Iirc Firefox and I think Safari are the only major non-chromium browsers. It makes me so sad because I remember Google’s “don’t be evil” days… man they left that behind
Yeah. They selectively adopt web standards years later than the others and the mobile and iPad versions in some ways behave completely differently from desktop (and each other). If safari just acted like the other browsers, frontend web dev would be MUCH easier.
Depends on which standards, for some css functions like backdrop-filters and mix-blend-modes it was years ahead of Firefox, where some of those had to be activated through about:config. I‘m glad Firefox catchend up in the past few years though. Also WebKit accelerated HTML5 adoption a lot.
Never had any major issues developing for Firefox, safari and chrome in the past few years though. It was quite a different story 10 years ago but nowadays 99% of the time, it works flawlessly between all major browsers for me.
I feel like you're referring to Firefox literally 12 years ago or more. I'm talking about today. Literally any brand new standard is not supported for 1-2 years minimum. I run into problems with safari on a near daily basis. I rarely have a weird issue in Firefox. 99% of the time chrome and Firefox behave the same. The vast majority of the time that one browser has an issue others don't, it's safari. It's weird to me to get pushback on this ...
Their browser is webkit on iOS since apple doesn't allow anything else on that platform. The mac version is also webkit. And the android version is - you guess it - blink, the engine used by chromium.
Doesn’t allow anything else on that platform yet*. Apple should be dropping the webkit requirement pretty soon and google and mozilla are already working on ios ports of their engines.
Yeah I just googled and found that. Only problem is that it's been 6 months and not a peep since. This is more of a policy piece than software (I think). Any reason why that capability would be tied to an os release?
Vivaldi isn't just the spiritual successor, it's built by the guy who made the original Opera. Its baked in Ad and Tracker blocking rival UBO and it has all the features Fox can only hope to barely emulate with Mozilla extensions.
I've got FF loaded up and set up how I like, but I won't be switching over until Vivaldi doesn't perform correctly.
i always use software for what it is, ignoring the beliefs of its creator, but ive already been using firefox, librewolf and mullvad browser since i moved to linux, and i have only been seeing people say stuff that shows chromium is worse. (except for people with no argument of course)
The piece that gets continuously underestimated is who moves in these small initial jumps. It tends to be the more technically inclined, who over the next couple years, their recommendations will lead to friends and family moving as well, at a slower rate.
The piece that gets continuously underestimated is who moves in these small initial jumps. It tends to be the more technically inclined, who over the next couple years, their recommendations will lead to friends and family moving as well, at a slower rate.
Sure. And here we are. I'm sure these companies consider us a real fly in the ointment. But I'm not inclined to believe the past is perfectly predictive of the future. What you described is also, in my perspective, how things have gone in the past. But will it happen the same way this time? I don't know. I'm not confident based on what I've seen. They are trying to close in the walls on the internet and they are confident that people are too lazy to stop them.
You arent wrong. But, acectdata and mine own, convenience drove that. People are fucking lazy and hate nothing more than to be inconvenienced. When chrome was getting traction, explorer was trasshhhhhhhhh and every one knew it.
Chrome might be a bit bloated but its no explorer. If it doesn't hurt people to stay, I don't think we'll see a shift.
Times have changed. The userbase that dropped IE was a vastly different one. With the internet being more accessible and more alluring to the massed (i.e. because of social media) convenience is king.
Back then internet users werent normies, but nreds and tech savy people. Also, chrome learned from IE's mistakes. It wont stop functioning and will keep updating, so the average normy user wont mind.
I genuinely don't know how Ill use the web without ad block. Cause I damn sure ain't going back to paying for anti-virus like in the 90's for a web experience that is objectively worse and less magical enough to risk it.
Drive by malware and viruses from ads has gotten scarily good at infecting systems without you knowing. It's worse than ever as it's not just a sketchy site issue thing anymore either. Even reputable sites have ads that only take one misclick to infect you now
Browsers at least, unlike social networks, don't benefit from networking effects. How many people use a specific browser doesn't directly affect the usefulness of that browser, as users of different browsers can interact with each other to the same degree as users of the same browser. For now at least, as Google's Web Integrity API could obviously change that if websites start to require and some browser are unable or unwilling to provide it.
How many people use a specific browser doesn’t directly affect the usefulness of that browser, as users of different browsers can interact with each other to the same degree as users of the same browser. For now at least, as Google’s Web Integrity API could obviously change that if websites start to require and some browser are unable or unwilling to provide it.
True. I MUST use Edge at work and honestly, its fine. Its not some radical departure from Firefox, i dont have to think too hard about the differences.
Google broke on Firefox for a while a day ago for me.
Went to some other search engine.
Jumping from social media is hard.
Jumping from applications is not.
teamspeak became Skype which became discord.
And many of us did leave Reddit. I didn’t even leave because I cared about the protests or what Reddit was doing. I left because many posts were deleted, people left, subreddits became abandoned.
Lemmy became better than Reddit basically overnight.
I just switched yesterday after learning more about why I should here in Lemmy.
The last time I tried FF (many years ago) it was incredibly slow, so I went with chrome. But the FF of today is actually noticably quicker.
Also, FF offered to import all of my bookmarks, autofills, passwords, history, and even my extensions (if a FF version exists of course, almost all of which did) and did so seamlessly. It was the easiest software switch ever.
Apart from privacy concerns, Google has started to add some really bad features to Chrome, such as "Manifest V3" and "Web Environment Integrity". These limit your ability to block ads or generally modify your device or the websites you're visiting, and are just a bad for the web as a whole. WEI in particular is basically DRM for the web, so Google checks your device and denies you access to websites if they don't like it. But as long as the majority of people keep using Chrome they can just force these things onto everyone.
I tried FF earlier this year. It sucked. Everything just took extra clicks. The password manager was a pain and didn't interact with my phone apps properly.
I know the complaints against chrome. When it starts forcing me to watch ads I might try FF again.
Hey, at least installing a foss browser won't slow down your phone like a spyware app, you could always try something like Mull even for only a portion of your browsing if you have ~80MB to spare. I suggest it because I hate some of that extra bullshit that comes with standard Firefox. Also there's tons of projects that try similar stuff with Chromium! Like Mulch. Way better defaults than Chrome
The Android FF is not a great user experience for sure. On desktop it's just fine but Android is janky. I tolerate anyway to support Firefox but chrome is miles better on mobile.
I personally really miss being able to group tabs. I don't think you're able to do it on Firefox, right?
Firefox has extensions that can help with this, but I find the way Chrome does it extremely useful. I'd still choose Firefox, but there are certainly a couple of features that Chrome has that can be helpful
One thing that annoyed me was how much more awkward it is to switch between two user profiles .
In chrome I have a work email a personal email, each with its own account, and a different look. I can immediately tell which I'm using, and can switch between them with the button at the top right.
I managed to mess around and find an extension which kind of does the same thing, so I'm no longer missing the feature, but it's definitely jankier and doesn't work as smoothly.
Also, I don't know if it's a bitwarden issue, but autofill hardly ever works properly.
Sometimes I want to pull a tab into its own window on the other screen. You're not allowed to do this when the browser is full screen, only when it's windowed. Annoying.
These are my only issues with firefox I can think of.
I put in a good faith effort to switch to FF earlier this year. I really wanted to like it. I consider myself an expert user to so it wasn't just "I didn't know what I was doing." I recently switched back to Chrome. I hope FF gets better because I don't like recent Chrome news.
Was just about to say this. I finally switched today because Chrome tried to sign me up automatically for a bunch of ‘privacy enhancements’ which do the opposite.
The only thing I’m having trouble finding a good version of is tab groups.
I want tab groups that I can collapse and expand at will. Not one that hides my tabs, and which I can’t see two tab groups concurrently.
Firefox sorta does! If you only use tab groups (or profiles for that matter) to separate school tabs from work and personal tabs, I recommend giving the Multi-Account Containers extension a look.
PWA. Last time I seriously tried Firefox it's support for Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) was non existent. When their issue tracker told me they have no plans for implementing it, I shed a single tear and then moved back to chromium.
