Why do you use firefox?

Waaaaaaay better privacy, faster than chrome, don’t need to worry about them killing mandatory add ons so they can push ads, also the add ons just work better but maybe that’s confirmation bias.

I’m sure there’s more I’m forgetting

Mobile adblock

Because it's the only browser not based on Google's Chromium rendering engine (Webview, WebKit? whatever). Using any other browser supports Google's monopoly over how we browse the internet and what we are allowed to see. No, fuck Google.

Edit: spelling

Because it's not Chrome

Because it's open source

Because I can get it on all my devices

Because I like the work Mozilla does

Because it's private and secure by default

Cause fuck Google

Because it's never let me down.

I started using it pretty much from the beginning and have never had a reason to stop. When Chrome came along, I thought the whole idea of using a browser made by Google was obviously awful, so I just kept using Firefox. And I'm still using it.

Because I'm not comfortable using a tool of a mega corporation trying to shape the internet to show more ads to ppl

Because it's one of the only remaining browsers (the other one being Safari) that doesn't run on Chromium. We must protect FireFox and Safari with our lives because if they die out then Google has a monopoly on the browser space. Not something anyone wants... I mean look at their Manifest V3, and web DRM controversies. They are trying to ruin the web. Don't let them people!

Plus, I just like the ability to customize the toolbar, and FireFox Sync is just brilliant for syncing between mobile and desktop!

Ublock Origin

Google has too much power over the web, also I just like Firefox.

It's FOSS, respects my privacy, doesn't try to kill my adblock and it's the only option that doesn't support a big evil monopoly

Chrome runs like garbage compared to Firefox, and this has always been the case for me. I didn't make the switch in 2008. I also had a bad feeling that Chrome would become the new IE with every other browser ditching their own rendering engine and basing on Chromium.

People back then said it was OK because Chromium is ostensibly open-source. Look where that got us. Surprise, it's still controlled by Google!

I just don't want to support the monopoly.

Also Firefox has been so tempting since the new engine written in Rust came out. It has a wide range of supporting add-ons.

Works well

Extendable

Open source

Not chrome based

I think Firefox is a pretty cool guy. Eh has great add-ons and customization and doesn't afraid of anything

It’s open source, free, well maintained, and easy to set up and use.

Add-ons, it’s not chromium, and also I CAN BLOCK AUTOPLAY VIDEOS on it

I lived through the IE6 days. I don't want one browser or engine or company to dominate the web. We need multiple implementations of free and open standards.

It has extensions support on mobile. I can't live without uBlock Origin. I installed Firefox on PC because of synching between Firefox on PC and Firerox and Android. I now stopped using this feature, but I kept using Firefox. I only use Chrome when pages don't open correctly on Firefox.

Stable, fast, excellent ecosystem, and it's the ONLY trustworthy browser available.

It used to be 90% habit, 10% Firefox not being run by a mega corporation.

Now it is 49% habit, 51% the smug satisfaction of being right this whole time, even when people bitched about it being bloated on the back end.

Nyah.

Not Chrome and Not MS. Simple.

Doesn't wake up one day and decide to DRM the Web or kill the adblcker.

Been using it for 15 years or so. It was good back then, it's still good now. Chrome has never been an alternative for anyone who knows what Google is.

Everything is chrome except Firefox.

I've tried every other browser, and I keep coming back to Firefox because it's reliable, has a low memory footprint, and isn't run by some evil corporation.

No more cookie popups or banners

Back to the old internet kind of vibes when all that shit got canned

Main reason is that I can use my own sync server, I don't trust Google nor Mozilla to store my passwords, bookmarks and history, etc. but I trust myself.

Second reason is that it's the only non Webkit related browser left after IE, Opera gave up on their own rendering engine, so once Google decides to implement anti-features there is almost no way around it anymore. I like to think that if at least I use it, it will somehow stay relevant enough that the W3C can keep existing and Google needs at least engage in some kind of conversation about their anti-features instead of just implementing them and forcing it on everyone automatically.

Third, uBlock origin works very well, even on my Android mobile phone.

Because google sucks now.

When Opera 12 died. Fuck chromium. Fuck Vivaldi. Firefox is the only legit non-chromium browser.

Ad block on mobile. Ad block on YouTube.

it's the best mobile browser with bottom address bar

Even without the politics of it all (which are good), Firefox is flexible and customizable. Chromium is an ugly, inflexible piece of shit from 2006 that relies on the same bloated list menus and doesn't really let you do anything with it. Come at me, Chrome fanboys.

I switched around 2007 (I think it was Firefox 2 or 3?) because IE didn't have tabs, and then just stuck with it because it was extremely customisable and really fucking good. I never found a reason to switch.

At that time I didn't care much about the privacy/open source aspect of it but in today's world it's definitely a big plus.

