Firefox + Ublock = 👑

I am specifically waiting for this to happen so I can be part of the flood to Firefox when they finally throw the switch.

While introducing opt-out tracking where you data is sent to advertisers. Get LibreWolf instead.

I’m really hoping Google’s antitrust case doesn’t kill Mozilla. Over 85% of Mozilla’s cash flow is dependent on Google paying for that search box.

Mozilla's slowly creeping in the surveillance with adding integrated crap like Pocket and AI driven Fake Spot. I'm really glad Librewolf's made a privacy focused fork of their browser without all that nonsense.

And in the meantime Mozilla keeps making worse decisions, too

I really hope there's a significant rise in Firefox -and derivatives- usage share. It will be good for everyone, even those stuck on Chromium browsers.

"And then Mozilla management comes in from the top rope with the chair"

Seriously, for profit companies should not own open source projects.

Mozilla is about to collapse due to the Google antitrust ruling though.

Floorp for power users

Manifest v3 was why I switched to FF a while ago - it was going to only be a matter of time even with the delays so I figured I should switch early. I still like how chrome looks a lot more and wish we had tab grouping, but google can take uBO from my cold, dead hands.

Pihole for the win

I like Vivaldi and they are going to keep V2 support for a while. I will switch to Firefox when it's gone, but for the time being I am happy they are keeping the support.

What does chromium-based browsers on pc have that Firefox doesn't have? Like I don't understand why people use Chrome instead of Firefox.

I do not study in detail if this combination is necessary, but:

• Firefox (of course)
• Ghostery
• Ublock Origin
• Privacy Badger
• Decentraleyes
• Disconnect

Mozilla about to lose funding from Google antitrust consequences :(

How convenient that this happens just a few days after Firefox implements the features that have been blocking me from switching for the last few years.

Still, I'm curious about other browsers. We know Chrome is killing V2, but what about other Chromium-based browsers? I saw below a comment espousing Brave, but I'd rather use Chrome than Brave because of the gross crypto bs. What about Vivaldi, Opera, and Chredge? Will they keep supporting Manifest V2?

There's was only a very brief period that I would have considered Chrome a better option and that was the period when Chrome had a mobile app and FF didn't. Other than that, I have never understood why you would use chrome. I know FF didn't invent tab browsing, but definitely the first to do it successfully.

I'm using AdNauseam instead. So ad networks, what exactly are you collecting?

the number of forks says ff is next. the ad machine needs your money.

Pretty happy with Brave, but I'm guessing that being a downstream chromium fork they'll eventually be stuffed and forced into using V3?

I use firefox, I mostly like it, but it still doesn't support chromium style tab groups (no, that one extension is not similar), and its webgpu implementation also doesn't work on most websites more than a year after Google made their version available by default

Wonder if the recent antitrust ruling about Google paying for being the default search engine will affect Mozilla's funding.

Firefox feels so much slowwr than chrome when loading sites for me

my issue with firefox atm is that both twitter extensions I use have been hobbled/removed by it for what looks to me to be spurious reasons.

https://github.com/kheina-com/Blue-Blocker/discussions/294

https://github.com/dimdenGD/OldTwitter/discussions/752

inb4 "lol @ using twitter in 2024" I just steal memes from it, and mastodon/bluesky simply aren't up to speed yet.

Weighing options though I'll go with Firefox and shitty twitter experience rather then Chrome and the ads everywhere experience. Not really a contest there. Just idle complaints.

Vpn too

I use Opera

(yes i know it's "Chinese spyware" if the Chinese government really wants to know what youtube videos i watch for hours, what porn i browse, and what impulse purchases i make they can have it, i don't fucking care, when i want privacy i use Tor)

anyway i use Opera, and despite the fact it's been my browser of choice for over a decade i will switch to Firefox in a heartbeat if my ad blockers stop working and i'm forced to watch ads for over 3 days in a row (in uBlock devs i trust)

uBO Lite works on Manifest v3 and it works quite well in my experience, so I kinda don't get the whole manifest whining