Finally migrated back to Firefox today after a multi year user of Chrome.

What pushed me over the edge? Most of my app icons (keep, pulse, calender, whatsapp) stopped opening in their own windows again.

I had to install the PWA extension in Firefox to get that working again, and it's going to be a slight hassle having to copy and paste URLs from all those windows, but I'm tired of fixing the task bar icons.

Could've gone to Edge since it would work out of the box, but I like Firefox. (except for no native PWA support.)

Edit: found I can right click links in the PWA instances and use the send to other device option to open them in my main Firefox window.

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[–] 52 points 3 years ago (7 children)

The lack of any ad blockers on mobile chrome is what personally made me switch.

Trying to read basically any news article on your phone without an ad blocker is a nearly impossible task these days.

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    [–] 42 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I switched back to Firefox about a week ago too. Mostly because Lemmy is a whore for it.

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    [–] 37 points 3 years ago (23 children)

    Oh man time for my little rant. Long time Firefox supporter and still use it on desktop, but I had to uninstall on Android. It reloads the tab every time I switch out and back to it. It just kills me. Especially since I pay for Kagi search, and it's nearly doubling my search count by reloadng all the damn time. So now I'm using Privacy Browser on Android, and it's great, bit I'd rather be on Firefox. There are threads asking for a fix from years ago and it's still a problem

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

    I didn't know that Firefox for android will reload tab. That's why my voyager app keep reloading some images.

    Anyway, for the time being, my immediate solution is to install 'Stop Auto Reload' addon (possible by using Firefox nightly custom add on collection). Still early to tell but so far it doesn't reload the images.

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  • [+] 10 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (4 children)
  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Honestly, it's hard to say. I'm using it partly on principle as part of degoogling. I will say it's ahead of all the other alternatives I've tried (DDG, Qwant, Startpage, Mojeek etc).

    You don't get Google suggestions and that's moslty a good thing IMO although I sometimes miss getting a currency conversion or dictionary item answered without having to visit a site. Generally the results are as good as Google but Wikipedia or something is more likely to be top rather than buried under some spammy results.

    You can try 100 searches or something for free, give it a go

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    [–] 31 points 3 years ago

    Good. Let's all enjoy Firefox while we can, before WEI becomes mandatory for all top 500 web sites.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 years ago

    Good decision! :) Yay for one more user!

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago

    Welcome back!

    There were points at which Firefox was difficult to stick with, especially after the extension apocalypse, but I think it's evolving pretty well at this point.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I migrated to Firefox last week both pc and mobile. The android version is not as fast as other chromium based browsers but the ability to install any add-on is a must for me, browsing the web without my essential extensions is impossible for me.

    I previously used kiwi browser that supports extensions but i found they were buggy sometimes, specially static filters in ublock origin.

    My essential add-ons

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    uBO has all you need, ClearURLs is not needed. Use these filter lists instead:

    1. ➗ Actually Legitimate URL Shortener Tool
    2. ClearURLs for uBo (unofficial)

    Also, Badger does the same as uBO, therefore you don't need it. The same thing goes for cookies. Use default Annoyances lists (Adguard + EasyList) and add that:

    1. I don't care about cookies
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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    What should have pushed you over the edge is that one is open source and the other isn't. You do not control what Chrome does

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    [–] 10 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I switched back to Firefox about a year ago after wandering the wastes of Chromium land. I love it!

    I still use Ungoogled Chromium for work with the same extensions that i use in Firefox.

    I know firefox has profiles, but firewalling work from personal stuff in Firefox is tedious, whereas i can use Velja (or similar) to target URL patterns to particular browsers.

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

    I'm personally using Firefox multi-account containers. It's way better than switching to profiles.

    I have for example one container type for work and for specific URL i even made it so they are always opened in this containers. It's really useful as cookies are separated.

    I'm coupling it with Simple Tab Groups where I can group tabs together based on criterias (For example all tabs running in my "work" container). At the beginning of my work day I switch to my "work" group and all my tabs on my window are work related and at the end I switch back to my "personal" group with my usual tabs.

    It's a bit more work but lets me be completely chromium free :)

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I ditched Gmail and chrome last year after a long ride. Feels great to be back.

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

    I did the same a while back. Youtube with ublock origin is awesome!

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

    Genuinely curious, and I intend to switch back in the near future, but I’ve also been using chrome for years now with uBlock and YouTube has remained ad-less to this day. Has something changed recently?

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  • [+] 11 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)
  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Right, but wouldn’t that mean Firefox+uBlock would also stop working for YouTube as well?

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  • [+] 14 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago*

    welcome back.

    it’s going to be a slight hassle having to copy and paste URLs from all those windows,

    You might find something on the Chrome addon store that allows you copy tabs urls, similar, but not quite as good as
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/copy-tabs/ and you can import/open them with https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/open-tabs-from-clipboard/

    Hope it helps.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    Welcome back!

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    welcome back. not all but most of us had moment in time when something was trigger to return back to firefox, making it the new browsing-home and enjoying it since.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Am I dumb or does chrome (both desktop and mobile) lack a simple way to clear all data on close? Like what the actual fuck? Both firefox and edge have an easy to find checkbox to do this...but not chrome?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Which extension?

    Edge did the same shit tome a few times btw. It's chrome with a different paint job.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Samesame a month back!

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

    I suspect I'll be ditching Opera on desktop/Android for FF as soon as the manifest V3 changes make it to opera and kill ad blocking. Shouldn't be long now.

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    [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Could this possibly be a solution to your shortcuts not opening in a new window? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1287367

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