Because it is FOSS and responsible for many great contributions to apis that make the web what it is. It has history that goes way back. It has been decently transparent, certainly when compared to its closest competitors. It isn’t Google. It has a massive library of extensions. They aren’t planning to deprecate manifest v2.
Don’t get me wrong, I also like other browsers and I’m looking forward to seeing what comes from the servo reboot. But Firefox is bread and butter and there is often drummed up nonsense about it.
HKayn@dormi.zone 2 months ago
Because otherwise you’d be supporting the Chromium monopoly, and that’s the biggest sin imaginable in the Fediverse.
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 2 months ago
Sin? I just want there to be competitors.
hexabs@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Firefox is the competition… To market dominated Chromium.
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 2 months ago
…yes?
namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev 2 months ago
Can I interest you in links?
Or how about lynx?
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 2 months ago
I’m not in favor of talking about the Fediverse like it is a data monopoly like META or reddit.
DJDarren@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
Safari user sitting quietly in the corner
ZeroPoke@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Here’s the best part to that. Safari’s back end is called WebKit. At one point in time it was considered best in class. It was also the backend for Chrome as well for awhile.
ParetoOptimalDev@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Chrome still uses WebKit.