On mobile: because of addon support (aka because of ad-block) On desktop: Open Source, "It's not chrome", it feels snappier than alternatives, it has good Linux/Wayland support, customizability and the biggest reason - habit. I started using Firefox when there was no Chrome.

Oh, hell no!

Chrome, and it's relatives like Edge, are no longer an option, so I use Firefox.

It's the only non-chrome browser. And the only browser I can customize and that does what I want. I've been waiting for arc to release so I can try it out, but it seems like the development on it is taking literally forever.

I have pretty strict criteria for a browser, and really only firefox meets them. Chrome is way too locked down for me. And firefox has slowly been getting worse unfortunately.

Because I have been using the same web browser, in terms of ideology, heritage, and codebase, for the last 30 years.

I mean, it’s hardly perfect. But it’s far better than the alternative (Chrome & derivatives). And now that Tab Mix Plus is available again (albeit in a somewhat unstable non-webstore XPI that requires you to hack Firefox to successfully install), I’m loving Firefox & LibreWolf all the more.

1. We should not let google take over the internet

2. It works just as well as chrome

3. It has proper vertical tab extensions, like tree style tabs

Originally because CSS worked more consistently. Now because it allows adblockers.

manifest v3

Permanently Deleted

Because not using Chrome or Edge is a must.

On PC:

1. Containers
2. Firefox's screenshot button. It's so good. https://i.imgur.com/9lHxekk.png
3. Wanting to not see the browser market be monopolized. Competition is good.

On Android:

1. Extensions support
2. This button: https://i.imgur.com/heuupxK.png It's so handy.

Been using it for 7-8 years and only seen it improve. A few gripes to deal with, but I'm happy otherwise.

It's not chrome and it's open-source

It's the most customizable, has the most advanced add ons system, syncs well between mobile and PC (though sadly with no tablet app), and it's not part of the Chrome hegemony. Lately it has become faster and faster!

Open source, private, not chrome. Because I've been using it for over a decade.

It's the only browser made for users.

It's the least greasy browser that actually works with the modern web.

I just think it's neat.

Because it's better in every way?

Desktop:

• damn nice
• good Flatpak version playing everything
• all extensions work without weird restrictions
• only Forks that make sense, Librewolf and Tor Browser
• loads of search engines
• arkenfox user.js
• UserChrome.css, in theory, if it was easy to create one. Only SimpleMenuWizard currently to make it less rediculous to use
• also Thunderbird uses Firefox ESR, and its the only good Mail program I know

Mobile

• mull, prehardened
• support for a looot of addons using a custom Addon collection
• offline translations using FF Translations, literally the only app I know that does this and its so damn critical
• dark mode without tracking
• ublock, noscript
• lots of search engines possible
• privacy

I dont use Firefox as it comes on any device, as this is unusable. But with hardening its simply the most secure browser

I’ve used it on and off over the years; ever since 2004/2005 or so.

Firebug was amazing for web development back in the days when it was just IE, Firefox & Safari.

I recently built a couple of sites (for a sim racing community) and one of my users mentioned a Firefox bug. I fixed the issue but then realized I need to be more aware of Gecko specific rendering issues. I decided to use Firefox for a week on my iPhone (yes I know, still technically Safari) and my desktop, and I forgot how much I like it.

I also don’t love the choices Chrome has been making recently.

Firefox’s market share is so low lately when compared to Safari and Chrome that it honestly feels like the battle is already lost.

It's not Chrome, and it does everything I want.

It's not Chrome. Are there really any other good options at this point?

My wife says: we use firefox

And i cant think of a reason not to.. so of course ive installed Librewolf

UBlock Origin

Switched at the mere mention of losing my adblock. Have never looked back (besides when some shitty dev doesn't make their website compatible, looking at you comed)

It was my first browser. I used IE to download it.

When I changed computers I did use Chrome for a bit. Then Vivaldi because it was better to me (I liked the split window browsing)

Saw mention that Chrome and all related browsers were about to kill adblockers. Returned home to Firefox immediately.

I don’t feel a need to change right now, but have heard of Waterfox and Librewolf as potential forks. They’re in my mind if I ever feel the need.

Because fuck Chromium

Addon support on Android, cross platform sync. I don't need any other reason

I've just been using it for as long as I can remember, so I guess brand loyalty is one reason. Also, I always get annoyed when I have to use another browser like Edge and Chromium. The last reason is that Mozilla actually advocates for an open web in the organization that develops Internet standards (as I understand it), so I would prefer to give them my tacit support, buy not using browsers from corporations that benefit from me as a users and go against open standards.

