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With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Firefox is only a secondary browser to me these days. I've grown tired of it's performance for years because the Mozilla group would rather keep stuffing unnecessary features into the browser and bring about it's own ecosystem that it may be collecting data from itself that nobody may know about than fixing that god damn memory leak.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I switched from chrome to Firefox 5 years ago but for some reason, Firefox loading acts weird and video playback also is weird...Eventually moved to Vivaldi and I'm pretty happy wit it so far.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I think i've only ever used Firefox since i got the internet (2009), but that also makes my reccomendation kinda moot because i haven't used any other browser. How can i say that Firefox is better than Chrome if i've never used Chrome?

Another side effect is that i'm well aware of all the issues Firefox has, since it's all i've ever used, all the browser issues i've had were in Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I wish FF would natively support text replacement in macOS. This shouldn’t need an extension to accomplish a pretty basic thing.

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/support-macos-text-replacement/idi-p/15219

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I’ve only been using FireFox and Safari for several years now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (8 children)

To say nothing of adblock plus on firefox being able to block ads even on youtube.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Chrome is everywhere and everything is built on it or optimized for it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This browser monoculture stuff will surely bite our asses someday. I just hope Firefox (and its derivatives) would still exist to take chromium refugees when Google show its true color in the future.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (17 children)

I use Firefox, but I do run into a lot of problems with sites not working correctly. Makes me want to switch to Brave occasionally.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm ready as soon as there is a copy of the vertical tab implementation from Edge. Until then, you'll have to pry Edge from my cold dead fingers.

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