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I don't know...at one point I got off Firefox because it was slow and I was never able to get back to it ever again. Maybe I should try now?
by aquir 8mo ago
I don't know...at one point I got off Firefox because it was slow and I was never able to get back to it ever again. Maybe I should try now?
- zargon 8mo agoThe best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.
- PunchyHamster 8mo agoMozilla did plant the tree 20 years ago, then decided few years after to abandon it
- glenstein 8mo agoThey push millions of lines of code every year, thousands of patches and all kinds of measurable performance improvements so not sure what you're talking about.
- PunchyHamster 8mo agothe 2% marketshare. I'm talking about 2% marketshare that they got from being de-facto standard, to 2%
- glenstein 8mo agoAt their peak it was like 33% or thereabouts. The claim that they were "abandoned" suggests, well, that the browser was abandoned when it wasn't. It's a mischaracterization. Market share is about some combination of (1) software quality, (2) visibility and (3) distribution lock in. Chrome managed to be arguably better on (1) but it's due to (2) and (3) that it became dominant. If (1) was all that mattered we would all be using the Preso engine version of Opera right now.
- burnermore 8mo agoThey literally abandoned the development for their toy projects until v57 (?) Quantum release. People left Firefox to chrome cos pages like google meetup and other things were not working at all. What are you saying?
- reddalo 8mo agoDo it. It's the only truly independent browser left. It's not perfect, but it works, and unlike Chrome you can have full ad blocking with uBlock Origin.
- charcircuit 8mo agoWith Brave you can have ad blocking built into the browser itself and not have to depend on a third party developer.
- eqvinox 8mo agoThe first party developer in case of Brave is arguably worse than most 3rd party developers elsewhere.
- eipi10_hn 8mo agoAnd Brave's built-in blocker uses uBO's and other lists, including allowing trusted filters (which can inject high risk scripts into your sites) automatically. So yes, you are using 3rd party scripts already, and no, they can't monitor all of the commits from all those lists.
- blibble 8mo agoI would argue that third party developer is more reliable and trustworthy than both Brave and Mozilla
- pessimizer 8mo ago> only truly independent browser Only truly independent browser engine left. Firefox is entirely independent on google, but unlike its competitors this dependency is through direct cash payments.
- Sabinus 8mo agoPerhaps the Europeans will end up funding Firefox to get away from American corporate tech dependency. Firefox has tried valiantly to get away from Google money but it's difficult to fund browser development from small donations or without cross-subsidies from other business, like web advertising.
- bayindirh 8mo agoGive it another go. You'll be surprised.
- bartvk 8mo agoWhy do you actually ask? Switching browsers has got to be one of the easiest software to switch, right?
- altern8 8mo agoIs it? I have autofill/passwords, bookmarks, etc., and you can't easily jump between two different browsers as those will get out of sync.
- mostlysimilar 8mo agoBoth browsers offer import/export functionality for all of those things. Spend one week trying Firefox and if you don't like it, switch back. The inconvenience here is so small it might as well not exist.
- jeppester 8mo agoAfter I upgraded my laptop (Ryzen 2700 => 8845HS) it has felt as though Firefox is much closer to Chrome. While I do not think that the gap narrowed when measured in CPU-cycles, it's just not very noticable when Firefox doesn't feel slow.
- dyauspitr 8mo agoI went back to it 6 months ago once Chrome got rid of ublock. It’s pretty good but then some update a week or two ago blew away all my profiles.