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I really wish I could agree but sadly this has not been my experience with Firefox, and I have so many issues I've started to switch away recently. Wasting way

I really wish I could agree but sadly this has not been my experience with Firefox, and I have so many issues I've started to switch away recently. Wasting way too much time fighting with websites that turn out to work perfectly fine on Chrome, and the captchas I get on Firefox are becoming genuinely impossible for me to solve. I'm with you on the ads though, and glad it's working out for someone at least!

OkayPhysicist 2y ago
Try Firefox serving Chrome's UserAgent. You'll be shocked how many issues disappear.
- EasyMark 2y ago
  Can you recommend an extension for that? I use “User agent switcher and manager” but it seems overly complicated and aimed at web devs. I just want a simple interface and easy switching between OS and browser combinations
jholman 2y ago
I have very few issues with Firefox. The two that I suspect are: 1) Google-owned sites seem to just chew CPU on Firefox. In particular I'm thinking of GMail and Youtube, both of which I'm a heavy user of, and also Maps. But no non-google sites seem to have this problem. 2) I'm constantly getting websites saying "This is your first time using this device, are you sure you're you?", and I haven't tried whether it's better on Chrome, but it's pretty crazy because I've literally never used your stupid site with any other device, and I used it with THIS device just last month you idiots. I'm just blind guessing that this is some kind of problem as a result of Firefox privacy choices, like maybe the site doesn't know how to use cookies in a way that doesn't trigger anti-tracking. For example banks. But Firefox can keep thousands of tabs open at once (thousands. plural. not kidding, not exaggerating.), it has working uBO, and the frequency of "just because we wanted to" UX changes is much lower. It's just a better choice all around.

OkayPhysicist 2y ago

Try Firefox serving Chrome's UserAgent. You'll be shocked how many issues disappear.

EasyMark 2y ago
Can you recommend an extension for that? I use “User agent switcher and manager” but it seems overly complicated and aimed at web devs. I just want a simple interface and easy switching between OS and browser combinations

jholman 2y ago

I have very few issues with Firefox. The two that I suspect are: 1) Google-owned sites seem to just chew CPU on Firefox. In particular I'm thinking of GMail and Youtube, both of which I'm a heavy user of, and also Maps. But no non-google sites seem to have this problem. 2) I'm constantly getting websites saying "This is your first time using this device, are you sure you're you?", and I haven't tried whether it's better on Chrome, but it's pretty crazy because I've literally never used your stupid site with any other device, and I used it with THIS device just last month you idiots. I'm just blind guessing that this is some kind of problem as a result of Firefox privacy choices, like maybe the site doesn't know how to use cookies in a way that doesn't trigger anti-tracking. For example banks. But Firefox can keep thousands of tabs open at once (thousands. plural. not kidding, not exaggerating.), it has working uBO, and the frequency of "just because we wanted to" UX changes is much lower. It's just a better choice all around.