> Mozilla says that they can’t (decrypt my data on their servers), and I trust them.
I don't. I still neuter Firefox (LibreWolf, mostly.) and disable all the sync nonsense.
Why I use Firefox
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Re: Why I use Firefox
#12Me too, it's my main browser, and the only alternative we have to Chromium/WebKit based browsers.
Many more people should be using it.
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#13Gecko is my least favorite feature of Firefox because it doesn't properly handle websites like github where it doesn't show the full page forcing you to reopen the page in a new tab and close the bugged one. If Firefox doesn't have the resources to properly handle common sites they should just I switch to Blink to leverage a better maintained browser engine. It would also let Firefox invest more resources into differentiating their browser instead of just doing duplicate work.
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#14It's a great browser for Android. You get superior ad blocking and background video playing, extensions like dark reader...
If you use Google (even occasionally), don't forget to install the Google Search Fixer: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/google-search...
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#15For me it's > Mozilla develops their own browser engine This is key. Without Mozilla we are aproaching monopoly as Safari aproaches gradually Internet Explorer.
In general, wouldn’t Chrome be much closer to being Internet Explorer?
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#16I never used Chrome, so i don't know if it has a picture-in-picture player. But if it doesn't, you are really living in the past. It's so incredibly convenient. p.s.: I googled, there is an extension that does the same for Chrome, but not natively.
I thought that feature was pointless when I first learned of it, but I've found myself using it from time to time. It often gets in the way of whatever else I'm doing, but it's generally pretty easy to work around.
It's no substitute for a second monitor, but it's better than nothing sometimes.
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#17Does anyone have knowledge of whether we can expect Firefox to get HDR support in the near or distant future?
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#18I'm glad to see posts like this. Some of my favorite features not mentioned in the article:
- User Styles: I can customize pretty much everything about the browser UI using CSS.
- Containers: Shared history, form data, bookmarks,etc. But containerized cookies.
- Separate search field next to the address bar.
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#19I don't see why I would want to use anything else. Even if Chrome is marginally faster in an arbitrary benchmark test, I doubt I'd notice. And so far, I have no interoperability issues between Firefox on my laptop (macOS) and my iPhone (iOS), which runs Safari + Firefox Focus (because it's all the same webkit underneath). The add-on and plug-in marketplace is quite healthy, too. At the end of the day, I care about open-source software that doesn't model its business around capturing and manufacturing my data for export -- just the opposite. Thank goodness for Mozilla and all its collaborators.
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#20> Mozilla says that they can’t (decrypt my data on their servers), and I trust them. I don't. I still neuter Firefox (LibreWolf, mostly.) and disable all the sync nonsense.
One can self-host the sync server. I do this and it works great across Android and a Linux desktop, including live showing which tabs are open.