I primarily use Firefox, but the big one for me and the reason I haven't completely deleted Chrome is being able to create shortcuts with the "Open in a new window" option for specific URLs. Granted I'm not very tech savvy (just a little more aware than the average user) and primarily use a mac for my personal computer atm, but that feature is a game changer for me. As far as I know, other popular browsers don't offer it currently.
It's really useful for when there isn't a download or iOS app for a specific site/service, or when the web app is much better than the app or download option and I still want to be able to use it like a separate app from my browser.
I also wasn't able to download any software that wasn't on the Apple App Store with my work computer for my previous employer (super annoying, but I kind of get it). So it was essential if I wanted to have a separate and dedicated app/window at all for my work calendar, email, etc.
I love how I can visually organize the web apps I like to use separately from my browser, to save time and energy for daily use. I can customize the name and shortcut icon, pin them to my dock, organize them in folders in my launchpad, and even set them to launch on startup if I want. Not sure if there are reasonably easy ways to mimic this with Firefox, but I haven't found any yet.
same problem we had back in the ie5/6 days: it was just there and most people don't care. i physically cringe when i watch co-workers using chrome with not even a basic adblocker installed, klicking away ads, promts, pop-ups, videos and whatnot just to access a news article. it's horrible!
I’m forced to use either Chrome or Edge for my work computer and it drives me crazy.
I've been a Sysadmin for a ~decade. I can state with 100% certainty that the reason behind that decision is that you can very easily configure Group Policy to control the behavior and visibility/availability of features in Chrome and Edge. Firefox didn't have that until just a couple of years ago, and it wasn't great when it first became available. And to be honest, it's still not fully baked, but it's at least usable now from an administrative perspective.
Maybe bring it up to your IT department and include this link in the email/ticket.
I’d use it exclusively, but there’s no Ad Blocker for it on iOS, and I don’t want to run an ad blocking VPN all the time. I also don’t like how there’s no official PWA support on desktop.
Chrome doesn't support extensions at all on iOS, only Safari does - because of Apple. Firefox would absolutely support extensions and use Gecko on Ios if Apple let them.
Yeah, but there are ways other browsers have determined how to have in-built ad blocking. I’m
not sure of the ins and outs, but Brave, Samsung Browser, and Edge all have built-in ad blocking on iOS.
But there is strict tracking protection which acts like a slightly degraded ad blocker. It has blocked everything except YouTube ads and "you have ad blocker enabled" pop ups for me.
Showing people that they can avoid ads by switching from chromium might make more people use adblockers.
I get flabbergasted whenever I talk to someone and realize they're unaware that such things exist.
I hope all (according to the google store entry for ublock origin) 10,000,000 of the ublock origin users switches from chromium based browsers to, say, firefox...
Feels like chromium is the new internet explorer...
That's why Google is trying to launch the "Web Integrity API" that will essentially allow them to mandate any website accessible to or using Google Services to ban browsers that have ad blockers.
I know a lot of Chrome users, and the general story I get from them is nearly always the same infuriating bullshit along these lines:
"So, I tried the like, Fox Fire thingy, but this one time, like, it took, like, 1.5 seconds to load, so it's """""""""slow""""""""" so I just use Chrome 'cause it's, like, faster and stuff."
Yeah, and I suppose the 427 useless things you have running in your system tray right now don't have anything to do with your computer being "slow," right?
Or worse, "Why should I switch to Firefox? Everybody's complaining about the performance of Firefox compared to Chrome, but Chrome just works for me."
Blissfully unaware of the kind of power you're giving Google over the Internet by using their browser. I once had an experience where someone tried to use this to push me back to using Chrome.
There is also the initial load problem where it would take longer to load in Firefox compared to chrome. Yet people will attribute it to the browser and not the fact that assets were already stored in chrome.
I use it on my laptop, but it's crap on my phone. My phone is pretty old now, I use opera. I know, no one likes opera, but I've used it that long now I find it difficult to jump across. I tried again recently, but it's still too slow.
What's the advantage for google of doing this move? People "savy" enough to install an adblock (or even know that it exists) is most likely to switch to a competitor that allows for adblocking
Strict tracking protection makes Firefox on Android a ton faster, especially on any website owned by Google or any link that has a Google wrapper (e.g. clicking a link on the Gmail app)
Strict protection on iOS was literally the difference between "I can use this phone" and "brick". I had an old iPhone, 6 Plus, and Safari lagged to death because it tried to load ads. Firefox didn't.
According to this GitHub discussion PrivacyBadger is pretty much redundant if you use uBlock Origin, can even hinder performance and cause opposite effect than expected.
To add to this, I have uBO installed on FF Android, but Strict Protection still makes things much faster for me. I'm not sure if it's because of my other Addons, but FF Android is so slow otherwise with certain sites (mostly just Google's)
As a user of Linux and primarily FOSS software for 2 years, each time I recommended something FOSS, others had bad luck.
I tried switching someone to Linux but I couldn't achive %100 funnctionality on a Windows only app I set up via Wine. (it is an obscure program, not sth like Adobe or MS Office)
I recommended Kdenlive to a Mac user friend, he couldn't export a video he spent 30 hours on it.
I convinced someone to use Libreoffice but they lost data in only 30 mins because I forgot to tell that if you draw more than a few strokes in LO Draw it enters a save loop. This is fixed now thankfully.
I recommended VLC for DVD ripping, it entered some sort of loop and failed to export.
Each of the above examples involve completely different people, by the way.
I set up 2 fresh Windows installs for family but installed Firefox with strict protection and uBlock Origin instead of Chrome and... it worked?! They still use Firefox. Maybe the alpenglow theme is too good, I don't know.
You're right and it's that sort of stuff that people like you and me will deal with and figure out and move on but unfortunately it's not the case with regular people. That's why I never recommend that sorry if stuff to 'normies' ie. My mom. Instead I set them up with the lesser of evils that will give them convenience and make them more likely to trust me in the future. That way, if I ever REALLY need them to move on from something they will be more likely to just listen to me and not fight me about it.
I just got a couple of friends to switch over to Firefox even though they were chrome fans, all because I have years of goodwill. Ported their bookmarks and got them ublock and they barely even notice a difference.
When I made the switch I was shocked at well it blocks ads. It still surprises me to this day. Yeah, it takes a little longer to load, but I couldn't care less.
In the old days I used Firefox exclusively, until my work started only supporting chrome so I kinda went with it and switched. Out of habit I continued until a couple of years ago, that I went full Firefox again and I remembered why I loved it.
As for the backup portion, mega has offered free 50GB for ages. And you can setup shared folders. I just use that for now. As for other data, I think I'll just buy a NAS and self-host.
It's a bit of a shift, there's no real good alternative, so Google's long hook and bait is turning into even worse money pump.
Google and every other corporation that wants to be your Daddy or your slave master can go fuck off and die. Personally I have been done for a while now, when Google shit all over the world by buying YouTube then making everyone sign in to Google plus to use, it was it for me, I have never actually signed in to YouTube since, and have tried to avoid giving Google any traffic to this day.
I think we don't have a choice anymore but to start making a new society built from scratch for the people. We can start by using the vast amount of tools and resources built by corporations to enslave us against the same corporations doing the enslaving.
I don't know if the human population can actually collectively do what's necessary to save themselves or more then likely their children from a life of permanent servitude these corporations want.
But why not give it a try, it's better then realizing you were a feckless idiot that did absolutely nothing while you're waiting for a corporation to cut off your life support because you're no longer profitable.
Politicians will allow corporations to enslave everyone but that magical 1%, they're not vary bright, they don't study history, all they study is fleecing the public, when the shit finally hits the fan the leaders these politicians make will hang them first.
And if some corporation don't like what I'm saying, come at me bitch, I've got curable cancer, I've been told I got ten years left, so have fun then die (I'm on a Tennessee Republican Death Panel right now.) So lets see how much "fun" I can make for corporations in ten years.
