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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 latexr »

CharlesW wrote: post #282
subjectsigma wrote: post #195

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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.

> 1Blocker (ad blocker, bought pre-subscription model)

Worth noting they continue to have a lifetime plan.

Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by bee_rider »

closewith wrote: post #134
krastanov wrote: post #85

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Firefox out of the box indeed does not cause broken websites. However, the demographic of this forum probably will use Firefox with "Multi-Account Containers", "Temporary Containers", "uBlock Origin", and a few more. These are amazing for privacy and productivity, but will occasionally cause broken websites. Source: I am a Firefox-first user who occasionally uses plugin-less Chrome because the aforementioned plugins…

Nah, there's plenty of examples of sites breaking on Firefox. For example, the recent degraded performance on Youtube linked to Firefox User Agent strings.

One solution is not to use poorly coded websites.

It is unfortunate that Firefox doesn’t do more to help us avoid sites programmed by devs who are too incompetent to follow standards, really.

Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by cpressland »

bryanlarsen wrote: post #350
wg0 wrote: post #257

The main short coming in firefox for me is the ability to create different profiles for different use cases like one for personal and one for work etc. It is doable but is hidden behind special settings:/// etc sort of and switching between them also requires something similar.

Firefox Multi-Account Containers is far superior to multiple profiles, IMO.

Multi Account Containers don’t sync with Firefox Sync. I assigned hundreds of websites to various containers only to lose them all when I rebuilt my Mac. Safari, Chrome, Edge all have this functionality and until Mozilla add this, Firefox is DOA for me.

Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by maxlin »

> ethical browser

> "we need more than deplatforming"

No.

Firefox single-handedly destroyed their reputation beyond belief with that article in my eyes. They are supposed to support the exact opposite instead of being evangelists for censorship, centralized control, lack of ownership.

That Google pays their bills from them keeping Google as the default search engine isn't even as bad as that one article made them appear.

Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by dimal »

jamiek88 wrote: post #12

We all switched to Firefox back in the day because it was better. Better than IE, there was no chrome and safari was a joke. Entreaties and ‘trying to make Fetch (firefox) happen’ won’t work, evidently. How do we make Firefox obviously better ? I’m core market for Firefox and just use Safari. Better battery life. And it’s just as good for privacy. At least that’s my impression. Is it wrong? If I don’t use it there’s…

Instead of trying to figure out exactly what features would accomplish that, I wish they would focus on making it embeddable. Personally, I like the UX of Arc. Arc uses Chrome under the hood. And if anyone else wants to make a browser specifically for some small subset of users, they're going to pick Chrome.

Why not make it easer for developers to embed Firefox and let a thousand small, weird browsers bloom? Some will be terrible, but a few might be brilliant.

If they don't do this, I'm holding out hope for Servo.

Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by bee_rider »

sparrish wrote: post #312
szundi wrote: post #216

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Firefox became better, Chrome became worse. Every week one time I have to start Chrome for something.

I've been using Chrome for years and I never have to start Firefox for something.

Same, but other way around. Don’t even have Chrome installed. I don’t know what websites people are using, but I’m glad to not need them. The idea that a site could fail to render on any reasonably common browser seems pretty absurd.

Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by [deleted] »

nvm0n2 wrote: post #349
Zeratoss wrote: post #309

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How has firefox discriminated against you as a white male?

A lot of the money they make from Firefox usage gets spent not on Firefox or the web but on social justice activism, which is invariably exclusionary of ordinary European and American men. For example, they have an entire sub-fund devoted to nothing but ideological activism in Africa: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/what-we-fund/awards/Africa... A typical project is something like funding a mobile app (note: not a…

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