• Sev
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    1 year ago

    Been enjoying Edge for a year, but always appreciated FF for it being it’s own thing. Worth a shot?

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      1 year ago

      I genuinely think the web has become horrible enough where the browser you use does not really matter from the technical perspective.

      It does, however, incredibly important to have more than 1 engine competing, as currently Firefox is the only mainstream browser not built on chromium/google.

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      1 year ago

      I use edge at work (nothing else available), Firefox everywhere else.

      It would be nice if more add-ons were supported on mobile, desktop is great.

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      1 year ago

      Not even technically sufficient enough to describe why FF is better, but I switched couple years ago and have zero complaints since then. I just like that it is the last truly independent browser out there.

      Also, FF on mobile allows extensions, so adblockers in mobile browser 👌

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        1 year ago

        Just grabbed FF on iOS, how would an adblocker work? UBlock origin doesn’t have a clear install path (if possible at all?)

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            1 year ago

            Thanks anyway, other than an emergency Reddit search I never use safari anyway - websites on mobile are absolutely shocking to use.

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      1 year ago

      100%! I switched from Chrome last year when the AdBlock thing was big and I never looked back. There are some things I still dont understand (activating syncing between multiple desktop versions is really weird for example) but they are all minor.

      Switching also was extremely easy! I could just import all my bookmarks and since I use BitWarden I didnt need to migrate any passwords. I think it’s also possible to import passwords, but I’m not 100% sure on that.

      There are also quite a few benefits, especially on mobile! You can use add-ons in the Firefox Android Browser, which is huge. Also on Firefox mobile I can view videos in Fullscreen rotated without enabling rotation on the phone, that never worked with chrome for me.

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      Firefox was great, went to shit for a couple of years, and is now back to being great again. I’ve heard it’s much easier on memory as well.

      It’s one of the few non-chromium browsers left, so you should definitely try it because Google is trying to make their own standards with chromium.

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        1 year ago

        It’s literally the only non-chromium browser left other than Safari. That’s why it is critically important that Firefox maintain a presence

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      I’ve used Firefox for the past few months as Hulu has been getting aggressive w/ uBlock solely on Chrome. The only annoying hurdles have been during the switch but other than that I would say it’s a good browser.