On desktop, FF supports the best vertical nested tab tree I have seen. What I’ve seen on chrome is laughably amateurish with huge chunks of wasted space due to unmodifiable(?) padding elements
Why I use Firefox
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Re: Why I use Firefox
#42> Still, I like the idea of using a browser from a company that does not want to access my data on their own servers.
Mozilla's motives alone for creating a web browser are why I trust FF. I don't like the idea of Chrome subsisting (to the point it's their actual business model) on my personal info
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#43I use it on Ubuntu coze it happens to be the default browser and there's nothing wrong with it.
On Windows I install Chrome, though. Android usually comes with Chrome as well so I stick with that. Only some apps seem to open the "built in" Xiaomi browser which is a piece of crap almost as stinky as Facebook app, which again absolutely must use it's terrible own browser implementation if I happen to click on some link (which I learned not to because of how terrible the experience is).
Also I use Firefox for web development tutorials because of the Mozilla docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guid...
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#44I use Firefox continuously since year ~2004, when it was called Firebird. The only time I invoke Chrome is to check if a web page is broken on just Firefox or broken for all. I love all the customization options that Firefox allows, unlike the bland and locked-down Chrome.
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#45I'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.
Use Chrome at work and Firefox everywhere else ?
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#46For 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?
Depends on what year the analogy is in ... (2002?) or on what platform. (iOS?)
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#47For 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.
Regardless of funding, it's still an independently developed browser engine.
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#48> 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.
Though even the librewolf maintainers trust mozilla with the encryption
https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/#can-i-use-firefox-sync-with-...
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#49Mozilla keeps ad blockers useful on youtube. And is not a chromium based browser. relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/198
Web3 will kill Chrome (but not Chromium).
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#50I 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 agree. I would also suggest occasionally checking out the other browsers like Opera and Vivaldi because they often have a surprising feel and feature set. Vivaldi in particular has a very nice RSS/Atom feed reader built into it, and Opera tends to be very fast.
(Mozilla and Goog were smart to start offering account-based sync because this creates a moat for regular adoption. But anyone can and should go window-shopping for browsers - it's cheap entertainment, at the very least.)