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[-] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago
[-] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

Desperate much??

[-] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

Android app person here. They used that title in an A/B test to see if it would help them get more installs for when people searched "Firefox". That is why 1. They picked the words "fire" and "fox", and 2. Why you're not seeing it.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

After installing Brave I was getting some kind of failed login popup in my GNOME desktop environment. Uninstalled it and the popup disappeared. It gave me the heeby jeebies about Brave.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Not to defend Brave, but this sounds like it was just a pop-up for the Gnome key wallet or something like that.

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Fox around and find out

[-] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

I tried it a few years ago. Ditched it because it's just another chromium browser.

Firefox has been my main for about 6 years now.

I fell for it because Al Swiegerts book: "Automate the boring stuff" used it in the webscrape sample.

After that I just kept using it. And felt justified in my choice when I realized the only other browsers left are chrome and Safari.

I just learned that Safari is a fork on Konquorer. So, that's interesting.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Personally I never even considered installing it because of its stupid name.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I use Brave for solely one purpose that I hope to see in Firefox one day. It’s the only app I’ve found that lets you locally download a web video and play it natively on CarPlay. I rarely use it, but it’s handy when I need it.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Do you often watch videos while driving? Or am I missing something?

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Fennec for the phone, Qutebrowser for the desktop. Life is good.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Chromium?

No-ium

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

One feels there is an allegory for "too stupid to be afraid" buried in here.

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