• 🦊 OneRedFox 🦊@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago
    1. Mozilla’s goals for the web line up quite nicely with my own.
    2. The performance is good for what I want.
    3. The extension API is more powerful than Chrome’s.
    4. Outside of the Apple ecosystem, it’s the last major alternative to the Chrome skins.
    5. It isn’t actively trying to cripple adblockers.
    • algorithmae@lemmy.one
      0·
      1 year ago

      Oh THAT’S how you do it? That was one feature of Chrome that I couldn’t figure out how to do with Firefox. Thanks!

      • sylverstream@lemmy.nz
        1·
        1 year ago

        Glad I could help.

        With treeview tabs it’s even more awesome. Really loving Firefox, only recently got it. Only annoying thing is on Android it reloads tabs when I switch between apps.

  • lichtmetzger@feddit.de
    1·
    1 year ago

    Switched to Chrome a few years back when Firefox killed XUL and bundled too much bloatware.

    Now I’ve switched back to Firefox because it’s good again and Google is doing too many evil things lately (Web Integrity).

  • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Because I feel shamed every time I check privacytools.io if I don’t.

    /s it’s great but I need a chromium backup. Brave is the best chromium clone I know.

    Btw, if y’all want to download pure firefox, check this, there’s a better official download link with less tracking. In any case, I use weakened librewolf with Medium Ublock blocking (block all 3rd party scripts and frames and enable scripts only for logged sites since they are tracking me through other means anyway)

  • apprehentice@lemmy.enchanted.socialEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    It’s not Chrome or Chromium derived. Google has incentives to mine me for data. Mozilla, not so much. I don’t trust Mozilla completely, but I certainly trust them more than Google to have my best interest at heart.

  • flatbield@beehaw.orgEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Simple, it is from an org that has been FOSS and user focused for decades. Compare that to a bunch of companies which have more or less been doing the opposite. As far as I am concerned, people are just nuts for using anything else. But people are free to do what they want.

  • fsniper@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    I have been with Firefox, since it’s inception. Never left it. And it never let me down.

  • Hirom@beehaw.org
    1·
    1 year ago

    Because it has tabs. Seriously, I first used Firefox back when IE6 was the norm, and Firefox brought tabs and better standard compliance. Haven’t turned my back since.

  • martinbasic@beehaw.org
    1·
    1 year ago
    1. It’s faster
    2. It’s not chromium-based
    3. It can protect you from trackers and block ads
    4. Chrome may terminates Adblock-functionality extensions in Manifest V3 and Firefox wouldn’t, afaik
  • Beej Jorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org
    1·
    1 year ago

    Ad blocking on desktop and mobile is awesome.

    And it’s vital to have multiple browser engines in the wild for interoperability. If we go all Chromium-based, we’re going to eventually pay for that like IE6.

    And Google is kind of an untrustworthy POS of a company these days.