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Just use Firefox! And then install Firefox on your friends' and family's computers too, and set it as the default for them. Spread the word...
by amanzi 7y ago
Just use Firefox! And then install Firefox on your friends' and family's computers too, and set it as the default for them. Spread the word...
- HeavenBanned 7y agoFirefox is almost entirely funded by Google IIRC.
- PudgePacket 7y agoPhrasing it like that is quite misleading.. Yes they receive money for having google.com as the default homepage if I remember correctly. The way you worded it makes it sound like Google controls them.
- Avamander 7y agoIt's misleading to claim Chrome/Google doesn't have an immense control over web standards and protocols.
- jjulius 7y agoYou do realize OP was simply referring to Google having direct control of Firefox financially, not via web standards, yeah? You're implying OP is saying something that they're not.
- Avamander 7y agoThe comment I replied to tried to imply Google has little control over Firefox ("The way you worded it makes it sound like Google controls them."), the immense control is true, it doesn't matter what OP said in this situation.
- isostatic 7y agoFirefox has a nasty history of following chrome's choices
- giancarlostoro 7y agoYeha they merhed the URL and search boxes. I am not a fan. Now and then my browser thinks a local hostname is actually a search term.
- isostatic 7y agoFortunately you can undo that in firefox (separate boxes -- ctrl-l for location, ctrl-k for search, and disable the "search if not a url" option), but it's not the default, and that leads to more and more people using bing to search for google to then search for facebook, as they have no concept of the idea of a URL (or indeed a program, a file or a directory) :(
- gatesphere 7y agoJust follow your hostname with a / to get around that. It's muscle memory for me at this point.
- sdinsn 7y agoIt's configurable. I have a separate search and URL box
- jazoom 7y agoThe hiding www thing along with AMP in general made me finally leave Chrome after over a decade using it. I don't use Firefox, though.
- logiclogic 7y agoI have been doing that since forever but it is not easy to get people to care. Satan (Google) is also actively sabotaging Firefox with intentional incompatibility issues.
- _fzslm 7y agoI'm on a Mac - if only it were that simple. Firefox still has poor performance on Retina Macs, and Safari is removing support for a bunch of extensions I use daily in the upcoming Catalina release. I use ungoogled-chromium but would love to move to Firefox sometime soon. They just need to sort out the performance issues.