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Why do you use firefox? (upload.wikimedia.org)
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[-] burgundymyr@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

It's by far the best mobile browser that let's you run tampermonkey and uBlock on Android and it's not close. I haven't found an add-on that let's me run video/audio in the background, so until then Brave stays installed so that running YouTube with no ads and the phone locked is an option.

Aside from that, Firefox gives fantastic customization options, runs well, and is less vulnerable to attacks specifically because it has a smaller market share and it makes more sense to target Chromium based browsers.

[-] Promethilaus@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Much more flexibility in the way of custom themesz extensions and i think its called custom js or something its been a while but arkenfox is an example of one and I love all the different forks which while I'm not gonna use I'm happy that exists. Hate it on android like though I use cromite (bromite fork)

[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 year ago

Because sometimes I need to use Not Safari, and the alternatives are too awful to consider.

[-] NostraDavid@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

people on the internet told me to

[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Its not Google

[-] HowMany@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

When it first came it out it was slow slow slow. They've fixed that. Admittedly their search engine returns "sparse" results compared to google, but their security and commitment to privacy is worth the dearth of 'hits' to my more esoteric searches.

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[-] Turious@leaf.dance 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Voli@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Question for those who use unlock origin on Firefox, does the browser hang when loading pages when you first turn it on, I’m having that problem.

[-] Cyberflunk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Writing Firefox extensions sucked.

I haven't tried web extensions.

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