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

Congrats to Firefox, it really has made substantial improvements over the years.

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

    I'm sticking with Firefox until some dev decides to use it's engine to make a new better browser. I truly enjoy Arc and Vivaldi, but since they're chromium i don't trust them an inch with my personal data.

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    Three chrome users said, “nuh uh!”.

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

    Great job Mozilla. I hope that Firefox will one day be as popular as Chrome or even more! ❤️

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

    Google is blitzscaled techbro big tech, the honeymoon is over, now it's time for enshittification !

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

    I've been using Firefox since Windows XP days and speed has never really been a complaint. Well back in Flash days some sites got janky but that was probably Flash as much as Firefox.

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

    anyone care to explain what we're looking at here?

    As a Firefox Desktop/Android user this sure sounds awesome.

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

    Great, now do the phone browser

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

    Browsers are cyclical like fashion, I guess.

    Remember when chrome launched and they had all those commercials showing how fast it loaded webpages?

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

    Good. Now, stop being forced as a snap, please.

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

    You could always use a distro made by sane people.

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

    Kind of crazy that Ubuntu has some packages exclusively as snaps...

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

    I use firefox and I like it but they have been dumbfying their UI and nagging users to use pockets.

    Why on earth would I need to go to about window to update? Also, I don’t know where to find extensions so I just choose addons then manually go to extensions.

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

    Never complained about its performance but that's awesome!

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

    I'm still using Chrome, but it keeps getting shittier. At some point they'll push me over to Firefox. Hope Firefox can avoid getting shitty.

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

    While Mozilla is far from perfect, I think they've managed to avoid getting shitty for almost 20 years.

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

    That's because the Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit. They don't need to maximize value for their shareholders™.

    Thank you Netscape for setting Navigator free!

    The Enshitification cycle is a feature of for profit corporations, Google was always going to turn evil at some point.

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    [–] 26 points 3 years ago*

    I've been avoiding Chrome as devil avoids holy water for years. So I'm glad FF does well.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    There's been a few comments on here talking about Firefox on Android being laggy compared to Chrome on Android.

    Nobody seems to have mentioned this, but the main reason this is and/or appears to be the case is because Firefox is capped at 60Hz, whereas Chrome will display at 90Hz, making it feel much smoother.

    No, I have no idea why.

    Edit: The above is misinformation after I did some research - it appears that resisting fingerprinting causes the browser to set itself to 60Hz, but this can be disabled to get your screen's refresh rate, but of course this means throwing away a privacy protection...

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

    What is exactly being measured here? Someone care to elaborate what kind of things they kept into account?

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

    i had left firefox for a while due to the google ecosystem but i’m happy i came back to it.

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