Even Brave uses Chromium as a launching point before all of its customizations.
This in turn gives Google control over web standards because if they choose not to support something or if they implement it in a particular way they effectively govern it's adoption because of their near universal market share.
I'm sure I missed a lot of nuance but this is my best take at explaining it.
I'm convinced that were it not for Mozilla, microsoft would have prevented google from taking over. We'd be in a shittyworld controlled by the asinine cerification heierarchy of microsoft obfuscation.
MS owned a big chunk of Apple before Safari was a thing and they had crazy drm-ish plans with IE before they got thwacked with the monoploy stick by the feds in the late nineties.
Netscape was on the ropes and there was essentially no one left.
I think it's time for Google to be thwacked. Apple too. They're going really anti-consumer in shady ways leading us to a weird new AI/surveillence capitalism led middle ages... Like no new knowledge, education will be towards the new corporate capitalist religion that gets people to serve their lords and noone has money or knowledge but the king and a few of their buddies. They'll grant the shineyist most deluded followers with a meaningless knighthoods that only serve to get that person laid so others will strive to sacrifice for the king so they can win the knighthood lottery and get laid and raisea family in a nice house... Anyway...
It's no good. We gotta skip straight to the next Renaissance where everyone has control over their identity, data and thoughts and can follow their own god in peace and healthy debate. And everone has healthcare and basic needs met and we're all moving towards Star Trek.
Moving towards Star Trek is what made the 90's great... Well, more accurate to say it was the great thing out of the nineties; before the new fascisism riding the 9/11 fear wave and the TSA and before 'enshittification' was a word.
I switched on my personal devices (need to use chrome for gsuite integrations at work).
On desktop, it's great and I'm loving it. And kicking myself for not switching back sooner after the massive-years-long-memory-leak was finally fixed a few years back
On mobile, it's mostly great. The privacy focus, ad block support, and plug-in support is a plus. But I realllly want the tab groups that mobile Chrome introduced a while back. That had such a great mobile UX that I've found myself still loading up chrome now and then when I find myself wanting that UX. I looked to see if there were plugins that could make that possible, but was disappointed to see none and let down that it seems impossible with the current tab implementation.
Forgetting politics, I liked Brave. But sometimes they do seem a little shady. I'm loving Librewolf even more, though there's no Android version. It does sync with Firefox and Mull though.
And one thing that irks is that you can't have a local file be your homepage and new tab page. I want to have all my work related links in a local immutable HTML page and every new tab or every time I open the browser it goes there for me to choose what of 5 links to pick....time sheet, team site, hr site, all the vendors sites etc...npr, my home servers etc. c'mon man! The only way to make it happen is to serve it on a local server that I am not allowed to install, or a server at home that I don't actually want to do.
I've been moving away from Google in the last year and moving to Firefox was one of my first moves. It's honestly a downgrade in usability but I guess that applies to all alternative products.
I just wish I could sync my bookmarks between desktop and mobile. Seems like no one has this problem but firefox sync just does not work for me. It just says last update was never. Let me know if you know how to fix it.
When I first started using Firefox on Linux, dragging tabs was really reallyyyyyy bad but they have heavily improved it. UI just feels more polished on chrome
Sync doesn't work for me, though it seems to work for everyone else. It doesn't give me any error or a hint to what the problem might me, which is just bad UX.
Chromecasting an entire tab doesn't work, though I guess can't we can't blame Firefox for that, can we?
My unit tests take at the very least twice as long to run on Firefox
Pinned tabs occasionally just disappear and I have to create everything again. Extensions exist to prevent this but don't work with multi containers, which is honestly Firefox best feature.
What stops you from finding extensions that implement similar functionality? I know tree style tabs are pretty popular instead of tab grouping. This also so the first time I've heard of sync or pinned tabs not working. I'm kinda curious ab ur setup if youd be cool with sharing that? I feel like it might be a setup problem instead of a software one.
Firefox extensions can't mess with Firefox tabs. Sure you have extensions such as tree style tabs but they don't really change the tab bar, they add side-panel with your tabs in a tree style format. This means you end up with a tab bar and a tab panel, which is a bit clunky. There are ways to hide the tab bar by messing with the userChrome file but that's not user friendly at all.
I don't have any particular setup that is too outrageous or different from anyone else. I just use Firefox, whatever is the most recent version in the arch repository. Ocasionally I open the browser and I don't have any pinned tabs, I don't know why. It's not a frequent event or something tied to anything I can think off, it just appears to be random.
It still works and is my daily driver! On both mobile and desktop!
I think it's extremely important to support Google alternatives and I will continue to do so. Firefox still has pain points and recognizing them is also important.
Sync works great over here. It even syncs history which is great because I use an extension on the laptop to limit history to 28 days and that becomes synced with Android without an additional extension.
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