• tryagain@lemmy.ml
      3·
      1 year ago

      Amen, fellow Lemming. It feels good to pull away from an enshittified corporate staple and adopt something that isn’t trying to consume your soul.

  • Responsabilidade@lemmy.eco.br
    542·
    1 year ago

    Not chromium based. I think it’s important to have alternatives to chromium-based browsers and Google’s monopoly.

    If Firefox vanishes, I’ll use Epiphany instead.

  • bringleborper@lemmy.ca
    371·
    1 year ago

    A lot of false equivocating has been made regarding Mozilla and actual surveillance capitalism firms like Google and Microsoft. Mozilla remains, in my mind, the least of all evils with an organization capable of supporting a modern web browser as well as other projects.

  • rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
    301·
    1 year ago

    Because it’s not controlled by the same company that also controls my smartphone OS, my internet search engine, the videos I watch …

    And it works pretty alright.

  • Fonzie!@ttrpg.network
    18·
    1 year ago

    1. Because of FoxyGestures, I can’t find a good replacement for this on Chromium based browsers.

    2. Because of uBlock Origin, Firefox has the full version, on mobile too.

    3. Because Google Chrome can scan my files system for “malware” and improving their ad data, in other words their spying goes too far.

    4. Because of the customisability of the UI.

    5. Because I can tweak every variable (visit about:config)

    6. Because if you turn telemetry off, it’s actually off, Google lies about that.

    7. Because Google’s market share is so big, that they have the guts to try and DRM the entire Internet for their browser, no company should have that much power.

  • RebootRebootReboot@programming.devEnglish
    101·
    1 year ago

    I use Firefox because I can use the full version of UBlock Origin, and UBlock Origin also works on the mobile browser.

    I also make heavy use of the extension Multi-Account Containers for signing in with different accounts for the same service at once.

    Lastly, I prefer the UI for Firefox over anything else.

  • breezelbub@l.shoddy.site
    101·
    1 year ago

    Because it’s the successor to netscape, and I never felt the need to change browsers. Glad I didn’t.

    • crackajack@reddthat.com
      3·
      1 year ago

      Same I never felt I had to change browsers. Firefox was the fastest internet browser. Even though it’s not anymore, I use it for the sake of familiarity. But with the change of Firefox’s selling point as being the most privacy-friendly, it made it all the more better!

  • tryagain@lemmy.ml
    9·
    1 year ago

    I remember when Netscape was abandoned and open-sourced as Mozilla, and it was huge and bloated as slow as hell. And out of that came a project to just pull out the browser part of Mozilla and make it super fast and as portable. I remember a series of early alphas, and even the name went through a few evolutions. First it was called Phoenix, then Firebird, briefly, until they realised Firebird was taken and changed it to Firefox. It had this shiny new Gecko rendering engine and its only rival was IE…5?

    When I started my first dev job in 2006, Firefox was far and away the best browser to use because it had an extension that no other browser could match: Firebug. Firebug was the precursor to the standard F12 devtools that every browser now has and it was life-changing if you were a web developer. (Try imagine doing your job without it now.)

    Then Chrome arrived and it was shiny and W3C compliant (yay!) and you could pull a tab off into a separate window (wow!) and every tab ran as a separate process (neat!) and Google wouldn’t be evil for at least another decade. Back then, FF had memory leak problems and that drove a lot of us away.

    And then Chrome pulled this ad surveillance shit and I was fucking out. I’m so glad that FF is still here.

    I let myself be fully engulfed by the Google/Chrome/Android continuum and it’s only recently that I realised just how much of myself I gave away and, while my personal data has long since been propagated to a million servers, I’d still like to try keep some of myself to myself.

    My back hurts.

  • banazir@lemmy.ml
    8·
    1 year ago

    It’s a combination of FireFox being the least shit and the most functional option, really. Still kind of shit by default, so I go for Librewolf. Also I’ve been using it since Firebird.

    Overall the browser market is depressing.

  • Swarfega@lemm.eeEnglish
    91·
    1 year ago

    I’ve used Chrome since the beginning and moved from Firefox. I’ve been happy. I’d still be happy but now I’m back on Firefox because of Google’s intentions. It’s led me to start to move away from Google as a whole. Moved my emails and search to DuckDuckGo.

    It’s going to be hard to move away from other services. Maps and YouTube for example.

    • PersonalDevKit@aussie.zone
      5·
      1 year ago

      It is hard to move away from maps completely but for pure navigation there are many alternatives. From the FOSS world, there are 2 I would recommend.

      Organic Maps - fairly clean and focused app mainly around navigation

      OsmAnd~ - a more fleshed out map app. Easily see hiking routes, ski routes, etc. This is the one I am trying to use at the moment.

      Still doesn’t help solve the google review for restraunts and shops etc, but it is a step in the right direction.

      • breezelbub@l.shoddy.site
        3·
        1 year ago

        i used to write reviews for restaurants on goog many years ago. recently i’ve gotten mails from google, saying they had been contacted by restaurants who claim they don’t know me and my review is fraudulent. google wants me to prove i had been there (7 years ago, paid cash) or they’ll delete the review. so all my reviews are gone, as well as any trust in that content. google reviews are garbage.