• normalexit@lemmy.world
    241·
    2 years ago

    Firefox is faster than ever, and I trust Mozilla a fair bit more than Google to not be shady with my data. The switch is painless, and ads these days cover what feels like over half the page… it’s insane.

    I run ff on my phone and PC, with all the privacy settings maxed. Ublock also works on Android and makes those trashy BuzzFeed style sites readable.

  • Fest@lemmy.world
    21·
    2 years ago

    thank you for posting the image directly on the instance youre using and not on some random website ive never heard about before that still uses http

  • macniel@feddit.de
    15·
    2 years ago

    We can only hope. But then again, we saw how people act when it comes to those changes. They will try it for a bit but then fall right back and accept the shit they wanted to flee from.

  • lemillionsocks@beehaw.orgEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    I know that the jump to chrom was aided by a number of factors, with one of the bigger ones being how fluid technology use was at the time. Everything was new and anything could become number 1.

    Still it’s so frustrating that when firefox had the memory leak and “took a long time to launch” the web was flooded with complaints and people jumping to chrome and congratulating google on what a modern browser they built.

    Meanwhile everytime chrome gets caught with high memory usage, pushing their own web standards, or destroying adblock and a free web as we know it, the internet as a whole shrugs as if there isnt anything that can be done.

  • lobut@lemmy.ca
    105·
    2 years ago

    Not gonna lie, unlike just of you guys I don’t really care for ad blocking. I pay for YouTube premium and other sites I visit I don’t really get bothered by it.

    However I’m more disturbed about the overreach this is and the control we’re giving to Google or whoever. That’s the reason I use Firefox.

    • Stoneykins [any]@mander.xyz
      82·
      2 years ago

      Its like a ransom if the stakes were as low as possible. They hold your state of non-annoyance hostage and ask for a negligible amount for it so no one gets emotionally involved in this exchange regardless of whether or not they wanna pay the ransom. Instead of subterfuge or the threat of violence they “get away with it” by nature of being generally inconsequential.

      All this to say, seeing as you payed the “ransom”, I would personally describe you as more bothered by ads than anyone else. Not a value judgement, just an observation.

      In order of least to most bothered by ads, doesn’t it make sense to assume

      1. People who watch ads (unbothered)

      2. People who install adblockers (somewhat bothered)

      3. People that pay money to remove ads (extremely bothered)

  • Mandy@beehaw.orgEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    We both know barely a single person this is referring to even knows what a browser is

  • Rizoid@programming.dev
    34·
    2 years ago

    I’ve tried firefox in the past. Back and forth I go when google does something dumb but I always go back. This time I think I’ll deal with the stuff I don’t like for now, or maybe make extensions to fill the voids that I miss desperately.

  • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
    29·
    2 years ago

    I just tried Firefox: Startup took around 40 seconds, UI was not responsive at all, and I couldn’t install locally developed extensions.

    • ReCursing@kbin.social
      2·
      2 years ago

      And what about the second time you started it and it didn’t need to build a user profile first?

    • waka@feddit.deEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      40 seconds startup?! What? Should open within like 2-3 Seconds. 5 if your system RAM is maxing out.

      Abou locally developed extensions, you will need to follow the specific developer directions on that. But if you code, you should’ve figured that out already. If not, you tried doing shady things, which Firefox rightfully blocked.

    • jinarched@lemm.ee
      21·
      2 years ago

      40 seconds to boot? I’ve never experienced this even on my 20 years old potatoe. I find that very hard to believe.

    • DarkenLM@artemis.camp
      1·
      2 years ago

      I also experienced this, and immediately after a reinstall, Firefox decided that it didn’t like to be reinstalled and bricked my OS. I had to completely reinstall it because the boot section was nowhere to be found, and barely any data was salvageable.

      So, even if Chrome is bad, I prefer to use Ungoogled Chromium or other chromium forks that don’t nuke my computer than using a browser that has consistently given me extreme problems.