Submitted 1 year ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.androidpolice.com/never-been-better-time-switch-firefox-browser/
• Firefox offers better privacy and security than Chrome, with upcoming support for 200 new add-ons. • While Chrome dominates, Firefox gains ground with user-friendly browsing experience and open-source model. • Mozilla’s focus on user privacy and transparency challenges Google’s ad-centric approach, making Firefox a viable alternative.
Librewolf is better
The only issue with Librewolf is that it fails at rendering some websites. For example windy.tv
Brave is good too, for the moment.
I only had an issue with Twitch.
Switched back in the summer for good. Use Firefox in my android as the default browser with DuckDuckGo as search engine. The issue is still relying on the android digital hemisphere as the default OS for my phone.
Tab management is my main reason why I don’t switch to Firefox. No, I don’t want a whole new window with my tabs, I want them to be collapsible and grouped in the same window.
That’s my main issue and keeps me from using it.
I never stopped. since it was Phoenix.
but really since noscript. i used and abused that add on for more than a decade. coming up on 2. never found anything better.
focus is also used on mobile.
For some reason I can’t get my Firefox app to actually activate dark mode on my phone. I switch it in the settings and refresh it but it just won’t work so I keep using chrome. Any ideas?
Is the OS set to dark mode or automatic?
I updated that setting and it turns out that the setting page for Firefox changes color from white to black but it isn’t actually changing the background behind when I search things in the app and such
Have they addressed the security issues with sandboxing and site isolation and added a web view on android yet? I’d love to use Firefox on my phone too, but those issues were big enough for GrapheneOS to recommend against gecko-based browsers (though fortunately they provide their own de-googled chromium-based browser Vanadium):
Avoid Gecko-based browsers like Firefox as they’re currently much more vulnerable to exploitation and inherently add a huge amount of attack surface. Gecko doesn’t have a WebView implementation (GeckoView is not a WebView implementation), so it has to be used alongside the Chromium-based WebView rather than instead of Chromium, which means having the remote attack surface of two separate browser engines instead of only one. Firefox / Gecko also bypass or cripple a fair bit of the upstream and GrapheneOS hardening work for apps. Worst of all, Firefox does not have internal sandboxing on Android. This is despite the fact that Chromium semantic sandbox layer on Android is implemented via the OS isolatedProcess feature, which is a very easy to use boolean property for app service processes to provide strong isolation with only the ability to communicate with the app running them via the standard service API. Even in the desktop version, Firefox’s sandbox is still substantially weaker (especially on Linux) and lacks full support for isolating sites from each other rather than only containing content as a whole. The sandbox has been gradually improving on the desktop but it isn’t happening for their Android browser yet.
I love GrapheneOS and they tried everything to make Chromium less shitty, but Vanadium still lacks fingerprinting protection as well as support for ad blocking. That’s why I use Mull, a hardened fork of Firefox, for everything except banking.
Sadly there’s often a tradeoff between privacy and security (even though you often get one with the other), and GrapheneOS has always prioritised security
I’m using jerboa, and any links open in a firefox webview, with an option to (ninstantly, without reloading) opening the page in the firefox app directly
That might be a Custom Tab.
Nice, maybe it has been fixed since that doc was written?
I love firefox so much, but at times, I also am ready to ditch it. Some default configurations are just nothing but stupid. E.g.: all ports above 1024 are by default blocked, even with local domains in your LAN. Or, just happened today: ftp is generally blocked. I then had to switch to Chromium to get a file. Or: if on Linux, many video codecs are not by default bundled. Reasons like that make me hate Firefox. But I hate everything else a bit more.
So is there a browser based on Firefox but without strict configs?
That’s really strange, I haven’t encountered either of those problems. The ladder you can blame your distro for. If Firefox was bundled with all of the codecs it would be really big for no reason, and it would be redundant on nearly every system.
Kinda agree, sure it is also a distro issue. Chromium-like browsers worked out of the box, though. In the end, the user should not really experience easy-to-fix problems like „I can‘t watch any Twitch streams“, and I‘m not really on a uncommon distro (OpenSUSE Tumbleweed).
all ports above 1024 are by default blocked
Not on localhost at least no it isn’t.
