It's never been a better time to switch to Firefox : technology

[-] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 95 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 8 points 10 months ago

I’ve come to much prefer firebox but I have used brave for a long time and people aren’t being fair

Shitcoins are optional got disabled on day 1 and never saw em again.
Worked as advertised (pun intended), fastest browser at the time and never saw a single ad.
Spying? Cant be worse then chrome. It is one of the reasons i am now with with firefox.

But i am not convinced firefox isnt spying somewhat too. Why can i not selfhost my browser profiles instead of syncing all my details with mozzila servers?

[-] Life_inst_bad@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

Acutally you can selfhost your sync server for firefox: https://thesmarthomejourney.com/2023/03/18/self-hosting-firefox-sync/

[-] ioslife@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 10 months ago

Omg

[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

Amazing. Thank you for the information good sir.

[-] KenLin@lemmy.one 7 points 10 months ago

Firefox sync is e2ee

[-] roht@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I use Firefox exclusively on Desktop and Brave exclusively on mobile. Firefox on Mobile still has performance issues for me.

[-] hal_5700X@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago

Fix your Bot. It repost posts all the time.

[-] yo_scottie_oh@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 months ago

Yup, here’s the original post from three days ago.

[-] ioslife@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 10 months ago

I’m very close to blocking L4s

[-] hal_5700X@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Go to Settings > Unclick "Show Bot Accounts".

[-] MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 3 points 10 months ago

I thought it was me

[-] stifle867@programming.dev 27 points 10 months ago

"Never been a better time"? What about when IE 6/7 was dominating and Firefox came out with add-ons and speed of updates? I'd argue that was the best time for Firefox.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"The best time to ~~plant a tree~~ switch to Firefox was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now."

[-] moshtradamus666@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Just did recently, feels good.

[-] squaresinger@feddit.de 9 points 10 months ago

Yay, another step to getting to feature parity with Firefox 68!

Now give me a tabs that I can also use in phone mode and keyboard shortcuts!

I mean, it's only been 3 years since new FF on Android cut all the good bits from FF68 and before.

[-] LWD@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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[-] Zerfallen@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

It's still not a good experience on Android tablets/foldables, just a stretched phone UI and no tab bar.

[-] squaresinger@feddit.de 3 points 10 months ago

I don't get the downvotes.

Sure, many (or probably most) people have no use for a tablet-friendly UI and a tab bar.

But for those people who do, this is a very important point. I actually switched over to Vivaldi, due to the lack of a tab bar in FF.

If they'd implement that, I would be able to go back to FF.

So I don't really understand why someone would be opposed to a toggle-able feature that you don't have to use. If you don't like it, don't enable it.

[-] Zerfallen@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I also switched to Vivaldi everywhere for this reason. So I can sync tabs on all my devices. I wouldn't have even been looking for a new browser if not for the poor tablet experience on Android FF. But I'm really happy with Vivaldi now. Over the years I occasionally check in on ol' Android tablet Firefox, but still no tablet UI since they removed it many years ago (yes, older versions of Android Firefox already had a tab bar).

[-] squaresinger@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

I tried a full switch to Vivaldi, but desktop Vivaldi was quite buggy for me, so now I'm running split: FF on Desktop, Vivaldi on Android.

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

A few great Add-ons have worked for a while already - I use Dark Reader, uBlock, and PrivacyBadger, and Read Aloud, but I am looking forward to adding Translate, container add-ons for Facebook and Amazon, Kagi search, Tabliss, etc.

[-] hagelslager@feddit.nl 4 points 10 months ago

If possible, switch to a non-Mozilla Firefox derivative!

[-] PurpleTentacle@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Why? Mozilla isn't a threat to open web like Google has shown that they are and they certainly can use all the support they can get.

[-] force@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah but Mozilla has been getting shittier and shittier as time goes on. I think it all started when they forced extensions into FF without the ability to remove them, only to go into the settings and disable them (which doesn't even fully work). And most of the de-Mozillafied alternatives (like Waterfox which pretty much the only benefit is no Mozilla telemetry) have a lot of their own problems assuming you want a normal casual browsing experience (so no Librewolf or Tor)

Mozilla's better than e.g. Google or Microsoft but at the end of the day they're still a company that often makes anti-user decisions (although being technically non-profit helps them be significantly less bad). They've started converging towards those companies in a lot of ways, and they've been trying to make the browser more like Chromium browsers equally as much.

Also due to their bad priorities FF is noticeably worse in a lot of ways thab e.g. Edge (as in performance/resource usage by a long shot)

[-] jsh@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

switch?

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

I heard websites are loading slower on that browser bruh.

[-] the_q@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

I can't take anyone seriously that types 'bruh".

[-] Swarfega@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

I feel the same way when I read "y'all".

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

That's probably a reasonable learned adaptation. Most people are being sarcastic when they type that.

[-] stifle867@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago

Vague statement. You have any more information or sources?

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

Sites are purposefully adding delays to firebox browser IDs or perhaps non chrome id's depending on sources. . https://www.zdnet.com/article/youtube-is-slowing-video-loads-on-firefox-heres-how-to-fix-that/

[-] stifle867@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

Ah yes I heard about that. I suppose it's up to the interpretation of "loading". Firefox still loads everything as fast, including the code where Google tells the browser to wait for 5 seconds. But the average user does not care about the technicalities of it. Only that they get a degraded experience on Firefox.

IMO that gives me even more reason to use Firefox. I'm not going to be bullies or deceived into giving in to corporate malfeasance.

[-] LemmyTryThisOut@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Don't knock it till ya try it!

[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Is this the build of Firefox that drops support for native UI elements?

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