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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…
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What about the people who see the existing EU as an anti-democratic bureocracy
What about them? Do they see the federal government of the United States also as an anti-democratic bureaucracy? Do they see their own government as anti-democratic? And if not why do they see the existing EU as different? Do they understand how EU representatives are chosen? Do they follow EU parliamentary proceedings and do they understand how EU law interacts with local law? All of those are important questions an…
Although I didn't vote for Brexit myself, I've spoken to a number of Brexit supporters.
While they might not know the precise details, they know that a "Constitution for Europe" was rejected by French and Dutch voters in 2005, it was changed into a "Reform Treaty" in 2007 which meant most countries' voters didn't get a vote on it, and after Irish voters rejected that, they had to have a second referendum on the same treaty the year after.
They feel they have seen how EU law interacts with local law, and they don't like it.
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"Sponsored shortcuts" comes enabled by default, at least on Windows builds made by Mozilla. If you are using Linux I suppose your distro turns it off by default? btw in my case it adds two ads: Nike and Amazon. They come with tracking parameters that are unique to me (if I create a new browser profile, they change)
Disabling them is one click away, however.
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It continues to surprise me that people use the home screen, regardless of it being Firefox or Chrome. New window, new tab, I always set that to a blank page, in my mind that should be the default.
It continues to surprise me that people don't make their "new tab page" useful, it's probably the page you see the most everyday. Make it your own, put your bookmarks in there or whatever is useful (I use https://start.me/ )
You can have it blank or you can have Firefox recommendations. Those are your options.
https://i.imgur.com/U13r7pG.png
This resembles a dark pattern to push users toward Firefox recommendations, a moneymaker.
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>to get the EU digital markets update, which lets you uninstall Edge. Again — as a former anti-EU person — I am reminded why I am now pro-EU. While nowhere perfect it is much better than not having an EU and way, way better than the US.
I've come across many anti EU persons and there are some broad categories: - the uninformed, they have no idea about how the EU came about or what it does, but they're against it anyway - the people on the receiving end of the regulations (anti-trust, advertisers, marketeers, bankers, data sellers etc). They have a very good idea about what it does, but it interferes with their preferred way of getting to more cash.…
* In my view Switzerland is not doing fine because it is wealthy, it is doing well as it was historically difficult terrain to conquer (thus no one bothered to invade it in most wars) and because today it is surrounded by wealthy democracies, all of which are part of the EU and economically closely integrated with Switzerland through the EU-Switzerland agreements. If France wanted Geneva 'back' it could do so without much resistance, similar to the Russia-Ukraine and China-Taiwan dynamicy but this doesn't fly with the other EU countries looking on.
* I can't think of any EU bureaucrats who got in the news for corruption or similar, rather it always seems to be the national political caste which are then sent to Brussels as representatives. So the parliamentarians and commissioners, all of which are political appointees or get their post based on national party lists, and the political staff they bring along. See Qatargate - all Italian and Belgian politicians and party staff.
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…
For personal use, I rarely use Edge. I only uses them for websites that have an issue with my Firefox with uBO and strict CORS. I avoid Chrome like it is a plague.
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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.
3-8% of the Internet users is 400 million users. I wouldn't call that "dead in the sea". Even 1% of the Internet users is a very significant amount of users. Why obsess with market share? At some point all browsers raised from 0% market share. Choose whatever fits your needs.
I've always used multiple browsers at the same time. On my local workstation I used Edge (used to be Chrome) for corporate and customer stuff, Firefox for everything else. Firefox runs faster with less headaches than the others, even with ADO, which is funny to me.
When I encounter environments where only Chrome is available (e.g., jump box or application server in a customer's network) I have to deal with Chrome eating up too many resources. I often have to kill other users inactive sessions due to how much memory their Chrome process is using. I've seen it affect production performance due to it eating up so much memory.
The only user app I've seen that sometimes uses more memory on those customer hosted systems is Oracle SQL Developer.
Firefox is simply better for me. However, I won't argue with others on personal preference, hence why I don't just uninstall Chrome where I find it. Also I don't want those people to lose their bookmarks and browsing history.
What makes some folks so attached to particular browsers? Personally, I'm using a mix of Edge, Firefox, and Chrome. While in theory I could just use one of them (which would probably be Firefox), it's kinda like having 3 different super-profiles for a web-browser (where each browser is its own super-profile), so I'm mostly just using all 3 out of laziness. I don't particularly trust Chrome nor Edge, so I just don't u…
The article is bollocks. Recommending Pale Moon in 2023 is plain irresponsible. No process isolation/sandboxing for tabs/websites/addons, playing constant catch-up with Firefox on implementing security fixes/mitigations (made more difficult by how far back the fork has happened), disregarding all the optimizations that brought Firefox closer to being on par with Chrome (which translates to higher power usage). In my…
The reason for the article is not to give a good recommendation to people but to promote Tuta (looks like an ad campaign that started about 2 weeks ago: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=tuta.com ).
Going a bit offtopic, in my opinion this supports the argument that users should in general be free to block ads, on the basis of being able to filter the content they consume, based on the credibility of the source. Establishing the credibility of the advertiser seems impossible even for the websites (ad network: "just load this 10mb JS from our CDN"), so blocking ads entirely (or allowing them selectively) seems like a reasonable recourse.
