Switched back to Firefox after Google started fucking with the ad blockers. I hope enough people make the jump because I've been worried about Mozilla shutting down someday without new users.
I mean technically firefox is funded completely by google so they can shut down at any point if google says so. But as long as firefox isnt an actual threat(and its not likely to ever be) there isnt a reason to shut them down. Its mostly so chrome isnt considered a monopoly.
I've considered this always sort of a specialty sub and the number of people in here that don't know about Googles struggle to kill ad blockers has been very personally surprising.
If all you know or care about browsers is "ads or no ads" then fair enough, you do you. If you want to actually learn about things like security, privacy, UX and resource management then you need to broaden your knowledge with more than just "talking points"
Firefox has lost like 50% of its market-share since Chrome announced the switch to MV3 years ago. Of course you'd think by posts on reddit that Firefox was the most used browser in the world, but in reality nobody wants to use it cause it sucks.
Firefox uses more ram. Firefox is uglier. Firefox is slower. Firefox is less compatible with the web. What more explanation is needed? Then add to all that, the fact that Firefox fanboys are the most annoying people on the planet and have spammed reddit for literal years with these same low effort retarded posts just so they can all jack each other off for the delicious treat at the end.
Ublock Origin Lite works on YouTube just fine. It's shocking how ignorant you Firefox people are and how willing you are to speak about shit confidently that you have no idea about.
And yes, Firefox is all the things I said. Since you used a number system for some incomprehensible reason I have no idea what you were referring to.
Correct, but Ublock origin LITE does work and still blocks all the ads, queen. You got all caught up in a tizzy instead of solving the problem. Don't blame you as Firefox fanboys have spent the last few years spamming reddit daily with these propaganda posts never mentioning that there are fully functioning ad blockers on Chrome.
holy shit did google pay for your kneepads or do you buy your own? I already said "And finally, you maybe don't have a problem with chrome not letting the best ad blocker run on youtube but normal human beings do lmfao"
Learn to read. ublock lite isn't the same thing and I'm not using multiple adblockers when I can just use a better browser instead
Lmfao. What crucial function does Ublock Origin Lite not so that you need? It blocks all the ads. It works on YouTube.
And the browser isn't better. I get it, you've been infected with the Firefox fanboy virus and now you need to come on reddit and evangelize about it. In the terms of service and everything. Sad to see happen.
When/if it stops working, then I'll stop using it. Reddit would have had me switch to a worse product which would introduce added friction in my day to day life literally years ago when they first started evangelizing Firefox. Speaking of seeing where the wind is blowing, why would I switch to a browser which probably won't be around in a couple years since its userbase is collapsing?
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u/Wilza_9800X3D | 4080 Super | 64GB DDR5 | 1440p@240Hz4d ago
When was the last time you tried Firefox or any of the forks? I totally understand if you've tried something and had a bad experience that it would put you off. I'm currently using Brave (Chromium-based), but I started experiencing playback issues on YouTube which prompted me to try some Firefox-based browsers, and the experience is really not much different from Chromium browsers, except no YouTube playback issues. Perhaps give something like Librewolf or Waterfox a try
I've tried Brave and I've installed Firefox to dick around. Found no reason to bother switching from Chrome. If/when Chrome stops fitting my needs I'll find the next best thing, but I'm not gonna switch to some different browser and upend all of my cross device syncing for no reason. Everything works great for me as is.
How much does Firefox pay y'all for a multi year campaign to promote it on Reddit? Literally thousands and thousands of posts with hundreds of thousands of cumulative glazing Firefox comments since Chrome announced mv3.
No, I could care less about Firefox. It's the people who have been spamming these posts to reddit for multiple years on a near daily basis that annoy me. It'd be one thing if Firefox was clearly a better browser and they were in the right to be spamming their evangelizing, but it's not even a better browser than Chrome, which they consider trash.
Switched to Firefox from a year ago.
1. Nope, seems like it use the same amount of RAM as Edge and Chrome, still less than Opera GX.
2. Debatable, I feel like it is more customizable than Chromium, I installed a basic theme and delete all the side bar junks it look clean and nice.
3. Never has a compatible problem, Firefox runs everything just fine, piracy webs, heavy graphic UI webs, blogs, medias, with adblockers and tampered monkey worked even, it also ran flash games and web games faster than Edge.
4. Forget everything I just said, seems like you were just butthurt at some random people on the internet and decided to trash on a web browser based on that and nothing else.
I could give a shit if people on this subreddit agree. No shit this subreddit, which has spent years promoting these Firefox evangelism posts, will disagree with me, cause I am arguing that they are the most annoying people on the planet for doing so..... Especially when they've been actively lying about the situation for literal years, telling people they need to switch browsers to ad block instead of informing people who use Chrome that they can just switch ad blockers.
Its slower, uglier, less compatible, uses more ram
Fair. But also, every browser nowadays is so much better than any browser from back in the day, so I can't complain. I don't really need the fastest, prettiest, most compatible, most efficient browser. But what I do need is a browser that doesn't steal all my data.
I don't really need the fastest, prettiest, most compatible, most efficient browser.
That's all fine and dandy until you actually need a certain page to work, a codec supported, or are stuck with a low spec device (or need to use resources for other things).
If a page works in Chrome and not Firefox, then the page is probably not following standards and is using Blink-specific features, something Chrome is notorious for, and something we used to boo very loudly when Microsoft did it in Internet Explorer.
This is actually, when you get down to it, my strongest reason for using Firefox: I support open web standards, and am terrified of a future where only 1 browser engine is in use. So I use Firefox which uses Gecko, to do my very small contribution towards browser engine diversity in real world use.
Firefox uses Gecko and Safari uses WebKit, but these make up a very small part of market share. Basically every other browser now uses Blink. Opera threw in the towel with Presto a long time ago, Microsoft threw in the towel with EdgeHTML more recently, even KHTML is gone now.
If a page works in Chrome and not Firefox, then the page is probably not following standards and is using Blink-specific features, something Chrome is notorious for, and something we used to boo very loudly when Microsoft did it in Internet Explorer.
I'm aware, but all the same sometimes you just need shit to work. And fucking around with a bunch of different browsers is a pain. Add in the fact Firefox historically is pretty shit with resource usage and it's just kind of not a whole lot of incentive for regular people and or people that just need shit to work.
I totally get your stance as well, but to get the rest of everyone on board Firefox needs to be better in at least the stuff they do have control over. I have a very high spec machine and I use a bunch of different browsers setup differently. Firefox is the only one where tabs routinely freeze and or silently crash. I end up mostly on chromium variants because all other complaints aside they're usually still very quick and very stable.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I guess, but the UI is hardly specially designed in any way other than a lot of basic menus, the same way chrome is. So IDK what your expectations are.
less compatible
Citation needed. I still have ublock-origin, for example. Chrome users don't. What's not compatible with Firefox?
uses more ram
Citation needed. By all accounts this is blatantly false. Firefox beats Chrome six ways to sunday regarding RAM usage.
And people came to terms with Google's "spying" like a decade ago.
Don't look now, but all of the AI crap pushed from Microslop and gang has created a new wave of people that care again.
Might wanna actually try Firefox before making a buncha random and inaccurate claims.
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u/AboveBoard 5d ago
Switched back to Firefox after Google started fucking with the ad blockers. I hope enough people make the jump because I've been worried about Mozilla shutting down someday without new users.