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[–] [email protected] 136 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You guys were friends with Chrome?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Seriously! Even back in 2007 I was all "chrome is faster? Great, now Firefox has some competition" I never switched to chrome. You couldn't pay me to use that privacy nightmare.

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

I used it when it was new and google didn't seem so bad. Google even sent me one of the original Chromebook prototypes (CH-47) before they launched as a product for sale. i don’t know when it started to become clear that google was going evil, but around 10 years ago it was really obvious where things were headed.

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

i don’t know when it started to become clear that google was going evil

It was around the time they removed "Don't be evil" from their official philosophy.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I moved to Chrome after years of using Firefox when FireFox was having tons of issues that Chrome resolved.

Most of them are fixed now. Though it still has issues with selection boxes on some websites forcing me to use Chrome again for them. At least they're government sites, mostly, so there's no ads needing to be blocked... Yet.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 month ago (29 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Honestly? I'm lazy, my adblocker still works so that's enough for me

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (8 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

Always has been.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

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

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

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

[–] possiblylinux127 5 points 1 month ago

Use Mull on mobile

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

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.

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

You mean Librewolf, of course.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There is no Librewolf without Firefox.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hey let's not force the guy to move again privacy comes one step at a time.

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

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

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