Seriously. I'll be a redditor here, but that's my "migrate-to-another service moment". If I'm not able to whitelist the sites that provide a reasonable ad experience and block ads on those that dont, then I'm moving to a different browser and password saving environment.
I don't see how getting rid of ad blocking would help Google. The people that know tech enough to always install Adblock first thing when installing a browser will just jump to the next browser.
And the people that don't know tech enough to do that wouldn't have used Adblock either way.
They're losing out on a much larger userbase (People that know tech) in the hopes of keeping the subset of that userbase that knows their way around tech but doesn't care if adblock is installed or not and making them 'pay' by watching ads.
That would at least be my opinion if that's what's actually happening, because I personally didn't gaf about these news until now and I only read the text from the meme. And quite honestly, I'll continue not giving af in the future.
And in comes Google's 'DRM for websites' plan to force you to use a chrome based browser. Sure, the websites still would need to opt in to integrity API, but how many will turn down guaranteed ads and tracking.
Yeah if Google can get big websites like Facebook or Xwitter to use their DRM, then the average user will be forced to use Chrome for those sites, and it will be an advertiser free-for-all.
My question is will Google/YouTube be able to block all ad blockers no matter what browser is used? Or will using an alternative browser circumvent it all as everyone seems to be saying it will?
I haven't migrated away from Chrome yet, but will do so if that is the easy of a solution.
It's a question that only time will probably tell. But I'm 100% sure that, as long as alternative browsers exist that allow adblockers, they'll find a way to block ads on e.g. Youtube.
Unless they start injecting the ads into the video directly (kind of like some apps do that display ads even when your device is offline), even then though, Sponsorblock theoretically exists.
In its current form, it would only work if each video had the ads injected at the same timestamp and with the same duration everytime, which I find unlikely.
It would have to implement some dynamic behavior. It is however in at least some countries required to visibly and clearly mark ads, so a check for that marking could possibly be implemented. But that's more of a thing I'd expect uBO to do instead of Sponsorblock.
Going by recent internet history, every anti-adblock measure will have its according anti-anti-adblock measure within at most a few weeks by now. That's the beauty of community-driven open source projects.
The manifest v3 situation does mean other browsers will continue to be able to block ads on YouTube; however, the new drm that Google is proposing for websites would effectively allow YouTube to block any browser they didn't like from viewing the site at all.
The moment Firefox gets native vertical tabs with drag and drop grouping, I'm making the switch. But, as it stands, the vertical tabs in Edge are irreplaceable and not a single of the "workarounds" to make them possible in Firefox feel good at all.
I need drag and drop tab grouping and vertical tabs. That's it.
Edge also just introduced workspaces which feels like something I'm going to love once I get the time to mess with them.
I want to leave Edge because I want to be done with Chromium in general, but Firefox feels too behind the times for me.
Not the person you responded to, but more tabs visible at once & being able to group them as a tree is incredibly useful.
The grouping as tree thing happens automatically in sidebery (extension for firefox). When you have a tab open, any link you click will be added as a child node to the current tab. If you're doing research, or just don't want to lose your focus, it is immensely helpful.
Brave supports vertical tabs but doesn't do the tree thing. Not useful at all compared to sidebery tbh. I don't know how Edge works in that regard though.
In addition to what others have said, I prefer more vertical space for webpages. Vertical tabs take up much less space and are, in my opinion, much easier to organize. I also don't need to see the title bar constant and the favicon is plenty for me to keep track of what's there.
Grouping helps me keep ideas together. I don't like to bookmark things I'm only going to need for a few hours/days, so grouping tabs helps me keep them open without them getting in the way.
As I said in my original comment, none of those workarounds feel good. They show their seams constantly. I've tried a handful of extensions and not one feels as good as or is as feature complete as what's native in Edge.
That's totally fair, too. Not everyone gets bothered by the same things.
The last set up I used was this one and what made me give up is that it is so easy to accidentally close it. I had to look through my Firefox history to find that and when I closed the history sidebar, my tab bar was gone. It's just a press of F1 to get it open, but why can't I just make it persistent? Why does it have to share the same space as so many other features in Firefox? I don't care if history wants to occupy the same space for the moment I need it, but when I'm done, go back to showing my tabs.
And it's still not what I'd (personally) call pleasant. I tried a plethora of different setups and not one comes close to what Edge offers out of the box.
I'm not trying to shill for Edge. I would 100% prefer not to use it just based on principle. But I can't help it that it has features I've come to NEED.
I don't even pay attention to it, the moment I log into YouTube and Vivaldi stops blocking ads I'll switch to FF. I've already got it set up, V just works faster and takes up less RAM than Fox with the equivalent extensions (minus UBO cause V has ad blocking built in.)
Until then it's just reactionary fear mongering, this same crap was floating around last November/December claiming that it would break in January and I'm still here waiting for that day to come.
So I switched to Firefox for privacy reasons but fuck if it isn't buggy as hell on my old phone. I'm keeping it, but it's a huge reduction in usability compared to Chrome.
I use Firefox exclusively on both android and my PC. And have no idea what you're talking about. Are you also on android? What's been buggy in your experience?
Not the person you're replying to but I sometimes have issues with PWAs not loading when I open them and then I have to close it and re-open to get it to load
That's the only major issue I have and I find the ability to use ad blockers as well as the nice reading mode to make my overall mobile browsing experience leagues better than with Chrome
Still find it crazy when one company decides the internet's fate and seems to act like they own the internet, simply because they have a huge ass market for the browser, search engine & site crawler.
I don't know, but who cares? What does anyone have against Firefox? It's fast, has a massive extensions library, open source, secure, private ... there's literally no reason whatsoever not to use it.
People don't like change. But I'm a hypocrite. I've tried switching to Firefox multiple times but I always go back, not even really sure why. I use it as a secondary browser these days.
Even without the web integrity api , the tests for amazon hiring process at least in india require you to run windows/mac and chrome, linux and firefox are not supported !
If we take the majority of internet users, in that 99% doesn't care about ad blocking. They are not even aware of extensions and stuff. And most people in that category are not going to notice these changes at all as most of them are chrome users.
Some firefox fans will go to any extent to praise firefox by lying about chrome. One thing is that firefox is faster than chrome. My potato pc with 2gb ram and pentium dual core is able to run chrome (without ad blocking) faster than firefox. Page loading etc is faster even with ads in chrome. Same in my work pc with i5 11th gen and 16gb ram. Other chrome browsers like vivaldi and brave are even faster.
But do I care about a few seconds of lag in firefox?. No. I use firefox because of extensions and ad block integration. Not because of its speed. I also use chrome for banking websites etc for a smoother experience. Firefox has some more to do to get a smoother experience. Especially on phones. Pc firefox and chrome are almost similar. Even then chrome is a little bit more faster to be honest.
Other than people who are aware of this issue, that is a very small pool of people no one is ditching chrome.
Does anyone really claim that Firefox is faster than Chrome. There are certainly reasons to use Firefox over Chrome, but speed isn't one of them imo. I've always found it to be slower.
Yep, moved from Edge to Firefox on all but my Windows Tablet. Only reason I'm holding out on the tablet is because the battery enhancements of Edge are too much to pass up on the device. Phone and PC though, straight to Firefox.
I've just recently switched because Chrome yet again stuffed up all my task bar shortcuts (whatsapp, keep, calenders etc) so they all just loaded as tabs.
Firefox doesn't even have the ability to create task bar icons so for a long time I never bothered with it.
You'd be able to if Apple didn't block other browsers using extensions, or any rendering software other than webkit on their phones. Your fault for using Appl€.
I get your point of view, but I didn't want to buy from Apple either. Before the purchase I knew how locked down iOS is.
But since Apple basically owns the education space, I had no other choice
I'm sorry, I should've been more specific. I meant that by offering a one-stop “just works” solution, they make it easy for schools in my country to implement their system, which in theory works good, and locking them into their expensive system.
For example, presenting works wirelessly using their proprietary Apple TV. App Management works on their OS only. Have a file to share? Just airdrop it (lol) and so on.
