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In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by CharlesW »

subjectsigma wrote: post #195
arrowleaf wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I actually switched from Firefox to Safari this month. I didn't know Safari had tab groups, the feature I missed from Chrome when using Firefox. No speed differences and Safari has less of a battery impact so far. Hard to complain about a browser that still cares about privacy, but with tighter OS integration.

What Adblock do you use with Safari? I would also like to try switching from Firefox to Safari but I haven’t found anything that can compete with uBO

My deshittification suite is NextDNS (Pi-hole as a service), 1Blocker (ad blocker, bought pre-subscription model), Rekt (block bags, redirect AMP), and Vinegar (replaces YouTube player).

I use UBO on Chrome and find the above experience comparable.

Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by boramalper »

The Web is the single most successful application platform of our day and age: it’s free, open, and unencumbered, and it’s cross-platform, available on expensive iPhones to sub-$250 Android phones just the same. Let’s make sure it stays that way.

Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by tssva »

If Firefox makes a New Year’s resolution to fix the horrible battery drain while streaming video on my laptop whether running on Windows or Linux, I’ll make a resolution to switch to it when it is fixed. This has been an issue for years so I’m not holding my breath. Yes I have tried it again recently and no I’m not going to play around with flags trying to get it working acceptably.

Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by ctoth »

Right now I use Chrome because I use several PWAs. Chrome lets me install them and even gives me options to auto-start them when my system starts. Firefox doesn't seem to have equivalent functionality.

Researching it some, it seems Firefox used to support this but removed it as part of Mozilla's continuous own-goal of ... whatever the heck they're doing.

Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by Brian_K_White »

behnamoh wrote: post #199
culi wrote: post #176

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Yeah but that's not on Mozilla in any way. That's just Google's anti-competitive practices. Firefox refuses to jump on Google's attempts to ban adblockers with Manifest V3 so Google wants to punish them

What matters for the end user is the experience. If using FF will lead to a poor experience on certain websites, then why recommend it? Do people honestly believe that if they keep recommending FF, people will magically switch to FF and Google will be forced to stop its anti-competitive practices?

Immediately giving every bully whatever they want with no resistance is certainly one way to navigate life.

Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by esfandia »

I actually finally just switched to Chrome (I'm a long time Firefox user, all the way back to when it was called Firebird), because of this issue:

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/microsoft-defende...

Windows Defender flags things in the Firefox cache as a Trojan. It probably isn't, and it could also have something to do with uBlock Origin, but until that is resolved (I'm keeping an eye on the above link) I can't risk it.

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