I use it since it's inception 20 years ago. And stuck with ever since. It was one of the first FOSS projects with a mass appeal. In Germany we even had a crowd funded ad campaign in 2004 in that I took part and all that felt very optimistic and cool. And I just always stuck with it and always used it as my main browser. When Chrome took over, Google was already the dystopic mega corp so I was never tempted to use it. Sure I installed it, but hardly ever used it. But I never had big problems regarding speed or resource-hunger. And it keeps improving.

TLDR I'm very nostalgic about FF and will never drop it.

Free Software for free people!

I just started using it for Android the last month or so when Chrome dropped the flag feature that let you toggle dark mode for websites with system dark mode.

I have a VPN with an adblocker so that aspect of Chrome never bothered me so much. Chrome felt like it worked slightly smoother but at the end of the day a browser is a browser and Firefox does the job. (Samsung's browser is actually surpringly good for those with a Samsung device looking for a Chrome alternative)

Firefox does seem more trustworthy overall, although I've learned by now that trusting tech companies is not a sensible thing to do.

Nothing based on Chrome is an option because Google is evil and thinks it can control my computer, Brave customer service literally made fun of me for not liking the way they took over my homepage regularly years ago, Opera is just adware, and Firefox is about all that's left. Even though it's losing more options every update and on mobile it's complete garbage now with everything centered around their homepage so they can try to serve me ads that I can luckily turn off for now.

Add-ons on mobile. Plus, Chrome is slowly but surely gimping their ad-blocking extensions.

I switched to Firefox 2 from Internet Explorer 6. since then haven't used anything else.

gave some chances to other browsers like Chrome or Opera, but didn't like any of them.

as for why... no idea. Mozilla was always appealing to me and their browser is just on point everytime. and I also like red pandas.

Privacy and also fuck Google.

because its not chromium

I like it and I don't like google

Bottom tab bar, ublock origin.

I tried Firefox but it was hot garbage on Android.

Ended up going with Kiwi - same extension support but just better designed and much faster. Firefox kinda sucks on mobile beyond ublock origin support.

Because best

Why do you use Chrome?

Web extension manifest v2 ublock origin

Why not?

Container tabs, it respects my privacy, and brave started randomly not painting pages

It was the only real place for NoScript for a while and I haven't found a better whitelist add-on. A lot of it is inertia at this point. I avoid Google as much as possible anyway, so Chrome isn't an option.

1. It's FOSS
2. Manifest v3
3. AdBlocking extensions for my mobile too!!!
4. They created Rust my all time favourite programming language.

I have been using Firefox ever since. Never really had a reason to switch to something else.

To counter a monopoly

Container tabs and built in tracking protection by default. Mozilla is not Google, unfortunately they depend on their money to survive. Fuck Google.

Not Chromium, has custom CSS for the GUI, is open source software and it has a nice extension library

Also it's also a pretty good browser (right now I'm technically not using Firefox, but rather Librewolf, but still based on Firefox)

It’s a huge improvement over Mosaic.

fast, no web environment integrity, not run by a tech giant, no anticonsumer changes, NO CHROMIUM, goog wayland support

I switched from Netscape Navigator to Firefox and have used it since. Have tried other browsers but they can't compete.

The tree-style tabs extension

Because chrome eats my PCs resources like I eat shredded cheese out of the bag at 3am

inherent distrust of google, which is deeply pervasive

I initially switched because I felt like it had better support for linux and specifically wayland. Then stayed for other features that are mostly mentioned in other comments.

Because I need to browse the web.

Principle.

I use Firefox when I suspect a site isn't working well with Librewolf. This also implies the site didn't work for Qutebrowser previously

I started out with using it on the mobile, due to the add-ons being suported, but then Google starten messing around with chrome, announcing changes to the plugin api that would neuter Adblockers and now, the DRM for the web thingy, and I thought enough is enough.

Firefox still has its issues and Chrome does feel more polished, but I'm going with the good guys on this one.

Desktop: Google done fucked up. I didnt use FF cause of one of my extensions but I opted out when they started talking about the DRM for webpages.
Mobile: Its just better with Adblock.

Icecat takes too long to compile

Its good enough now and mobile addons exist, plus fuck chrome

Because privacy, choice and FOSS matter.

I am slowly switching back to Firefox since Google are nerfing ad blockers in Chromium. I'm switching to DuckDuckGo since their search results have become almost unusably bad recently. Unfortunately though, there it's no usuable replacements for the rest of the Google ecosystem as far as my use case is concerned. I'd even ditch Android if there were a reasonable alternative.

I use firefox because Lemmy told me to.

Tree style tabs in what made me switch to Firefox.

I like that it's not Chrome, and that it's so modifiable.

Also, Edge was using over 2 GB of RAM on my work computer with only one tab open.

It is the only one that can hold my hundreds of tabs. It's also ooensource, but that's a bonus. Recently addblocker is a very good feature too.

