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Yes use Firefox but ugh Mozilla wyd https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5053290/mozilla-2023-annual-report-ceo-pay-skyrockets-while-firefox-marketshare-nosedives
Trading the article, the CEO is meeting the assigned goals exceptionally well. The CEO does not give themselves the raise per se, but the board does, right?
As it turns out, moving away from Firefox is exactly Mozilla’s plan.
Earlier this year, Mozilla laid out their vision for the future of their organization – and it did not include Firefox. The focus for the future of Mozilla – according to Mozilla – is primarily based around Artificial Intelligence services.
In fact, Mozilla leadership stated, quite plainly, that they intend to take Mozilla “in a different direction.”
When you consider the goals of Mozilla… the decreasing Firefox marketshare is no longer much of a concern. In fact, moving revenue away from Firefox, while investing in A.I. systems (and other subscription services) becomes the primary goal.
That’s a red panda isn’t it?
From their “Firefox name FAQ”:
A “Firefox” is another name for the red panda.
Fuck me, I love learning, thanks for that.
81% of mozilla’s revenue is from Google. “Firefox is the only major browser not built by a company that makes money from advertising and/or selling your personal data.” They just make money from the company that makes money from advertising and/or selling your personal data.
I’m mainly using Firefox on my devices and have zero regrets.
I also enjoyed Vivaldi over the other chromium browsers. Still sticking with FF for now. The only issues I’ve had are Ms teams not loading, though km assuming that’s related to 3rd party cookies ( even though o365 outlook works fine ).
MSteams is a dumpster fire in and of itself though. Even on my Windows pc it crashes when sharing my screen.
I switched mostly too. Cannot say that I have zero regrets, but FF is mostly up to what I need it to be. And where it isn’t, there’s Vivaldi.
Yeah Firefox on Android sometimes refuses to load tabs and I have to quit and reopen it, it also still feels slow to load search results as well. Even with those flaws, I’m not switching back to Chromium browsers
The Firefox add-ons help out with sticking with FF. I don’t think you can use add-ons in chromium browsers.
Ghostery/ABP on my phone is convenient.
Also librewolf, a more open version of FF without the shit like Pocket
Opera works well with Twitch, but I haven’t done any detailed stat analysis on usage. The trade off between it and FF is (with my GPU focused browser settings) Firefox with higher CPU usage/temp(by maybe 1-2 degrees, negligible) and opera with higher GPU usage(but lower cpu temps/usage, as stated above). Since Opera is Chrome-built, it’s in a walled garden deal, when possible.
Opera is the biggest piece of shit in existence, as it sends all of your data to a weird Chinese company. They also make use of shady marketing practices and constantly lie to their users.
It sends those packets to 0.0.0.0 thanks to my HOSTS setup.
I really don’t see a reason to use a proprietary browser in 2023. Firefox is the best in my opinion. Chromium and anything based on it is bad for the open internet. Google shouldn’t be able to control the entire web through their browser engine. Firefox is the only viable alternative.
You’re preaching to the choir Firefox is my daily driver. Opera is just what I’m using with Twitch to see if it’s more efficient.
Ok then I misunderstood your comment. Maybe I shouldn’t use Lemmy while I’m drunk. Is there a reason why efficiency is so important? Do you use a laptop with poor battery life?
I definitely repurpose old hardware but I also want to keep my odroid or raspi from running too hot so they last.
Wait since when is Opera available on the Raspberry Pi?
oh cool my favorite thread again
How do you switch to Firefox if you use Firefox?
Why wait until 2024 to switch when you can switch RIGHT NOW?
Any Alternative to Brave? I have FF as primary browser but for some websites which tends to break on FF, I would like to use something non-Chrome/Brave on Windows.
I keep chromium as a secondary if something breaks on Firefox. It’s the foundation of chrome without all the silly Google shit.
I think you want ungoogled-chromium
Thanks, this is what I’m looking for.
FF is primary but started using Vivaldi as my chromium based browser… I’m definitely not nerd level privacy geek but it hits all my check boxes for configuration, customization, and ease of use.
If the site breaks on Firefox, probably it only works in chrome based, so I’d say just use ungoogled-chromium.
I use edge for the edge case when websites don’t work after changing the user agent
I have found edge to be more bloaty than brave
Librewolf sounds like Brave, but built on top of Firefox. It also doesn’t spam you with stupid ads like Brave does.
Librewolf is better I think. It’s pretty much a privacy hardened Firefox with the telemetry taken out. No odd crypto scheme like Brave either.
No odd crypto scheme like Brave either.
That’s a great point
But my alt should be Chromium based for the weird cases.
As far as non-Chrome goes, there’s only two other modern browser engines. Webkit which is Apple stuff, and Gecko which is Firefox. So I don’t believe so, no.
What websites break on FF?
Which sites? I haven’t had that in years.
(And you can report them to Mozilla and they will fix it by either fixing a bug or creating a workaround for that site)
Top of my Head: Ms Teams.
Also, on side note, FF on Desktop doesn’t support PWAs while on Mobile they do.
I switched back to Firefox maybe 9 or 10 months ago after using opera gx for a while. Firefox had been great, and I love that they keep fighting the good fight, so to speak.
Opera GX, just like anything related to Opera, is a massive pile of shit.
Ok don’t shoot me in advance because this is an honest question. I use Safari as a daily browser. Where do theh rank on the pile?
On my android I actually use Opera and like it quite a bit.
If you’re reading this and not using Firefox, do yourself a favor and don’t wait until 2024 to switch.
I’ve had many problems with Firefox that always push me back to Chrome. It seems some web pages are only created with Chrome in mind. I really don’t know about browser specs but I’m guessing a front-end app must have a lot of “if chrome, then; else if Mozilla then;” logic to handle specific browser interfaces or features.
Apparently some apps don’t care about Mozilla and they just don’t work. It’s also pretty hard to tell that the issue is Mozilla, it takes me like 15m to switch to chrome and then “ahhhh… it was the browser”.
I really want to help Mozilla by using it, but I just can’t under those conditions.
What sites are these? I’ve not had this in years and when there is problems the site normally says unsupported browser rather than leaving me to guess
Other than YouTube, which purposefully slows Firefox down, I only ever encountered one webpage in years where the issue was 100% “caused” by my browser choice – the left pane (lesson list) in my school’s tutoring platform would not scroll due to what I assume was a trivial HTML oversight. After reporting the issue, they insisted that they would not support browsers other than ones based on Chromium and Safari and tried to convince me to switch. I don’t have access to the site anymore and I did not understand web development at all back then so I could not create a patch myself; I just worked around the issue using a very tall, zoomed-out “mobile view” to reach the off-screen buttons.
Mostly payment platforms
I’m on firefox and I love it, but developing sites for chrome…