And why the hell would you be using ftp in currentyear. Newsflash: They also ditched gopher.
What actually annoys me about all browsers are the policies around loading certain stuff from file://. Try getting something wasm to run without serving the thing from a web server or, *shudder*, base64-encoding bitcode into html. I understand there’s some valid gripes around …/ and softlinks and whatnot but, wait, here me out: What about zipping everything up and calling it a webapp, treat the file as a domain.
Oh it was never my intention to use it, but I was playing a bit with OpenAL and HRTF and ended up on a webpage that actually was using FTP to provide some audio files. So I kinda had no other choice.
The video thing is actually a known issue, but might be due to OpenSUSE not providing codecs by default. I still wonder why Chromium was working, though.
It’s getting more and more like chrome.
Moving to Safari for main browser, Firefox for backup. No more chromium engines for me.
This is what I do as well. Fortunately, Apple doesn’t really need to make money from the browser, so imo it’s still the “cleanest” experience. Meaning, It’s just a browser. It doesn’t want to sell you a VPN or crypto or get you to upgrade to a paid tier reading service, and integration in the ecosystem is obviously better.
I still really like Firefox, and that’s what I use as a backup on Macs, and primary on my PCs. There have been increasing number of rumors though that Apple is going to open up the App Store requirements in some way though that might allow Firefox to use it’s own engine on iOS, and if they do that I’ll probably switch over for a while and kick the tires.
If you have iOS devices, it doesn’t make sense to use Firefox at all. Since the engine is still webkit. Firefox on iOS is also extremely buggy. All browsers on iOS are essentially the same but with different skins. So why not stick to Safari?
Android however is a different story altogether as Firefox can run its own engine, its own add ons etc. And it’s frankly the best mobile browser.
Wow!
I might be in the very minority crowd here, but I just can’t get used to Firefox. I mean once upon a time I was clinging to like Netscape screaming foul at Internet Explorer too, old habits die hard. But Chrome just clicks for me, whereas the multiple times I’ve tried Firefox, it just doesn’t click for me. Can’t put my finger on it.
Firefox kind of sucks in android though and there are no good forks imo, but this is also true for chromium so idk what to do.
What sucks about Firefox for Android? It’s been nothing but good to me for years.
It seems quite a bit slower, tbh. I’m a steadfast Firefox mobile user for several years now, it’s gotten better.
Chromium is definitely faster, but I don’t care. Firefox respects my privacy and has actually useful add-ons.
I use Fennec for what its worth, dunno if you have tried that. Its… Imperfect, for sure.
Firefox offers better privacy and security than Chrome, with upcoming support for 200 new add-ons.
Also built in spyware and a LOT of snitching to a 3rd party analytics company that can be disable in flags.
If you’re serious about privacy use LibreWolf or Ungoogled Chromium if you’re reasons that required the Chromium dev tools.
Wait source?
Launch Wireshark and see for yourself. There are probably posts about this as well.
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That's just us with our super fun kbin shenans! It's a Firefox logo everywhere else.
@RiikkaTheIcePrincess how’d ya do that
No. This whole push feels astroturfed.
I would love to switch to Firefox, but Chrome has a much better profiles management and I use it a lot!
Whaa… Have you tried container tabs?
I didn’t know about it! I’ll have a look! Thanks
If you want the chrome experience in Firefox download a variant called Waterfox.
I’ve been using waterfox for years now I can’t be half here.
I really like what LibreWolf has been doing
Try Mercury. Absolute beast!
120.0 (64-bit) just updated ff. still use chrome borg 1/2 time
assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 1 year ago
One big positive for me on Chrome is that I have an Android phone, so a lot of my activity on my phone and computer sync together. How is Firefox with this, if I were to use it both on my desktop and phone?
PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Firefox sinks everything just like Chrome. They’ve had that capability for years.
supercritical@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yup! They have what they call sync. Works the same I believe: www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/features/sync/
assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ll have to look into this, thank you!
WigglyTortoise@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
I don’t know exactly what Chrome does but Firefox lets you sync tabs, history, bookmarks, and saved logins and card information.
Companion1666@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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