You wish that was happening.
I’m preparing to be completely unsurprised that Firefox’s market share will still be at 3% next month and the month after that.
If that 3% is made up of an outsized share of power users they might be ok. I’m more worried about the power structure shenanigans that have been going on the past few years.
I alway wonder how underreported the Firefox figures are by things like that its users are generally more technical/privacy aware (so are blocking the trackers that report these numbers) and also spiders and bots often pretend to to Chrome (inflating those numbers).
I have for a long time been on Firefox. It’s stable and works great.
Long time Firefox user over here too (2016) 🤟
Nice!
Great!
Never left. Never would leave. Chrome was always a trap.
Oh, nice.
Even if Firefox couldnt block ads just like chrome, I still would prefer it. So much nicer in every way.
It’s better at blocking ads even. :)
Google and every other corporation that wants to be your Daddy or your slave master can go fuck off and die. Personally I have been done for a while now, when Google shit all over the world by buying YouTube then making everyone sign in to Google plus to use, it was it for me, I have never actually signed in to YouTube since, and have tried to avoid giving Google any traffic to this day.
I think we don’t have a choice anymore but to start making a new society built from scratch for the people. We can start by using the vast amount of tools and resources built by corporations to enslave us against the same corporations doing the enslaving.
I don’t know if the human population can actually collectively do what’s necessary to save themselves or more then likely their children from a life of permanent servitude these corporations want.
But why not give it a try, it’s better then realizing you were a feckless idiot that did absolutely nothing while you’re waiting for a corporation to cut off your life support because you’re no longer profitable.
Politicians will allow corporations to enslave everyone but that magical 1%, they’re not vary bright, they don’t study history, all they study is fleecing the public, when the shit finally hits the fan the leaders these politicians make will hang them first.
And if some corporation don’t like what I’m saying, come at me bitch, I’ve got curable cancer, I’ve been told I got ten years left, so have fun then die (I’m on a Tennessee Republican Death Panel right now.) So lets see how much “fun” I can make for corporations in ten years.
I’m with you brother. Sorry to hear about that last section of your comment, but here’s to making the most of the next ten years 🥂
Great!
Awesome!
We can all join together along class lines and start to change things we have in common in the local govt.
If I had to choose between a tracked, ad-filled experience and a slower, protected experience, I would go back to 1990s style Internet in a second.
Slower? I think browsers are all pretty much on par these days.
The killer feature Firefox needs to implement is profile switching.
You may know this, but Firefox does support multiple profiles. I regularly open it with
firefox -p "PROFILENAME"depending on whether I’m working or not. you can go to about:profiles to manage the different profiles.Do containers not fit that bill for you?
I find Containers to be very clunky to use. I love the idea, but not being able to just send a tab, cookies, session and everything to a Container is a PITA.
How would that work though? If you start outside a container how can you decide what to isolate to put into one?
You can right click to move a tab to a container, it seems plausible that you could have an option to move the cookies to that container too
Interesting. I didn’t know that.
Hahaha, the wild west!
I can’t believe people still use Chrome, Firefox is better by a mile.
Idk, I’ve used both browsers and I prefer Chrome in terms of features and UI. But it’s not worth the privacy you get with Firefox
same problem we had back in the ie5/6 days: it was just there and most people don’t care. i physically cringe when i watch co-workers using chrome with not even a basic adblocker installed, klicking away ads, promts, pop-ups, videos and whatnot just to access a news article. it’s horrible!
Yeah, I’ve been using Firefox exclusively for ages. And also Duckduckgo, I just can’t stand the excessive of Google’s captcha since I always use VPN.
I just switched yesterday after learning more about why I should here in Lemmy.
The last time I tried FF (many years ago) it was incredibly slow, so I went with chrome. But the FF of today is actually noticably quicker.
Also, FF offered to import all of my bookmarks, autofills, passwords, history, and even my extensions (if a FF version exists of course, almost all of which did) and did so seamlessly. It was the easiest software switch ever.
Yeah being able to import all my stuff from chrome to Firefox was so clutch, now I just have to find a good day to spend getting the rest of my shit out of google’s hands and get this pixel phone to run grapheneOS.
My friggin’ Chromebook (which works great) can’t install FF.
I’ve tried rooting into Ubuntu, but, I can’t get it all straightened out. Until I notice truly diminished issues… I’ll use Chromebook as is.
Why should I switch? Just curious.
Privacy and not being part of Google would be the biggest reason.
It also looks kinda nice, in my opinion.
It’s also faster than chrome now I think.
Apart from privacy concerns, Google has started to add some really bad features to Chrome, such as “Manifest V3” and “Web Environment Integrity”. These limit your ability to block ads or generally modify your device or the websites you’re visiting, and are just a bad for the web as a whole. WEI in particular is basically DRM for the web, so Google checks your device and denies you access to websites if they don’t like it. But as long as the majority of people keep using Chrome they can just force these things onto everyone.
Still find it crazy when one company decides the internet’s fate and seems to act like they own the internet, simply because they have a huge ass market for the browser, search engine & site crawler.
Monopolies and lobby group do it all the time. Make laws to help their company stay in the lead.
This is in politics and effects all our lives.
edit: word
Like when YouTube introduced ads and everyone moved to Vimeo?
Oh, didn’t even know that was a thing.
Thanks for pointing it out!
I just made the switch days ago, couldn’t be happier. Google can suck it.
awesome! join firefox instance, if you haven’t already!
Just made the switch for my personal computers. All the extensions that I used are there except a few for work.
Awesome!
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=0i0Ho-x7s_U
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.
Always upvote The Rossman!
Thanks for the link!
Vote with your feet, move away of those cooperations…
Already on firefox on pc and mobile
Awesome!
