• fsniper
    9•2 years ago

    I have been with Firefox, since it’s inception. Never left it. And it never let me down.

  • @[email protected]English
    7•2 years ago

    On Android it’s the only reasonable choice so no question there.

    On desktop I used Netscape/Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox/Conkeror for many years but switched to Chromium when I had to start over after the XUL-apocalypse. But lately I’ve been maintaining my Firefox setup more or less in parallel with Chromium and this week as it happens I am trying to make the switch back again. Mostly just to wean off the Google stuff. Will see how it goes.

    Another (less-critical) motivation is that Chromium takes over 10 hours to build on my machine. Firefox is under 1 and it gets done way faster even if an LLVM or Rust build is involved too.

  • 🦊 OneRedFox 🦊English
    30•2 years ago
    1. Mozilla’s goals for the web line up quite nicely with my own.
    2. The performance is good for what I want.
    3. The extension API is more powerful than Chrome’s.
    4. Outside of the Apple ecosystem, it’s the last major alternative to the Chrome skins.
    5. It isn’t actively trying to cripple adblockers.
  • Fushuan [he/him]English
    4•2 years ago

    Because I feel shamed every time I check privacytools.io if I don’t.

    /s it’s great but I need a chromium backup. Brave is the best chromium clone I know.

    Btw, if y’all want to download pure firefox, check this, there’s a better official download link with less tracking. In any case, I use weakened librewolf with Medium Ublock blocking (block all 3rd party scripts and frames and enable scripts only for logged sites since they are tracking me through other means anyway)

    • @[email protected]
      1•2 years ago

      Oh THAT’S how you do it? That was one feature of Chrome that I couldn’t figure out how to do with Firefox. Thanks!

      • @[email protected]
        1•2 years ago

        Glad I could help.

        With treeview tabs it’s even more awesome. Really loving Firefox, only recently got it. Only annoying thing is on Android it reloads tabs when I switch between apps.

  • BeboEnglish
    12•2 years ago

    Supports extensions on mobile

  • @[email protected]
    1•2 years ago

    I generally stick with Firefox, but I do have chromite ony degoogled secondary phone as a backup in case something only works with chromium renderer.

  • garrett
    4•2 years ago

    Just a small counterweight to everything being chromium. I’m still having trouble with them not having passkeys yet but I know the feature is coming.