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Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by DavideNL »

qwertyuiop_ wrote: post #257
mark_l_watson wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are most VPN provides unreliable? I don’t know - never researched this. I use Proton VPN because it is bundled with ProtonMail. I very much like preventing my national Internet service provider from selling my browsing history.

Mulvad seems to be very reliable. https://mullvad.net/en/

I have both, but prefer Proton;

I frequently have DNS issues with Mullvad, and also speeds are lower. Proton is also more expensive though...

Also, there's a long outstanding issue (on their Github [1] ) which they have confirmed) that the Mullvad app causes iCloud services to stop syncing (bookmarks, Files, etc.). That's a showstopper if you use Apple devices...

[1] https://github.com/mullvad/mullvadvpn-app/issues/2401

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by mr_woozy »

sph wrote: post #30

I honestly want to ditch Firefox and try a Chromium browser for a minute [1], but I'm stuck on Firefox because it's the only one with a killer feature: send a tab to/from iOS and my Linux desktop. I skip Chrome and Edge for privacy reasons, Brave have a crappy and buggy sync feature that I don't know what OSes it supports, but not my combination. Can't send tabs with them. Vivaldi doesn't have an iOS port. Impossible…

I also rely on this feature extensively but it's functionality has been broken for 3 years now, with no sort of interest in fixing it in sight.

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/1523

It's exactly this type of behaviour that Firefox doesn't seem concerned with addressing.

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by nreece »

dralley wrote: post #307
swat535 wrote: post #195

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Well, on January 2023 when Chrome Manifest V3 is finally deployed and Ublock Origin is killed, I bet many HNers will finally switch: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/mv2-transition/ Firefox maker, Mozilla, is in the uneasy position of being financially dependent on its search deal with Google, which accounts for the majority of the organization's revenue. I wonder how Google will be able to twist its arms (and trust…

They've implemented V3. What they're not doing is removing support for V2, so plugins that want the full access can do so.

Is there a public page/link which mentions that they're not removing V2 support? Please share. Thanks.

All I can find is:

We have not yet set a deprecation date for Manifest v2 but expect it to be supported for at least one year after Manifest v3 becomes stable in the release channel.

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2021/05/27/manifest-v3-updat...

So they will eventually remove it sooner than later.

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by neop1x »

I have been using FF on desktop as my primary browser for many years and continue doing so but I switched to Kiwi Browser on mobile since FF Mobile made a "major update" and removed about:config and reduced the amount of extensions available for mobile. Kiwi Browser is a Chromium fork with full extension support. It is not perfect but it is currently the best mobile option for me.

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by cmbailey »

kristiandupont wrote: post #64
sph wrote: post #30

I honestly want to ditch Firefox and try a Chromium browser for a minute [1], but I'm stuck on Firefox because it's the only one with a killer feature: send a tab to/from iOS and my Linux desktop. I skip Chrome and Edge for privacy reasons, Brave have a crappy and buggy sync feature that I don't know what OSes it supports, but not my combination. Can't send tabs with them. Vivaldi doesn't have an iOS port. Impossible…

> I'm starting to see broken sites What are some examples of this? I keep seeing this complaint and I keep asking for examples but I always get "just various sites"-like answers. FF is my primary browser and I am not seeing it. I am genuinely curious as to whether it is starting to fall behind but I can recall maybe two or three instances the past couple of years where I opened a site in Brave to see if it worked the…

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Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by account42 »

heresie-dabord wrote: post #202
hnlmorg wrote: post #45

FireFox Containers are a killer feature for me. It allows you to run sandboxed sessions. So you can ostensibly make every site a private tab by default but have a small few sites persistent. Eg I’ll have a work group with GitHub, Okta, etc in it so I only need to log in once a day. But random websites cannot track me between sites. Couple that with DNS blocking of trackers and ads, and the web is actually a lot more…

The Mozilla focus on privacy is the killer feature for me. DNS encrypted "Total Cookie Protection" uBlock Origin multi-account containers I also like built-in screen capture *various other extensions, such as Copy All Tab URLs I didn't find "Pocket" compelling when it was first introduced, but I have since found some of the recommendations interesting. Bravo Mozilla!

> The Mozilla focus on privacy

Ah, that explains the telemetry and experiemnts that are enabled by default without explicit user consent.

Re: Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

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Post by ajyotirmay »

Firefox is here to stay. Or so I hope. It's my daily driver, and I definitely prefer it over Chromium's uncertain future of curbing ad blockers.

I work in web development, and all our products are built with 100% compatibility with Firefox and it being the priority browser. The rest are secondary including Chromium based ones.

If it works on FF, it works elsewhere (except that steaming pile of crap that Safari is)

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