Because internet explorer 6 sucked and it has the best ad blocker selection

I think foxes are cool :)

I like that LibreWolf automatically clears history upon closing.

Because I need a browser.

Because Chrome kept crashing my GPU driver, and Firefox doesn't.

And I used Chrome in the first place because Firefox let malware onto my Windows XP PC. Chrome updated add-ons automatically at that time, and Firefox didn't (not extensions, we're talking things like Macromedia Flash, Shockwave and Java Applets that are long dead now).

Works good at browser

Doing my bit to support the open web. Plus, while it's probably just familiarity, I've always felt that Firefox works with me while Chrome works against me.

Because I can.

good privacy

It has a cool logo

I used Edge, because it's genuinely an extremely feature packed browser, but when Google announced the manifest v3, I jumped to Firefox.

Unpopular Lemmy opinion, but I hate it. Firefox always freezes on desktop, especially on YouTube. Firefox on Android feels like it was developed for Android 8.0 and never updated. And the worst part is there's a bug on the desktop version in the print preview window when it comes to printing shipping labels, so I have not been able to use Firefox for my company for over 8 months now.

I've reported the bug every time Firefox updates and the bug persists, but Mozilla doesn't give a shit. It's so frustrating.

Because at the time I started using it, it was still Mozilla and the other alternative was Internet Explorer, the browser from Microsoft - the Evil Empire of that time - which was riddled with security holes (the whole ActiveX stuff, especially, was a complete total mess).

Later Chrome became more fashionable but to me it was already obvious that Google's "Do No Evil" slogal was complete total bollocks (plus it came out in the Snowden revelations how Google was used for civil society surveillance, plus by then they had become mainly an Ad Company with a search engine, hence anti-privacy) and I wasn't about to trust what already back then looked like the up and coming New Evil Empire with access to my computer and browsing habits.

Mind you, I did use Chrome on my Android devices, but that was because I expected the OS itself to be rigged like crazy for privacy intrusion and worse so avoiding Chrome there did very little to reduce my privacy exposure in there, though eventually I moved to Firefox there too.

It's the right balance between privacy and usability. Chrome or Edge is a no-go. Librewolf sound nice, but out of the box it's a little too private (refuses to save any state between sessions) making it too inconvenient.

It's the best

Because it works, because I can use ublock on mobile (and a few other cool extensions), and most importantly, because I feel good about using it.

I have Vivaldi installed in case i need a chromium browser but I rarely ever need it.

Many reasons, but the main one is being able to self-host the sync server. It's just crazy that the entire browsing history of most people on the internet is stored on Google servers, with no e2e encryption!

I used to use it way back when it first came out and I was a huge fan, but about the time Chrome was becoming a mainstream alternative I started to have a lot of difficulty with adblockers not working and webpages that refused to load on anything other than Internet Explorer or Chrome, so I switched.

Heard about some of the shady shit going down recently in the Googlesphere and decided it was time to switch back and I'm happy to report that everything runs smoothly again.

I don't like Chromium, on mobile it has extension support.

I like the old icon, and Google shot itself in the foot with the anti-adblock stuff.

Because the only thing it doesn't have that I miss from edge is the vertical tabs, otherwise its just better in every way that matter to me.

And before someone mentions it, I am aware there are vertical tab options, but none of them are the close enough.

I use Firefox because Internet Explorer 4 kind of sucks, and I haven't re-assessed my browser choice since then.

Who's asking?

I've been using FF for years now, probably since the quantum update. Tbh, the thing that prevented me to switch to any other browser since is the ctrl+tab functionality. I HATE cycling through tabs in any other order than by most recent tab. I didn't find a setting to change it on chrome when I was forced to use it for work, but in FF it's easily found in the settings and probably was on by default at some point as I don't recall ever changing it.

In recent years the privacy aspect and the fact that it isn't made by google have also played a role in why I've stuck with firefox. Also extension support on android, although the browser is still a bit slower than chrome on mobile.

it's either that or something chromium-based

i mostly degoogled years ago

firefox just works most of the time. still have chromium installed for edge cases

against google/chromium monopoly.

Because I like it the best

Best non-chromium browser. More customisable.

It’s the default browser on my computer, and it doesn’t suck, so I’m not motivated to seek an alternative.

Containers addon. And it has bookmarks decades old. Remove both and I wouldn't care much. I'm also more familiar with it. It feels more natural due to this. I feel more comfortable on it. More at home, less scared.

There are no other options.

I hope ladybird will become usable in few years.

I like Lynx

I use it to protest Google's bullshit, but I still acknowledge all problems Firefox has and that all in all, Chromium is superior in many ways

It's a good compromise of everything I care about regarding a digital product.

The developer tools are top notch. Chrome is slower and sucks.

It's the only viable browser engine that isn't chromium-based. And it's open source and very functional.