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Definitely pushing for Firefox to be part of default installation at workplace, we need to fight monopolies.
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My number one reason to use Firefox is uBlock Origin. It does an exceptional job and web is way more annoying without it.
uBlock Origin is available for Chrome and Chrome-based browsers.
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/nqqhsl/trr_mode_3_...
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It does have a status bar. Or we are talking about different things?
They probably mean a bar at the bottom that shows what's going on. All browsers used to have it. Then it dropped to just showing which URL was currently loading. I don't think they even show that now. Most of what it had is accessible in greater detail with developer tools, but it was nice to have a little summary down there.
Do you have any references to the old-school status bars and what they used to contain?
As much as I don't like Mozilla's company direction (pocket, VPN etc.) Firefox is a symbol for the free web for me. I recommend it over any other big browser (edge, chrome, safari).
Why is this article on the second page and not on the first? Continued anti-competitive behavior from some chrome fanboys? As much as I don't like Mozilla's company direction (pocket, VPN etc.) Firefox is a symbol for the free web for me. I recommend it over any other big browser (edge, chrome, safari).
Can it really be when/while it is entirely dependent on Google for revenue?
Why is this article on the second page and not on the first? Continued anti-competitive behavior from some chrome fanboys? As much as I don't like Mozilla's company direction (pocket, VPN etc.) Firefox is a symbol for the free web for me. I recommend it over any other big browser (edge, chrome, safari).
> Firefox is a symbol for the free web for me. Can it really be when/while it is entirely dependent on Google for revenue?
It seems Mozilla tries to break free, yet has trouble. Wondering how to help them.
If a non-tech friend asks me about a browser recommendation, I will always point them to Firefox.
It's the browser that I trust most. Do you have an alternative?
I trust Brave, Opera etc. way less. Not talking about Safari and Edge ...
As I mention, I love to use nyxt and qutebrowser currently. Yet, they are really for a niche market (keyboard first browsers).
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My child's school uses Google Classroom. The Google experience is unusable in Firefox. Meet doesn't work (e.g. he sees nothing when the teacher screenshares). This seems really quite anti-competitive. My child cares about privacy and switches browsers. Chrome for Meet, Firefox for most non-Google things.
Meet absolutely works in Firefox, there's nothing anti-competitive going on. As do Google products generally (though there are occasionally performance issues where Firefox simply doesn't provide an API that Chrome does and the polyfill is slower, but then Firefox catches up). But try disabling browser extensions and see if that fixes it -- a majority of the time that's the culprit. With videoconferencing specificall…
This isn't new territory for Google. They did the same thing to Windows Phone, simply excluding any of their products from working on Windows Phone, even when other developers tried to step in and fill the gap. [2]
[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-mozilla-exec-google-has...
[2] https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2013/01/02/micro...
Using a different email provider, storage service, firefox, search engine etc. However I still have to keep chromium/chrome around since some features I noticed just don't work properly with firefox.
On reading about recent http/2 and http/3 development (https://ripe76.ripe.net/presentations/10-2018-05-15-bbr.pdf) and google's approach to it, one megacorp deciding what is best for the rest of us feels too much power in someone's hands.