10 Reasons You Should Switch From Chrome to Firefox.

11: It's the only browser on the market that is not either apple webkit or google chrome based. And it's in our best interest to keep said market healthy, with as many competing actors as possible.

Posting this on Lemmy is preaching to the choir.

And the fact that google is imposing manifest v3, which will tone down ublock origin.

There’s like… no downside: all upside.

Edit: I exaggerated, of course. Below this are some downsides that individuals have experienced. But personally, my experience using Firefox on desktop for Mac has been all upside. If everybody who can just tries it out, you might be surprised at how friction-free the change is.

Just need one reason: Google.

I feel like anyone on Lemmy who isnt yet using Firefox is the kind of person who isnt going switch now because an article told them they should

edit: it seems I had a stroke (not seriously) while writing this message, and have since edited it so it makes sense

For Android users, there's also the Firefox-based Mull.

I wish the password autofill feature was more robust for Firefox on Android. Using it as my default password provider but it regularly does not pick up on password fields.

TAB GROUPS, FIREFOX, BRING BACK TAB GROUPS.

And no, extensions aren't helping, their UX is so much worse.

That's just a make or break feature for me.

You guys switched away from Firefox?

Does anyone have any experience with Firefox on Android?

10 reasons:

1. I always used Firefox
2. I always used Firefox
3. I always used Firefox
4. I always used Firefox
5. I always used Firefox
6. I always used Firefox
7. I always used Firefox
8. I always used Firefox
9. I always used Firefox
10. Google can suck my saggy man tits

@L4s
Fully agree, but @howtogeek.com please enhance your privacy with reducing your dependency to third party scripts.

Firefox Multiaccount Containers, the thing that can't be beat by even the best chrome derivatives

Anybody else having flaky behavior with youtube videos in Firefox lately? Like, only audio resuming but video freezing after rewinding? I'm wondering if this is intentional on the part of Google.

Firefox is king (saying this as someone who actually likes it, not as a fanboy)

Imn loving floorp so far.

I love Firefox. Been enjoying DDG browser on iOS.

using chrome in 2024

The only reason I have chrome even installed is because I am forced to use it for chromecast every once in a while.

And one thing that irks is that you can't have a local file be your homepage and new tab page. I want to have all my work related links in a local immutable HTML page and every new tab or every time I open the browser it goes there for me to choose what of 5 links to pick....time sheet, team site, hr site, all the vendors sites etc...npr, my home servers etc. c'mon man! The only way to make it happen is to serve it on a local server that I am not allowed to install, or a server at home that I don't actually want to do.

Preach!

I'm convinced that were it not for Mozilla, microsoft would have prevented google from taking over. We'd be in a shittyworld controlled by the asinine cerification heierarchy of microsoft obfuscation.

MS owned a big chunk of Apple before Safari was a thing and they had crazy drm-ish plans with IE before they got thwacked with the monoploy stick by the feds in the late nineties. Netscape was on the ropes and there was essentially no one left.

I think it's time for Google to be thwacked. Apple too. They're going really anti-consumer in shady ways leading us to a weird new AI/surveillence capitalism led middle ages... Like no new knowledge, education will be towards the new corporate capitalist religion that gets people to serve their lords and noone has money or knowledge but the king and a few of their buddies. They'll grant the shineyist most deluded followers with a meaningless knighthoods that only serve to get that person laid so others will strive to sacrifice for the king so they can win the knighthood lottery and get laid and raisea family in a nice house... Anyway...

It's no good. We gotta skip straight to the next Renaissance where everyone has control over their identity, data and thoughts and can follow their own god in peace and healthy debate. And everone has healthcare and basic needs met and we're all moving towards Star Trek.

Moving towards Star Trek is what made the 90's great... Well, more accurate to say it was the great thing out of the nineties; before the new fascisism riding the 9/11 fear wave and the TSA and before 'enshittification' was a word.

Anyway... What was I sayinf?

Oh yeah Open source all the way!

I used it mainly for debugging sites until whichever update made it fast again recently. It’s noticeably improved.

Screen capture being disabled in private mode on firefox is really reassuring to me.

I switched on my personal devices (need to use chrome for gsuite integrations at work).

On desktop, it's great and I'm loving it. And kicking myself for not switching back sooner after the massive-years-long-memory-leak was finally fixed a few years back

On mobile, it's mostly great. The privacy focus, ad block support, and plug-in support is a plus. But I realllly want the tab groups that mobile Chrome introduced a while back. That had such a great mobile UX that I've found myself still loading up chrome now and then when I find myself wanting that UX. I looked to see if there were plugins that could make that possible, but was disappointed to see none and let down that it seems impossible with the current tab implementation.

I just need one, being able to change if something in the code is against my interests.

Look at how Vivaldi and Arc do tab management.

How many of these apply to ungoogled-chromium?

Why not Brave? I mean... Firefox is fine, just, some of the extensions I need for example are not available on it.

I've been moving away from Google in the last year and moving to Firefox was one of my first moves. It's honestly a downgrade in usability but I guess that applies to all alternative products.

I just wish I could sync my bookmarks between desktop and mobile. Seems like no one has this problem but firefox sync just does not work for me. It just says last update was never. Let me know if you know how to fix it.

Thanks but I'm sticking to Brave

Meh. Been using Safari since 2012 and it’s fine.