• TheSaneWriter
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    1881 year ago

    Congrats to Firefox, it really has made substantial improvements over the years.

    • @danisth@lemmy.world
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      721 year ago

      Firefox a few years ago would kill my Mac battery in a couple hours, now it’s as good as safari for energy management. No reason not to use it as a daily driver now.

          • @Banzai51@midwest.social
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            181 year ago

            Not only that, they had goals beyond just a browser. They wanted to create a whole OS ecosystem integrated with the browser. They released Firefox as a side project to just get a browser in everyone’s hands while they worked on Mozilla. Turns out the OS ecosystem in a browser was a bust, and Firefox was a winner. Just the Mozilla devs haven’t stopped being bitter about it. The old Netscape motivations around the project have been a boat anchor.

              • @delta@lemmy.world
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                21 year ago

                I remember that! Pretty sure I tried it out on my Nexus 5. It was cool but even then it seemed an impossible hill to climb. Looks like it was forked into a feature phone OS that’s maintained to this day!

            • @pungunner@feddit.de
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              21 year ago

              I mean didn’t they achieve that? Today a lot of things are web based. Firefox is a powerful browser. Especially on Android. So if you want you can have your OS in a browser thingy…

              • @Banzai51@midwest.social
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                21 year ago

                Not at all. They created a great browser, which is what us end users wanted, but they never achieved their ecosystem goals.

      • smpl
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        21 year ago

        It’s called SeaMonkey now and AFAIK it is maintained and under community management.

      • @Cornelius@lemmy.ml
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        361 year ago

        Meh, I’ll be honest and say that I’m not impressed by chrome in modern day. While I hate Microsoft, edge is a nicer browser to use than chrome, and that’s saying something

        • @Justaregulardude2001@sopuli.xyz
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          91 year ago

          I agree, but I think that the normies like to use Chrome because… that’s what everyone is using, so I am eager to see how FF can give a better experience to the normal user.

          • 🧋 Teh C Peng Siu DaiB
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            1 year ago

            Normies (also me) use Gmail, it’s easy when you login to your browser and you’re partially already authenticated everywhere else.

            Same goes for android.

            • Riskable
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              71 year ago

              it’s easy when you login to your browser and you’re partially already authenticated automatically sending your personal, private information everywhere else.

              FTFY

              • TheSaneWriter
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                61 year ago

                You’re correct, but the majority of normies don’t care. A lot of people don’t naturally feel a strong impulse towards privacy, so the fact that Google knows everything about them doesn’t really bother them.

      • arglebargle
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        261 year ago

        It already does. I dislike using Chrome. Firefox works better, looks better, and containers are really useful to me.

      • @RandomVideos@programming.dev
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        211 year ago

        Ah yes, an open source popular browser that is made by a nonprofit organization is less trustworthy than a close source browser made by a public company

      • TheSaneWriter
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        91 year ago

        Isn’t Safari made by Apple? It’s not like Apple is some paragon of corporate virtue, why do you trust them?

        • @kimpilled@infosec.pub
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          If you’re running Safari, you’re already running their OS. If Apple wants to spy on you, they’ve already got the means to do so, so you’ve already decided to trust them.

          Switching to Chrome or Firefox means trusting one more entity in addition to Apple. This expands your possible exposure.

          • TheSaneWriter
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            41 year ago

            You’re always both. With Apple, it doesn’t sell your data, but it does sell curated ad space where they use your data to power their tools. While this is less of an invasion of privacy than Google or the atrocity of Meta’s privacy policy, it still exists on a spectrum of how much companies are willing to use your data for extra profit. I’m not saying to not use Apple, hell I’m currently using Microsoft Edge, but I think it’s important to understand that literally every profit-driven company is subject to the same systemic flaws and none of them can be completely trusted.