Don't Google give Mozilla lots of money? Presumably at some point they will just stipulate that blocking WebRequest be made unsupported?
I mean, speaking as a Firefox user who never switched in the first place.
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#12Don't switch to FF if you're a heavy user. I am on Firefox as my main browser for web and mobile since 4 years. I am just in the process of switching back to Chrome, as Firefox got continuously worse over time. Can't handle lots of tabs, crashes/freezes randomly, weird UI bugs... It's just very disappointing :/.
I don't have this experience at all, not even close.
Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs
#13Don't switch to FF if you're a heavy user. I am on Firefox as my main browser for web and mobile since 4 years. I am just in the process of switching back to Chrome, as Firefox got continuously worse over time. Can't handle lots of tabs, crashes/freezes randomly, weird UI bugs... It's just very disappointing :/.
I am sorry to see you have a bad experience with FF. It must be you and only you.
I am sure that in your BAU you enjoy being tracked for everything you do, every page you see, etc. etc.
I've been using FF since 2005 and I cannot remember when was the last time it crashed. Perhaps it did in 2008 (I remember having problems and FF crashing - and I was living in 'that flat' at the time. But no probs since.
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#14Don't Google give Mozilla lots of money? Presumably at some point they will just stipulate that blocking WebRequest be made unsupported? I mean, speaking as a Firefox user who never switched in the first place.
Google give money to Mozilla primarily as a hedge against monopoly status. Forcing anticompetitive requirements into the bargain defeats that purpose.
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#15Don't switch to FF if you're a heavy user. I am on Firefox as my main browser for web and mobile since 4 years. I am just in the process of switching back to Chrome, as Firefox got continuously worse over time. Can't handle lots of tabs, crashes/freezes randomly, weird UI bugs... It's just very disappointing :/.
Could this be your particular profile acting up? My experience is that it is pretty stable across multiple machines, multiple OSses and for many many years.
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#16Don't switch to FF if you're a heavy user. I am on Firefox as my main browser for web and mobile since 4 years. I am just in the process of switching back to Chrome, as Firefox got continuously worse over time. Can't handle lots of tabs, crashes/freezes randomly, weird UI bugs... It's just very disappointing :/.
Works just fine for me.
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#17Isnt Firefox trying to copy EXACTLY what Chrome is doing with extensions?
Google's marketing is sooo good.
Instead of giving Mozilla the benefit of the doubt, many people are instead instantly complaining that Firefox is not better and it's worth sticking with Chrome anyways.
Chrome has not been supporting proper content blocking for years. E.g. Chrome will not wait for content blockers to initialize before sending out requests, so the first website that opens when you start Chrome is probably not content blocked.
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
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#18Don't switch to FF if you're a heavy user. I am on Firefox as my main browser for web and mobile since 4 years. I am just in the process of switching back to Chrome, as Firefox got continuously worse over time. Can't handle lots of tabs, crashes/freezes randomly, weird UI bugs... It's just very disappointing :/.
Obviously this shouldn’t be like this in the first place, but potentially you’ve got profile corruption. If you’re going to switch anyway, you could try resetting your profile from about:support first.
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#19Edge is easy to switch to and could be a great way to break the Chrome dominance.
Safari also started catching up over the last 2 years
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#20I love Firefox, but for some reason I can't pull away from Brave at the moment for my daily driver. Time will tell how long they can hold out against the changes that will eventually filter into chromium. I see the future of adblocking etc being put back to the network side, things like piHole should get a 'new' lease of life.