In 2024, please switch to Firefox

Post by sixstringtheory » Sat, Dec 30, 2023, 3:46 AM UTC

verwalt wrote: post #357

schimmy_changa wrote: post #262

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similarly, on mac this bug is a showstopper for me, so I'm using Brave currently: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1149826 (the bug is that text replacement does not work in FF on mac, something that saves me so much time daily)

My main Problem is that fn+E won't open the emoji picker. I have to go to another app, insert an emoji there and copy it over. I tried switching to Firefox like 3 times this year, but there's always something putting me off. I really really want to though.

Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 » Sat, Dec 30, 2023, 4:11 AM UTC

1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #775

"Firefox is the only major browser not built by a company that makes money from advertising and/or selling your personal data. There's been a lot of talk about websites tracking users using cookies, fingerprinting and other nefarious technologies that hurt your privacy. But owning the browser puts Google, Apple and Microsoft in a position where they don't even need those tricks. We need to use browsers that are indep…

Post by cwillu » Sat, Dec 30, 2023, 4:19 AM UTC

sp332 wrote: post #530

cwillu wrote: post #143

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Unless you're on mobile, in which case you'd find it to confusing, so they removed the option, unless you're on nightly, with all the issues that entails.

It took a long time, but the situation improved a couple weeks ago. https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2023/11/28/open-extensions-o...

Post by hartator » Sat, Dec 30, 2023, 5:17 AM UTC

vinhill wrote: post #760

tleilaxu wrote: post #10

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Around 86% of Firefox’s income is from Google, yes.

Do you take the number from here? https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2022/mozilla-fdn-202... 86% of revenue of Mozilla corp are royalties, which encompasses any search engine that shares revenue with Firefox, not just Google. But the remaining 14% is not only revenue generated by Firefox, but also by e.g. Pocket. So from their financial statement, it's pretty hard to say what percentage of Firefox's revenue is d…

Post by mikepurvis » Sat, Dec 30, 2023, 6:14 AM UTC

cycomanic wrote: post #653

mikepurvis wrote: post #440

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I'm a FF-first user but I definitely have had to keep Chrome around for a few things— my investment banking doesn't load in FF nor do some parts of Office 365.

Which parts of office365? I don't have any issues using it on FF. That said I'm not a heavy user (mainly outlook, word, sometimes PowerPoint).