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I used Firefox in the early-mid 00s, switched to Chrome not long after launch, after my colleagues showed me how much slicker is was than a now fairly heavy Firefox (at the time.) Then evil Google emerges, Chrome got fat, FF trimmed up and went privacy-as-a-default, and I'm back on FF again for the better part of the last decade. Opera had a look-in around 2008 but it didn't last long, although some of the features w…
I never switched to Chrome, always used Firefox. But it increasingly got more config-involving to make FF do what I wanted and maybe I overdid some settings/plugins and websites started to show incorrectly. Also the imho (much) too high salary for the CEO annoyed me (Mozilla is supposed to be "Internet for people, not profit"). Tried Brave and it was a nice experience after some initial cost to e.g. disable crypto. S…
Is there really a killer feature of Chrome that justifies its use over FF? I've been using Firefox and have never been disappointed with it. I always just assumed that if you wanted privacy, it's better to use Firefox over Chrome, Safari, or Brave.
Its only killer feature to me is that websites are designed and tested with a Chromium-first attitude. As a regular FF user I might stumble upon a website that’s quite buggy or straight up doesn’t work, which forces me to use Chrome for that specific website. Other than that I don’t really feel like there’s anything, and Edge is currently a better Chrome than Chrome anyway. EDIT: and for the record, I’m still upset M…
So... not sure Firefox works for me (though... dang... it's JavaScript implementation has come a long way) but solidly support the idea of finding something other than Chrome.
Oh. Also. Most of my news browsing I now do with lynx in a terminal window. I see no ads, autostart videos or kruft. And HN doesn't look too bad in Lynx.
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I never switched to Chrome, always used Firefox. But it increasingly got more config-involving to make FF do what I wanted and maybe I overdid some settings/plugins and websites started to show incorrectly. Also the imho (much) too high salary for the CEO annoyed me (Mozilla is supposed to be "Internet for people, not profit"). Tried Brave and it was a nice experience after some initial cost to e.g. disable crypto. S…
Given that Brave is a for-profit business backed by VC money[1], sooner or later it'll become what you hate and you will find yourself wishing there was a browser ran by a strong non-profit like Mozilla. That being said, perhaps they should just piggyback off WebKit/Blink and save themselves a ton of resources. [1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/brave-software
It’s not too difficult to disable, but Firefox does push suggestions by default and has a revenue sharing agreement with Pocket.
I'm making browser games and there are some still some performance issues that make my game unplayable in Firefox, e.g. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=925025 I really don't want to have a "works best in Chrome" banner but until Firefox catches up I don't have much choice (don't get me started on Safari, I've already given up).
I've closed that bug as the problem as the originally reported problem is fixed by hardware accelerating filters as part of WebRender. Do you have more details on the performance problem that you're seeing?
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Out of curiosity, do you have an issue with crypto as a whole or is there something about Brave’s BAT in particular that you dislike?
I think crypto in general is disastrous for our environment right now, and has offered none of the self-control finance benefits it promised due to ever more regulation (the EU is soon planning to ban private wallets, you can only legally host money on exchanges then, which basically means we're full circle to the old banking system). All this has been precipitated by the frantic speculators looking for a quick buck.…
They can try to "ban" whatever they want, but it's not happening.
I'm making browser games and there are some still some performance issues that make my game unplayable in Firefox, e.g. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=925025 I really don't want to have a "works best in Chrome" banner but until Firefox catches up I don't have much choice (don't get me started on Safari, I've already given up).
How about adding "performance" mode and disabling advanced effects for worse performing systems? It could be done automatically, or by adding an option. So instead of "works best in Chrome", you would add short instructions how to set it. I think some players even prefer less resources demanding version of your game, especially on phones, where battery life is important.
I do have some other problems only happening on Firefox that I don't know the cause of (so probably something I can fix) but I certainly would like to remove that banner. Mozilla fixing the filter issues is a huge leap toward that and gives me motivation to look into the other problems.