That way you don't have a choice as a teacher or worse student, you either buy into their system or are the weird annoying guy, that has to ask the teacher every time if they can, upload it at …
Thanks, I checked the Adguard site again and configured it properly using the profiles and not just the per WiFi IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Now I get 71% on an adblock test.
DNSCloak however didn't do anything really, in the test I used it made no difference to a not blocking DNS
Because Google is trying to add internet-wide drm which would make ad-blocking difficult, if not impossible, and they have a large enough marketshare to potentially force it.
Tbh I don't think that's totally outside the realm of possibility as it takes control out of Apple's hands. However, I'm not sure if Apple's userbase is really large enough to stop Google.
Supposedly Safari makes up about 20% of global browser usage (chrome is at 63%, Firefox is about 2.8%) which could be large enough to stop Google, but that's also assuming that Apple won't cave to users and/or corporations complaining about how their site doesn't work on Safari. Apple might even create their own alternative system that lets them maintain control while still providing drm.
Just imagined over my pixel tablet. If I wasn't using Android auto (car connection) on my phone I'd shit can that too.
They also raised the price on YouTube premium right after I got my annual subscriptions. Fuck that man. Once these companies got you locked in they take you for a ride.
This is your hourly reminder that Brave is still Chromium and still contributes to Google's influence over internet standards.
Iirc Firefox and I think Safari are the only major non-chromium browsers. It makes me so sad because I remember Google’s “don’t be evil” days… man they left that behind
they've lived long enough to become the bad guys
Safari already has attestation, has for a while, so while its at least a different browser, it’s still part of the problem.
Interesting. I didn't know that. Safari is a piece of shit for other reasons too
Example reason why Safari is shit: It's Safari
Yeah. They selectively adopt web standards years later than the others and the mobile and iPad versions in some ways behave completely differently from desktop (and each other). If safari just acted like the other browsers, frontend web dev would be MUCH easier.
Depends on which standards, for some css functions like backdrop-filters and mix-blend-modes it was years ahead of Firefox, where some of those had to be activated through about:config. I‘m glad Firefox catchend up in the past few years though. Also WebKit accelerated HTML5 adoption a lot.
Never had any major issues developing for Firefox, safari and chrome in the past few years though. It was quite a different story 10 years ago but nowadays 99% of the time, it works flawlessly between all major browsers for me.
I feel like you're referring to Firefox literally 12 years ago or more. I'm talking about today. Literally any brand new standard is not supported for 1-2 years minimum. I run into problems with safari on a near daily basis. I rarely have a weird issue in Firefox. 99% of the time chrome and Firefox behave the same. The vast majority of the time that one browser has an issue others don't, it's safari. It's weird to me to get pushback on this ...
Anyone saying about duck duck go? Iv been using that and seems good
Their browser is webkit on iOS since apple doesn't allow anything else on that platform. The mac version is also webkit. And the android version is - you guess it - blink, the engine used by chromium.
Doesn’t allow anything else on that platform yet*. Apple should be dropping the webkit requirement pretty soon and google and mozilla are already working on ios ports of their engines.
Duckduckgo will stick with WebKit because they want to keep it native
Source?? Very exciting if true. Haven't heard this before
https://9to5mac.com/2023/02/07/new-iphone-browsers/
I think i heard a more definitive source as well since this one is a few months old that it should be coming with ios17.
Yeah I just googled and found that. Only problem is that it's been 6 months and not a peep since. This is more of a policy piece than software (I think). Any reason why that capability would be tied to an os release?
What about Opera GX? The mobile and Desktop versions.
Opera is fucking evil regardless.
Vivaldi isn't just the spiritual successor, it's built by the guy who made the original Opera. Its baked in Ad and Tracker blocking rival UBO and it has all the features Fox can only hope to barely emulate with Mozilla extensions.
I've got FF loaded up and set up how I like, but I won't be switching over until Vivaldi doesn't perform correctly.
The more you know
Still chromium underneath, just like the normal opera
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chromium, and not even open source(from what i know)
It is good for privacy, but quality of results has always felt a bit lacking to me
I believe duck duck go sources their results from Google somehow. For whatever that's worth
DDG aggregates from Yahoo afaik.
And I thought yahoo got it's results from Google too... I probably have no idea though.
This is what DDG has to say about where their results come from:
https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/
Spoiler alert: It's not Google or Yahoo.
Interesting. And Wikipedia says yahoo gets it's search data from Bing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Search
That’s a search engine, chrome and Firefox are the browser. You can use duck duck go from either.
I haven’t heard anything negative about them yet.
I have the duck duck app on my phone, wasn’t sure if it was any different
I just looked it up and you’re right. Looks like they have a browser out now. My mistake.
I'm thinking about switching to Librawolf for the privacy features
the CEO is also a homophobic bigot and covid denier
Had no idea! Thanks I’m getting off brave!
Thanks for pointing this out! I was already using Firefox, but after looking this up I found out that they also got rid of him for being homophobic.
Firefox it is!
i always use software for what it is, ignoring the beliefs of its creator, but ive already been using firefox, librewolf and mullvad browser since i moved to linux, and i have only been seeing people say stuff that shows chromium is worse. (except for people with no argument of course)
Librewolf has been pretty cool since I started using it as a sidearm with less than 600 ff tabs, how does mullvad compare?
Librewolf has been pretty cool since I started using it as a sidearm with less than 600 ff tabs, how does mullvad compare?
The CEO also donated to Prop 8 in California and a number of other bigoted conservative things.
also this: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/business/brave-brendan-eich-covid-19.html
This is your hourly reminder that default Firefox isn't that great for privacy thus librewolf exist
Honestly I dunno on this one. Someone likes foxes more than wolves I guess lol
Cool. If me choosing Brave over FF contributes to the demise of the useless, cash-grab scam which Mozilla is, I'll happily continue using Brave.
I hate to be a pessimist but if people hate Musk as much as they seem to, but can't leave twitter,
or post "Fuck Spez" thousands of times, but won't leave reddit,
I'm cautious about how much of an exodous I expect to see from chrome.
I think its time we face the fact that most people will trade almost anything for convenience.
The piece that gets continuously underestimated is who moves in these small initial jumps. It tends to be the more technically inclined, who over the next couple years, their recommendations will lead to friends and family moving as well, at a slower rate.
Sure. And here we are. I'm sure these companies consider us a real fly in the ointment. But I'm not inclined to believe the past is perfectly predictive of the future. What you described is also, in my perspective, how things have gone in the past. But will it happen the same way this time? I don't know. I'm not confident based on what I've seen. They are trying to close in the walls on the internet and they are confident that people are too lazy to stop them.
If Internet Explorer managed to fall from 96% market share to complete irrelevance, Chrome is not immortal either.
You arent wrong. But, acectdata and mine own, convenience drove that. People are fucking lazy and hate nothing more than to be inconvenienced. When chrome was getting traction, explorer was trasshhhhhhhhh and every one knew it.
Chrome might be a bit bloated but its no explorer. If it doesn't hurt people to stay, I don't think we'll see a shift.
Times have changed. The userbase that dropped IE was a vastly different one. With the internet being more accessible and more alluring to the massed (i.e. because of social media) convenience is king.
Back then internet users werent normies, but nreds and tech savy people. Also, chrome learned from IE's mistakes. It wont stop functioning and will keep updating, so the average normy user wont mind.
With the way every site is these days, removing adblock is worse than not functioning
I genuinely don't know how Ill use the web without ad block. Cause I damn sure ain't going back to paying for anti-virus like in the 90's for a web experience that is objectively worse and less magical enough to risk it.
Drive by malware and viruses from ads has gotten scarily good at infecting systems without you knowing. It's worse than ever as it's not just a sketchy site issue thing anymore either. Even reputable sites have ads that only take one misclick to infect you now
You made me proud of myself! I have left all three!
They better watch out. There are dozens of us. Dozens!
I shamefully still use chrome for work hehe
I cannot leave Twitter as I never used it.
