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Firefox is the only way. (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[–] 138 points 3 years ago (13 children)

This is why I've stuck with firefox through thick and thin

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  • [–] 38 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Been using FF for about 2 decades now and I have never seen a single good reason to switch.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Ditto. As much as people pretend Firefox is niche, it is the only browser with lineage back to the start of the web.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Truly. I don't get this new "switch to Firefox!!" hype, are the people writing this very young, or am I missing something? I've been using Firefox since beta, I've never seen a reason to switch since it's always been the superior browser, why have people been running anything else in the first place?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    If they ever fuck up big time I'll go with the next obscure option.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    What else is there that is not Chromium/Webkit based?

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Now that KHTML is dead, not very much at all.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_browser_engines

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    If a dedicated team wanted to work on it, there is the Servo engine which is currently developed by The Linux Foundation but is apparently entirely volunteer driven.

    I'm not smart enough to do this kinda shit, but I'm sure there are plenty of others who would gladly work on it to make it bigger than it already is. You could then make your own browser based on that engine. Sure it would take years if not closer to over a decade, but the payoff for privacy and free web would be enough to make me spend all that time doing it.

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