You guys were friends with Chrome?
Seriously! Even back in 2007 I was all "chrome is faster? Great, now Firefox has some competition" I never switched to chrome. You couldn't pay me to use that privacy nightmare.
I used it when it was new and google didn't seem so bad. Google even sent me one of the original Chromebook prototypes (CH-47) before they launched as a product for sale. i don’t know when it started to become clear that google was going evil, but around 10 years ago it was really obvious where things were headed.
I moved to Chrome after years of using Firefox when FireFox was having tons of issues that Chrome resolved.
Most of them are fixed now. Though it still has issues with selection boxes on some websites forcing me to use Chrome again for them. At least they're government sites, mostly, so there's no ads needing to be blocked... Yet.
i haven't used chrome in over ten years. i could never understand why anyone the least bit nerdy would use it, but that's autism for ya
Chromium does have a clean UI. I still use Librewolf but the Firefox UI is a mess
What exactly is "clean" about a ui that doesnt conform to the os ui standards..? The ui is basically bloated because of it.
To me, the Chromium UI looks and feels like a toy...
Could you be more specific? I've been using ff regularly for a long time now and never feel like the UI is getting in the way, though I do use a tab groups add-on to help manage my mess of open tabs. But I also haven't used Chrome for even longer than I've been using ff, so I'm curious about what specific ways you think the chrome ui is better.
Tab groups. I switched from Chrome to Firefox when all this Manifest V3 stuff started, and I'm still looking for a Firefox extension that works as well and looks as clean as the way Chrome handles tab grouping.
so many webapps and logins dont work properly in ff. or lets call it AdFox for now while they're still selling us out to alphabet. so autism is when you just see black or white. chrome isnt bad overall...they have a UX, AdFox isnt good overall for too many reasons. i hope we'll get a real browser before the web is dead.
I've been using Firefox consistently since the beginning in 2004. And Netscape navigator before that. And I have never had these issues you speak of. I never made the switch to chrome when it was released because I always hated the look of it. Firefox does everything anyone needs to do. I don't understand how some people struggle so much.
I have run Ungoogled Chromium, Thorium, and Vivaldi, and all of them perform much faster and better than Librewolf.
And Librewolf is my daily driver.
If you haven't used Firefox in 3+ years, its improved a lot. For 99% of people its interchangeable with Chrome except for being in the Google ecosystem.
no. everytime its more shit. slap AI or autotranslate on it while no user hat that top prioritised. this shit stupid search in the middle that takes your cusor to magicbar or what that crap is called. pocket...fuck it. it takes longer to debloat firefox than finding an alternative. shit default search, shit ceo... moz has become 99% worse. TB was so good it had to go to keep the bar super low for future moz releases. devs are the worst in how they handled feature request while taking money from google.
Always has been.
Ublock is building a manifest v3 compatible extension, in case you want to compare the effectiveness of v2 vs v3 Ublock.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin-lite/ddkjiahejlhfcafbddmgiahcphecmpfh
You mean Librewolf, of course.
There is no Librewolf without Firefox.
There is no Firefox without people's desire for privacy. There is no sufficient privacy without people removing the diseased fingerprint of multiple big companies.
There is no possibility of a big browser surviving, without caving to big companies, in the artificially hostile web created by Google's monopoly.
And that last one is fundamentally unfair, beyond any accusation of "Derivative!" anyone can make.
Hey let's not force the guy to move again privacy comes one step at a time.
This tbh. I know Mozilla has been up to some questionable things lately but I only just got a bunch of my friends to finally ditch Chrome.
There's only like one notable website I've had to use chromium for instead of Firefox.
The website for recalibrating a Google Pixel's fingerprint sensor. I've had to use that website twice, and I just used Microsoft Edge to do it since I can't uninstall it.
Which site?!? I like my pixel but the fingerprint sensor is like it was made by insane baboons
https://pixelrepair.withgoogle.com/
Worth noting that the calibration is for when you replace your phone screen, because often the phone screen comes with a new fingerprint scanner and for some reason the phone won't recognize it without a firmware update.
IDK what pixel you have, but iirc some of them are just known for having kinda shitty scanners. I have a pixel six with a glass screen protector and I often have to try more than once.
The feature isn’t even mentioned in Mozilla’s data protection policies. The only way for users to turn it off is to find the opt-out function in a sub-menu of the browser’s settings.
Irritatingly, a Mozilla developer justifies the move by claiming that users can’t make an informed decision.
This is all IN ADDITION to them turning on DoH (DNS over HTTP) without permission which nullifies ad blockers.
We have heard this a million times. The feature you're referencing is a net positive for privacy and yet the zealots just cannot accept that fact.
DNS over HTTPS is very good for privacy and security. Even Librewolf turns it on.
Putting ads in Firefox is bad in so many ways but encrypted DNS is good as it keeps DNS actually secure.
Really enjoying Zen browser this week, may be my new favorite. The tab handling is VERY weird at first though.
TIL, it is Gecko-based but more than just another Firefox clone.
Didn't Firefox sell to Google recently or something like that?
no. they do get money to put google as one of default search engine. but IMO that's fine for now, as they need money somehow. And librewolf, for those who take it seriously.
They get sponsored to be the default search engine. Firefox developers cost money and being non-profit relies on dontations and sponsorship
Of course not.
I need the quick and easy profile switching management in Firefox like I have in Chrome and I'll never look back.
What I did for that is I made a second shortcut on my taskbar, so now it lets me open both instances or just one
Yes, I've done that, but I don't want more icons on desktop and I'm out of room on the taskbar for even more goddamn icons. Unfortuantely the muti-account-containers isn't quite what I want, and the other suggested plugin hasn't been updated in 2 years and also requires a separate binary download to work, which just screams malware and if off the table entirely. Thanks for the suggestion any how. I'm still looking. Cheers!
Congratulations to a partnerships success coming from Google's payment being Firefox's main source of income.....
It is a shame that Firefox won't support WebSerial. That is the only reason I have to use Chrome.
Is MV3 finally out?
