Why did we stop using Firefox? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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Can someone remind me why we stopped using Firefox a while back? There was some piece of news that broke everyone's trust, but I can't remember what Mozilla did. Was it a change in their user agreement?

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[-] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 1 points 2 months ago

Changing to opt-out telemetry from opt-in is the one I remember people fussing over

[-] Goretantath@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

I use IronFox because firefox decided to support bad practices. Kinda like google removing "don't be evil".

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

I never switched, I installed Chrome, started it, saw the UI, hated it, uninstalled it.

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 1 points 2 months ago

What follows is a list of missteps Mozilla made since its inception. LibreWolf ftw. I hope Google has to divest of Chrome and forced to stop signing search deals to make them the default search engine on a browser. Can't happen soon enough.

[-] arararagi@ani.social 1 points 2 months ago

I still recommend floorp, I love the sidebar.

[-] bluegreenwookie@bookwormstory.social 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I stopped using it and went to chrome bc my adblock stopped working and i waited for a fix but it didn't come. It worked fine on chrome.

I went back to firefox bc my adblock stopped working but it worked fine on firefox.

these two events are several years apart if that wasn't clear

[-] BlackLaZoR@fedia.io 0 points 2 months ago

Back in the early days Mozilla redesigned Firefox interface. It was so incomprehensively moronic that I moved to Chrome.

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