Firefox is a great alternative to Google Chrome

  • mox@lemmy.sdf.org
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    17 days ago
    1. Browser diversity weakens Google’s grip on web development, and their position as a gatekeeper of the web.
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    17 days ago

    I hate to say it but they’re preaching to the choir, as we say. The people who need to switch won’t read this great article.

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      17 days ago

      I’m pretty sure the number of Lemmy users who like Chrone is very small. It feels like most people here already use Firefox or some related browser.

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      16 days ago

      Well, you don’t need to switch. But, you can help your friends and family switch by setting up Firefox with Ublock-Origin.

      If they see the benefits. They will stick

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    1. It’s literally the only other decent option that is not a fork of the it or it’s one competitor.

    Unfortunately, both are funded by google. Yes, officially it’s just payments to keep the home page in firefox set to Google. But… without that Mozilla would collapse. Google’s got them by the low level components.

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    The privacy bit is just as much absent as using chrome. You’d want a fork for either of the two for that.

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      Sorry but your argument is absolutely false. Even if Firefox is not the most private browser ever, it’s waaaay more private than Chrome. And you can even make it better with a couple of toggles.

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    I guess I just assumed everyone was using Firefox, except the business side of things, but then this isn’t my area. Why wouldn’t you use Firefox at home?

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      Look at the real statistics. Everyone is using Chrome. Even among developers.

      We are outliers. On Linux devices I use FF derivatives (Floorp, LibreWolf), and on macOS I’m using Orion RC.

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      I occasionally have to use Chrome because sometimes the sites I need to use won’t work with Firefox. This includes bill pay for some of my utilities. (At least usually by the next month, the utility company fixes their site again so I can use Firefox…)

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    I use Firefox everywhere but lately I’ve been also using Vanadium on GrapheneOS.

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    1 reason I wont’ use Firefox or any gecko-based fork and I’ll keep using a Chromium fork, instead: I don’t want to support Mozilla.

    Enough.

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      But supporting Google is fine? Because if using any gecko fork is supporting Mozilla, then using any chrome fork is supporting Google.

      How is it different? Or how is Mozilla worse than Google?Or are you using safari or other webkit based browsers?

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    14 days ago

    This article is crap. There are so many reasons to choose Chrome from a UX perspective. Firefox is only superior to Chrome from an ideological perspective.