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    I am specifically waiting for this to happen so I can be part of the flood to Firefox when they finally throw the switch.

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      Why wait?

      Also, Brave browser exists for those who are particularly attached to chromium.

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          I’m just learning about what all the fuss around Brave is. But I’d be interested to hear how Google seems to be the ethical choice for a daily driver browser currently. It’s obviously fine to not want to use Brave, but how is it the inferior choice when compared to Chrome (or even considered a sidegrade)? Even with all the issues mentioned I’d still recommend it as the lesser of the 2 evils compared to Chrome.

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            No one is saying Chrome is the ethical choice, why are you reducing this to a 2 options choice?

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              why are you reducing this to a 2 options choice?

              I’m not.

              No one is saying Chrome is the ethical choice

              The commenter I’m replaying to implies they’re using Chrome primarily, and then reacted negatively to the mention of Brave. I’m asking how Chrome use is the acceptable choice and Brave is seemingly so bad in comparison.

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                I don’t think the commenter you are replying to is arguing that chrome is a better choice. He or she knows it’s bad but didn’t make the change out of lazyness (no offence). Change has a cost, especially if it implies changing habits. So people will just delay or avoid them.

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            obviously, but when you have the option of just, not using chrome at all, why would you use anything chromium based to begin with, google is literally the problem here lmao

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            • shady issues in the past from company
            • heavily integrated with crypto (controversial for some)
            • CEO is a transphobe
            • it’s still Chrome under the hood
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              • CEO is also homophobic and a covid skeptic
              • the browser used to modify crypto exchange URLs to add it’s affiliate code to it
              • it used to collect donations for content creators without their consent
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                  Firefox is

                  1. Dependant on Google’s ad revenue
                  2. Joining the advertising market themselves
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                So you are sure that Google and Mozilla doesn’t employ any homophobics? They obviously have some sort of mind reader?

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                  You are right, I should have been more specific. He’s openly homophobic. I’m also pretty sure that’s not the case for Mozilla as he was Mozilla’s CEO and was pushed out over this specific thing.

                  I don’t know why you are shifting from CEO to employees.

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            I don’t know, I’ve seen answers to this so many times on Lemmy.

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            I’ve seen this answered so many times it’d make your head spin, looney-toons style. If you don’t know then you haven’t been paying any attention.

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            My personal reason, I looked at their code and it was amateur town. Hacked together trash. There’s a proper way to modify Chromium and they didn’t follow any of it. In contrast, Vivaldi’s coders knew what they were doing. I don’t actively use or support Chrome, but if you’re going to do something, do it right.

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        brave is literally just chromium, it solves none of the fundamental problems other than being like, reasonably well built.

        It’s chrome, but if it didnt’t try and kill you ever update. That’s the difference.

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        I could see this as part of a metrics thing - if Google sees a big drop in users right after the rollout, it’s harder to brush it under the rug as having no correlation.

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        Brave is a great browser and the only chromium one I would ever use but mentioning it on Reddit OR Lemmy will cause you to get mass downvoted unfortunately

        The browser lets you customize the dashboard so you can make the browser look as clean or minimal as you want with almost no distractions

        Biggest issue I have with Firefox is that some websites can be broken but 99.9% of the time this is not Firefox’s fault and the only one to blame is lazy developer’s

        Firefox out of the box doesn’t come with specific features that the websites that I use need which is why I haven’t made the switch yet, biggest one is that Firefox doesn’t work with Keychron’s in browser software that is used to customize their keyboards. Again this is not Firefox’s fault because Firefox didn’t adopt the feature because of security concerns which is completely valid and even commendable.

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      Or just set the few relevant settings manually, if you need nightly/dev edition.

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          Except I’ve heard about every change from here. And as I read the nightly changelogs, it’s not that hidden actually.

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              If you need to use nightly, you’re already the exception to the rule. That means you need to read the changelogs.

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                  When you use nightly, you’re using an unstable application that is likely to have many bugs that cause freezing or crashing. Reading the changelogs is a necessity when using unstable software. Using nightly builds of any application requires additional care on the part of the user.

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              The things I said apply to the people that need to use FF nightly/dev. And those people should know their stuff.

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      I’m about to reach a point where I just abandon technology. Become a full luddite and let it burn over its own hubris.

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    Still the best browser, even though the majority left it for the speed they think chrome has.

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      I’m back on Firefox now, but I did originally leave it because Edge had the speed. Not sure if that’s because it’s more optimized for Windows.

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        I mean yeah, all these big tech companies are trying to make their products feel faster, because that’s the only space they can compete. When it comes to privacy, they all lose.

