Firefox May Have Lost Up to 12% of Its Users So Far in 2021
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#2I've switched to Firefox on mobile because Google keeps forcing the garbage tab layout on me.
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#3Mozilla's recent history should be (and probably will be at some point) a case study in PR. They had enormous reserves of goodwill, trust, and positive perception, and managed to squander all of that in a relatively short period of time.
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#4By design, Firefox supports and reports to sugar daddy Google. Nothing really "private" about that.
https://www.googlewatchdog.com/how-tos/how-to-eradicate-goog...
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#5Not a huge fan of the new Firefox Proton UI, the tabs look more like buttons and I found the previous design a lot more streamlined. The new design doesn't feel as usable as it should be IMO, and it'll be a reason for me to move to another browser if the design isn't updated in the future.
At the moment, I've switched off Proton in the about:config section, but it's only a matter of time before this will no longer be an option. Hopefully Firefox will go back to the old UI or at least make some changes!
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#6Now that Edge is Chromium based, is there still a good reason not to stick with the default browser?
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#7Now that Edge is Chromium based, is there still a good reason not to stick with the default browser?
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#8By design, Firefox supports and reports to sugar daddy Google. Nothing really "private" about that. https://www.googlewatchdog.com/how-tos/how-to-eradicate-goog...
>Step 2. Turn off “safe browsing”.
>Firefox has a feature called “safe browsing” which reports information about your browsing to Google.
I'm no fan of Google's practices but that list is just fear mongering. For example Google safe browsing just downloads a blocklist. It doesn't send any browsing data to Google.
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#9Now that Edge is Chromium based, is there still a good reason not to stick with the default browser?
Yes. If you don't want to be using google or google using you, which ever way you look at it. It's better than chrome, but suffers same thins as firefox like default settings.
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#10I'm hanging in there with Firefox as a matter of principle. Since Gecko is the only alternative engine left. However under Linux I feel the performance is worse then under Windows. On Windows Firefox performance feels closer to Chrome's performance.