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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 gnicholas »

behnamoh wrote: post #183
jcalvinowens wrote: post #5

I switched back to firefox last year and haven't looked back. I still use chrome on another laptop sometimes, the performance difference from my human perspective is literally zero. These days, it's much more common for me to encounter a website that works in firefox but not chrome than the other way around. I actually switched for good when I had to use firefox to file my taxes, because the IRS free self-file site w…

>\ Hot take: I tried FF for a long time but finally switched to Brave. Yes, I'll be downvoted for saying this but it's objectively one of my top 3 favorite browsers rn. 1. Brave 2. Edge 3. Safari I like each of them for different reasons. Brave (after disabling annoying features such as crypto and VPN) is awesome and its iOS app is the only one which can play videos in the background, has dark mode, and syncs really…

Brave is my primary also, but Orion is creeping up. It’s still a little buggy, but nested tree tabs is very nice.

Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by geysersam »

rytor718 wrote: post #475
krastanov wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Yeah im still a bit surprised that Github doesnt work in firefox for me. It wont load a repository page, its just blank with nothing but the navigation on the page. This happens after turning off all plugins. dont know if github has made it so only chrome works but thats a pretty major site for firefox to not work with.

GitHub works with Firefox. I use that combination every day.

Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by soundnote »

thruway516 wrote: post #458

This being HN, I'm really surprised no one has mentioned Brave. Brave is what Firefox was a few years ago (and what firefox claims to be but isn't) in terms of privacy and comes pre-loaded with an ad-blocker that uses the same list as ublock. It's also faster and less of a memory hog. I switched from firefox as main driver and haven't looked back. It is chromium based but I don't see this as a drawback. But this is 2…

People here have a major hateboner against Brave. Some of it is crypto, some of it is Eich, relatively little the product itself.

Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by dvngnt_ »

wharvle wrote: post #106
nsagent wrote: post #79

As someone in the Apple ecosystem, Firefox is not a very compelling alternative. I've certainly tried: Firefox Focus was my main iOS browser for a few years (I know it's Webkit-based) and I've tried switching on desktop as well. On desktop, various Firefox updates would change my settings subtly and nag me about features I had no interest in. On top of that, it was simply a slower browser, both with DOM manipulation…

> On desktop, various Firefox updates would change my settings subtly and nag me about features I had no interest in If Firefox suited my needs 100% as well as Safari, this is why I’d still not use it. God damn is it noisy. You’re a browser, I have no interest in engaging with you more than necessary, whatever-I-was-trying-to-do is what I care about. Please stop acting like a kid who’s not getting enough attention. I…

chrome has to be worse. now there's that ad privacy option that you have to remember to change

Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by dawnerd »

Only issues I’ve run into since switching this month is just some weird jank from 1pass not always filling in forms. It’s been a while since I last used Firefox and I’m very pleased with how much it’s improved.

Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by jonathankoren »

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…

> The money they make from Firefox usage gets spent not on Firefox or the web but primarily on social justice activism, which is invariably exclusionary of ordinary European and American men.

I know facts don’t care about feelings, but according to Mozilla Foundation’s on website it says $22 million since 2015. The most recent financial numbers I found are from 2022, which lists “software development” expenses at $242 million. That’s 1% a year.

I know you’re speaking from a place of feeling aggrieved that some underrepresented person without power somewhere’s life might be made just half-epsilon better, and under the mistaken belief that life is a zero-sum game, but for your own benefit, perhaps you should get informed before spouting off nonsense.

Who am I kidding? Facts don’t care about feelings, and feelings are all that matter.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/what-we-fund/

https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2021/mozilla-fdn-202...

Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by bee_rider »

nsagent wrote: post #79

As someone in the Apple ecosystem, Firefox is not a very compelling alternative. I've certainly tried: Firefox Focus was my main iOS browser for a few years (I know it's Webkit-based) and I've tried switching on desktop as well. On desktop, various Firefox updates would change my settings subtly and nag me about features I had no interest in. On top of that, it was simply a slower browser, both with DOM manipulation…

Using Safari on Apple’s stuff seems fine. What really matters is not supporting the chrome-alike push toward monopoly.

Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by [deleted] »

TheCleric wrote: post #125
thefourthchime wrote: post #101

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Same, it's simply easier to use Safari on my phone and Mac. The performance is fantastic, syncing is perfect, and switching between the two devices is effortless. If I used windows or Linux I would probably give it a try again.

Not to mention on iOS your choices are really between Safari and Safari with a different skin.

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Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by PUSH_AX »

thruway516 wrote: post #458

This being HN, I'm really surprised no one has mentioned Brave. Brave is what Firefox was a few years ago (and what firefox claims to be but isn't) in terms of privacy and comes pre-loaded with an ad-blocker that uses the same list as ublock. It's also faster and less of a memory hog. I switched from firefox as main driver and haven't looked back. It is chromium based but I don't see this as a drawback. But this is 2…

I do use it but I just wish crypto wasn’t baked in.

Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

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Post by cpburns2009 »

mooreds wrote: post #112

Recommend doing this on mobile as well, if you are an android user. You get adblock and a URL bar near your keyboard. The price is that occasionally there are sites (approximately 2% in my anecdotal experience) that you'll have to use chrome for.

Firefox is noticeably slower on Android than Chrome. That's where Brave really shines: as fast as Chrome with a built-in ad-blocker.
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