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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 anthk »

sylware wrote: post #304
psychoslave wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

links and netsurf are graphical (links has both a ncurses and x11 interface). I use links to browse maps from openstreetmap servers.

Try Florb for that. It needs omake, but you can ditch opam/omake and the whole ocaml stack after the builds.

BTW, I use lynx/links too, among sacc and gemini browsers.

News/portal/translator and so over gopher: gopher://magical.fish

Blogs: gopher://sdf.org

Text wikipedia: gopher://gopherpedia.com

Graphical: I forgot the URL for Gemini

Weather: finger yourcity@graph.no

Weather over gopher, replace Madrid with your city: gopher://graph.no:79/0/madrid

Web decrapifier: gemini://gemi.dev (News Waffle)

Everyhing else: IRC, Usenet, Bitlbee, sxiv, mocp, mpv, mupdf.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by Yizahi »

neilv wrote: post #260
tttttrhowwwwai wrote: post #203

Earlier quoted context omitted.

maybe my rant is going to be a bit out of place here but here it goes anyways: sometimes im glad im a technical person that can get away with a somewhat "healthy digital life" im basically immune to all the crap going on. i don't need to work too hard to meet my digital needs because im also a simple person. but i really feel bad for the normies who have to deal with all the shit the tech industry throws at them. the…

AFAICT, current tech industry culture is most like what I understood of the '80s stereotype of Wall Street bro culture: sociopathic unchecked-greed that will do whatever it can get away with. I'm not saying this to complain, but to suggest a risk of what might come next. So far, they've run wild, and taken over computers, the Internet, AI, and information technology in general. What happens when there's a disruptive…

We have never asked for this (c) :)

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by KetoManx64 »

mvdtnz wrote: post #299
Sanctor wrote: post #110

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…

The thing is that Firefox has SO MANY papercuts in this category. They all seem minor but they all represent a deal breaker for one user or another. For me it's the address bar on the bottom on mobile (ludicrous decision, whoever came up with that should leave the industry and I mean that) and their refusal to auto fill credit cards on mobile even though I know it works on desktop and I know it works in other regions…

I switched from Brave to Vivaldi as my second browser on Android because it's still stuck in the 2010's with it's address bar at the top with no ability to change it. The most sold phones for the last half decade have all been 5-6 inches, and unless you have gigantic hands you need to reposition your hand in order to go from typing on the keyboard to the bottom to tapping the URL bar, so I'm on the other side of the fence, very glad that they default to the bottom URL bar and actually have the option to change it to the top for those that want it.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by KetoManx64 »

_def wrote: post #108

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.

This is fantastic, thanks for sharing

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by _zamorano_ »

KaiserPro wrote: post #44

I have been using mozilla for _years_ it got shit, then better, then shit, and now its close enough. The thing I _Love_ is container tabs. I can isolate empires by using container tabs to sandbox cookies and other web state. This means that ebay doesn't change my adverts to the last thing I searched on every site, and autoplay embedded youtube doesn't fuck up my video recommendations. It means I can hide my work gmai…

I agree on the desktop version (Windows), but Android's getting crappier by the time.

Recently, many sites won't fix the viewport horizontally. Why such a major bug happens is baffling

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by dotancohen »

segasaturn wrote: post #309
gjsman-1000 wrote: post #302

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You're assuming that community driven FOSS development is sustainable, or can make a good long term project the size of a kernel, or a multimedia package, or anything larger than a tool or library. In practice, I'm going to be honest and blunt, it's never worked. 3 decades of trying to replace Photoshop with GIMP (founded 1995)? Barely a dent. 3 decades of trying to unsettle Windows with the Linux desktop (KDE, 1998)…

Why should I care that Microsoft Office has more users than LibreOffice? I care which is the better product and has my interests as the user, and not the product, in mind. For example, and relevant to the article, I can use an ad blocker on Firefox without Big Brother Google stepping in and taking it away. Photoshop takes 30 seconds to open and illegally scrapes its users' private data for AI training. Windows has ma…

  > Why should I care that Microsoft Office has more users than LibreOffice?
Because people are going to send you documents in Word format, and expect you to be able to send them documents in Word format. Including embedded objects, RTL text, animations, and many other features that LibreOffice barely support and do not transfer well between its own native format and the Word format.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by lentil_soup »

tapoxi wrote: post #66
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…

> It’s crazy to think that some software engineers might actually intentionally degrade user experience on non-Google browsers or for people using adblockers. Why would I, as a developer whose income stream is based on advertising, intentionally cater to users who are costing me money? There is a web based on hobbyist platforms like PeerTube and Mastodon, and you can clearly see why they haven't captured the masses.

Because it's not catering, it's actively making it worse for the rest of us? Because not everything is about money? Because of ethics?

Why would I, as a doctor whose income stream is based on people getting sick, intentionally support policies that make people healthier

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by Yizahi »

ilbeeper wrote: post #335
Yizahi wrote: post #331

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How is that possible? Would Chrome Chromium maintainer make a different implementation decision from the original Chrome, and then support and develop a real branch in the code? To have Google less influence? I highly doubt it. It is all chromewashing, to make it sound as if Chrome Chromium is an independent browser.

The origin(al) is developed within the chromium project, Chrome is already a Google styled chromium fork.

That's how it is advertised. But in reality all decisions are made by Google for Chrome and other Chrome forks just implement all of them without questions. Google wants to add a new protocol - all forks add it. Google wants to cripple adblock support - all forks do it. Etc.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by p_ing »

baxtr wrote: post #11
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.

I find the UI atrocious and primitive. The extensions are ManifestV3 alike and worse yet, pollute /Applications (why?!). I don't particular find Safari fast, it uses just as much memory as any other browser, and all the claims about power efficiency are never backed by any numbers, just like /r/macos parroting "macOS good cus UNIX" while not understanding there have been plenty of shit UNIX distributions.

Plus the incompatibility with various sites... Just sticking with FF. I can certainly appreciate an OS-integrated browser, though. It makes life simpler for users and if you have the full Apple ecosystem, the tab sync is useful.

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