Browsers at least, unlike social networks, don't benefit from networking effects. How many people use a specific browser doesn't directly affect the usefulness of that browser, as users of different browsers can interact with each other to the same degree as users of the same browser. For now at least, as Google's Web Integrity API could obviously change that if websites start to require and some browser are unable or unwilling to provide it.
Thats a great point and something to consider.
True. I MUST use Edge at work and honestly, its fine. Its not some radical departure from Firefox, i dont have to think too hard about the differences.
I switched to Firefox on windows and android on the same day as I saw that WEI bullshit.
I don't know why the fuck I was thinking it would be a worse experience... It's the same thing.
Bro wait till you install Linux.
It's actually better as a stock experience than windows 11.
I have used Ubuntu for a few months, and for me, windows 10 is still better.
Pessimist, but most likely right
Google broke on Firefox for a while a day ago for me. Went to some other search engine.
Jumping from social media is hard.
Jumping from applications is not.
teamspeak became Skype which became discord.
And many of us did leave Reddit. I didn’t even leave because I cared about the protests or what Reddit was doing. I left because many posts were deleted, people left, subreddits became abandoned.
Lemmy became better than Reddit basically overnight.
It is a slow process, most will still use it, but it will be less and less as time passes.
Twitter is a different beast, most of the people you follow on twitter are only active in certain groups.
All we can do is inform them and focus on what we do, no need to be stuck on what others do.
I just switched yesterday after learning more about why I should here in Lemmy.
The last time I tried FF (many years ago) it was incredibly slow, so I went with chrome. But the FF of today is actually noticably quicker.
Also, FF offered to import all of my bookmarks, autofills, passwords, history, and even my extensions (if a FF version exists of course, almost all of which did) and did so seamlessly. It was the easiest software switch ever.
Why should I switch? Just curious.
Privacy and not being part of Google would be the biggest reason.
It also looks kinda nice, in my opinion.
It's also faster than chrome now I think.
Resource management is much better. Chrome will max out the RAM, which slows down the browser. Firefox handles that 100x better.
Apart from privacy concerns, Google has started to add some really bad features to Chrome, such as "Manifest V3" and "Web Environment Integrity". These limit your ability to block ads or generally modify your device or the websites you're visiting, and are just a bad for the web as a whole. WEI in particular is basically DRM for the web, so Google checks your device and denies you access to websites if they don't like it. But as long as the majority of people keep using Chrome they can just force these things onto everyone.
My friggin' Chromebook (which works great) can't install FF.
I've tried rooting into Ubuntu, but, I can't get it all straightened out. Until I notice truly diminished issues... I'll use Chromebook as is.
You have 3 options:
Not even as an Android app? I've run Firefox from crostini as well but the Android approach is a lot easier.
I tried FF earlier this year. It sucked. Everything just took extra clicks. The password manager was a pain and didn't interact with my phone apps properly.
I know the complaints against chrome. When it starts forcing me to watch ads I might try FF again.
Hey, at least installing a foss browser won't slow down your phone like a spyware app, you could always try something like Mull even for only a portion of your browsing if you have ~80MB to spare. I suggest it because I hate some of that extra bullshit that comes with standard Firefox. Also there's tons of projects that try similar stuff with Chromium! Like Mulch. Way better defaults than Chrome
Depending on which Chromebook it is, you can always install the Linux container and install it in there
The Android FF is not a great user experience for sure. On desktop it's just fine but Android is janky. I tolerate anyway to support Firefox but chrome is miles better on mobile.
I can't believe people still use Chrome, Firefox is better by a mile.
Idk, I've used both browsers and I prefer Chrome in terms of features and UI. But it's not worth the privacy you get with Firefox
I personally really miss being able to group tabs. I don't think you're able to do it on Firefox, right?
Firefox has extensions that can help with this, but I find the way Chrome does it extremely useful. I'd still choose Firefox, but there are certainly a couple of features that Chrome has that can be helpful
I use Firefox now and have most of this year.
One thing that annoyed me was how much more awkward it is to switch between two user profiles .
In chrome I have a work email a personal email, each with its own account, and a different look. I can immediately tell which I'm using, and can switch between them with the button at the top right.
I managed to mess around and find an extension which kind of does the same thing, so I'm no longer missing the feature, but it's definitely jankier and doesn't work as smoothly.
Also, I don't know if it's a bitwarden issue, but autofill hardly ever works properly.
Sometimes I want to pull a tab into its own window on the other screen. You're not allowed to do this when the browser is full screen, only when it's windowed. Annoying.
These are my only issues with firefox I can think of.
I put in a good faith effort to switch to FF earlier this year. I really wanted to like it. I consider myself an expert user to so it wasn't just "I didn't know what I was doing." I recently switched back to Chrome. I hope FF gets better because I don't like recent Chrome news.
Lol, to me you seem more of a bullshit user than an expert user. No offense...
Which features? Chrome is barebones imo while others like Edge and Opera are the "glorified" browsers with many features.
To add to the other person said: Tab Groups. Firefox doesn't have anything like it
Was just about to say this. I finally switched today because Chrome tried to sign me up automatically for a bunch of ‘privacy enhancements’ which do the opposite.
The only thing I’m having trouble finding a good version of is tab groups.
I want tab groups that I can collapse and expand at will. Not one that hides my tabs, and which I can’t see two tab groups concurrently.
Firefox sorta does! If you only use tab groups (or profiles for that matter) to separate school tabs from work and personal tabs, I recommend giving the Multi-Account Containers extension a look.
PWA. Last time I seriously tried Firefox it's support for Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) was non existent. When their issue tracker told me they have no plans for implementing it, I shed a single tear and then moved back to chromium.
I’ve used this extension successfully on Win10 to install PWAs, most recently Elk for Mastodon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pwas-for-firefox/
That makes sense, I completely forgot PWA.
I primarily use Firefox, but the big one for me and the reason I haven't completely deleted Chrome is being able to create shortcuts with the "Open in a new window" option for specific URLs. Granted I'm not very tech savvy (just a little more aware than the average user) and primarily use a mac for my personal computer atm, but that feature is a game changer for me. As far as I know, other popular browsers don't offer it currently.
It's really useful for when there isn't a download or iOS app for a specific site/service, or when the web app is much better than the app or download option and I still want to be able to use it like a separate app from my browser.
I also wasn't able to download any software that wasn't on the Apple App Store with my work computer for my previous employer (super annoying, but I kind of get it). So it was essential if I wanted to have a separate and dedicated app/window at all for my work calendar, email, etc.
I love how I can visually organize the web apps I like to use separately from my browser, to save time and energy for daily use. I can customize the name and shortcut icon, pin them to my dock, organize them in folders in my launchpad, and even set them to launch on startup if I want. Not sure if there are reasonably easy ways to mimic this with Firefox, but I haven't found any yet.
same problem we had back in the ie5/6 days: it was just there and most people don't care. i physically cringe when i watch co-workers using chrome with not even a basic adblocker installed, klicking away ads, promts, pop-ups, videos and whatnot just to access a news article. it's horrible!
I’m forced to use either Chrome or Edge for my work computer and it drives me crazy.
I've been a Sysadmin for a ~decade. I can state with 100% certainty that the reason behind that decision is that you can very easily configure Group Policy to control the behavior and visibility/availability of features in Chrome and Edge. Firefox didn't have that until just a couple of years ago, and it wasn't great when it first became available. And to be honest, it's still not fully baked, but it's at least usable now from an administrative perspective.
Maybe bring it up to your IT department and include this link in the email/ticket.
Thanks for the link. I’m saving that to pass on.
Yeah, I've been using Firefox exclusively for ages. And also Duckduckgo, I just can't stand the excessive of Google's captcha since I always use VPN.
IDK man, Chrome UI is kinda plain
I’d use it exclusively, but there’s no Ad Blocker for it on iOS, and I don’t want to run an ad blocking VPN all the time. I also don’t like how there’s no official PWA support on desktop.
