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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.
Google give money to Mozilla primarily as a hedge against monopoly status. Forcing anticompetitive requirements into the bargain defeats that purpose.
ublock origin and not ublock. there is a very important distinction. please fix this
Don'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 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.
[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-05-05/why-go...
Also, the Mozilla ideology. Why can't the browser be just a piece of software and that's it?
I just use Vivaldi.
Edit: I can sense that Firefox zealotry is strong in this topic. People who downvote: you don't accept that someone has a different aesthetics than you, or what's the reason? That just reinforces my choice to stay away, people who Mozilla attracts are not really on the same wavelength as me I guess.
Folks.. come on.. some of us have invested in Google stock (ok.. it's not much, but it is what it is). And for the Google stock to go up people have to use Android without a firewall, Chrome browser in all their devices, Gmail, and so on.. so they be tracked, their data to be harvested and sold x10000 so that the ad machine makes billions and the stock price goes up.
I decided to STOP pestering my friends on switching to Signal, Firefox, etc. and instead I just bought stocks of Google, Meta, Microsoft, etc.. Since people don't want to protect their own privacy and the one of their children, and I cannot help them.. well then I can help myself.
I will 'forever' use FF and suggest it ONCE to friends and family, and then move on with my life (on the 'consulting friends & family on privacy focused solutions).
EDIT: Unfortunately I am not joking on the above.. it made me throw up a bit in my mouth the first time I sat down and bought Google and Meta stock (I was a mutual funds guy until then). I use "dollar cost averaging" so I buy a little, but very often (monthly). I got tired of debating with people on why THEIR privacy is CRITICAL for them and their children. Insurance companies will screw them in the future, Pedophiles are monitoring their instagram, Google (and everyone they sell the data to) knowing where they keep and spend their money, Google knowing who they email and what/when/why/etc. It is insane what type and how much data 'we' are freely giving away, only to bite us in the a$$. For me the cost-benefit of convenience vs what-will-come is very much against us.
Don'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 :/.
One issue is that for me at least, Firefox crashes too often, and when it does, the entire browser goes away, not just the tab. That's annoying.
Another issue is that something seems to be lacking performance-wise. I messed around a bit with Invoke AI, and the canvas is painfully slow even on modern, high end hardware. I thought it was just the code sucked. Nope, it's silky smooth in Chromium.
Don'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 :/.