• psycrow@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    1 year ago

    Fun fact, did you know that google deliberately makes their products run worse on browsers like Firefox so users will think the browsers are slow? Please support Firefox, it’s the only real browser not based on Googles technology (like Brave is), and it’s actively fighting Google’s monopoly on web browsing.

  • ZytaZiouZ@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Firefox for life! Well as long as they don’t go evil or bankrupt. I am not surprised at all though.

    1. Kneecap plugin performance especially for AdBlock plugins claiming it’s for security.
    2. Notify users that those plugins are slowing down Chrome.
    3. ???
    4. Profit… or people hopefully switch
      • jmshrv@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Maintaining a browser is an insane amount of work. Without Mozilla working on Firefox, LibreWolf will stagnate and become unusable.

    • N01R3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I mean, they’ve already started cutting some features I have used… So I’ve got Firefox and Pale Moon on my PC to cover the loss of ftp support. And since some pages don’t work in Firefox in either instance of engine, I have to have Chrome installed…

      • cowmouse@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        It genuinely sucks that some websites don’t bother to support Firefox! When you encounter one, you might want to complain to the devs and open a webcompat issue.

      • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I have already encountered some websites which didn’t work with Chrome very well, but did with Firefox. They mentioned it’s because of how Chrome now handles audio, the audio doesn’t start.

      • bustrpoindextr@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        It’s a terrible mobile browser…

        I honestly gave it a go, and I liked that I could run ad blocking, but the constant crashing and poor website rendering shoved me back to chrome on mobile a couple weeks ago. I’d rather deal with ads and have the browser be stable apparently.

        • therealmdubbs@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I use it on mobile just for uBlock. As far as I know it’s the only mobile browser that supports extensions. If you use their nightly version it can use any extension that you can get on desktop. The base version only supports a few extension, but uBlock is one of them.

        • optissima@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          What’s not working? Most broken websites are fixed by having it flag itself as chrome mobile, which is telling that your falling for what Google wants right now. And what crashes are you getting? I get one no more than once a week if that and I have over 100 tabs open

          • theshatterstone54@feddit.ukEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Wait, you guys get crashes on Firefox Mobile? Like legit, I was using Firefox for months, in fact, nearly a year, with over 100 tabs opened constantly (it showed up as an Infinity sign, lol) and I don’t remember ever having Firefox crash on me. That’s unusual.

    • Eleu8erios@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Wish Firefox goes with Vivaldi direction. I can’t try another browser since I 'm so addicted to gestures. Plus a lot more customization is available.

    • deafboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      And some sites are trying to load them again, and again, and again, so the poor plugin has no choice than to go hard on resources.

      • laxe@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        On desktop the market share is somewhat higher.

        I switched back to Firefox ever since the Quantum release and have been loving it.

        I wish Mozilla would spend their resources on the browser instead of wasting time and money on so many other useless projects.

  • Vangarell@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Such a baseless statement. Ad blockers actually improve performance by removing random junk videos, and images from running on the site.

    I’m so glad to have switched to Firefox.

  • Maple@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    So I’ve heard good and bad things about Firefox in this thread. The bad things being mainly the performance, and some sites just don’t load…

    So my question to you is, If I’m comfortably browsing on Brave with uBlock on, is it really worth the switch right now?

    • Danatronic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      The founder of Brave had previously been fired from Mozilla due to his homophobia. Firefox is the more ethical choice.

      But it’s also perfectly fine for most web browsing, and is the only web browser I’ve seen with extensions like ublock available on mobile.

      • Maple@lemmy.worldEnglish
        01·
        1 year ago

        I get that something like that might sway some people, and more power to you if you don’t want to in any way support people like that. But It isn’t going to affect me personally. I’m the type to separate the art from the artist, ya know? Plus there’s more people making Brave than just that one person, so like. I dunno, this doesn’t really affect my decision in the long run. I guess I’ll just wait and see when the new manifest happens, thanks for your input though!

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      You’re posting on Lemmy and you joined seven days ago, so it’s a safe bet that you have some opinions about Reddit. So I’ll put it this way: if you have a problem with the way Reddit concentrates power in the hands of u/Spez and want to support alternatives because of that, then you should also have a similar problem with how Chromium-based browsers concentrate power in the hands of Google and reject Brave in favor of Firefox.

    • ComeHereOrIHookYou@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Performance wise widely depends on the site used. Some sites (notably Google ones) are notorious for implementing anti-competitive behavior, where if their website is visited other than a chromium based browser, it slows down or a functionality stops working.

      I mean its the whole reason why Microsoft switch from Edge Edge HTML to Edge Chromium/Blink.

      The only good reason right now if you want to stick with Chromium based browsers such as Brave is you’re heavily into browser based games as currently Chromium (and it’s older brother, webkit) are the ones that have the best webgl performance, Firefox can do it but not as fast as Chromium and performance impact is very noticeable

  • teft@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    You should switch from chrome to firefox. Less tracking built in to the browser. Also chrome is planning to deprecate manifest V2 which will break all adblockers.

    • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Unless you use a browser that uses its own ad and tracker blocking. I get fewer ads on Vivaldi without adblocking then I get on Firefox with ublock origin.

      Runs about half the resources that Firefox takes up too.

      Ad block on chromium was supposed to break in January when manifest v3 came around and it doesn’t seem like much has changed on browsers that were prepared for it like Brave and V.

      Edge and Chrome are fucked, but who cares about them anyways.

      • cowmouse@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Unless you were running Firefx with outdated uBO filters, I doubt that. Vivaldi is a memory hog for me.

      • Bazoogle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I used vivaldi for a period, but it’s still Chromium. I’m trying to support the only non-chromium option out there. The more users Firefox has, the better. Chrome and Chromium are so dominant, it’s seriously problematic.

    • ki77erb@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I use Chrome because it integrates with the other Google services and hardware I use and because I just like it better. I fully understand the data collection thing and I’m ok with it to some extent. I like that Google shows me things that I might be interested in based on searches or sites I visit, but I TOTALLY understand why others might not be ok with it. I am more concerned with the government having access to my information than Google but not to the point of paranoia.