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Because Edge broke JSON files - I couldn't search through an open JSON file anymore, because Edge decided to only partially load the file.
That's nice and all, but stop fucking with my plain text. If I want to fuck with it, I can use my extensions, WHICH THEY DISABLED/BLOCKED...
So yeah, back to Firefox, and it's been fine.
people on the internet told me to
Because Brave didn't allow add-ons when I tried it. This was years ago so no idea what it's like now
Tried to download a bank statement the other day and Chrome marked it as malware. Also happened with my Internet bill. I'm done with Chrome
Whatβs the alternative if you try to avoid google?
Writing Firefox extensions sucked.
I haven't tried web extensions.
Its not Google
Am a masochist and like to do things in spite others. I've been working through browser wars as a developer and hated every minute of adapting things to look good on IE. These days I really dislike Firefox. Mainly because they pretend things work fine and need no optimization or for being set in their ways. Took them embarrassingly long time to implement adwaita theme or Wayland and just told us to use other display server.
But I keep using it because I don't want Google to be this dominant. Giving them more power is always going to end worse for users. So as before am suffering again. Oh well.
For those claiming everything is still fine...
The desktop browser was better than IE back in the days and I like how they market/position themselves. Nowadays I switch between Chrome and Firefox just to have different containers (private and work), and yes I know this is also somewhat native supported in Firefox.. but it still felt unintuitive to me.
I recently started using Firefox on Android because of the new privacy sandbox strategy (which I'm not against per se, I don't know all the details yet though), but I must say.. it feels a bit buggy and seems to suffer from input lag. Too bad, the desktop experience is flawless.
Its the default on my Linux distro
So is there like a Firefox equivalent to ChromeOS? Wikipedia mentions a few discontinued projects by companies but that's it. I still like the concept of a really minimal device that outsources storage and heavy computation (probably to a server I also own).
For the price of mild inconvenience in some cases I get to add a tiny little bit of resistance against chromium monopolistic rule.
I actually stopped using it a few years ago because of a weird glitch I kept encountering where it would forget how to render non-standard symbols on websites (I forget the technical description, it's been years). Sites like Twitter became neigh unusable because I couldn't tell what any button was.
With all the recent problems, I know I want to switch back. Just haven't had the time and patience to do it.