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It is just facts. I use Safari with Wipr and iCloud Private Relay, better than FF if you have Apple devices.
What do you recommend to non-Apple users?
EDIT: have a look at ungoogled-chromium, I have it as a second browser on my Mac:
I wish Firefox wasn't so insecure. On Android, although a built-in isolatedProcess API [1] is available for them to use, there is no sandboxing. No sandboxing on the web in 2025 (!!!). This has been an issue for so many years, yet Mozilla refuses to address it [2]. Chromium does do proper sandboxing on Android, and additionally restricts what syscalls a process can access. Other alternatives, such as Vanadium have ev…
Thanks for posting the links, it makes it a lot easier to vet your claims. > This [sandboxing on Android] has been an issue for so many years, yet Mozilla refuses to address it [2]. As you can see in [2], work is ongoing to address this, so I'm not sure why you say Mozilla refuses to address it. Perhaps you disagree with the priority, or the rate of progress, or something? > Site isolation has had numerous bad issues…
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Every Firefox post has people claiming problems with it that are literally not true.
Or if true, extremely idiosyncratic. This thread is one of the more amazing case studies for people making blanket generalizations from problems that seem to be very specific to their setups and hard to reproduce elsewhere. I don't want to say the problems aren't happening, but there seems to be a wild overconfidence in generalizing from unusual case scenarios. Of course it's not limited to Firefox. I think it happen…
Lots of Firefox hate here, but little discussion about the articles kicker, which is the exclusion of uBlock Origin from Chrome. I hope this will mean that in the long run Firefox (and other secondary browsers) will gain more users again. For me, Firefox is a solid piece of software. Works well in strict privacy mode, with uBlock Origin and Multi-Account Containers.
Ok Sir https://ibb.co/fGx3Qf55
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Here’s how to disable PPA: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attr...
Also worth noting it's automatically disabled if telemetry ("Send technical and interaction data to Mozilla") is disabled. Though even without disabling it, PPA is currently in limited rollout and only visible to Mozilla websites in the first place, so it would hardly cause any harm for now. [1] https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2024/08/22/ppa-update/
When I was using FF, i noticed that updates often revert settings to default. What pissed me even more was that there is no clear "Disable auto updates" checkbox, I had to create policies.json file in Contents/Resources/distribution folder for that. This was hostile, I'd never win the battle with developers.
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I don't have anything but anecdotal experience here, but I think Google Chrome was gaming Windows Defender better for awhile, when Windows Defender treats you poorly IO grinds to a halt and then some. I've never had Firefox issues on Linux.
> I've never had Firefox issues on Linux. My experience on Linux running on very old hardware (4th Gen Intel) is also good. Firefox feels quick and snappy. It uses a reasonable amount of resources, and has a relatively modest memory footprint by modern browser standards. In comparison, Chromium makes my fans spin on every site and eats several GB of memory. The annoying part of Firefox is that development seems a bit…
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Oh! :/
FWIW uBlock Origin Lite (the MV3 version of uBlock Origin) seems pretty much just as good, at least to me. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-lite/... I don't use a ton of custom filters or rulesets though, so YMMV.
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commit/0b0294af4f
It's great, and it still even works permissionless!
- June 2024. Mozilla acquires Anonym, an ad metrics firm. - July 2024. Mozilla adds Privacy-Preserving Attribution (PPA), feature is enabled by default. Developed in cooperation with Meta (Facebook). - Feb 2025. Mozilla updates its Privacy FAQ and TOS. "does not sell data about you." becomes "... in the way that most people think about it".
Mozilla has had missteps for sure (like almost every other browser company). but the MVP is uBO (which Firefox still allows). Even if Firefox adds that in by default (which suck), uBO allows you to block outgoing traffic to these 3rd party sites.
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Sounds like hardware acceleration isnt working?
I'm running Gazebo at 10 times realtime and inference through cuda, trust me it's working. If Firefox doesn't take advantage of it that's its problem. I've enabled every config setting for acceleration I could find.