Why I Switched To Firefox …

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• I also prefer Firefox for most of my browsing experience. Currently on Windows 10 but soon gonna dual boot.
  The only time I forced to use a Chromium based browser (Edge, in this case) is for accessing files on Google Drive. Docs, PDFs, images etc don't open at all on Firefox.
  Hope this issue is resolved soon by Mozilla.

• Bro you are too late Firefox already bought an advertisement company and will be taking your data just like Google 🤣🤣🤣… Go to brave and you can turn off all those hangout ext. And other tracking stuff…. That is far better option till ladybird browser comes out. Keep up the good work to inform people just come of the dark bleeding edge side just like I am 😁

• What a joke… And the timing by a Linux advocate, yet again! Firefox with adblockers is being heavily bashed by YouTube right now!

• For PWA, on Gnome/Linux, I use Gnome Web (Epiphany)… it's already there, and it works like a charm. On Windows (I'm forced to use it on the firm I work for), I use MS Edge for PWAs. It's already there.

  I've been using Firefox for many, many years. I've tried Chrome at the time when Google launched it, didn't like it, and went back to Firefox (actually, I didn't even leave it). Never feel the necessity to change browser.

  It's sad that people just accept a monopoly without thinking about it. There's no real reason to be stuck at a certain kind of browser. It's a matter of choice and getting used to it. But, for sure, there are many reasons to avoid Chrome and Chromium.

• Quit shitty Firefox,cookies crunching advertising software for few parasites who earn millions on this shitty chrashing,history and boomarks forgetting so called "software".

• I switched to Firefox too. I've realized I've done something that has broken both Netscape Navigator and Mozilla and reinstalling didn't fix it. So I was stuck with internet explorer and decided to try that fancy new firefox thing. I wasn't really interested in it but it was Mozilla and it worked so I gave it a pass. It felt like it was in beta forever. Still using it to this day, it has gotten much better and much worse at the same time. Really the great thing is how much you can customize it. TreeStyleTabs has become kinda essential.

• No one should be using vanilla Chrome…EVER. You're giving an ad company (Google) so much data for them to sell you things with and to track you with…and you're doing it willingly and for free.

• As someone who's been using Firefox all my life I was pleasantly surprised at just how many things seem(ed) new and/or revolutionary to you.

• use floorp instead of firefox it has vertical tabs like edge and comes hardened.

• To transform a website into a webapp is quite easy with Firefox. –> You create a new profile.
  On Linux, it is easier, because you can add the new profile intro the Dash, with a specific icon launcher.
  Personally, I have automatized this part with a script (available on GitLab).

  Each profile can have its own extensions, its own theme and configuration.
  I have 1 profile for YT Music. 1 for Google Docs, 1 for Postgresql, one for a specific FFX with proxy access, 1 for YT Studio and 1 for Pluto TV…

• No vertical tab, no workspace and also no grouptab, will be default browser if have them

• I love the mouseover tab reveal in fullscreen mode in Firefox

• What linux distro do you use?

• vivaldi is great

• Webapps? Have you heard of bookmarks / shortcuts? Webapps seem like fancy bloat.

• Another thing Firefox does way better than Chrome is open JSON files. It can search, collapse, it's all structured etc. Though this probably doesn't concern most users.

• Wayland is a joke. I'm not never switching to it. Not only does it have bugs all over, but doesn't support a plethora of things X11 does that let you do some really cool stuff because of the way wayland is built. For example xdotool, which wayland has no and can have no equivalent of because of the way it's built like I said – treating windows like black box rectangles. Until they come up with a new things that's actually capable of doing ALL that x11 can do, I'm never switiching. Anyone who hypes wayland is lying to you people. If you're not a casual, it takes a way so much functionality. i recently moved from Fedora to Mint. Don't like Wayland, don't like the newer buggy kernels and newer downgraded (in terms of function and performance) versions of GNOME. Linux Mint is so much better

• I love Firefox and have recently fully switched to it, but I hate that Netflix doesn't work on it. Yeah I an enter the website and see what's going on, but as soon as I try to watch something it just refuses to play any media, even though I enabled play of DRM content, and other services like Prime Video and Crunchyroll work fine. I've heard Netflix works fine on the normal Firefox, and while that may be so, I use the Developer edition and I wish I wouldn't have to switch browsers every time I want to catch up on a show I'm watching.

• I recommend Librewolf. way better privacy because Firefox is doing data collection

• I shifted to Firefox recently – from Edge – but the thing I missed most was the vertical tabs. I know its scheduled to arrive but who knows when. However, I then tried Floorp and it has the vertical tabs, as well as even more configuration options than Firefox. I love it and it's now my default on all of my devices

• to improve firefox performance i recommend to give a shot betterfox's fastfox user.js

• I use falkon because I have a potato pc

• For all the good mentioned, its getting bloated and memory intensive.

• Wasn't it possible to just change the user agent in Firefox? I just looked it up because of some websites requiring chrome but apparently its not in the settings anymore

• I am a Vivaldi user, it has a built in ad blocker, custom CSS support like Firefox, more customization than Firefox, tiling windows (i can’t live without it), and it is just straight up better than Firefox, IMO, and I used to be a multi year Firefox fan, going all the way back to its original Quantum update. Now, wasn’t exclusively Firefox, did use Brave on the side as well for some niche reasons, but now, Vivaldi does everything that I need, and more

• I downloaded firefox around 2007 when I was in middle school just because I liked the fox icon/logo. It's been my main browser since.

• I only install chromium now for this small issues like the Geforcenow. On the rest, Firefox customization is on another league and everything I did worked well.

• Literally had that drag and drop issue with firefox until I installed the non-flatpak verson.

• Even in windows I use firefox (use both windows & linux). Already 5 years now since officially use firefox as default browser.

  I have 1 PC & 2 laptop. I only use chrome in 1 laptop because of work requirement and only for work, other than that always firefox. All of my 3 device use firefox without issue. Love firefox.

  Viva La Resistancia !!!

• Been rocking for for more than 10 years :)))

• I have been Firefox user since 2009

• I never even used any chromium browser as a daily driver.
  Not being able to do the kinds of customizations I do on Firefox is a deal breaker for me.

  about[:]config is absolutely amazing and toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets=true makes you able to tweak pretty much everything.

• Actually, firefox supports web apps, but you can't install them or have them be their own window.

• Except fractional scaling

• To match my linux theme, I cannot use browser without userchromecss anymore. Also, I recently use extension called vimium and I regret not knowing it existence, basically browsing with vim keymap.

• FF is foundet by google and they got caught several times sending data to google or thirdparties, I will never understand the hype.

• The new update enables advertising data collection stuff. Always check your settings after updates!

• Today I moved to MS-Edge, because the memory leak in Firefox annoyed me so much, that I changed. That memory leak exists at least for 4 years and it often takes 1.5 GB of memory for nothing. Besides the picture quality of MS-Edge is better.

• 8:18 Try User-Aget switcher addon.

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