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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Fun fact, did you know that google deliberately makes their products run worse on browsers like Firefox so users will think the browsers are slow? Please support Firefox, it's the only real browser not based on Googles technology (like Brave is), and it's actively fighting Google's monopoly on web browsing.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firefox is based. Glad I switched over recently.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Librewolf is a fork of Firefox, and is absolutely better for privacy and security; way more based than Firefox, you should check it out m8 :)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

"The job isn't done, until Lotus won't run" - attributed to Bill Gates/Microsoft

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

Firefox for life! Well as long as they don't go evil or bankrupt. I am not surprised at all though.

  1. Kneecap plugin performance especially for AdBlock plugins claiming it's for security.
  2. Notify users that those plugins are slowing down Chrome.
  3. ???????
  4. Profit... or people hopefully switch
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

/r/firefox is also still closed and opened up on https://fedia.io/m/firefox. So firefox people are cool in general. 🦊

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

'No I dont think I will'

Use Firefox btw

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

+1 for Firefox, it's a great experience on both desktop and mobile!

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why even use Google Chrome 👁👄👁

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

My work mandates it unfortunately.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

well that escalated quickly.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

Mistake #1, using chrome. Just switch to firefox ~~or brave~~ just use firefox

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's crazy how low the firefox market share is. It’s like 3% worldwide.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

For such a good browser too!

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Such a baseless statement. Ad blockers actually improve performance by removing random junk videos, and images from running on the site.

I'm so glad to have switched to Firefox.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

What a cunning plan!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Well, there is your problem. Using Chrome.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, when an extension needs to block 300 ads...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

And some sites are trying to load them again, and again, and again, so the poor plugin has no choice than to go hard on resources.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (10 children)

You should switch from chrome to firefox. Less tracking built in to the browser. Also chrome is planning to deprecate manifest V2 which will break all adblockers.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Firefox + DuckDuckGo search engine

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (13 children)

I use Firefox because it doesn't steal my data OR lie to me.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

If you wanna keep using adblocks you should start moving away from Chrome/Chromium-based browsers as soon as possible!!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The problem is that you are using chrome to begin with

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (16 children)

So I've heard good and bad things about Firefox in this thread. The bad things being mainly the performance, and some sites just don't load...

So my question to you is, If I'm comfortably browsing on Brave with uBlock on, is it really worth the switch right now?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're posting on Lemmy and you joined seven days ago, so it's a safe bet that you have some opinions about Reddit. So I'll put it this way: if you have a problem with the way Reddit concentrates power in the hands of u/Spez and want to support alternatives because of that, then you should also have a similar problem with how Chromium-based browsers concentrate power in the hands of Google and reject Brave in favor of Firefox.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firefox had some issues like a decade ago on their old engine. In the past few years, they seriously stepped up their game.

If you're a normal user, you probably won't even notice the difference between Firefox and Chomium-based browsers. Sometimes I come across a weird website that doesn't want to load properly, so I'll open a Chrome tab for a few minutes to access it, but that's increasingly rare.

For web development, I generally prefer Chome's debug tools, but do all my normal browsing with Firefox.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Performance wise widely depends on the site used. Some sites (notably Google ones) are notorious for implementing anti-competitive behavior, where if their website is visited other than a chromium based browser, it slows down or a functionality stops working.

I mean its the whole reason why Microsoft switch from Edge Edge HTML to Edge Chromium/Blink.

The only good reason right now if you want to stick with Chromium based browsers such as Brave is you're heavily into browser based games as currently Chromium (and it's older brother, webkit) are the ones that have the best webgl performance, Firefox can do it but not as fast as Chromium and performance impact is very noticeable

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The founder of Brave had previously been fired from Mozilla due to his homophobia. Firefox is the more ethical choice.

But it's also perfectly fine for most web browsing, and is the only web browser I've seen with extensions like ublock available on mobile.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Bahaha, what a scummy tactic. I suppose if you cast a wide net, you're bound to catch some fish though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Slowing down their ability to profit off of you, that is.

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