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Why do people switch from chrome to Brave browser and not to Firefox?
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Because vanilla Firefox has to be tinkered with to get the best out of it and the average user is not able to do it
As a user of Firefox from 1-3 and quantum to current.... What exactly are you tinkering with? Install ublock and be done.
Dude I use firefox as main browser too, I'm not saying that brave is better, read my comment again.
What I'm saying is that you and I are not the average user. Our moms are the average user, our brother that got a DUI last friday is the average user, our anti-vax aunt is the average user...
Read their comment again.
They didn't say that you said brave was better.
They said that folks barely need to tinker with anything, and was asking what you need to tinker with to make it suitable for you.
In what way?
I switched recently to Librewolf, but as a long time Firefox user (of which Librewolf is a fork anyway) it didn't seem unusable out of the box. There are some settings for privacy and studies etc you mght want to change, but they are all very obvious in the GUI preferences.
I did personally go into about:config to set a few things, like not allowing searches from the address bar because I'm weird, but what makes Firefox no good for the average user?
The typical conversation I have is:
and that's where I loose most of the people, that extra step.
Me and you can go down on the
about:configall day long to dissect every aspect of privacy we care about. For the other 90% of people, even just going to Mozilla extensions manager and downloading u-Block Origin is too much.Bear-proof trash can theorem...
Don't extra step
" how come you don't have YouTube ads??"
"Firefox"
Later they come to you "but i still have ads!" THEN ya hit them with config
Config is just to add ublock. I'd hardly call that config.