11: It's the only browser on the market that is not either apple webkit or google chrome based. And it's in our best interest to keep said market healthy, with as many competing actors as possible.
It really is telling that even Microsoft don't find it viable to maintain a browser engine.
The "standards" are an absolute fucking nonsense, and boil down to "just do what Chrome does because nobody can stop them".
To be fair to Chrome.
Microsoft had the vast majority with Trident. Mozilla/Firefox slowly gained market share with Gecko. Chrome/Webkit* then took market share from both.
It's not like Chrome just appeared one day and demanded everyone use them, they gained market share by being a good browser.
*(Chrome now uses a fork of Webkit called Blink.)
That being said I do think Firefox provides the best browser experience, and Chrome users should look into switching.
Which is a long way of saying Microsoft fucked up bad. Real bad.
I just had to install chrome to book plane tickets. Kept getting an error on Firefox.
There's a new feature inside Firefox that allows you to report webpages that are broken on Firefox but work in other browsers. Please use it. It's a great way to push for universal compatibility within browsers. It's usually the webpage developer's fault for using a non-orthodox technique that works exclusively on Chrome, but shouldn't be done for any sort of reasons, like compliance with web standards. But, it's possible for Firefox to derive intelligence from the reports and write workarounds.
All the more reason to get more people to use it.
Posting this on Lemmy is preaching to the choir.
have any instance admins ever shared the browser stats?
And the fact that google is imposing manifest v3, which will tone down ublock origin.
The article mentions that "Chrome [has a] more restrictive Manifest 3 plugin API", but doesn't go into any examples, when this one is the main one (and why Google brought in manifest v3 at all).
There’s like… no downside: all upside.
Edit: I exaggerated, of course. Below this are some downsides that individuals have experienced. But personally, my experience using Firefox on desktop for Mac has been all upside. If everybody who can just tries it out, you might be surprised at how friction-free the change is.
Not strictly true. Firefox gets inferior support from cloud services, like Microsoft. Newer versions of their Web apps are not available on Firefox.
But there should be no downside. It's all artificial.
The big services purposely degrade their sites when users connect with Firefox. It's well documented.
Unfortunately nothing is being done about it so far.
One thing I miss in Firefox is tab grouping. Yes there are 3rd party extensions that do that. But Chromium based browsers support that natively.
I feel like anyone on Lemmy who isnt yet using Firefox is the kind of person who isnt going switch now because an article told them they should
edit: it seems I had a stroke (not seriously) while writing this message, and have since edited it so it makes sense
TAB GROUPS, FIREFOX, BRING BACK TAB GROUPS.
And no, extensions aren't helping, their UX is so much worse.
That's just a make or break feature for me.
I wish the password autofill feature was more robust for Firefox on Android. Using it as my default password provider but it regularly does not pick up on password fields.
Dunno if this helps you at all, but I've been using BitWarden to manage my passwords since I made the switch from Chrome to Firefox (both on PC and my Android phone). It doesn't fill passwords automatically in either case, but it's not much extra work to invoke BitWarden to fill those fields as-needed on either device, and it works very consistently. It's also (I'm told) much more secure. Just thought I'd share that here!
Anybody else having flaky behavior with youtube videos in Firefox lately? Like, only audio resuming but video freezing after rewinding? I'm wondering if this is intentional on the part of Google.
Does anyone have any experience with Firefox on Android?
It runs great now. Most importantly, it supports extensions like ublock.
Firefox on Android is fine, except they insist upon disabling about:config on the main branch of the browser for some damn stupid reason. You have to use a nightly or beta build to be trusted with your own config that much.
Personally, I ended up switching to the Fennec fork over this.
Yeah, it's alright.
You can install an ad blocker in it, so it's automatically better than Chrome.
With that and a few cookie popup removers, it's almost like the web is usable again.
10 reasons:
@L4s
Fully agree, but @howtogeek.com please enhance your privacy with reducing your dependency to third party scripts.
Firefox Multiaccount Containers, the thing that can't be beat by even the best chrome derivatives
Meh. Been using Safari since 2012 and it’s fine.
Ah, the new Internet Explorer.
That's silly. Safari is neither the worst browser nor the most popular one. IE was both of those things.
They probably meant from a developer perspective. It's the only browser that's missing a lot of CSS/JS features and needs weird workarounds for the simplest things.
Apple has been suspected to intentionally slow down safari development in some key areas so it won't cannibalize the AppStore. Frustrated web devs, unable to get their web apps to work correctly on safari mobile, would publish their apps in the AppStore instead of using PWA.
Imn loving floorp so far.
Firefox is king (saying this as someone who actually likes it, not as a fanboy)
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