• Jaysyn
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    Fortunately, this is easily avoided by not using Chrome.

    • RooPappy
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      It would be best to make the switch today. That has the dual benefit of a) Showing Google that they will lose users, and maybe they will change their mind (again), and b) Show every website that they do need to put actual effort into supporting and testing against Firefox.

    • R0cket_M00se
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      -131 year ago

      It’s been easily avoided for years now despite alarmists saying ad block would stop working as far back as 2020. I don’t even have an ad blocker installed on Vivaldi and the built in blocking has worked just fine, even the other day when people started having issues with YouTube V just kept doing its job.

      I’ll believe it when I see it, and the day it happens I’ll switch to FF. Until then I’m not going to reduce the user experience with this armchair virtue signalling that you all pretend is making a difference.

    • Senex
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      301 year ago

      For me, the future is Firefox and Linux.

    • @1984@lemmy.today
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      Yeah but putting all our hopes into Firefox is quite dangerous. All Google needs to do to fuck us over is to stop funding Firefox.

  • Tygr
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    751 year ago

    Recently made the switch from Edge to Firefox to fully ditch Chromium. The more I read, the more I realize it was a great decision.

      • Tygr
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        I liked it. Found it better than Chrome for my needs to finally get away from Google. I hadn’t realized I went from Chrome to Chromium. Within a year, I am now switched to Firefox. After theming it and stuff, I’m now liking it way more than everything else. It does everything I need and looks beautiful.

        I also enjoy Firefox Focus on iOS which is basically incognito on steroids. Any time I click a link, it defaults to FFF.

      • iFarmGolems
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        11 year ago

        It’s better than chrome. Smaller memory footprint and a bit faster. Source: I’m web dev.

  • @rob299@lemmy.world
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    401 year ago

    In other words, these older extentions work just fine, no one wants the new limited features, and google is force disabling older extentions despite any outcries from its users because it can.

  • @kambusha@feddit.ch
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    201 year ago

    The popular uBlock Origin extension, for example, would be limited under Manifest V3. The developer created uBlock Origin Lite, a reduced version that is compatible with Manifest V3.

  • @HurlingDurling@lemm.ee
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    Running winget install firefox should fix that problem for windows users

    EDIT: Fuck off autocorrect

  • @SapphironZA
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    41 year ago

    I made the switch to waterfox (Firefox fork) that strips out much of the problematic mozilla stuff.

    I started to switch because of the tab containers, as I work across a dozen or so accounts in our MSP business.

    Now I realised how good Firefox can be if you get rid of the bloat.

      • @SapphironZA
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        31 year ago

        I would say it’s good, but could be great with small adjustments in the way it is packaged.

    • ripcord
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      I’ve never once used Firefox and thought “man, is there bloat here”. Whatwas bugging you?

      • @SapphironZA
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        61 year ago

        I was mainly referring to how sluggish it was. For my web apps, it was always slower and the UI would bog down. Maybe not the correct definition of you refer to unnecessary features.

        I am more referring to how lean or streamline the software is. Both in front end design and backend.

        A lot of browser performance has to do with how you use it, so my experience is not universal.

        Still, even full fat Firefox is skinny compared to the morbidly obese Chrome and edge browsers.

        • @laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          11 year ago

          So weird to me how when Chrome first came out, it was the opposite: Firefox was getting sluggish and poorly optimized with too much going on, and Chrome was sleek and fast and seemed to just have what was needed to work.

          • @SapphironZA
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            21 year ago

            These things go in cycles. But I think the writing is on the wall. Google will never make the investment to unbloat Chrome.

      • JohnEdwa
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        There isn’t much, Waterfox removes Pocket and disables most of the telemetry, tweaks some of the settings to be more privacy and performance minded, swaps google from default search engine and iirc it has more aggressive compiler optimization settings in exchange for having slightly more modern hardware requirements. And the default theme is more compact and less chrome-esque.

        It originally was just about providing 64-bit builds of Firefox back when Mozilla didn’t yet, today it’s mostly “Firefox, but slightly better.”

      • @laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        -11 year ago

        Around the time Chrome first hit the scene, Firefox was getting pretty bloated and inefficient… They’ve come a long way since then but they still do a bunch of unnecessary stuff that should probably be off by default but isn’t

    • Lantern
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      121 year ago

      Is the correct word to use here grammatically.

    • Senex
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      71 year ago

      Yes, “your”. Your is the possessive form of the pronoun you and indicates ownership.

  • ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ
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    -231 year ago

    firefox did the same thing a while back. all plugins stopped working, some where updated and some lost forever. dont trust moz.

    • @Empricorn@feddit.nl
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      41 year ago

      What, you own some Alphabet stock or something? This is absolutely false and borders on intentional disinformation.

      Firefox has had minor bloat/compatibility issues over the years, like old versions of all browsers… But nothing on this scale!

      • @laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        -21 year ago

        I mean, they absolutely did change their extension system, removing a lot of what the extensions had access to. Not to this level, no, but they did do that and a lot of what could be done with Firefox is no longer possible, so I’m not sure how that’s disinformation.

        An unfounded leap from that point to “don’t trust moz”, yes, but the extension change did happen.

        • ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ
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          11 year ago

          too late…you had a different opinion in the echo chamber. anyways, ofcourse moz fucked this up. just like they did when killing weave and lying to the users that users could still host everything on their own servers. never worked. utter bs. so let’s keep Google search as the default search engine to get some money.