Chrome doesn't support extensions at all on iOS, only Safari does - because of Apple. Firefox would absolutely support extensions and use Gecko on Ios if Apple let them.
Yeah, but there are ways other browsers have determined how to have in-built ad blocking. I’m not sure of the ins and outs, but Brave, Samsung Browser, and Edge all have built-in ad blocking on iOS.
The heck? UBlock works on Mac- ohhh is this an M1/M2 thing I was unaware of?
Nevermind, you said IOS not MacOS
But there is strict tracking protection which acts like a slightly degraded ad blocker. It has blocked everything except YouTube ads and "you have ad blocker enabled" pop ups for me.
Showing people that they can avoid ads by switching from chromium might make more people use adblockers.
I get flabbergasted whenever I talk to someone and realize they're unaware that such things exist. I hope all (according to the google store entry for ublock origin) 10,000,000 of the ublock origin users switches from chromium based browsers to, say, firefox...
Feels like chromium is the new internet explorer...
That's why Google is trying to launch the "Web Integrity API" that will essentially allow them to mandate any website accessible to or using Google Services to ban browsers that have ad blockers.
I know a lot of Chrome users, and the general story I get from them is nearly always the same infuriating bullshit along these lines:
"So, I tried the like, Fox Fire thingy, but this one time, like, it took, like, 1.5 seconds to load, so it's """""""""slow""""""""" so I just use Chrome 'cause it's, like, faster and stuff."
Yeah, and I suppose the 427 useless things you have running in your system tray right now don't have anything to do with your computer being "slow," right?
Wouldn't those 427 things make chrome slow too
Yes
Or worse, "Why should I switch to Firefox? Everybody's complaining about the performance of Firefox compared to Chrome, but Chrome just works for me."
Blissfully unaware of the kind of power you're giving Google over the Internet by using their browser. I once had an experience where someone tried to use this to push me back to using Chrome.
There is also the initial load problem where it would take longer to load in Firefox compared to chrome. Yet people will attribute it to the browser and not the fact that assets were already stored in chrome.
Oh god, I'm having Vietnam flashbacks
To me it looks like a tech savy kind of hurdle, once people learn about it and start thinkering they start to use it also.
Better for us when people start caring for what they tolerate from corps.
Firefox Mobile is great, Being able to add extensions is just wonderful.
You wish that was happening.
I'm preparing to be completely unsurprised that Firefox's market share will still be at 3% next month and the month after that.
If I had to choose between a tracked, ad-filled experience and a slower, protected experience, I would go back to 1990s style Internet in a second.
A few years back when Firefox went through the whole "Quantum" update, I jumped and never looked back. It's just better in every way, in my opinion.
I use it on my laptop, but it's crap on my phone. My phone is pretty old now, I use opera. I know, no one likes opera, but I've used it that long now I find it difficult to jump across. I tried again recently, but it's still too slow.
Isn't Opera Chromium now too?
Yep it has been for a while.
Was it previously not Chromium?
It used to use a browser engine called Presto, but they dropped it in 2013.
I learned something today, thanks
What's the advantage for google of doing this move? People "savy" enough to install an adblock (or even know that it exists) is most likely to switch to a competitor that allows for adblocking
I think firefox should ship with ublock origin installed. (Perhaps also containers).
Hopefully then more people will migrate faster
At least tracking protection should be set to strict, iirc on default setting it barely blocks any ads.
Strict tracking protection makes Firefox on Android a ton faster, especially on any website owned by Google or any link that has a Google wrapper (e.g. clicking a link on the Gmail app)
Strict protection on iOS was literally the difference between "I can use this phone" and "brick". I had an old iPhone, 6 Plus, and Safari lagged to death because it tried to load ads. Firefox didn't.
Try Orion for iOS, it has better ad blocking
Thanks for recommendation, YT adblock is interesting.
Does that make a difference if you already have the PrivacyBadger extension?
According to this GitHub discussion PrivacyBadger is pretty much redundant if you use uBlock Origin, can even hinder performance and cause opposite effect than expected.
To add to this, I have uBO installed on FF Android, but Strict Protection still makes things much faster for me. I'm not sure if it's because of my other Addons, but FF Android is so slow otherwise with certain sites (mostly just Google's)
agreed, that's why I have hard time switching to it but I still try
That would be awesome!
As a user of Linux and primarily FOSS software for 2 years, each time I recommended something FOSS, others had bad luck.
Each of the above examples involve completely different people, by the way.
You're right and it's that sort of stuff that people like you and me will deal with and figure out and move on but unfortunately it's not the case with regular people. That's why I never recommend that sorry if stuff to 'normies' ie. My mom. Instead I set them up with the lesser of evils that will give them convenience and make them more likely to trust me in the future. That way, if I ever REALLY need them to move on from something they will be more likely to just listen to me and not fight me about it. I just got a couple of friends to switch over to Firefox even though they were chrome fans, all because I have years of goodwill. Ported their bookmarks and got them ublock and they barely even notice a difference.
I think this is true for everything… we just notice it when we’re the ones ahead.
Some people can’t change tires, some can’t cook, some can do basic plumbing, some can’t remove appendixes, some can’t swim… whatever.
Granted, I think the main divide were all on the good side of is “some people know how to search, some people don’t”
Awesome, baby steps.
Shit breaks, but we keep trying and see what works!
Keep the fight going, peace!
One day my friend, one day I will make a Linux convert
Hahaha, that will be awesome!
I think it would have to be someone that likes to learn new things and mess around with electronics.
Never left. Never would leave. Chrome was always a trap.
I have for a long time been on Firefox. It's stable and works great.
people when they learn about unlock origin works better with firefox
I bet most people saying chrome is faster don't even know about adblockers or are using Google's websites
When I made the switch I was shocked at well it blocks ads. It still surprises me to this day. Yeah, it takes a little longer to load, but I couldn't care less.
In the old days I used Firefox exclusively, until my work started only supporting chrome so I kinda went with it and switched. Out of habit I continued until a couple of years ago, that I went full Firefox again and I remembered why I loved it.
I started using Firefox as my browser at work because I hate trying to use profiles and I'm a convert! It's really great!
Nice!
Google: Not this time
unleashes web integrity API
First time? :)
So I use adblockers, my wife does not. Regardless of the ads, we both switched from Chrome to Firefox this year solely due to the memory usage.
Block ads on the router end?
This is downright funny. Best way to lose your market share, simply put. I've used Googles family of products for around 13 years.
First they ruin Photos, then Google Workspace (12€/month drive price to almost 100€), and now the browser.
Soon it's back to gmail and everything else non-google. And I suppose that's a good thing.
Do you have any recommendations for Google Photos? I would love to get off but it's way too conviennent for myself and family.
I just installed immich today, but you need a server to selfhost it.
Seems really good though.
As for the backup portion, mega has offered free 50GB for ages. And you can setup shared folders. I just use that for now. As for other data, I think I'll just buy a NAS and self-host.
It's a bit of a shift, there's no real good alternative, so Google's long hook and bait is turning into even worse money pump.
One bad to another, there's Amazon prime photos which offers unlimited photos. Gives you 5GB of video storage which is practically useless.
Google and every other corporation that wants to be your Daddy or your slave master can go fuck off and die. Personally I have been done for a while now, when Google shit all over the world by buying YouTube then making everyone sign in to Google plus to use, it was it for me, I have never actually signed in to YouTube since, and have tried to avoid giving Google any traffic to this day.
I think we don't have a choice anymore but to start making a new society built from scratch for the people. We can start by using the vast amount of tools and resources built by corporations to enslave us against the same corporations doing the enslaving.
I don't know if the human population can actually collectively do what's necessary to save themselves or more then likely their children from a life of permanent servitude these corporations want.
But why not give it a try, it's better then realizing you were a feckless idiot that did absolutely nothing while you're waiting for a corporation to cut off your life support because you're no longer profitable.
Politicians will allow corporations to enslave everyone but that magical 1%, they're not vary bright, they don't study history, all they study is fleecing the public, when the shit finally hits the fan the leaders these politicians make will hang them first.
