I bounced between the two for years, i guess i am going back to Firefox full time.
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Veedem@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Just use Firefox.
nocturne213@lemmy.world 1 year ago
rndll@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The only reason I haven’t switched to Firefox from Chrome fully is because for some reason Firefox for Android still doesn’t have tabs for large screen devices. Mozilla says it’s not a priority. 🤷
dantheclamman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yes, it really sucks. I am in the same boat. Samsung Internet on my tablet; really wish I had FF on it.
No1@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Firefox for Android removing the ability to open local html files killed it for me.
QuazarOmega@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If that’s your only gripe with it, you can still access them by using one of the simple web servers available running inside Termux, that will also allow you to avoid CORS related problems, in fact it is the currently suggested method on MDN
Nioxic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So use edge
Its chrome but at least its not brave, and the adblocker(which is off by default…) is decent enough
Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
If you think the things brave has done are bad, go read through the list of things microsoft has done. You really don’t want them to ever have a browser again, and certainly don’t want to personally use it.
GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Same. I had no idea about brave and I started using it full time on all my devices like a month ago. Guess I’m going back to Firefox. Which was fine.
AlbinJose6723@eviltoast.org 1 month ago
It’s not good tho 🙃
FatCat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Firefox and mozilla aren’t your friend.
They like to play the “user and privacy friendly” company. Meanwhile they are hemoraging users, and laying off staff needed to actually build a great browser.
Mozilla ceo pay increase + layoffs in 2020:
In 2018 she received a total of $2,458,350 in compensation from Mozilla, which represents a 400% payrise since 2008. On the same period, Firefox marketshare was down 85%. When asked about her salary she stated “I learned that my pay was about an 80% discount to market. Meaning that competitive roles elsewhere were paying about 5 times as much. That’s too big a discount to ask people and their families to commit to.”
In 2020, after returning to the position of CEO, her salary had risen to over $3 million. In the same year the Mozilla Corporation laid off approximately 250 employees due to shrinking revenues. Baker blamed this on the Coronavirus pandemic.
cikano@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They don’t need to be my friend to be better than the chromium browsers though, so I don’t know what this has to do with anything
envious92@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve switched on Desktop a year ago. Also with Android. But Firefox on Android has an odd bug that I cannot get rid of. Pages are really slow to load on initial render. I’ve noticed it gets stuck on the SSL cert verification step, sometimes around 5 to 10 seconds before it starts painting the page.
I’ve tried disabling all add-ons, logging out of Firefox sync, disabling the built in HTTPS everywhere, and literally any custom settings I’ve added. But I can’t get past this issue and seemingly no one else has it.
Chrome doesn’t present this issue.
AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Yup got the same thing. Annoying as hell. The loading bar always goes to like quarter of the way and stays there for a couple of seconds and the continues. After that it’s fine, but it is always the first page you load after closing Firefox.
AlecSadler@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Same issue here! I thought I was alone. It annoys me to no end and weirder still, issue doesn’t present itself with Firefox for Windows running behind the same IP.
Firefox Focus also doesn’t seem to present the issue. Just the primary Firefox browser for Android. And honestly, often enough that it’s nearly unusable.
If you ever figure it out, please let me know.
gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t have that issue on Mull, so maybe try that?
Nhof@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You’re not alone, I’ve been using Firefox on Android for two years now, and I’ve had this problem from the beginning. The first time I launch Firefox and load a page it stops a quarter of the progression bar for ten seconds, and then loads fine. Once pas that everything works perfectly. It’s very annoying and I don’t know why this happens.
fruity@lemmy.world 1 year ago
+1 for that issue, you are not alone :)
DONTBANTHISACCOUNT@kbin.social 1 year ago
I use chrome on my mobile device... Is that bad?
BaroqueInMind@kbin.social 1 year ago
Might as well take shits with the door unlocked; same level of exposing yourself.
Nioxic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And ads. Ads everywhere.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Just use Firefox. Mozilla isn’t good but it’s not evil
provomeister@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
It’s not really bad per se, it’s the default on most Android devices these days. The problem is that almost all modern browsers are Chromium-based which give Google a lot of power to implement changes (see manifest v3 & web DRM). Personally, I’m trying to slowly reduce my usage of Google products. I’m using Firefox on desktop and a mix of DDG+Fennec on my phone.
DONTBANTHISACCOUNT@kbin.social 1 year ago
Thank You! I'll look into DDG n Fennec.
FatCat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Doesn’t Firefox do telemetry and other shady shit out of the box? Ofc you can turn it off but I don’t get the fanaticism over this browser.
Knusper@feddit.de 1 year ago
Every now and then, you’ll see some journalist uncovering the great revelation that Mozilla is doing unthinkable things, but I have never these stories actually being relevant, if you do more research on the topic.
Some examples:
- Mozilla use Google Analytics! → Yes, but they have a special contract with Google to protect user data: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697436#c14
- Mozilla uses Google Safebrowsing! → Yes, but they have technical measures in place to limit user identification (on top of Google stating that they do not use Google Safebrowsing data for tracking): …geek.nz/…/how-safe-browsing-works-in-firefox/
- Mozilla has privacy-invading ads on the new-tab-page! → Again, they have technical measures in place to avoid privacy issues: support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/sponsor-privacy#w_wh…
And telemetry by itself is not evil either. It depends entirely on what data is actually being sent. You can look at what Mozilla sends by typing “about:telemetry” into the URL bar. In my opinion, that is perfectly fine.
Ultimately, though, they enjoy so much trust, because they have no profit motive. The Mozilla Foundation is legally a non-profit and the Mozilla Corporation is a 100% subsidiary of the Foundation, so cannot pay out profits to anyone either.
Any ‘evil’ shit they do to make money, they do it to pay wages and to invest further into Firefox & their other projects.
You can criticize that the CEO takes a salary she can’t possibly spend (yet is below industry-standard, to my knowledge). And you can argue whether they should be taking so much money from Google rather than other sources.
But all in all, that still leaves them far above companies who need to exploit users as much as justifiable, to make the maximum amount of profit.
astropenguin5@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah it’s not perfect out of the box but after turning off telemetry and adding some add-ons like ublock origin and such it’s one of the best short of going full on tor/mullvad. And still less fanaticism than brave lol
nostalgicgamerz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Just moved from Brave to Firefox when that “AI training” story came out. I think it’s faster than brave now
voxl@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
On mac? Love safari? But also want good adblock? Use Orion! It’s safari, but with support for chrome and Firefox extensions! Fuck yeah!
I always loved safari, and always got weird looks for it as a web developer (but after a month or two they love me for it because I always find non-chrome bugs because those peasants only use chrome), but that browser is so damn good guys… on mac, that is. Not sure if it even exists yet for linux/win.
mrsgreenpotato@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
I am using Brave mainly because of its superb YouTube support - It has a built in ad block, can download videos offline and play minimized. Is there any way I can achieve this with any other browser? I would switch immediately.
Nothingwise@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Firefox + uBlock Origin + arkenfox user.js gives you privacy, security and anti-tracking. The only way to fly IMO.
XpeeN@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Librewolf
khoi@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
What about Privacy Badger? Is uBlock better?
noodlejetski@lemm.ee 8 months ago
github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions#-…
Ziglin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Why not add Snowflake while we’re at it?
overkill0485@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Is this applicable for Firefox mobile?
Ziglin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
According to the GitHub page the user.js is for desktop only but ublock should still work.