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Re: Why I use Firefox

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Post by skizm »

zahma wrote: post #19

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…

I still need to use Chrome for YouTube when I'm on my Windows 11 desktop unfortunately. YouTube in FF causes weird issues with my monitor turning on and off after I've been watching YT for more than like 20 min. It gets into a state where any new windows I open or close cause the screen to turn off then on. I have no idea where to even begin diagnosing what's going on. This behavior seemingly goes away when I run YT in chrome and everything else in FF.

Re: Why I use Firefox

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Post by berkes »

cl3misch wrote: post #155

> The user’s data is stored on the browser vendor’s servers, and this data is of course encrypted. But can the browser vendor decrypt this data? Google can. Can it? You can set an additional password for synchronization. I was under the impression this implies end-to-end encryption. Of course, Chrome might send this data back to Google once synced and decrypted by the user. But Mozilla might do that just the same.

As per the article: this is a trust issue.

Given the approximately same setup and use-case: Who do you trust more to keep encryption strong and unbroken?

OFC trustless verification and such would be my ideal for a very impractical version of "ideal". Where I'd run my own server software, read all it's source code, read all the source code of the client, monitor all my network traffic, and do so for all updates. Given this is unattainable for me (for one: I lack the skills to really vet encryption software), I'll revert to a more practical "I trust Mozilla to at least try and implement secure and proper encryption and to be open about it".

Re: Why I use Firefox

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Post by dekatron »

Picture-in-picture in Firefox is super useful when having a video call and sharing the screen at the same time, especially on a laptop screen.

Firefox lets you pop out the video feeds of call participants, so you can have them in a corner when sharing a full-screen window.

Re: Why I use Firefox

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Post by robertoandred »

berkes wrote: post #161
robertoandred wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A ludicrous and non-serious statement. Safari leads in several areas, and both it and Firefox push back against Google’s self-serving and privacy-threatening “features” it wants people to think are web standards.

> Safari leads in several areas This is the first time I've ever heard someone say this. The overwelming sentiment is that safari is leagues behind, lacks features, lacks performance is has the worst standards support of all common browsers. What areas are you referring to? All we ever did at my jobs, when people complained "it doesn't work on safari" is put up a banner for safari users pointing them to either the ap…

Position sticky, has, subgrid, and filters to name a few. And now it’s pushing forward color standards, better text layout, new image formats, and more css math functions.

Re: Why I use Firefox

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Post by soulbadguy »

I have been mainlining firebox for the 2 to 3 years, mainly because i was concerned about privacy in chrome, and also because i do believe that we need a non chromium based browser for a healthy internet ecosystem. However, the number of website/webpage that do not work, or are worse on firefox is alarming. Especially when talking about internal/entriprise website. Or smaller website

Re: Why I use Firefox

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Post by cptskippy »

bachmeier wrote: post #119
Zambyte wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Googles recognition of this fact seems to be exactly why they keep Mozilla afloat. Firefox is the best anti-anti-trust argument that have.

This seems to be a popular opinion, but I believe they probably do it because it's good for their bottom line. The MS case was very different. The only relevant market was desktop computing, they had a monopoly on the desktop OS market, they baked the browser into the OS for no good reason, and they were taking actions to make OS competition impossible. Having a high desktop browser market share number honestly isn't…

Every major tech company has used the outcome of the MS Monopoly Trial as a playbook of dos and don'ts to avoid getting sued.

Re: Why I use Firefox

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Post by yoyohello13 »

skizm wrote: post #171
zahma wrote: post #19

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…

I still need to use Chrome for YouTube when I'm on my Windows 11 desktop unfortunately. YouTube in FF causes weird issues with my monitor turning on and off after I've been watching YT for more than like 20 min. It gets into a state where any new windows I open or close cause the screen to turn off then on. I have no idea where to even begin diagnosing what's going on. This behavior seemingly goes away when I run YT…

Same, I don't know what it is but firefox locks up whenever I try to watch youtube on my laptop. It's only my windows laptop too. My linux laptop, and windows desktop at work are fine.

Re: Why I use Firefox

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Post by pesho »

nayuki wrote: post #44

I 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.

Same and before Firebird it was Phoenix.

Re: Why I use Firefox

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Post by skiman10 »

drpossum wrote: post #91
cangeroo wrote: post #23

How 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.

Mozilla is poorly managed with an overcompensated CEO that likes to sprawl off in directions no one asked for that aren't Firefox

Is this still a valid complaint since they have a new interim CEO? I think we should wait and see what Laura Chambers does and then the new pick after this year.

Re: Why I use Firefox

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Post by ravenstine »

skizm wrote: post #171
zahma wrote: post #19

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…

I still need to use Chrome for YouTube when I'm on my Windows 11 desktop unfortunately. YouTube in FF causes weird issues with my monitor turning on and off after I've been watching YT for more than like 20 min. It gets into a state where any new windows I open or close cause the screen to turn off then on. I have no idea where to even begin diagnosing what's going on. This behavior seemingly goes away when I run YT…

Does that also happen for other video sites?
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