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Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by MattPalmer1086 »

self_awareness wrote: post #26

Firefox looks ugly, I really can't accept it. The only way of it looking less ugly is to do some unofficial tweaks which break from version to version. I was a Firefox user for years until they've changed the UI, and now I can't go back because of how it LOOKS. 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 st…

Funny, I use Firefox and think Chrome looks a bit uglier. A lot is simply what you're used to. Don't let your initial aesthetic reaction dictate your browser choice. It's really not ugly; just a tiny bit different.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by JonathanBeuys »

My problem with Firefox is that a new Firefox windows can only be launched from the same environment (or only from a child process?) from which the first window has been started. Even the same user who started FF cannot launch a new window from a new shell. That constantly interferes with my workflow.

Example: Say firefox has been started from the Destop already and now I want to start a new Firefox window from a root terminal:

    su desktopuser firefox
It does not work. It gives me "Firefox is already running, but is not responding.".

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by HenryBemis »

roydivision wrote: post #25

Mozilla get a lot of funding directly from Google for making Google the default search site [0]. Seems to me that this may be a problem going forward if Mozilla continue to allow ad blockers in Firefox. [0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-05-05/why-go...

The curse of the default tells us that this will never be a problem. Do you honestly believe that 99% of the Android Firefox users spend time to change the settings on the browser? (change to DDG, block all 3rd party cookies, etc.)

I did a quick search on DDG but no meaningful results came up with search engine for firefox on android. Gut feeling tells me 'minimal'. People do like their google remembering stuff. Convenience is the enemy of security (privacy in this case).

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by mcv »

jpdus wrote: post #10

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 :/.

Firefox can't handle lots of tabs?! What are you talking about?

I completely lost track of how many tabs I have open. I lost track of how many windows I have open, and each window has way too many tabs. It must be hundreds. I have a serious problem.

But Firefox doesn't. Firefox keeps churning along nicely as if my current tab is the only one I've got. Firefox enables tab hoarders like me a lot better than Chrome ever did.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by b112 »

dageshi wrote: post #16
jpdus wrote: post #10

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 :/.

Works just fine for me.

Probably referring to firefox on android. There way they rewrote it, and put an alpha version in the hands of end users was pathetic.

It was a long time before it even had extensions again, it was horribly unstable, it lacked functionality, and it still does.

You really couldn't work harder at torpedoing a product, than do what Mozilla did with Firefox on Android. I've often wondered if Google offered the team in charge a hire away, and massive pay raises to do this, because what else would allow for such incompetence?

Something is horribly broken at Mozilla.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by HenryBemis »

cik wrote: post #24
bilekas wrote: post #20

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.

I do both. I block at the network level with pihole, and then engage in in-browser blocking. Sadly, the combination is necessary.

I always suggest (not affiliated in any way - just been using their HOSTS for sooooo many years) the "https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/" for my HOSTS file.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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JonathanBeuys wrote: post #33

My problem with Firefox is that a new Firefox windows can only be launched from the same environment (or only from a child process?) from which the first window has been started. Even the same user who started FF cannot launch a new window from a new shell. That constantly interferes with my workflow. Example: Say firefox has been started from the Destop already and now I want to start a new Firefox window from a roo…

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