Firefox

The lack of any ad blockers on mobile chrome is what personally made me switch.

Trying to read basically any news article on your phone without an ad blocker is a nearly impossible task these days.

I switched back to Firefox about a week ago too. Mostly because Lemmy is a whore for it.

Oh man time for my little rant. Long time Firefox supporter and still use it on desktop, but I had to uninstall on Android. It reloads the tab every time I switch out and back to it. It just kills me. Especially since I pay for Kagi search, and it's nearly doubling my search count by reloadng all the damn time. So now I'm using Privacy Browser on Android, and it's great, bit I'd rather be on Firefox. There are threads asking for a fix from years ago and it's still a problem

Good. Let's all enjoy Firefox while we can, before WEI becomes mandatory for all top 500 web sites.

Good decision! :) Yay for one more user!

Welcome back!

There were points at which Firefox was difficult to stick with, especially after the extension apocalypse, but I think it's evolving pretty well at this point.

I migrated to Firefox last week both pc and mobile. The android version is not as fast as other chromium based browsers but the ability to install any add-on is a must for me, browsing the web without my essential extensions is impossible for me.

I previously used kiwi browser that supports extensions but i found they were buggy sometimes, specially static filters in ublock origin.

What should have pushed you over the edge is that one is open source and the other isn't. You do not control what Chrome does

I switched back to Firefox about a year ago after wandering the wastes of Chromium land. I love it!

I still use Ungoogled Chromium for work with the same extensions that i use in Firefox.

I know firefox has profiles, but firewalling work from personal stuff in Firefox is tedious, whereas i can use Velja (or similar) to target URL patterns to particular browsers.

I ditched Gmail and chrome last year after a long ride. Feels great to be back.

I did the same a while back. Youtube with ublock origin is awesome!

welcome back.

it’s going to be a slight hassle having to copy and paste URLs from all those windows,

You might find something on the Chrome addon store that allows you copy tabs urls, similar, but not quite as good as
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/copy-tabs/ and you can import/open them with https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/open-tabs-from-clipboard/

Hope it helps.

Welcome back!

Am I dumb or does chrome (both desktop and mobile) lack a simple way to clear all data on close? Like what the actual fuck? Both firefox and edge have an easy to find checkbox to do this...but not chrome?

welcome back. not all but most of us had moment in time when something was trigger to return back to firefox, making it the new browsing-home and enjoying it since.

Which extension?

Edge did the same shit tome a few times btw. It's chrome with a different paint job.

Samesame a month back!

Could this possibly be a solution to your shortcuts not opening in a new window? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1287367

I suspect I'll be ditching Opera on desktop/Android for FF as soon as the manifest V3 changes make it to opera and kill ad blocking. Shouldn't be long now.