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[–] [email protected] 165 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Firefox is the way. If you haven't tried Firefox since 2008, you should. It is as fast as Chrome. It has improved significantly since 2008.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 5 months ago (7 children)

They’re also prioritising a few great and much needed QoL improvements like vertical tabs, tab grouping and a new Profile Management system!

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/heres-what-were-working-on-in-firefox/

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Firefox Containers are a game changer.

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[–] [email protected] 145 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Stop using Google products

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk

[–] jaxiiruff 34 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Linux phones need to get good asap cause im ready to ditch android at a seconds notice.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Careful, the ArchPhone is closer than you think haha.

[–] the_doktor 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Hate that the overwhelming majority of phones don't have the ability to just install an alternative OS. I know it's because of hardware, but holy hell, the amount of hardware on PCs Linux supports is massive, and only a fraction of it is hardware that has released any real specifications to create a Free version of its driver. I don't think we've really concentrated on creating such things for phones in the same way or we'd be able to throw a phone UI version of Linux on nearly any phone out there. As it is, each alternative is limited to half a dozen or a little more of generally the same phones, and they're generally expensive as hell.

Where's my btw I use Arch phone? Because I want my btw I use Arch phone.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Linux phones might already be good, that's not the issue.

The issue is apps like my bank app, I need to be able to access and manage my bank accounts from my phone. How is that going to work on a non android phone?

If there is a solution for things like that, I'll drop Google in a heartbeat

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I switched to Firefox 6 months ago as a test experiment. I literally have NO REASON to ever open chrome again. Imported my passwords and the transition was smooth as butter. And I am a stubborn turd that hates change. Firefox plus Ublock origin and superagent fixed everything wrong with the internet for me.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What gets me about this change is that it hurts enterprise more than anybody. I don't use chrome anymore for anything in my personal life, and haven't in several years now. However, it's the only browser I can use for work. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

superagent

How's that vs just enabling the built-in lists i uBO?

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

Does Ublock do cookie settings? I used superagent so I never see those cookie pop ups, it just declines all optional cookies.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

God bless the uBlock devs.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (2 children)

As soon as I heard of the mere plan to do this, I ditched Chromium altogether and went back to Firefox. Ultimately, I landed on the fork Floorp.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Can you elaborate on why floorp is better than Firefox? Is it just more customization?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

I had the exact same journey as you: Chrome to Chromium to Firefox to Floorp.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Google is collapsing because we are not the customer they serve (anymore). We are the product.

They have spoiled all the good will their brand has which means they are vulnerable to competition.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Does this apply to chromium browsers too?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nope. Won't happen to those having inbuillt ad-blocker, as those are not extension and thus aren't affected by MV3.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Staying with Edge to see exactly what happens.

Firefox.

"What will shalafi be doing on June 4th?"

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