than a year!
Agree compleatly. Been using firefox since it was called mosaic
I didn’t know this was a phase of it’s existence
Yeah it went Mosaic, Netscape, Firefox iirc.
Edit: And I think Netscape was a full rewrite as mosaic was owned by the university it was originally coded in, again iirc. That was a LONG time ago.
Netscape was Firefox? Somehow I never learned that. I fuckin loved the little space animation when a page was loading.
Netscape was my first browser on the beige apple desktops in the elementary school computer lab. I knew about it going on to become Firefox but not of anything before that. I still miss some aspects of the internet of that time.
So long ago that I had to go and use on a Sun workstation in the machine room because it wasn’t available for windows yet!
Mosaic, Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox
I use Netscape as my daily driver
Wow. That’s some blast from the past.
I’m mainly using Firefox on my devices and have zero regrets.
I also enjoyed Vivaldi over the other chromium browsers. Still sticking with FF for now. The only issues I’ve had are Ms teams not loading, though km assuming that’s related to 3rd party cookies ( even though o365 outlook works fine ).
MSteams is a dumpster fire in and of itself though. Even on my Windows pc it crashes when sharing my screen.
I switched mostly too. Cannot say that I have zero regrets, but FF is mostly up to what I need it to be. And where it isn’t, there’s Vivaldi.
Yeah Firefox on Android sometimes refuses to load tabs and I have to quit and reopen it, it also still feels slow to load search results as well. Even with those flaws, I’m not switching back to Chromium browsers
The Firefox add-ons help out with sticking with FF. I don’t think you can use add-ons in chromium browsers.
Ghostery/ABP on my phone is convenient.
I switched back to Firefox maybe 9 or 10 months ago after using opera gx for a while. Firefox had been great, and I love that they keep fighting the good fight, so to speak.
Opera GX, just like anything related to Opera, is a massive pile of shit.
These are pretty terrible arguments.
- Google is a primarily advertising based company yes, but Apple and Microsoft aren’t
- You can’t compare chromium to IE - chromium is open source, and also it’s actually good
Chromium being open source actually means jack shit. It’s controlled by Google, one singular entity whose only desire is to maximise their iron grip on the internet to squeeze as much ad revenue as they can.
This isn’t hyperbole, look at the recent WEI stuff or manifest v3 crap. Time and again, these corporations have showed that they just don’t give a shit about the free and open internet.
Which leads to the first point, (Microsoft does seem to be moving pretty heavily into advertising though with all the bs in windows 11), you absolutely can not in good conscience use a big tech product with the argument that they’re not an ad company. It’s not just the ads which is the issue here. And the problem is sooner or later they’ll realise they’ve a trove of monetisable data, so might as well do something with it. And then we’ll have no choice because there will be no free and open alternatives left
The issue is the rendering engine monopoly. Apple and Microsoft browsers as well as chromium all use chrome rendering engine making them basically the same browser under the hood.
That’s not true - Apple’s browsers use WebKit. I wish they used chromium though, Safari is basically the new IE.
Having all browsers use the same, open source, modern and powerful rendering engine has many benefits. It makes web development MUCH easier, improves user experience because websites work the same on all browsers (apart from any proprietary stuff the browser vendors might add on top of chromium, but that’s not chromium’s fault), and greatly speeds up adoption of new web standards.
I don’t want there to be a Chrome browser monopoly for obvious reasons but I don’t see the downside of every browser using the same rendering engine as long as it’s not controlled by any one entity
I’m on firefox and I love it, but developing sites for chrome…
Any Alternative to Brave? I have FF as primary browser but for some websites which tends to break on FF, I would like to use something non-Chrome/Brave on Windows.
Librewolf sounds like Brave, but built on top of Firefox. It also doesn’t spam you with stupid ads like Brave does.
But my alt should be Chromium based for the weird cases.
Librewolf is better I think. It’s pretty much a privacy hardened Firefox with the telemetry taken out. No odd crypto scheme like Brave either.
No odd crypto scheme like Brave either.
That’s a great point
FF is primary but started using Vivaldi as my chromium based browser… I’m definitely not nerd level privacy geek but it hits all my check boxes for configuration, customization, and ease of use.
I keep chromium as a secondary if something breaks on Firefox. It’s the foundation of chrome without all the silly Google shit.
I think you want ungoogled-chromium
Thanks, this is what I’m looking for.
I use edge for the edge case when websites don’t work after changing the user agent
I have found edge to be more bloaty than brave
Which sites? I haven’t had that in years.
(And you can report them to Mozilla and they will fix it by either fixing a bug or creating a workaround for that site)
Top of my Head: Ms Teams.
Also, on side note, FF on Desktop doesn’t support PWAs while on Mobile they do.
How do you switch to Firefox if you use Firefox?
oh cool my favorite thread again
Yes use Firefox but ugh Mozilla wyd https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5053290/mozilla-2023-annual-report-ceo-pay-skyrockets-while-firefox-marketshare-nosedives
Trading the article, the CEO is meeting the assigned goals exceptionally well. The CEO does not give themselves the raise per se, but the board does, right?
As it turns out, moving away from Firefox is exactly Mozilla’s plan.
Earlier this year, Mozilla laid out their vision for the future of their organization – and it did not include Firefox. The focus for the future of Mozilla – according to Mozilla – is primarily based around Artificial Intelligence services.
In fact, Mozilla leadership stated, quite plainly, that they intend to take Mozilla “in a different direction.”
When you consider the goals of Mozilla… the decreasing Firefox marketshare is no longer much of a concern. In fact, moving revenue away from Firefox, while investing in A.I. systems (and other subscription services) becomes the primary goal.
Why wait until 2024 to switch when you can switch RIGHT NOW?
81% of mozilla’s revenue is from Google. “Firefox is the only major browser not built by a company that makes money from advertising and/or selling your personal data.” They just make money from the company that makes money from advertising and/or selling your personal data.
Ok don’t shoot me in advance because this is an honest question. I use Safari as a daily browser. Where do theh rank on the pile?
On my android I actually use Opera and like it quite a bit.
Opera works well with Twitch, but I haven’t done any detailed stat analysis on usage. The trade off between it and FF is (with my GPU focused browser settings) Firefox with higher CPU usage/temp(by maybe 1-2 degrees, negligible) and opera with higher GPU usage(but lower cpu temps/usage, as stated above). Since Opera is Chrome-built, it’s in a walled garden deal, when possible.
Opera is the biggest piece of shit in existence, as it sends all of your data to a weird Chinese company. They also make use of shady marketing practices and constantly lie to their users.
It sends those packets to 0.0.0.0 thanks to my HOSTS setup.
I really don’t see a reason to use a proprietary browser in 2023. Firefox is the best in my opinion. Chromium and anything based on it is bad for the open internet. Google shouldn’t be able to control the entire web through their browser engine. Firefox is the only viable alternative.
You’re preaching to the choir Firefox is my daily driver. Opera is just what I’m using with Twitch to see if it’s more efficient.
Ok then I misunderstood your comment. Maybe I shouldn’t use Lemmy while I’m drunk. Is there a reason why efficiency is so important? Do you use a laptop with poor battery life?
I definitely repurpose old hardware but I also want to keep my odroid or raspi from running too hot so they last.
Wait since when is Opera available on the Raspberry Pi?
