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It's never been a better time to switch to Firefox

• Firefox offers better privacy and security than Chrome, with upcoming support for 200 new add-ons.
• While Chrome dominates, Firefox gains ground with user-friendly browsing experience and open-source model.
• Mozilla's focus on user privacy and transparency challenges Google's ad-centric approach, making Firefox a viable alternative.

doingless ,

No. This whole push feels astroturfed.

elias_griffin ,
@elias_griffin@lemmy.world avatar

Mozilla Foundation fronts Mozilla Corporation which is for-profit and brings in nearly a Billion in revenue.

Don't donate, do harden it.

MTK ,

Firefox kind of sucks in android though and there are no good forks imo, but this is also true for chromium so idk what to do.

dukethorion ,
@dukethorion@lemmy.world avatar

Cromite is a hardened chromium fork, replaced Bromite last year.

TCB13 ,
@TCB13@lemmy.world avatar

Firefox offers better privacy and security than Chrome, with upcoming support for 200 new add-ons.

Also built in spyware and a LOT of snitching to a 3rd party analytics company that can be disable in flags.

If you're serious about privacy use LibreWolf or Ungoogled Chromium if you're reasons that required the Chromium dev tools.

Nipplecreek ,

For some reason I can't get my Firefox app to actually activate dark mode on my phone. I switch it in the settings and refresh it but it just won't work so I keep using chrome. Any ideas?

ExLisper ,

It was never a good time to switch to Chrome.

Buffalox ,

I never understood why so many people thought it was a good idea to hand Google the near monopoly power we had just prevented Microsoft in keeping. And that was AFTER we saw how bad it was that Microsoft had that power.
Too many people go for short term gain for way greater long term losses.

paf0 ,

Chrome was much faster and more stable than Firefox for a time, but they're similar now.

Nath ,
@Nath@aussie.zone avatar

When it was released, Chrome was revolutionary. Sandboxing individual tabs into their own processes was a stroke of genius. Until then, if a single site ate up all your memory and crashed your browser, all your tabs/sites died and you had to start again.

It really was the best browser for a hot minute before others copied the idea.

httperror418 ,

Container tabs are hands down the best add-on I have ever used. Being able to use multiple accounts across tabs is fantastic. Alot of my colleagues have switched due to this alone

Companion1666 ,

Earlier, I tried Google Chrome's "profiles" but damn, how inconvenient they are. I ended up opening multiple windows.

Firefox, on the other hand, only uses a single window for multiple tab containers and accounts.

Tangent5280 ,

which add on do you use?

CileTheSane ,
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

I use Facebook Container which isolates any webpage that connects with facebook from the rest of my tabs. It also has separate containers for things like work, shopping, etc you can optionally use for whatever.

It's very convenient to just open a "shopping" container tab to check my spam email address instead of opening a private window and needing to sign in each time.

babyfarmer ,

Switch? I never left!

slaacaa ,

I deeply regret leaving.

Growing up, I used Firefox on PC, but switched to Chrome early 2010s due to using a lot of google products for university work, and the general “google is cool” vibe that surrounded me from peers (tech/business student).

Now after a decade, I’m deeply entrenched in Google with bookmarks, passwords and habits. Only progress I made is switching to iOS from Android. Installed Ff on mobile, but didn’t really like the experience, so not really using it.

Will probably try to make a stronger push to invest some time and switch completely during Xmas break, as it does bother me to be part of the problem, though I hate how convenient not doing anything about it is.

Rootiest ,
@Rootiest@lemmy.world avatar

I had a similar history to you.

I finally decided a couple months back to start de-googling and did the following so far:

  • switched Google Password Manager to VaultWarden
  • switched Google Search Engine to searxng
  • switched Google Keep to Obsidian/memos
  • switched Google Drive/Office to Cryptpad
  • switched Google Chrome desktop to LibreWolf
  • switched Google Chrome Mobile to Fennec F-droid

Only progress I made is switching to iOS from Android. Installed Ff on mobile, but didn’t really like the experience, so not really using it.

Well if you switched to iOS then there's not really much point as the browser backend is still the same as Safari there. Apple doesn't allow other browser engines so on iOS Firefox/Chrome/etc are all just wrappers on Apple's browser engine.

Apple is worse than Google in many ways and if you wanted to maintain control over your privacy (and even just de-google) you ironically would be better off staying on Android.

There are many great custom firmwares available for Android devices such as GrapheneOS which can truly de-google your device.

OscarRobin ,

To be fair, Chrome was vastly superior to Firefox for ages in the early 2010's

bloopernova ,
@bloopernova@programming.dev avatar

Tree. Style. Tabs.

Best damned extension ever. It's amazing to me that all browsers don't have this style of tabs.

eager_eagle ,
@eager_eagle@lemmy.world avatar

I'm not a fan of hoarding tabs, so with them being short lived I don't see benefits in having a tree. But I do use sidebery + custom userChrome.css to have exclusively vertical tabs, which save quite some space when collapsed.

Xanthrax ,
@Xanthrax@lemmy.world avatar

If you work from home and you have go through a bunch of web resources, it's really nice. Most of the time you're opening new tabs, instead of being in the same tab. That way you still have the old web page for reference.

Specifically any job over the phone, it's almost mandatory. I love closing all the tabs at the end of the call, though.

eager_eagle ,
@eager_eagle@lemmy.world avatar

Don't get me wrong, I work mostly from home and open thousands of tabs every day. But most don't last longer than a few minutes, and if the flat hierarchy is not able to handle them, that's a sign they should be cleaned up.

On the other hand, trees encourage tab hoarding, which I personally loathe, but people have different preferences.

Sanctus ,
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

I'd like to formally apologize. I should have never left.

sock ,

i feel like firefox used to suck

or did chrome used to not suck so much?

or was i a sucker for bandwagon and marketing

Ghostbanjo1949 ,

When Chrome came out it was fairly light on resource usage and speedy because of that. Firefox was a resource hog at this time. Chrome now is a show resource hog and Firefox is much peppier overall in my opinion.

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