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Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by kemotep »

eloisant wrote: post #246
nomilk wrote: post #73

FWIW 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.

The way profiles (or tab containers) work in Firefox sucks compared to Chrome honestly. I could never find a way to open in the correct profile from external applications.

You can set up specific domains to open up in specific tab containers. Obviously for sites that you have never visited before this complicates things unless you have the default tab container be your “throwaway” or not personally identifying profile.

The experience there isn’t perfect and requires some effort to setup but how is that different than getting certain sites to open in specific chrome profiles automatically?

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Post by dilawar »

insanitybit wrote: post #281
mariusmg wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, you're switching browsers not 3D modelling software. It's easy people. Switch to Firefox today.

I don't use 3D modeling software, but I use a browser for like... 95% of my day. Any minor UX differences are going to be like nails on a chalkboard, given that. It's no wonder why people don't want to switch, really.

I took my muscle memory a couple of days to readjust. Switching away from vim to anything else would take me years!

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by patates »

Although I personally use Firefox and actively promote its use, I believe that a significant number of users may not be aware of the developments and will continue to stick with Chrome.

From a pragmatic standpoint, it makes sense to advocate for the rights of Chrome users as well, even in the presence of alternatives.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by miclill »

prima-facie wrote: post #250

I've found two major roadblocks when switching browsers: 1. Migrating your passwords, 2. Migrating the bookmarks. If you use an external password manager (Bitwarden, 1Password, even KeePassXC) and an external bookmark manager (Raindrop is excellent, Pocket is barely usable) then switching browsers becomes very easy – to the point where you could switch to a new one every month if you wanted. The browser is no longer…

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/import-data-another-bro...

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by self_awareness »

MattPalmer1086 wrote: post #322
self_awareness wrote: post #192

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> Don't let your initial aesthetic reaction dictate your browser choice. Why? Also "initial reaction"? You mean, "fake it till you make it"? For others this may be a nitpick, for me it's a barrier I'm not able to cross.

I guess because it seems a trivial reason to dismiss what could otherwise be a good bit of tech. Of course, if it really bugs you after using it for a while, then that's fine. I just think most software takes a bit of getting used to.

> I just think most software takes a bit of getting used to.

I was using Firefox since version 1. First bomb was the removal of XUL -- Firefox has lost most of its appeal to me then. Then there was those changes to tabs. So it's not like I wasn't used to FF.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by thejohnconway »

jillesvangurp wrote: post #206

Use whatever makes you happy. But it's worth pointing out that Chrome and Chromium are developed by Google. The whole point of using Chromium as a browser developer (Brave, Edge, Opera, ...) is to have Google own and take care of all the difficult bits, drive the technical roadmap, and decide on what is and isn't going to be in the next version. So, you don't gain much by switching to those as the teams behind those…

> It would be nice to see the search and browser markets open up a bit. Especially on mobile. Especially on IOS where Apple enforces a Safari monopoly. Every other browser has to use the Safari rendering engine.

Do that and Chrome becomes the monopoly everywhere.

Not that I’m in favour of the way Apple does things on mobile, but break the Chrome monopoly elsewhere first, then go after Safari.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by Zekio »

ochronus wrote: post #285
8organicbits wrote: post #77

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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.

Actually, one nice-to-have: built in, performant ad blocking which is extensible (preferably compatible with existing lists), like e.g., Brave or Vivaldi does.

sounds a waste of time to build considering how well uBlock Origin works

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by loveparade »

masfoobar wrote: post #148

I have been a happy Firefox user for 15 years... maybe more. I have seen people use and complain Internet Explorer in my younger days, from version 6 to 7, etc. Even though I mention Firefox to them, they stay with IE. What amazes me is how quick they transitioned to Google Chrome when it released. This was around 2009. It amazes me how quick people jump to something especially when it has a big company behind advert…

A decade or so ago when Chrome was first released there were good reasons to switch to it. It was better than Firefox in almost every way, especially speed.

Today that's no longer the case, but there also isn't a huge reason to switch to Firefox. They're all kind of the same, especially to the average user who doesn't strongly care about privacy.

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