• JokeDeity@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I keep seeing people with devout hatred for my beloved Firefox, but none of you say why.

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      1 year ago

      Because Firefox honestly used to be shit, especially in the early Phoenix/Firebird days, but now it isn’t anymore, and they just haven’t bothered to check it out again. The “killing all the existing extensions” thing really didn’t help matters either.

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        Firefox in the Phoenix/Firebird days was amazing compared to ie6, Opera, and SeaMonkey/Mozilla suite

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        I agree it was a heavy blow when they announced that, I didn’t update for a few months, but man was it a nice fresh start, and I’m grateful that all the addons I had before have now made it over to the new system.

        I admittedly didn’t use FF before it was FF, I think I got into it around probably 2006 or so, but it’s been great in my opinion ever since then.

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      I was really sour about the Mr Robot prank where they modified pages without informing the user. But weighing a prank gone wrong against the active goal of dicking over the internet I’ll take the well meaning pranksters.

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      Some that I have heard (some are outdated and/or mostly irrelevant):

      • slightly slower
      • websites develop for chrome first
        • sites (0.1%) don’t render properly
      • default Firefox still has telemetry
      • still has ads
      • no dinosaur game
      • Mv3 AdBlock still works fine
      • better security because more devs contribute to chromium
      • mostly funded by Google anyways
      • Brendan Eich (left 2014)
        • invented JavaScript
        • political opinions

      That said, I’m still using Librewolf.

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        I know you didn’t say these were your opinions, but I’ll still see if I can comment on them:

        It’s not. It’s actually faster.

        Ehhhhhhhhh. Source?

        Everything has telemetry, but Firefox shows you right where to turn it off, unlike the rest.

        ??? Which browser has no ads?

        Fair.

        Adblock? This a joke?

        Source?

        Source?

        Relevance?

        Also, Librewolf is just a fork of FF, you can make main FF exactly like Libre but get same day updates and security patches.

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      ??? I literally never said anything about hating Firefox, I was merely asking a simple question…

      I used to use Firefox all the time, then they killed all the extensions. That doesn’t mean I somehow “hate it” LOL

      But like, y’know, anyone that doesn’t agree with you is literally Satan, right? 🙄

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      I have one thing missing from Firefox that keeps me from permanently switching: vertical tabs. I know there’s ways of hacking it into FF, but nothing sustainable. I know it seems minor, but in Brave/Edge, it just works so damn well.