• @[email protected]
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    112 years ago

    Because it has tabs. Seriously, I first used Firefox back when IE6 was the norm, and Firefox brought tabs and better standard compliance. Haven’t turned my back since.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆
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    Because it has a built in adblocker on mobile and with the news that Chromium itself is going to be doing shit to stop adblockers, I don’t want a chromium based browser period. Only reason I ever switched from Firefox in the first place was that, at the time, it was getting slower and Chrome was the new, fast, hotness in town.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 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]
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        12 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.

  • fsniper
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    92 years ago

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

  • ripcord
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    102 years ago

    Because it is fucking awesome.

    Plus on mobile, I likes my ublock, dark reader, etc.

  • Rhaedas
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    22 years ago

    Because before Firefox I used Netscape. It’s had its ups and downs but it’s never been bad to me to the point of considering moving to anything else. So a combo of legacy and that it works.

  • flatbield
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    Simple, it is from an org that has been FOSS and user focused for decades. Compare that to a bunch of companies which have more or less been doing the opposite. As far as I am concerned, people are just nuts for using anything else. But people are free to do what they want.

  • 📛Maven
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    22 years ago

    I don’t, tbh. I did, for 15 years, because it was the most customizable and feature-rich browser on the market, but when they killed XUL support all my important shit broke, 15 years of customizations and getting things just how I wanted them, and instead of spending that again I migrated to Vivaldi essentially out of spite.

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        Among other things, it powered legacy extensions, and let them do far more than the essentially crippled WebExtensions

      • @[email protected]
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        22 years ago

        It’s an HTML-like language that defines the browser’s interface, you can use it to change the shapes, positions, colors, whatever of your toolbars and tabs. Also they do still have customization via userChrome.css and I think you can re-enable XUL if you dig enough? It does get mixed a bit with HTML-namespaced tags too.

  • Rentlar
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    42 years ago

    I don’t want to sign in to my browser, simple as that. I tried Firefox maybe 5 years ago and I simply liked it better.

    Chrome’s manifest V3 announcement means I’m sticking with Firefox.