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With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Okay I’m going to step into it. I’ve been liking Vivaldi recently as a browser. Is that screwed too because it’s based on chromium? Or am I safe for now?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

What’s wrong with Brave? Does this effect Brave?

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

I switched from chrome to Firefox 5 years ago but for some reason, Firefox loading acts weird and video playback also is weird...Eventually moved to Vivaldi and I'm pretty happy wit it so far.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Love Firefox, but if you want Chrome get Chromium or Brave.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I don't trust the libertarian Brave guy (formerly of Firefox, haha): https://www.searchenginejournal.com/brave-browser-under-fire-for-alleged-sale-of-copyrighted-data/491854/

Vivaldi and Opera with Chromium as a back up are my Blink browsers.

Firefox and Firefox Beta are my main browsers. I use the containers add on with FF Beta to basically use it as a sort of equivalent of Ferdi but with Firefox Beta allowing Google services in one account can talk to each other, all contained in one container that corresponds to one tab group/window.

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

I switched to FF a few years ago when my Chrome was showing some bloat. FF works for almost everything, but from time to time some sites, forms, e-commerce, etc., have issues with non-Chrome browsers. In that event, I use Edge.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Been using Firefox for a long, very long time.

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

I switched to mull which I think is basically a fork of Firefox when bromite seemed to be dead.

No complaints it works great.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Arkenfox/Librewolf + Mull/Fennec

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I've been using the internet since 1999. I've been using Firefox before it was Firefox, and before it was Phoenix, back when it was just "Mozilla". (The original browser became SeaMonkey, but it's been slowly abandoned to the point that it doesn't work on modern sites anymore.) I've been frustrated at times and have sometimes used Chrome, Waterfox and Epiphany (Linux web browser) at times but I always come back to Firefox. Back in the Geocities era in 2000 Netscape 4.x was so poor at CSS I developed for Internet Explorer on my personal sites, (to my regret), but Mozilla eventually caught up.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

I've always wondered how Mozilla / Firefox makes money? I see that its a non-profit. Looks like sponsored links and content on their new tab?

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