Edge 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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Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs
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Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs
#72Honestly I've been using Firefox for more than 10 years and never felt the need to switch. Every time I try a new browser there's features from Firefox that I end up missing.
And seeing the shitshow with the ad blockers in Chrome there's no way I'm trying that lol.
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#73FWIW I got annoyed with chrome's distracting home screen, and pondered how long it would take for a 10+ year chrome user to switch to firefox. The answer (on macOS) was 5 minutes. I was shocked how easy it was (and, frankly, how similar it was). When you first open firefox, it gives options to import all your chrome settings (including saved passwords etc). Super cool.
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#74Mozilla 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...
Firefox is essentially a dead fish in the sea. Depending on source, Firefox sits at 3-8 % market share. They are much more likely to lose funding because of irrelevancy than some users using AdBlock.
Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs
#75Mozilla 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...
Mozilla's rev stream from google is also antitrust mitigation.
Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs
#76My Firefox says its DNS-over-HTTPS provider (default Cloudflare) can't find this domain. I wonder why?
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#77I would, if Mozilla focused on features users want :)
What's your wishlist? Browsers feel pretty complete to me in that I can open all the websites I want to open, and atleast with FF I can easily block ads.
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#78My 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…
Maybe you need to set the DISPLAY env var? Maybe it tries to contact the app via dbus and fails for some reason?
I'm quite sure this should work, and you just need to set some env var or so.
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#79(semi-sarcastic post ensues:) 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 pe…
Don't you aspire to do the right things, or at least to avoid doing the wrong things? I don't understand what drives you. You were pestering your friends to switch to Signal and Firefox for privacy reasons and then you bought GAFAM stock?
Aren't you actively going against your ideals by doing this?
Also, what a mix up! You managed to mention pedophiles in your comment?!
Your reasoning is very hard to follow.
You mention being semi-sarcastic and then you write "Unfortunately I am not joking on the above". What a mess. You really need to clear up your writing if you want to be understood.
And that "Unfortunately": you have leverage on what you do, you know? If you find what you do "unfortunate", change something! We can't do it for you.
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#80Highly recommend brave (with all the crypto nonsense shut off), it's a pretty fast browser, nice features and works with chrome extensions. I've used it successfully for the past 3 or something years
When I tried Brave, it blocked website ads but gave me browser ad popups on the top right. No thanks. Stick to Firefox.
you can deactivate them. In my installation on linux they were disabled by default and it asked me if I wanted to activate them (just one time) to support the browser