Ok that was always allowed.
Why I use Firefox
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Re: Why I use Firefox
#22Containers for isolation between sites + treestyletabs (vertical tab bar) are the two features that makes me miss Firefox every time I try a different one. Other features are just a plus on top of that for me.
Re: Why I use Firefox
#23How can we as users provide funding for open software like Firefox, in the same way that Wikipedia receives crowdfunding?
At the very least as a supplement to the money they receive from Google.
And even better, to fund more research projects, like their sponsorship of research into Rust and WebAssembly.
Re: Why I use Firefox
#24For me it's > Mozilla develops their own browser engine This is key. Without Mozilla we are aproaching monopoly as Safari aproaches gradually Internet Explorer.
It would be true, if in practice all the finances of Mozilla didn't come from Google. So it's like Google wearing a mask.
Google has an interest in not looking like an all controlling monopoly. I doubt they'd want to risk that by coercing Mozilla too much.
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#25For me it's > Mozilla develops their own browser engine This is key. Without Mozilla we are aproaching monopoly as Safari aproaches gradually Internet Explorer.
It would be true, if in practice all the finances of Mozilla didn't come from Google. So it's like Google wearing a mask.
Google is paying because Firefox is popular. It is a chicken & egg problem.
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#26It's a great browser for Android. You get superior ad blocking and background video playing, extensions like dark reader...
I use it for 95% of my browsing, with exactly the extensions you mention, but I do have to recognize it's stability is rough at times. Every now and then I run into a site that fails hard, crashing the entire UI on my Pixel 6 Pro.
Admittedly I haven't tried disabling extensions and finding the root cause. I just switch to Chrome for that task.
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#27I'd love to use FIrefox but I haven't found how to get around Google's on-purpose slowing down of their products (which I have to use for work) when running inside Firefox.
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#28How can we as users provide funding for open software like Firefox, in the same way that Wikipedia receives crowdfunding? At the very least as a supplement to the money they receive from Google. And even better, to fund more research projects, like their sponsorship of research into Rust and WebAssembly.
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/?form=donate
It's in the footer to Mozilla's website.
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#29> 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.
What does the storage layer (database) contain? Clear-text, usable data, or encrypted randomness?
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#30I 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 op…
I think more recent benchmarks showed that Firefox became faster than Chrome, although I'm not keeping a close eye on it and I agree with you that it's arbitrary.
For the past 6+ years I only use Chrome rarely and as an Internet Explorer replacement.