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[–] 156 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (18 children)

Or even better, a fork of Firefox which disable all that telemetry crap and bundle with uBlock Origin : LibreWolf.

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  • [–] 30 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Wow wow wow, care to explain ? This r huge news for me

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    [–] 132 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    Stumbled over that last week. There is a company where I buy nearly all my computer stuff from, and I'm a customer for more than 20 years.

    I wanted to order parts for a high-end PC, but simply could not add the motherboard to the shopping cart. Everything else was already in there. I called them, and they asked me if I used Firefox. And they told me in no uncertain terms that Firefox was dead and would no longer be supported for "safety and security reasons", I should use Chrome or Edge instead.

    If their site is too stupid to cope with Firefox, why the heck does it not tell me about this upfront, e.g. when I try to enter an item into the shopping cart?

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

    I've had a few websites tell me to view their website in Chrome. I just leave, because no way am I putting any kind of personal data into a website run by such incompetent people.

    I used to be a web developer. Back 8 years ago, you used to have to do a lot of special tricks to make your website look and function the same in all the browsers. Now, you really don't. Unless you're using some really obscure closed source codec or something, websites literally render and function properly without needing any browser specific code fixes.

    There's no excuse, unless you're blocking older versions of every browser for security reasons, which is fine, because browsers update automatically these days, and it's very rare for someone to be running a really old version.

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    [–] 104 points 3 years ago (12 children)

    Firefox rules, people need to smarten up. Hell, Firefox on Android has an Adblock extension. Firefox is what's up.

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    [–] 102 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (22 children)

    Privacy is like the least important reason I use Firefox. With Microsoft Edge and Opera being based on Chromium now there are just so many of them. With Chromium essentially becoming the de facto standard because everyone uses it that means Google can ignore web standards and just do whatever they want.

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

    websites not supporting firefox is the site's fault, not the browser's. firefox is not some niche browser. almost every website i have used is fine on firefox, and when it rarely doesnt work (usually bc i have a configured librewolf), i just open brave or whatever.

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    [–] 54 points 3 years ago (19 children)

    Im really confused by this sentiment. Ive been using Firefox since like 2007 and I was just a teenager who didn't know any better.

    Its been working fine for 16 years now.

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    [–] 42 points 3 years ago (17 children)

    Perhaps I'm missing something but I've been a Firefox user for years- at work and home. I have yet to find a website that misbehaves or under-performs. Mayyybe a few sites here and there a fractions of a second slower or have slightly less acceleration or something that I'm just not noticing?

    Without Firefox and its ??forks?? like LibreWolf, the internet would be a total Chromium monopoly at this point, wouldn't it? That would be bad..

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    [–] 41 points 3 years ago (14 children)

    Wait, people hate Firefox? Why??

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

    Chromium could be spying on you, as it communicates with google servers. You should use ungoogled-chromium, and hope they did a good job...

    spoileror just use Firefox

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

    "Firefox is bad because I got a virus one time and Firefox was my default browser therefore Firefox gave my computer a virus"- my brother

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    [–] 38 points 3 years ago (13 children)

    If it really has to be a Chromium browser, Vivaldi will do the trick.

    And if you REALLY take security seriously, LibreWolf is based on Firefox but without the annoying stuff from Mozilla attached to it.

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

    God, I wish there was less monopolies in the world, I hate when there is no alternative other than a product developed and maintained by evil corporation that profits off of selling my data.
    Anyway, the only browser that everyone should use is Chrome, if you don't use Chrome you're dead to me.

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    [–] 26 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I use firefox for obvious privacy reasons but also because I can customize the UI. Chromium's interface is oversized, ugly, and locked down while on firefox I can change any aspect of it using my own CSS.

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    I just prefer the UI of Firefox

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago (2 children)
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    [–] 21 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It's Internet Explorer - Google edition.

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

    After the quantum update i switched to firefox, as now in performance it is almost on par with chrome or sometimes better.

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

    I think a lot of people turned away from Firefox after that Mr Robot promotional 'stunt' they pulled.

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