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Long time Firefox user here, I’ve never seen ads in the browser. I am on Mac, however. It looks like from the other comments, windows builds somehow have ads.
You turned them off at some point. To turn them back on: On a new tab, click the cog in the top right. Tick "Sponsored shortcuts". Compared to the Google panopticon... I can live with it.
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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.
So for me, i work with chrome, edge and Firefox (main) at the same time. Firefox is 3 Windows with 150 tabs each. Chrome for quick and dirty - when I visit or do something I know I won't need it later anymore - and edge is used for being chat and/or differential search with goog and bing and other search engines (I know, it's easier to use a meta search engine, but it's ok like I do)
So.. basically. Each window is a room space in my brain for me and I store knowledge in separated rooms, so I know exactly where the tabs are I'm searching for. It's like a library where I always can look up something. Using favorites within the browser is not possible for me, because I just forget about them. Not so if I work with all the thousands of tabs open :)
So, it's possible to use different browsers without saying "maehhh.. but, I .... "
I couldn't switch to Chrome for work because some google services are randomly broken on Firefox.
At time google drive will fail to load at all (not that it's great on chrome either) and YouTube uploads will randomly break. UI claims it's uploading but no network activity at all and upload is stalled.
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>I just don't understand why people would use Chrome. Really? That seems hard to believe. I stuck with FF until around 2016 or so before being compelled to switch. The performance was just very clearly worse than Chrome's at the time. Not sure what the state of things is now. This is HN, so another huge reason to use Chrome is for the devtools, which I've always had a very good experience with and know pretty well. I…
Devtools on FF are very good. Extremely rarely do I need Chrome, for tools like debugging svg animations. I suspect the overwhelming majority of devtool users don't have to debug svg.
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Yes, attacking the source of revenue that sustains a project is always a sensitive prospect. But then again, what's the alternative for Mozilla? In case of YouTube Premium we've clearly seen that even HN software engineers, demanding six figure pay, will refuse to pay other software companies a few bucks for their engineering work. Where does Mozilla find funding to sustain itself elsewhere?
i religiously donate each month to mozilla but you wont catch me alive paying for spotify or youtube.
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When I tried Brave, it blocked website ads but gave me browser ad popups on the top right. No thanks. Stick to Firefox.
I feel like this comment was made in bad faith. Brave Rewards, the thing you're complaining about, is OPT-IN. That means you had to manually enable it in Brave's settings. You're complaining about something you consciously enabled.
This says it's opt out, not in.
I keep seeing Edge mentioned as a worthy alternative, and I just don't get it. First, all Chromium-based browsers will eventually block uBlock Origin for the sole reason that they can't maintain Manifest v2 on their own, and they all rely on Chrome's Web Store anyway. This won't happen immediately because Manifest v2 will probably stick around for longer because of enterprise users, but the writing is on the wall. Th…
I see some hope in Vivaldi. Even though chromium based, I don't see them getting more and more intrusive into your life and machine like the other big tech are doing. Plus it is also open source now[1], so no different than firefox, etc. even in that sense. The other place I see some hope left is the "ungoogled" chromium browser. Though the amount of hooves you need to jump in order to get a stable release (correspon…
- the experience is 90% the same. - Sync between Android app and desktop is just as flawless (that one made me switch back to Chromium on my first try a few years ago) - Theming is nicer - switching between home and work profile is great with the profile switcher extension - Firefox seems less well integrated into many websites. I keep entering my credit card info on many sites, because the option to use saved cards either does not appear or does not work. Same is true for suggesting passwords. So I use keepass' for both now (which might be good) -the developer tools are a little annoying. I use them mainly for Web scraping and sometimes I give up and copy the curl call from Chromium because the formatting is nicer and the network tab looks cleaner
I won't switch back to Chrome and miss it less and less. Only during black Friday and when I taught my webscraping course I missed Chromium a little.
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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.
yet huge ux changes between chrome updates are fine? *ponderingfaceemoji