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      YouTube videos for some reason won’t load for me on Firefox. I switched to the Waterfox fork and it’s fine.

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        Well, Google has been caught trying to make their sites slower / malfunctioning on Firefox. Usually they get away with it by saying it’s a mistake.

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        Google just maliciously makes their websites work way worse on Firefox. For YouTube I personally just use FreeTube on desktop and Tubular (A NewPipe fork) on Android so I never have to interact with that goddamn website

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          As someone who uses tubular I wish it got updated more tho. The number of debug versions I have installed from pull requests is like 5 at this point 😭

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            I’m fine with a slow update cycle as long as they don’t wait too long to actually merge app breaking features, like when recently youtube changed a few things and videos would no longer load.

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    I’m really hoping Google’s antitrust case doesn’t kill Mozilla. Over 85% of Mozilla’s cash flow is dependent on Google paying for that search box.

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      If Mozilla stopped paying his CEO millions of dollars… and if they actually financed development with people donations…

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      I don’t think google wants to get hit with another antitrust lawsuit for web browsing, so I am sure they will figure out some other deal to funnel money to Firefox

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        Good point. Could be like MS and Apple in the late 90’s. When Apple was on death’s door, Gates invested in Apple so MS would have faux competition for regulators.

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      Honestly at least they’d be forced to revamp their business model and focus on their users. I’d willingly donate to them monthly if it went to firefox directly and they acted in our interest accordingly

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    Mozilla’s slowly creeping in the surveillance with adding integrated crap like Pocket and AI driven Fake Spot. I’m really glad Librewolf’s made a privacy focused fork of their browser without all that nonsense.

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        A lot of sites? Or more like just a few? Personally, the ratio of working vs broken sites is like 100 to 1 and when a site is broken, its usually one of those shit pile SEO listicle sites or some absolute trash heap of ads. Every time I’ve disabled the protections I’ve regretted it.

        A lot of the web is useless trash nowadays and Librewolf has done a good job of filtering that for me.

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      Related announcement: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attribution

      TLDR: Mozilla wants your data and it’s opt out. If you’re on FF 128 it’s already on and you will have to turn it off manually. Shame how they have fallen this low. The LEAST they could have done is show a pop up announcement when the user upgraded to 128.

      Also: +1 to Librewolf. Mozilla is definitely going to try more scummy crap like this in the future. Definitely the better option over Firefox.

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        Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but I just read that whole article and it sounds like a good implementation? Companies want to know how effective their ads are, and I like their approach of trying to find a way to provide this without wholesale personal data collection. They even say at the end that they don’t get the data either. It sounds like a reasonable thing to try and standardize.

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          I’m not commenting on implementation itself but rather on how Mozilla went about with an opt-out approach into the collection program (even if it was for testing) to a community they have cultivated with the promise of privacy.

          Collecting my data is a big deal. It doesn’t matter how it is used. I should at least consent to it.

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            I feel like this argument is fair enough. I think a pop-up informing the user about it and how to opt out is sufficient.

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            So long as it survives rusts complexity and lack of portability. I’m always down for more options!

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              rust is complex and non-portable?

              i’ve never heard of this, do you mind explaining what you mean better?

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                You joking? 😆 I don’t want to discourage you from giving rust a try but come on. Have you ever talked to a developer that spent any real time with rust, anyone that got as far as multi threading?

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            Wasn’t Firefox supposed to incorporate Servo in some way or another before Quantum was developed?

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            Looks really cool. I hope we don’t have the overreliance on one rendering engine in the future. Once one or the other comes out I’ll definitely try it out.

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        I’ve read the announcement. Sounds reasonable and sufficiently private to me. So saying “Mozilla wants your data” sounds misleading and like an overreaction to me. Also might help to mitigate the arms race in privacy protection versus tracking for ads and worse stuff.

        Mozilla is definitely going to try more scummy crap like this in the future.

        How do you know that?

        Even if, there will still be alternatives. But right now, Firefox is the best browser with regards to privacy and security. It even passed minmum ratings by the german IT security authority, contrary to other widely used browsers.

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    I really hope there’s a significant rise in Firefox -and derivatives- usage share. It will be good for everyone, even those stuck on Chromium browsers.

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          In order to get away from that, they need to find alternative ways of making money, like showing ads, which loops us back around to the guy above saying they’re making bad decisions.

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            Your point is fair, but their real problem is they bloated up to absorb their insane budget and they are going to have to strip down to a reasonable size for a browser company before trying to establish a non-google revenue stream.

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              How the hell would you know this? There’s a reason no grassroots project is able to compete with Chrome, Firefox or Safari, and it’s not for a lack of trying.

