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At home I've switched back to Firefox. Seems like I need to complete that transition at work to continue enjoying things like ad blocking and functional sites.
by slowmovintarget 7y ago
At home I've switched back to Firefox. Seems like I need to complete that transition at work to continue enjoying things like ad blocking and functional sites.
In fact, maybe sites should start recommending something like that. (Microsoft's wallet sense must be twinging.)
- mikepurvis 7y agoI switched back to Firefox recently as well— the containers plugin has me completely won over. It takes a while to get in the groove of it, but surfing the internet and not being logged into Google and Facebook everywhere is great and totally worth it. (I recently also switched back to Windows 10 after a decade+ on Mac OS. I never got satisfactory performance from Firefox on Mac, so part of trying it again was hoping that the perf story on Windows was better, which indeed it is.)
- bongobongo 7y agoSwitched to Firefox for work and home. It feels like Chrome did in the early days. No, it’s not faster than Chrome. Yes, there are a couple of dev features that I no longer find intuitive. I just mean in the sense that it is really focused on users. Chrome is focused on advertisers. The change has mostly been painless, and I’m a Web developer. At this point I just don’t trust Google nor Chrome. All the incentives are there for Google to turn Chrome into adware. The evidence is pointing in that direction. And the trust is no longer there. It’s funny to think about (and this is of course a gross caricature) but Chrome feels more and more like they took all the annoying adware/bloatware from the 2000s and disguised it in a browser—except they figured out how to do it without anybody noticing. Today, we are all Grandma.