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Why Bother With uBlock Being Blocked In Chrome? Now Is The Best Time To Switch To Firefox::Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (2 children)

i've been on Firefox in the last 8 years. i don't even know what's going on in Chrome and other browsers lol.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same... I don't understand the appeal of Chrome. I think they used a new java engine like 10 years ago and beat Firefox in a handful of benchmarks, and then Firefox conclusively and irreconcilably trounced Chrome a few months later, never letting up a bit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I remember when they released Firefox Quantum. Too many tabs was never a problem again.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I mean I tried to download the official minecraft client for debian and was not able to on Firefox.

Microsoft disabled the site on non Chrome browser

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This sounded weird to me, so I just tried it. Running Firefox on Kubuntu, I just downloaded it with one click from here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well didn't work for me on debian

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

user agent switching is fortunately not too difficult to do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you sure? I just tested and after logging in, the option to download the launcher was there (popos/firefox).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe my adblocker is the issue

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just tried it myself and it doesn't have any issues at all. It seems like it might be an issue with something else on your end.

Though honestly I'd strongly recommend against using the Official launcher as it has been known to introduce bugs and in general has poorer support for mods. I prefer the MultiMC forks like Prism, which don't have the bugs the official one does.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I wanted sth that is updated by my system and the flatpak I found logged me in as a unsecure user or I had to login at each launch