And if some corporation don't like what I'm saying, come at me bitch, I've got curable cancer, I've been told I got ten years left, so have fun then die (I'm on a Tennessee Republican Death Panel right now.) So lets see how much "fun" I can make for corporations in ten years.
Seriously. I'll be a redditor here, but that's my "migrate-to-another service moment". If I'm not able to whitelist the sites that provide a reasonable ad experience and block ads on those that dont, then I'm moving to a different browser and password saving environment.
I don't see how getting rid of ad blocking would help Google. The people that know tech enough to always install Adblock first thing when installing a browser will just jump to the next browser.
And the people that don't know tech enough to do that wouldn't have used Adblock either way.
They're losing out on a much larger userbase (People that know tech) in the hopes of keeping the subset of that userbase that knows their way around tech but doesn't care if adblock is installed or not and making them 'pay' by watching ads.
That would at least be my opinion if that's what's actually happening, because I personally didn't gaf about these news until now and I only read the text from the meme. And quite honestly, I'll continue not giving af in the future.
And in comes Google's 'DRM for websites' plan to force you to use a chrome based browser. Sure, the websites still would need to opt in to integrity API, but how many will turn down guaranteed ads and tracking.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web/
Yeah if Google can get big websites like Facebook or Xwitter to use their DRM, then the average user will be forced to use Chrome for those sites, and it will be an advertiser free-for-all.
Squitter
My question is will Google/YouTube be able to block all ad blockers no matter what browser is used? Or will using an alternative browser circumvent it all as everyone seems to be saying it will?
I haven't migrated away from Chrome yet, but will do so if that is the easy of a solution.
It's a question that only time will probably tell. But I'm 100% sure that, as long as alternative browsers exist that allow adblockers, they'll find a way to block ads on e.g. Youtube.
Unless they start injecting the ads into the video directly (kind of like some apps do that display ads even when your device is offline), even then though, Sponsorblock theoretically exists.
In its current form, it would only work if each video had the ads injected at the same timestamp and with the same duration everytime, which I find unlikely.
It would have to implement some dynamic behavior. It is however in at least some countries required to visibly and clearly mark ads, so a check for that marking could possibly be implemented. But that's more of a thing I'd expect uBO to do instead of Sponsorblock.
Going by recent internet history, every anti-adblock measure will have its according anti-anti-adblock measure within at most a few weeks by now. That's the beauty of community-driven open source projects.
Ai will solve this before Google fully implements it.
OpenCV might even be enough to solve this… although not efficiently.
The manifest v3 situation does mean other browsers will continue to be able to block ads on YouTube; however, the new drm that Google is proposing for websites would effectively allow YouTube to block any browser they didn't like from viewing the site at all.
Most people will still use it, due to not knowing or learning about adblockers, so more profit on the marketing end.
You are right, the more tech savy people will switch.
and then there's lynx
What is a lynx
LYNX DEEZ NUTS
https://lynx.invisible-island.net/
Tell me of this
They take you to websytez
And ladybird, another independent and FOSS browser in development
The moment Firefox gets native vertical tabs with drag and drop grouping, I'm making the switch. But, as it stands, the vertical tabs in Edge are irreplaceable and not a single of the "workarounds" to make them possible in Firefox feel good at all.
I need drag and drop tab grouping and vertical tabs. That's it.
Edge also just introduced workspaces which feels like something I'm going to love once I get the time to mess with them.
I want to leave Edge because I want to be done with Chromium in general, but Firefox feels too behind the times for me.
What do you like about vertical tabs?
Not the person you responded to, but more tabs visible at once & being able to group them as a tree is incredibly useful.
The grouping as tree thing happens automatically in sidebery (extension for firefox). When you have a tab open, any link you click will be added as a child node to the current tab. If you're doing research, or just don't want to lose your focus, it is immensely helpful.
Brave supports vertical tabs but doesn't do the tree thing. Not useful at all compared to sidebery tbh. I don't know how Edge works in that regard though.
thanks, I was looking for tree tabs that don't suck
Sounds worth checking out, thanks.
I'm assuming the people who use tabs as bookmarks
In addition to what others have said, I prefer more vertical space for webpages. Vertical tabs take up much less space and are, in my opinion, much easier to organize. I also don't need to see the title bar constant and the favicon is plenty for me to keep track of what's there.
Grouping helps me keep ideas together. I don't like to bookmark things I'm only going to need for a few hours/days, so grouping tabs helps me keep them open without them getting in the way.
Why does it need to be native? There are numerous extensions that do this. That's half the point of Firefox, it's so extensible.
As I said in my original comment, none of those workarounds feel good. They show their seams constantly. I've tried a handful of extensions and not one feels as good as or is as feature complete as what's native in Edge.
I have no idea what you're talking about, I use a dozen different extensions, including a tab group manager, and it works great.
That's totally fair, too. Not everyone gets bothered by the same things.
The last set up I used was this one and what made me give up is that it is so easy to accidentally close it. I had to look through my Firefox history to find that and when I closed the history sidebar, my tab bar was gone. It's just a press of F1 to get it open, but why can't I just make it persistent? Why does it have to share the same space as so many other features in Firefox? I don't care if history wants to occupy the same space for the moment I need it, but when I'm done, go back to showing my tabs.
I need me some tab grouping (especially on mobile). I switched to FF and that's the only thing I miss
I haven't ever tried it on mobile. I probably don't use my mobile browser enough to justify it, but now I'm going to have to look into it.
I'm experimenting with vertical tabs myself. Sidebery is the closest thing I've found to a pleasant experience.
And it's still not what I'd (personally) call pleasant. I tried a plethora of different setups and not one comes close to what Edge offers out of the box.
I'm not trying to shill for Edge. I would 100% prefer not to use it just based on principle. But I can't help it that it has features I've come to NEED.
I'll be trying this out tonight. I hope you're right.
Meme is meme
Shitty meme is shitty meme
I don't even pay attention to it, the moment I log into YouTube and Vivaldi stops blocking ads I'll switch to FF. I've already got it set up, V just works faster and takes up less RAM than Fox with the equivalent extensions (minus UBO cause V has ad blocking built in.)
Until then it's just reactionary fear mongering, this same crap was floating around last November/December claiming that it would break in January and I'm still here waiting for that day to come.
So I switched to Firefox for privacy reasons but fuck if it isn't buggy as hell on my old phone. I'm keeping it, but it's a huge reduction in usability compared to Chrome.
I use Firefox exclusively on both android and my PC. And have no idea what you're talking about. Are you also on android? What's been buggy in your experience?
Not the person you're replying to but I sometimes have issues with PWAs not loading when I open them and then I have to close it and re-open to get it to load
That's the only major issue I have and I find the ability to use ad blockers as well as the nice reading mode to make my overall mobile browsing experience leagues better than with Chrome
i have thos too and i have no idea bow or why it happens but its bothering me alot
Not just me? I might put in an official bug report for it if it happens to you too
I use Mull with Bitwarden. Hardened Firefox on Linux
Keep looking for diffent forks or browsers!
Do not give up, it is the same with other switches, you need to try out a few before you find one that works for you!
Rossman video
Literally me. Planning on switching to Firefox after work today.
Awesome!
Still find it crazy when one company decides the internet's fate and seems to act like they own the internet, simply because they have a huge ass market for the browser, search engine & site crawler.
I recommend a DNS-based ad blocker like NextDNS. Works on everything, everywhere!
Not on Reddit or YouTube or anything else that serves ads from the same domain.
Just remember to disable firefox's default DNS over HTTPS setting that just fucking ignores your system DNS. So infuriating.
Awesome, thanks!
Like when YouTube introduced ads and everyone moved to Vimeo?
Brave and chromium are still safe right ?
Brave has never been a super safe browser, they've done some shady things. If you need Chrome just use Chromium with some settings and plugins.
I've never seen someone who actually genuinely needed Chrome though.
If you HAVE to use a blink browser, try Vivaldi. Brave is not the "privacy alternative" people seem to think it is.
