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[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 271 points 2 years ago

Do you have a minute to talk about our lord and savior Mozilla Firefox?

[-] jayandp@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 years ago

Firefox opening the gates for addons on mobile is some really good timing.

[-] PeWu@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

They really come in clutch with that upgrade. Some people are already drooling for that feature (including me)

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[-] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 24 points 2 years ago

Actually, yes. Firefox is good but I hate the UI. Okay, Brave seems nice. Love the UI, sync feels slow, and why can I not move the top bar to the bottom on mobile????? Phones are BIG. Don't make it harder for me to use your product. Okay, there is Vivaldi, king of customisability. Nice, but feels slow. Back to Firefox. Still hate UI. And now wanting a better new tab page. Proceed to discover Tabliss for a good new tab page, and Firefox-UI-Fix on github to give me a better UI on Firefox desktop. Wow, problems solved. I'm sticking to Firefox forever (unless I decide to switch to Librewolf where I can still implement all the same fixes as on Firefox).

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 years ago

Firefox UI is controlled by CSS

Just find a UI you like and add it in

[-] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 11 points 2 years ago

Floorp is Firefox with Vivaldi-style tweaks. Part of it is what Firefox really should be right now.

If you're a minimalist, I can vouch for Pulse Browser, with sidebar tabs (native to Pulse, similar to Edge) and Simple Tab Groups, it's great.

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[-] Engywuck@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Nope. Many Chromium forks already have very good inbuilt adblockers , which won't be affected by the MV3 stuff. On top of that, one could also use system-wide blockers such as AdGuard and DNS-level blockers (which is not even a bad idea if you're on Windows anyway).

[-] Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 98 points 2 years ago

You can continue to cope or you can upgrade to a real browser.

[-] Engywuck@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

I already upgraded to Brave years ago. Thanks. And fuck Mozilla.

[-] wagesj45@kbin.social 61 points 2 years ago

You mean Chromium Brave Edition?

[-] Baku@aussie.zone 28 points 2 years ago

Why you got beef with Mozi? They chill

[-] Engywuck@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

Yeah, no. Too much disregard for the community and useless political crap, apart from hypocrisy on their fake anti-Google stance.

[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca 45 points 2 years ago

useless political crap

Meanwhile: Uses Brave

[-] Engywuck@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

Such an ignorant and bad faith statement I won't even bother to reply.

[-] Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Brave is wrapped up in so much controversy it feels like you're trolling that you called it a real browser. You're trolling, right? Have fun with your brave sponsored ads and crypto bullshit. Also you're still being lead by Google, but I guess that's okay because it's in a pretty wrapper.

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[-] kumatomic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 years ago
[-] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

They said in their reply.

Are you for real? Everything you said reads like a tech bro caricature

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[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 2 years ago

pOliTiCaL

Would you care to explain to the class?

[-] SatyrSack@lemmy.one 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They donate a lot to political campaigns that have nothing to do with technology or anything relevant. I use and love Firefox, but this is definitely questionable

https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-investigating-the-bizarre-finances-of-mozilla

[-] nevernevermore@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

that article reads like if my 8 year old nephew read thru my tax return. But no matter how mozilla spend their money, Google are spending money their money on much more questionable and unethical things.

[-] trevor 3 points 2 years ago
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[-] Nythos@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 years ago

Brave isn’t any better of an option with all the controversies they’ve had.

[-] Platform27@lemmy.ml 35 points 2 years ago

If anything, they’re worse.

  1. Brave is an advertising company, that blocks everyone, but them. Forcing over people and companies into their system.
  2. They’re heavily in the blockchain ecosystem, with their own worthless crypto.
  3. They take from open source projects (uBlock, Chromium, etc), but threaten legal action when someone forks them.
  4. They install bloat/spyware on your Windows system (later claimed it was a mistake).
  5. Brave, and its CEO is right-wing, lobbying against things like same-sex marriage.

I could go on.

[-] kumatomic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 years ago

Don't forget the worst most condescending people working for Brave. I actually had one of their people antagonize me on social media years ago for not liking their invasive homepage at the time.

[-] ahriboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago

And also don't forget Gab forked out Brave to create Dissenter.

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[-] DrQuint@lemm.ee 46 points 2 years ago

Man's 3 poignant inquiries away from peddling Brave. Tread carefully folks.

[-] wdx@feddit.de 18 points 2 years ago

Lmao you were right

[-] DigitalBits@programming.dev 35 points 2 years ago

System wide ad blockers can't block a lot of ads, namely same-domain ads or those that are built into the html. Much rarer than the external page kind (DNS ones) thankfully.

[-] jherazob@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago

Namely, Youtube ads

[-] Engywuck@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

AFAIK, AdGuard can block same domain ads. I'm not talking about AdGuard DNS, I'm talking about AdGuard app/program.

[-] Cossty@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

As far as I know most inbuilt adblockers, don't work very well. Especially with yt. Everytime yt does something, you would probably have to wait for new version of your browser, and even then it is questionable if it would work. With ublock origin you just click on one button and you are good to go. If somebody doesn't know, I'm talking about refreshing your filters.

[-] Engywuck@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

I'm yet to see any ad since I've started using Brave. Din know about YouTube, I don't use it.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 13 points 2 years ago

Why would you want to use some Google-coded, bigoted-ceo, crypto-pushing, link hijacking POS like Brave?

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[-] WallEx@feddit.de 23 points 2 years ago

Yeah surel, I'll use the inadequate browser but fox the problems with system wide ad blockers, instead of just using a browser, that doesn't steal my data and let's me install addons that I want. Google is way out of bounds here imho.

[-] Engywuck@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Use whatever suits you. I'm just saying that people already using browsers with a built-in AdBlock aren't going to switch, because they won't even notice the MV3 stuff.

[-] WallEx@feddit.de 12 points 2 years ago

Aren't all those ad blockers and distribution platforms too? Heard about ABP that sell ad space for example.

[-] Engywuck@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

IIRC, ABP used to whiteliste some "acceptable" ads (non invasive, etc...). Frankly, it's been literally ages since I have used it, so I don't know how they behave right now. I was referring to AdGuard as a system-wide adblocker, though, which is a completely different story.

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 points 2 years ago

Moved to Firefox a while ago, specifically because of Manifest V3.

The only issue I've found so far is that you can't log in to PSN on it. Just locks the browser completely and you need to kill it in task manager. Apparently it's to do with password saving.

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