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> 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.
It's a great browser for Android. You get superior ad blocking and background video playing, extensions like dark reader...
Now browsers will be allowed to use their custom engine (they were forced to all use Safari up until now), so thank you EU for the new DMA!
It'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...
I 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.
One click of the picture-in-picture button and those watermarks were completely gone.
For 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?
Gecko 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 differ…
I 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…
401 - Chrome
446 - Firefox
546 - Safari
> šime.eu
Looks like HN needs Punycode support [1] when it displays the domain name after the article title.
It'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.
No doubt Chrome's more modern stack and hefty resources help in ironing out hardware-specific quirks.
I also like paying for software and content. When people provide you with valuable tools, they should get compensated.
But, the middle ground of "free" but not free is not a happy place in my mind.