I don't know, but who cares? What does anyone have against Firefox? It's fast, has a massive extensions library, open source, secure, private ... there's literally no reason whatsoever not to use it.
I mostly use Firefox but some Azure admin stuff only works in chrome or edge.
fucking Azure
People don't like change. But I'm a hypocrite. I've tried switching to Firefox multiple times but I always go back, not even really sure why. I use it as a secondary browser these days.
Different choices? Bad UI? People like me that despise Mozilla? Fuck them.
By all means, continue being part of the problem.
No, Chromium will not be fine. Apparently Google have already pushed the code for their "integrity API" with Chromium on git.
https://github.com/chromium/chromium/commit/6f47a22906b2899412e79a2727355efa9cc8f5bd
https://www.resetera.com/threads/google-pushes-web-integrity-enforcement-code-into-chromium.746506/
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/15bxx7p/google_merges_web_integrity_api_drm_for_the_web/
Don't know about bare Chromium, most likely no, Brave on the other hand will still support them last I heard
Just made the switch for my personal computers. All the extensions that I used are there except a few for work.
I just made the switch days ago, couldn't be happier. Google can suck it.
Will Vivaldi still block ads, even though it's on chromium?
If web drm becomes a thing, nothing, not even firefox and vivaldi will be able to block ads on websites that implement web drm.
Oh damn. Ok thanks!
It think it should be able to, since it is blocking ads on the browser side. Not sure though...
The problem, if I understand it, is when websites start only accepting certain browser ids.
Which will effect all non chrom. browsers.
https://vivaldi.com/blog/googles-new-dangerous-web-environment-integrity-spec/
Even without the web integrity api , the tests for amazon hiring process at least in india require you to run windows/mac and chrome, linux and firefox are not supported !
Already on firefox on pc and mobile
Vote with your feet, move away of those cooperations....
If we take the majority of internet users, in that 99% doesn't care about ad blocking. They are not even aware of extensions and stuff. And most people in that category are not going to notice these changes at all as most of them are chrome users.
Some firefox fans will go to any extent to praise firefox by lying about chrome. One thing is that firefox is faster than chrome. My potato pc with 2gb ram and pentium dual core is able to run chrome (without ad blocking) faster than firefox. Page loading etc is faster even with ads in chrome. Same in my work pc with i5 11th gen and 16gb ram. Other chrome browsers like vivaldi and brave are even faster.
But do I care about a few seconds of lag in firefox?. No. I use firefox because of extensions and ad block integration. Not because of its speed. I also use chrome for banking websites etc for a smoother experience. Firefox has some more to do to get a smoother experience. Especially on phones. Pc firefox and chrome are almost similar. Even then chrome is a little bit more faster to be honest.
Other than people who are aware of this issue, that is a very small pool of people no one is ditching chrome.
Does anyone really claim that Firefox is faster than Chrome. There are certainly reasons to use Firefox over Chrome, but speed isn't one of them imo. I've always found it to be slower.
It's slower but not much slower. It used to be a much bigger difference, especially when Chrome just came out.
For a power user like me, Firefox is the only option.
Yes many firefox fans say firefox is faster than chrome. I saw it in the comments too. That was the only thing I focused on.
Yep, moved from Edge to Firefox on all but my Windows Tablet. Only reason I'm holding out on the tablet is because the battery enhancements of Edge are too much to pass up on the device. Phone and PC though, straight to Firefox.
I've just recently switched because Chrome yet again stuffed up all my task bar shortcuts (whatsapp, keep, calenders etc) so they all just loaded as tabs.
Firefox doesn't even have the ability to create task bar icons so for a long time I never bothered with it.
Found this extension which mostly gives that functionality. Not perfect as I have to share the URL links to the main instance to view them in a separate tab, but it's ok. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pwas-for-firefox/
Thanks, did not know this was a thing, Looks interesting!
I just switched fron opera gx to Firefox. Has Firefox an integrated vpn?
Then tell me please, how do I block ads on iOS with Firefox?
You'd be able to if Apple didn't block other browsers using extensions, or any rendering software other than webkit on their phones. Your fault for using Appl€.
I get your point of view, but I didn't want to buy from Apple either. Before the purchase I knew how locked down iOS is. But since Apple basically owns the education space, I had no other choice
The education space? I don't know what you mean. Schools in my country give kids Chromebooks, and in university they can use what they like.
I'm sorry, I should've been more specific. I meant that by offering a one-stop “just works” solution, they make it easy for schools in my country to implement their system, which in theory works good, and locking them into their expensive system. For example, presenting works wirelessly using their proprietary Apple TV. App Management works on their OS only. Have a file to share? Just airdrop it (lol) and so on. That way you don't have a choice as a teacher or worse student, you either buy into their system or are the weird annoying guy, that has to ask the teacher every time if they can, upload it at …
Adguard or DNSCloak with https://dnsforge.de/
Thanks, I checked the Adguard site again and configured it properly using the profiles and not just the per WiFi IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Now I get 71% on an adblock test. DNSCloak however didn't do anything really, in the test I used it made no difference to a not blocking DNS
Try the dnsforge.de server in DNDCloak. Or click on dns protection>dns filtering>dns filters in the AdGuard app and add these lists:
Thanks!
Yesterday, I got some pop up when I opened chrome about blah blah Google...ads...blah blah, and promptly downloaded Firefox.
Yes it's lame it wasn't already on there, but it's a shared / work computer and I try to keep new downloads to a minimum, but that was the last straw.
Awesome!
Exact same thing.
Anything but these two...
Yeah I'm currently dling all my Google Drive stuff and looking into getting a new email address
I've been hearing too many horror stories about Google Accounts getting banned for no reason lately.
And then there's me over here in the corner using Opera....
Who is going to tell him?
Her? Please enlighten
You mean red icon chrome?
Please clarify, I've ued chrome for years with no real knowledge of the pros/cons
Opera is just chrome with a coat of paint. It's the same software under the hood.
Fyi. The Ghostery private browser is awsome. This is based on 9 hours experience. Correct me if i'm wrong...
9 hours, now that's stamina. I'm usually able find and use the material I need in 5 to 10 minutes.
Thanks, will check it out!
Bruh. This is already in effect
That was quick!
It has been announced a few years ago.
It's in effect since the beginning of this year
oh, thanks for letting me know!
That Ad Block will become much less useful if google gets its way, even on iOS
Because Google is trying to add internet-wide drm which would make ad-blocking difficult, if not impossible, and they have a large enough marketshare to potentially force it.
If Apple says "nope" I am sure they can't force push this. Apple loyalty would work in our favor.
Tbh I don't think that's totally outside the realm of possibility as it takes control out of Apple's hands. However, I'm not sure if Apple's userbase is really large enough to stop Google.
Supposedly Safari makes up about 20% of global browser usage (chrome is at 63%, Firefox is about 2.8%) which could be large enough to stop Google, but that's also assuming that Apple won't cave to users and/or corporations complaining about how their site doesn't work on Safari. Apple might even create their own alternative system that lets them maintain control while still providing drm.
It won't. It would have to be if Apple or Firefox changes their policies/app that it be affected.
Awesome, teach us your ways.
I can help teach peeps I know to block ads.
Fuck it, I'm moving over to Seamonkey.
Just imagined over my pixel tablet. If I wasn't using Android auto (car connection) on my phone I'd shit can that too.
They also raised the price on YouTube premium right after I got my annual subscriptions. Fuck that man. Once these companies got you locked in they take you for a ride.
Shoulda put chrome on the tank and manifest 2 as the car
So true [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR8D2yqgQ1U&pp=ygUHc28gdHJ1ZQ%3D%3D]
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If they didn't already, they probably never will.
First time? :)
Be pretty cool if something like thos wasn't 1/5 posts.
Christ how many times is this going to get reposted?
It's the first time I've seen it.
I think I've seen it every day for the last week
To the fans of Firefox: It has almost as much telemetry and spying as Chrome. Rather use hardened Firefox or Librewolf.
Spoiler: won't happen. And I'm glad it won't.