When they will support installing progressive web apps (PWA) like Chrome does, I'll consider it.
In 2024, please switch to Firefox
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Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox
#832I use Firefox as my main browser. I love Firefox and I want it to succeed. However... a person who uses Firefox as their primary browser must generally still keep Chrome installed. A person who uses Chrome as their primary browser has no need to keep Firefox installed. Firefox should endeavor to fix that. First, Firefox should honor age-old tradition, swallow its pride, and spoof 99% of the Chrome user agent string.…
Ultimately, Firefox can't fix that. The only ones who can are Google, who deliberately degrade the non-Chrome experience on YouTube in some cases.
Of course Firefox can fix that, the same way web browsers have always fixed it: copying user agent strings. There's a reason Chrome claims to be "Mozilla"
What exactly do you think the logic Google implements would be?
Why do you think Google wants to get rid of user agent strings?
Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox
#833No thank you. I have absolutely no interest in it nor need for it.
It’s your job to make me switch, and frankly I see zero reason to care. Chrome and Safari work fine.
Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox
#834Earlier quoted context omitted.
One UI feature that I love that Firefox lets you change is the scrollbars. I forget the precise settings, but I set them up so that they are always present and always big enough for me to see how far down a page I am (yes, like I'm using Windows 95!). That might only be something that matters to a few people, but the fact that it is customizable to that level is one of Firefox's greatest strengths.
This sounds great, but for web developers I feel it’s a risky change if you want to see your sites as your users do.
That's why I still develop using pluginless Chrome, even though I've always used Firefox as my default browser.
Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox
#835I use different browser with multiple profiles, so i've a clean history and separation of work. Though i love some basic features like searching tabs, it was very limiting wrt privacy/blocking.
I've tried my best to adopt, the major issue was default color management and couldn't disable it. It keeps changing my display (brightens). I wish a browser releases a feature to consume less memory!
Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox
#836Earlier quoted context omitted.
The position that what I said is in any way problematic is the position that creators should not be paid for their work, whether you understand that or not. More importantly, you need to learn what the “royal you” is. It’s not literally about you, specifically.
> The position that what I said is in any way problematic That’s not what was said either. You keep putting arguments in other people’s mouths and assuming the worst version possible. Unfortunately it has become clear there is no point to this discussion. You’re bent on only rambling about the point in your own head instead of what was being discussed. I wish you a happy new year, but I do not wish to further this in…
…what? The conversation is happening in front of anyone reading this. Bold of you to try to gaslight over text. Unlikely to be effective, but very brave! I’d be happy for you if your behavior weren’t so blatantly manipulative.
Merry whatever though, hope things go better for you than they did in this interaction.
Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox
#837Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's literally a dialog that every browser gives you after installing/on start if not permantly disabled (and there is a convenient button, there), and you are calling out FF? Also regarding pocket, as an almost exclusive FF user I didn't know what pocket was until some years ago when it was in the news, similarly Mozilla VPN I found out about through the news, not a single nag. This compared to lots of "the web wo…
This is after installing and after I had already said "no" during the install.
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Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox
#838The Mozilla foundation pays millions to its CEO [1] while reducing funding to Firefox development and Firefox market share is falling year after year, but hey, please switch to Firefox. Right. Let's face the reality: Firefox is dead and Mozilla itself is putting the final nail in the coffin.
[1] https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5053290/mozilla-2023-annual-...
Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox
#839I switched to Firefox earlier this year, having used Chrome since 2008/2009, previously having used Firefox. Mostly out of laziness. Can't believe how good Firefox is now, and how great it is on Android (addons, config). Being able to control anything on the browser is fantastic. Want to increase a certain UI elements font size just a tad? Sure! Want to tweak every aspect of the UI? sure! Want a myriad of config opti…
At the risk of losing credibility in this community, I'm going to voice an opinion which I think belongs to the silent majority: I do not want to customize anything. I want to read the news and check my bank account with as little drama as possible. More customizable settings always means more things that can break. If the best feature of Firefox is that it has lots of things to configure, that's a negative for me. B…
Sane defaults are always good, (which firefox has, IMHO), but not allowing the user to tweak basic stuff is a pain.
Re: In 2024, please switch to Firefox
#840I 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…
I've been using FireFox for about 4.5 years now, but I have to have Chrome installed for a few reasons unfortunately. - Some websites still will just not work in FireFox. It's not super common anymore, but if I sense something is fishy, I pop open the console and see some strange error and swap over to Chrome. Things will just work then. All extensions disabled even. I even ran into this on Vanguard's website, albeit…
Unfortunately I had to move over to Vivaldi after using Firefox more than a decade due to performance.
On Linux, it consumes so much memory it actually slows down my machine...