What about LibreWolf, a fork of FF. Suppose to be better for security. Love using it !! Ditched Brave a couple of days ago
this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2023
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Has Google stopped funding Mozilla yet?
Doesn't Google fund Mozilla so it doesn't get done for monopolising the market?
Besides Google's intentions - the funding doesn't influence how Firefox is developed.
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Loyal FF user since 2017 or so. Loving Thunderbird's renaissance, too.
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The price to pay for convenience is too steep for most people to migrate. Also if you just an average user, most of the time you will not get instant gratification for being more privacy-aware. The more you try to be more aware the more you realize that to achieve a certain level of privacy is really a pain in the ass.
Totally this for me and I'm someone who understands how bad Google is. I've been using the same Gmail account for twenty years. It's such an integral part of my everyday life. I have hundreds of stars on maps, a meticulously organised and synced Drive, all my YouTube favourites and subscriptions, Photos that are all mostly geotagged, etc. Degoogling would just be such a major hassle, and all my stuff would never be as nicely integrated ever again.
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Been a proud Firefox user for a long time. Never switched to Chrome, don't plan to.
Chrome does suck regarding privacy.
But the article shared here is basically an ad for Firefox.
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FF has been my daily driver... longer than I can remember on essentially anything that can handle a browser. It's powerfull, feature rich, extensible, etc. But it does tend gain weight between major overhauls.
Out of curiosity, being a Linux user, I installed Chromium not 2 weeks ago and the thing is fast. It outperforms Firefox on my aging machine by far. And I was actually surprised. Yes, I do have the ghost of Google just waiting to sink its fangs in me, which I dislike, but I really have to admit the browser is fast, light and easy to approach for new users.
Will I let go of FF? Not really but Chromium did manage to get my attention.
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I love Firefox, been ride or die since I started. Chrome is just pure Spyware.
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My biggest concern with Firefox is that Google continues to make people's life hard. There have already been instances of things loading slowly because of crippled standards that only work on Chrome, or features like in-page translate only being available in Chromium based browsers.
Overall I've really enjoyed using it for the past 15 years or so, but it's definitely had periods of very rocky performance
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At least the guys at Tumblr are promoting Firefox through femboy and furry memes.
Was using Brave and after reading things about it here, just switched back to Firefox!
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