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With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

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[-] Mostly_Harmless@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I just went back to Edge from Firefox. I've been a long-time user, but it seems like too many of the sites I use don't work properly and some not at all. It sucks because I've always preferred FF, but I gotta get sh*t done.

[-] Lobo6780@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I'm using it from a long time and I'm happy with it. But I'm also pissed at google what is actively blocking firefox on their services, e.g. GDrive always shows that when loading a page encountered an error or when linking discord to YouTube it shows Something went wrong but of course working on chromium. But having FF and WebKit is an really good for competition to do not let google rule whole internet.

[-] Slopz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I prefer Vivaldi over Firefox. More features, better customizability.

But the again I might be the only one...

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[-] Drye@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Would be awesome if my company allowed to run anything but edge....

[-] Frostwolf@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Any browser really. I missed the browser wars of old where everyone is free to use and defend their browsers.

[-] plutolink@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Thankfully, I've been about Firefox since 2006. People can use what they like, but it does ache me inside seeing someone use Chrome, logged in with the yellow "Update" icon at the top right, an unholy trinity.

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[-] bigredcar@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I've been using the internet since 1999. I've been using Firefox before it was Firefox, and before it was Phoenix, back when it was just "Mozilla". (The original browser became SeaMonkey, but it's been slowly abandoned to the point that it doesn't work on modern sites anymore.) I've been frustrated at times and have sometimes used Chrome, Waterfox and Epiphany (Linux web browser) at times but I always come back to Firefox. Back in the Geocities era in 2000 Netscape 4.x was so poor at CSS I developed for Internet Explorer on my personal sites, (to my regret), but Mozilla eventually caught up.

[-] JuliusSeizure@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago

TOR browser is built off of Firefox and is even more private.

[-] raistlin@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

True, but it is insanely slow, and blacklisted by many websites.

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[-] PeterPoopshit@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I never switched to Chrome. I didn't do it when it first came out and people were shitting their pants in excitement. I didn't use chrome in the middle of the 2010s when no one even knew about Firefox. I still don't use it. I never switched from Firefox.

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[-] it_is_soup_time@techhub.social 5 points 1 year ago

@Frostwolf I switched to Firefox a few years ago. Using Google Chrome on a low end Windows 10 laptop was a nightmare.

I still can't get used to Dev Tools in Firefox, even though they might be superior to Chrome's.

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[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sigh. I really don't want to put in an official bug report for it but the #1 reason I don't exclusively use Firefox is a bug involving some porn sites I occasionally visit. No clue why, but Chrome (and its variants) load the sites in a second or two and Firefox will take 3+ mins to load them. Haven't seen that behavior anywhere else but those sites.

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