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I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by baxtr »

internet_points wrote: post #3

It's the closest we have to a browser not controlled by the corporate giants. Sometimes Mozilla makes unpopular choices and people raise a stink about it, but we do that because we hold them to a higher standard. With Microsoft and Google, we just expect them to Do More Evil, with Mozilla we expect Good and will complain loudly when they fail to uphold our principles, and we recommend Firefox because we feel like it…

I actually really like Safari… sometimes tabs sync across devices is buggy, reloads a lot. But other than that I’m quite content.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by psychoslave »

sylware wrote: post #6

I did switch to links/lynx (could be netsurf), and I did never look back.

Well, I do try to grab pages using it here and there when reader mode fails. But now most of the time the amount of garbage around the text is so high that command line browser just can’t display anything.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by diego_moita »

I use Firefox 90% of the time. The other 10% is a mix of Edge, Safari, Brave and Chrome.

The good of Firefox:

* the extensions ecosystem (KeepassXc, TamperMonkey, AdBlock, Disable Javascript, Youtube Audio, etc)

* the defaults in privacy and performance are good enough for me

The bad of Firefox:

* it is a minority web client engine so a few technologies and sites have problems with it. E.g: it is easy to debug WASM in Chrome, it isn't in Firefox

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by dotdi »

Same.

I use Firefox on all my devices. Actually, I am now experimenting with Zen Browser (FF-based fork prettier than Firefox, and even more privacy-focused). My wife and my kids get no say in it: it's Firefox in the whole household.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by input_sh »

internet_points wrote: post #3

It's the closest we have to a browser not controlled by the corporate giants. Sometimes Mozilla makes unpopular choices and people raise a stink about it, but we do that because we hold them to a higher standard. With Microsoft and Google, we just expect them to Do More Evil, with Mozilla we expect Good and will complain loudly when they fail to uphold our principles, and we recommend Firefox because we feel like it…

More like "we'll complain all the time regardless of what they do by repeating the same talking points over and over again".

> How much do they pay the CEO? Why aren't they exploring other funding options? At the same time, why are they "wasting resoures" working on other things!? They should exclusively work on Firefox!

> ...and that's why I stick to this Chromium fork with its own digital advertising service and its own cryptocurrency, but you can easily switch it off!

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by alexvitkov »

I'm glad the writer is enjoying Firefox, but posts like these make me realize we've forgotten how to use computers.

Built-in screenshot tool? "You don't need to install extensions"! Really? Dude just press Print Screen, it even works outside a browser, if one day you have to be put through the unspeakable torture of using a native application! Single-use burner emails are also nice and all, but why exactly does this have to be linked to my browser?

Of course switching browsers it's gonna be a big deal, when you actively walk out of your way to lock yourself to your browser's "ecosystem", but better Mozilla than Google I guess.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by jampekka »

Trasmatta wrote: post #5

How are the Firefox dev tools these days? Every time I've tried in the past I end up missing the Chrome dev tools, and it's too much of a pain to have one browser for development and one for browsing. I would love to switch, though.

Mostly on par with Chrome, at least for basic (95%) usage. Although for some cases I switch to Chromium.
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