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Re: Firefox Browser: best for a free web

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Post by betwixthewires »

imwillofficial wrote: post #27
betwixthewires wrote: post #3

When the "free web" is no longer just lip service from Mozilla I'll consider it.

My guess is this: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplat...

I hadn't seen that, that is definitely another negative for me, but mostly I'm concerned with the constant lip service to users and privacy while simultaneously removing usefulness and eroding privacy in the software itself.

Firefox's only selling point right now is "we aren't chrome (yet)" and if I won't fall for that line of thinking at the ballot box I'm certainly not falling for it here.

All they have to do is be what they say they are. At least google doesn't pretend to not be evil anymore.

Re: Firefox Browser: best for a free web

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Post by amarshall »

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #38
_AzMoo wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use Picture in Picture all the time, it's one of the main things that keeps me on Firefox. Such a great feature.

It is great, but doesn’t iOS already have this with Safari? Edit: ah, nevermind, I thought this was specifically a Firefox IOS release today. Taking the link directly talked about iOS for me.

Yes, but that doesn’t matter if you’re not using iOS or macOS.

Re: Firefox Browser: best for a free web

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Post by adminscoffee »

0xdeadb00f wrote: post #21
0des wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>before getting voted off the island? Come on now

This happens often. A shitty opinion is usually down voted but at some point, if nobody's replied yet, then nobody can point out in words how shitty that opinion is, or prompt them for some further explanation.

it goes both ways, i've seen a shitty opinion eventually become the better option, the truth is often not well tolerated when it is first heard. sometimes the mob is wrong but their voices are louder because they are many. but yeah an opinion becoming the better option is generally not the case.

but yeah i use ff and chrome depending on the site, i don't know the negatives about using ff, doesn't mean their aren't i just haven't heard too many bad things about them

Re: Firefox Browser: best for a free web

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Post by MiddleEndian »

wintermutestwin wrote: post #44

More like: "Firefox Browser: 1. It is not google. 2. It's not a Chrome fork maintained by potentially flaky/untrustworthy players. 3. uBlock Origin. 4. Multi-Account Containers."

5. Very keyboard-friendly

6. Incredibly customizable via CSS, including multiple rows of tabs

Re: Firefox Browser: best for a free web

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Post by errantmind »

I've used Firefox since release but I'm curious what other less popular browsers people are using these days?

For example, I have tried Bromite on my phone but the adblocking is limited. I've tried ungoogled-chromium on desktop and the speed is impressive.

The main things I want:

1. Speed

2. Speed

3. Native plugins that can preempt network requests

4. Configurable for privacy (referrer, first party isolation, etc)

All these are doable in Firefox but I've doubted them ever since Pocket integration

Re: Firefox Browser: best for a free web

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Post by darig »

indymike wrote: post #31
dont__panic wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still ask myself: has FF browser share actually dropped that much, or has FF's privacy focus caused browser share estimates to mostly miss FF users in their counts? Most of these stats come from the exact kind of skeevy companies that I (and many other FireFox users) are using FireFox to avoid.

Firefox has less users than desktop Safari. It shouldn't be that way, but it is. When you factor in mobile it gets worse because Chrome (the Android default) and Safari (the only real choice on iOS) are so dominant. Also, the market share numbers reported by client side trackers like StatsCounter are very close to log file collection and analysis by companies like Kinsta.

ALL my homies use Firefox. You didn't address the OP's point... how can anyone know how many Firefox users there are when Firefox users refuse to be counted?

You think that the subset of people willing to install a client side tracker and the subset of people who choose to use firefox are representative of the whole? You want to believe it is that way, but it isn't.

Re: Firefox Browser: best for a free web

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Post by cinquemb »

wintermutestwin wrote: post #44

More like: "Firefox Browser: 1. It is not google. 2. It's not a Chrome fork maintained by potentially flaky/untrustworthy players. 3. uBlock Origin. 4. Multi-Account Containers."

I wish brave forked ff… i guess i'll be working of my own fork of ff for the end of time for my family, going on 6 years or so now lol
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