• clearleaf@lemmy.ca
    9·
    3 years ago

    For anyone who thinks they’re “stuck” with chrome, Firefox has gotten it’s shit together massively in the last few years.

    • Altima NEO@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      3 years ago

      Firefox has never not had it’s shit together. It’s worked fine. I never understood people having issues with it, unless they were running like 50 extensions and a bunch of grease monkey scripts along with a crusty old profile with a massive cache of old data.

      Meanwhile everyone is complaining about Chrome eating up all their RAM

      • Koffiato@lemmy.ml
        1·
        3 years ago

        Funnily enough Chromium actually consumes less RAM and is safer due to better sandboxing.

        But neither of these concern the average user. However, the main difference between the browsers user may notice is how pages that are still loading behave. Firefox has the correct behavior. Aka waiting for vast majority of the elements to finish loading versus Chromium just going “if it’s rendered it’s intractable.” This unfortunately means that Firefox feels slower even though it’s actually faster.

        Also, on behalf of the dark mode enjoyers, flashing white for a moment while launching, loading web pages or updating contents of a webpage is incredibly annoying. None of the Chromium browsers flash white on dark mode.

    • rndll@lemm.ee
      01·
      3 years ago

      Firefox is the only browser on Android which still doesn’t have tabs. Wrangling multiple tabs on a tablet or foldable is just a pain on Firefox. Chrome on standard screen sizes even has tab groups. Until then, Firefox is a no go for me.

  • foggy@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 years ago

    I think Google overestimates my Internet addiction and underestimates my steadfast hatred of advertisements.

    • Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 years ago

      Been on chrome for like 12 years. Syncs across my phone, everything. I will make the switch. I have been wondering when google was going to go evil. Why not 2023 like everything else on the internet?

    • DominicO@ttrpg.network
      0·
      3 years ago

      I’m from the Philippines and I can explain why, at least here, most people still use chrome. Over here, we’re much more concerned about our money and time over our rights and privacy, which means we usually just choose the most convenient and cheap money-wise, which is why the majority of us still use chrome and why the government here can get away with so much shit. we don’t care about our rights not because we’re being given bread and circuses, but because we’re too busy making a circus out of ourselves so we can buy bread.

  • mayonaise_met@feddit.nl
    0·
    3 years ago

    They really do want us to use Firefox, don’t they?

    There is convenience in being used to a browser, but there is more convenience in not having to deal with ads. That’s why I use Firefox on Android.

    • illectrility@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      3 years ago

      I honestly don’t get people that say “I use Chrome because I’m used to it”. It’s not like Firefox and Chrome are immensely different when it comes to UX, right? The interface is pretty similar.

      • mayonaise_met@feddit.nl
        1·
        3 years ago

        Sure. But I also professionally use a product that works better on Chrome (and Edge nowadays) so I’m lazy about it. Eventually I’ll move to Firefox on my home PC. But in on my work PC and phone 95% of the time already so it’s not going to make a huge dent.

  • ﾌ卂ㄖ卄乇卂卄@lemy.lolEnglish
    0·
    3 years ago

    Laughs in Firefox. (Specifically FireDragon)

    Edit: Since there was some confusion in the comments about what FireDragon is, I will explain it here. FireDragon is the default browser on Garuda Linux. FireDragon is a fork of Librewolf, which is in-turn a fork of Firefox. Librewolf’s main goal is to provide the most privacy possible to its user, though it might be at the cost of some sites breaking. FireDragon is a fork of Librewolf, it reduces some of the privacy settings that Librewolf uses, in order for sites to not break, but while still retaining most of the privacy features. dr460nf1r3 the developer of FireDragon said “This fork ships saner defaults to also include regular (not paranoid 😋) users of Garuda Linux in its audience” [1] Paragraph 2, Line 6

    FireDragon from my perspective is focused around Garuda Linux, so a lot of its features are designed for users of Garuda Linux in mind.

    More information about FireDragon can be found here: https://forum.garudalinux.org/t/firedragon-librewolf-fork/5018, here: https://github.com/dr460nf1r3/firedragon-browser, and here: https://dr460nf1r3.org/projects/firedragon/

    More Information about Librewolf can be found here: https://librewolf.net/

    More Information about Garuda Linux can be found here: https://garudalinux.org/