              And if you’re going to tell me they should stop doing Pocket etc., then please refer to my comment above.

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    “And then Mozilla management comes in from the top rope with the chair”

    Seriously, for profit companies should not own open source projects.

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      That for-profit company is owned by a non-profit. They don’t have shareholders to which they could pay out the profits.

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      You can’t stop that. But you can use Librewolf if video download helper stops ignoring Librewolf.

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    Has it actually been confirmed when it’s coming? I feel like this has been threatened for years now.

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      Mozilla and its murder/suicide pact with Google falling apart may be the best thing that could possibly happen to Firefox.

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        Mozilla makes about $590m a year.

        $510m of that is from Google paying for the search engine default spot.

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          Well I for one hope they figure out an alternative income, like a premium subscription? Or perhaps look to get acquired by proton and get some integration going with those services? I’m no expert here, I just think that they have a lot of happy users, and there must be some way to figure this out financially.

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              I’m not aware of any non-profit with staffing the size of Mozilla. The problem is that you need to be able to make money and to set it aside for bad times, so you don’t have to fire employees the moment the donations falter.

              The 501©(3) non-profit form of tax-exempt non-profit, which is what the Mozilla Foundation continues to be, is not allowed to do so. That’s why they opened up the for-profit Mozilla Corporation subsidiary that does most of the Firefox development.

              On the plus side, the only shareholder of the Mozilla Corporation is the Mozilla Foundation, which therefore essentially cannot accept any of the profit the MoCo might make.

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          That’s a ridiulously low amount of money given the amount of users. I’d happily pay 10-20 bucks a year to keep mozilla alive. Not that I like it much, but more so than the big alternatives

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            Yeah, Apple seems to be able to fetch a little more than a billion per percent of the browser market (18% at 20B), but Mozilla is only able to score 0.5B for 2-3% of the market. Mozilla is getting a quarter of Apple’s rate.

            That said, Apple has a lot more leverage than Google, and they can strong arm a better deal. I also wouldn’t be surprised if Safari users are just a more valuable marketing cohort. Firefox’s user base is going to have a lot more people who opt out of and or block targeted marketing.

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        The Google antitrust decision will result in Mozilla losing 90% of their revenue since Google won’t be allowed to pay them to use their search engine anymore.

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      The antitrust case is about Google and Apple, not Mozilla. It doesn’t mean the antitrust case will have any impact on Mozilla, because it’s not a major player, unlike Apple.

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    We need another meme like this about Firefox but with the first panel saying “Antitrust judgement against Google” and the second panel blank, without anyone coming to the rescue.

    The large majority of Mozilla’s revenue comes from the money that Google pays to be the default search engine in Firefox.

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    Manifest v3 was why I switched to FF a while ago - it was going to only be a matter of time even with the delays so I figured I should switch early. I still like how chrome looks a lot more and wish we had tab grouping, but google can take uBO from my cold, dead hands.

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      Agreed, I also miss the feature of being able to extend a screenshot on a page.

      But uBO is a necessity now to browse the Internet. The ads are so bad now.

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        The biggest pro for me is the vertical tabs. It’s got the same vertical tabs that Edge has which are great. I only use Edge at work but it’s great especially when you have a web based production environment like nCino that you work in all day and have dozens of tabs open. You can group them up nicely and keep yourself organized. Floorp is based off of Firefox ESR so it’s on an older build (but up to date security). The current build is based off FF 115 while FF is on 129 now.

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            I’ve tried but for some reason, I can never get them set up correctly and I’m not technologically illiterate. Its been a while since I tried it though since Floorp just works.

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      I moved from vivaldi to it. Move the the side bar to the left and it felt just like home

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    I like Vivaldi and they are going to keep V2 support for a while. I will switch to Firefox when it’s gone, but for the time being I am happy they are keeping the support.

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      And even if they don’t keep it: they got browser-level Adblock- and Tracking-Filters that you can just feed the same lists you’d put into uBlock

      Sure it’s lacking the spot-blocking, tool if there’s a missed ad or a fine-tuned whitelisting but I think that browser will stay usable even if V3 is implemented.

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    What does chromium-based browsers on pc have that Firefox doesn’t have? Like I don’t understand why people use Chrome instead of Firefox.

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      One thing for danish people is the “online government id” (MitID) everyone has and needs to use for online purchases and logins to banks and various other things.

      It straight up only works on chrome for mobile :/

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        I really wish Mozilla would focus on these missing bits and bobs like WebUSB and this one you mentioned instead of whatever the fuck it is that they’re doing now

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        I easily use Firefox and mitID and there is no problem, but if I’m wrong or using a special version it could be different for us