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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

I keep seeing people with devout hatred for my beloved Firefox, but none of you say why.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Because Firefox honestly used to be shit, especially in the early Phoenix/Firebird days, but now it isn't anymore, and they just haven't bothered to check it out again. The "killing all the existing extensions" thing really didn't help matters either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Firefox in the Phoenix/Firebird days was amazing compared to ie6, Opera, and SeaMonkey/Mozilla suite

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I agree it was a heavy blow when they announced that, I didn't update for a few months, but man was it a nice fresh start, and I'm grateful that all the addons I had before have now made it over to the new system.

I admittedly didn't use FF before it was FF, I think I got into it around probably 2006 or so, but it's been great in my opinion ever since then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I was really sour about the Mr Robot prank where they modified pages without informing the user. But weighing a prank gone wrong against the active goal of dicking over the internet I'll take the well meaning pranksters.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

??? I literally never said anything about hating Firefox, I was merely asking a simple question...

I used to use Firefox all the time, then they killed all the extensions. That doesn't mean I somehow "hate it" LOL

But like, y'know, anyone that doesn't agree with you is literally Satan, right? 🙄

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some that I have heard (some are outdated and/or mostly irrelevant):

  • slightly slower
  • websites develop for chrome first
    • sites (0.1%) don't render properly
  • default Firefox still has telemetry
  • still has ads
  • no dinosaur game
  • Mv3 AdBlock still works fine
  • better security because more devs contribute to chromium
  • mostly funded by Google anyways
  • Brendan Eich (left 2014)
    • invented JavaScript
    • political opinions

That said, I'm still using Librewolf.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

I know you didn't say these were your opinions, but I'll still see if I can comment on them:

It's not. It's actually faster.

Ehhhhhhhhh. Source?

Everything has telemetry, but Firefox shows you right where to turn it off, unlike the rest.

??? Which browser has no ads?

Fair.

Adblock? This a joke?

Source?

Source?

Relevance?

Also, Librewolf is just a fork of FF, you can make main FF exactly like Libre but get same day updates and security patches.