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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 Vinnl »

Jnr wrote: post #82
Daunk wrote: post #27

My very old, and bad, laptop takes an extremely long time to start Firefox. However, forks like Floorp are a lot quicker to start. And since I'm pretty strict about using the same tools everywhere (no matter the OS) I'm now using Floorp on my main PC as well. But I'm not sure Floorp can be trusted... does anyone have anything to say about it?

Is it not the case of using Ubuntu with Snap? I have experienced similar things with Chrome and Firefox on Ubuntu starting extremely slowly when using the snap version. And Ubuntu does not offer deb packages for those anymore, you have to manually add the Mozilla repo to use that.

More about the Mozilla repo: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/4-reasons-to-try-mozill...

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by delecti »

segasaturn wrote: post #47
ustad wrote: post #23

Currently the main attack facing Firefox is coming from advertising companies such as YouTube. It’s crazy to think that some software engineers might actually intentionally degrade user experience on non-Google browsers or for people using adblockers. The mentality here is pretty disturbing: it’s almost like punishing users for making the choice to browse the web without ads, or without the surveillance mechanisms th…

The irony that Google, who made their bones on the "open web", is now attacking open web standards and trying to turn the internet into their own walled garden that they control every aspect of I hope is not lost on the people here.

I have trouble seeing that as irony in a world where "embrace, extend, extinguish" exists.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by squarefoot »

ustad wrote: post #23

Currently the main attack facing Firefox is coming from advertising companies such as YouTube. It’s crazy to think that some software engineers might actually intentionally degrade user experience on non-Google browsers or for people using adblockers. The mentality here is pretty disturbing: it’s almost like punishing users for making the choice to browse the web without ads, or without the surveillance mechanisms th…

> Currently the main attack facing Firefox is coming from advertising companies such as YouTube.

I would add to the list the Linux Foundation too.

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-annou...

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by ekianjo »

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…

> Sometimes Mozilla makes unpopular choices

Sometimes? They tend to hit the mark of bad decisions more often than not

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by frizlab »

segasaturn wrote: post #54
baxtr wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I find Safari on iOS to be nice, and Safari on macOS to be horrifically slow and inadequate, even on the newest M-series processors. It's like two different worlds, you can really tell that all of the engineering time is going into iOS because that's where all the money is at.

I use Safari on macOS and don’t find it particularly slow

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by noisy_boy »

Firefox works fine and I like the privacy focus and general features. However, it still randomly causes the CPU usage to spike and makes the fans run full tilt (top shows 90-100% usage for god knows what), even when the same tabs are open doing the same things. I don't see this (atleast not as often) in Chrome, which I don't want to use, but end up using it until Google does one more privacy destroying thing, in a long line of such things, which makes me angry enough to go back to FF until the cycle repeats.

I guess I have resigned being like a ping-pong ball bouncing between these two browsers.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by _def »

This seems like a good place to mention my favorite Firefox Addon for Android: https://github.com/mozilla/video-bg-play

Some days ago I was wondering how it works and was kinda surprised just now that this is from mozilla itself. Reading the project Readme makes this even straight up sound like a privacy addon. I wonder why this is not natively supported.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by jamespo »

dartos wrote: post #92
redman25 wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do web dev and prefer safari. It’s less power hungry on a laptop. If you develop for the lowest common denominator, every other browser just works. There’s something to be said for adding _less_ features to web browsers. A simple web is a web where open source solutions can compete with chrome. It helps avoid a browser monoculture.

Yeah but we’re not in a simple web. Safari isn’t trying to make it simple for you, they just use it to keep you in their walled garden. PWAs are a great example of this. The general idea was even a product of the Jobs era of Apple, before the App Store. Safari and iOS’s poor support of PWAs is exactly a result of Apple wanting to prevent app distribution channels other than their App Store. Choosing safari is choosin…

Missing standards like Manifest V3 that everyone was crying out for?

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by Sanctor »

I really want to switch to Firefox but cannot because it doesn't sync bookmark favicons.

My bookmarks bar is filled with bookmarks without names that I can recognize by the icons. I refuse to re-visit every bookmark when I login from a new PC, which is often.

This has been requested for 17 years: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428378

Every other browser sync solution has this feature. Firefox insists on not implementing it because what, it's too much data to sync? I'd pay for it if it was a premium feature.

If anyone has a browser agnostic bookmark syncing solution that can sync the favicons, let me know.

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