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Ask HN: With trust in Firefox gone, is Chrome-ish the only option?

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Re: Ask HN: With trust in Firefox gone, is Chrome-ish the only option?

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Post by hnlmorg »

It’s a bit premature to say Mozilla’s change to user agreements should result in a loss of our trust.

Particularly given the browser itself is open source and already has many eyes on it.

I’m going to wait and see what Mozilla’s next few releases are like before passing judgement.

Re: Ask HN: With trust in Firefox gone, is Chrome-ish the only option?

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Post by Double_a_92 »

conceptme wrote: post #7
rusticpenn wrote: post #4

I have been out of the loop, what happened with Firefox?

added new terms of use which are very questionable: https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b... https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/fi...

I think the conclusion was that they had to remove that for legal reasons, since technically they were already doing something that could be considered selling data.

Re: Ask HN: With trust in Firefox gone, is Chrome-ish the only option?

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Post by AmazingTurtle »

I like chrome, I don't like google. I mean: I am so used to chrome devtools, I don't even know how to switch to firefox. I gave it a try and it was frustrating that I didn't know where to find my shit. Felt like 10x performance loss for my web development activities. Is there any way to make firefox devtools look and feel like chromes?

Re: Ask HN: With trust in Firefox gone, is Chrome-ish the only option?

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Post by worble »

The rhetoric around Firefox is so exhausting. They change some wording while having made no actual technical changes to the browser and the internet is on fire for days calling them the devil incarnate, meanwhile Chrome gutted uBlock and other extensions a week ago and there was barely any noise about it.

What causes this phenomenon where the project with significantly less resources is held to a higher standard than the other players?

Re: Ask HN: With trust in Firefox gone, is Chrome-ish the only option?

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Post by bambax »

You can trust or distrust whoever you want, but I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss Firefox. They now have updated the wording of their TOS that caused so much uproar and confusion (in part fueled by Brendan Eich, who runs a competing browser) and are pretty clear about what they do.

Firefox also still supports Manifest V2, which lets you use the full, ultra-powerful version of uBlock Origin. There's no better privacy protection than uBlock.

Firefox is a much better choice than any Chromium based browser for the privacy conscious.

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