Switching back to Firefox

You guys were friends with Chrome?

i haven't used chrome in over ten years. i could never understand why anyone the least bit nerdy would use it, but that's autism for ya

Always has been.

If you haven't used Firefox in 3+ years, its improved a lot. For 99% of people its interchangeable with Chrome except for being in the Google ecosystem.

nothing to see here :)

Ublock is building a manifest v3 compatible extension, in case you want to compare the effectiveness of v2 vs v3 Ublock.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin-lite/ddkjiahejlhfcafbddmgiahcphecmpfh

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home

It's sad that firefox only exists to keep chrome from becoming a monopoly, around 80% of Mozilla's income is from Google to keep google.com the default search engine.

I tried Vivaldi and honestly it looks and feel amazing, but the issue is that it's chromium based, but if mozilla put more effort in actually working on firefox, I would love it even more. Wish librewolf had a mobile app

You mean Librewolf, of course.

There's only like one notable website I've had to use chromium for instead of Firefox.

The website for recalibrating a Google Pixel's fingerprint sensor. I've had to use that website twice, and I just used Microsoft Edge to do it since I can't uninstall it.

Really enjoying Zen browser this week, may be my new favorite. The tab handling is VERY weird at first though.

I need the quick and easy profile switching management in Firefox like I have in Chrome and I'll never look back.

It is a shame that Firefox won't support WebSerial. That is the only reason I have to use Chrome.

Is MV3 finally out?

FF has been my daily driver for at least a decade, but I gotta test my web apps in everything :/

Congratulations to a partnerships success coming from Google's payment being Firefox's main source of income.....

brave?

You might want to keep looking for better friends. Firefox recently got busted tracking users without their consent

https://noyb.eu/en/firefox-tracks-you-privacy-preserving-feature

With a recent Firefox update, Mozilla seems to have taken a leaf out of Google’s playbook: without directly telling its users, the company has secretly enabled a so-called “Privacy Preserving Attribution” (PPA) feature. Similar to Google’s (failed) Privacy Sandbox, this turned the browser into a tracking tool for websites.

Edit: i am not saying that Firefox is bad. I just wouldn't call it a friend, let alone a best friend

The feature isn’t even mentioned in Mozilla’s data protection policies. The only way for users to turn it off is to find the opt-out function in a sub-menu of the browser’s settings.

Irritatingly, a Mozilla developer justifies the move by claiming that users can’t make an informed decision.

This is all IN ADDITION to them turning on DoH (DNS over HTTP) without permission which nullifies ad blockers.

I would use firefox, but youtube is basically unusable on it. No idea why, but it is so much better on chrome

Didn't Firefox sell to Google recently or something like that?