If it weren’t for the unique to Firefox audio/video sync problem, I would.
In 2024, please switch to Firefox
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#42> Firefox is the only major browser not built by a company that makes money from advertising and/or selling your personal data This is true for Google, etc, but definitely not for Apple. Not saying Apple is perfect in every way, but they actually have a track record for privacy protection.
Brave runs on Chrome and has some of the highest privacy protections. I love Firefox, but just questioning if there aren’t good solutions available on Chrome. And while Apple may not have a business model as focused on selling data, they still have a growing ad business + weaker protections against fingerprinting and ad blocking
Brave’s internal ads and crypto weirdness are enough for me to be uncomfortable with it.
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#43I am not going back to Firefox anytime soon after they kicked out Brendan Eich for his personal views. Whether we agree or not with his personal views, open source should not be influenced by political agenda, neither by wokeness
It was more than a personal view. He paid a lobbying campaign for a policy that is diametrically opposed to Mozilla's organisational views on diversity.
A CEO should stand for the values their organisation represents.
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#44I use PWAs extensively and Firefox decided they won't bother to implement them, so that's going to be a no from me.
Rather than wanting the web platform to be first class, they really want it to languish as a second-class citizen. Really sad, seeing as they also fired devs, and invested in "AI" instead.
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#45I would like to, but Firefox behaves problematic in regard to auth urls like
https://name:password@news.ycombinator.com
1: When you bookmark them, it shows the auth part when you hover the bookmark with the mouse.
2: When you open them from the command line
firefox https://name:password@news.ycombinator.com
These issues make it insecure to use auth urls because as soon as someone looks over your shoulder (or there is a camera like in many cafes), you are p0wned.
I wish we had a better way to log into a website from the command line, like ssh keys. But for now, we are stuck with what we have. And Firefox makes it insecure to use it. So for now, I continue to use Chromium.
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#46The article has good points but for the love of god please stop with the passive-aggressive "here's why you've been eating apples wrong all your life" headlines
Maybe I should write a blog post titled "You're writing passive-aggressive articles wrong, read this to do better in 2024"
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#47I am not going back to Firefox anytime soon after they kicked out Brendan Eich for his personal views. Whether we agree or not with his personal views, open source should not be influenced by political agenda, neither by wokeness
Being publicly against same sex marriage is a business liability in San Francisco.
at the time he made the donation, it was the majority opinion in California. He even said that he had changed his mind/opinion had evolved. But it wasn't enough
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#48> Firefox is the only major browser not built by a company that makes money from advertising and/or selling your personal data This is true for Google, etc, but definitely not for Apple. Not saying Apple is perfect in every way, but they actually have a track record for privacy protection.
Firefox has ads doesn't it ? for the homepage links. (I am not complaining. long time firefox user)
Firefox’s default search engine is also Google Search, full of ads and spam.
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#49I would switch when they only focus on developing browser, instead of putting their noses under some privacy violating company
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#50How are the Firefox dev tools these days? I feel like every time I try to switch, the dev tooling has felt subpar compared to Chrome, and I don't like using one browser for regular use and one for development. It's been a couple years since I tried though.
for css they are best in class IMHO, especially the visualizations of flex and grid