Best part of Lemmy is the lack of Brave bros (Inb4 downvotes, I know you’re still out there)
Us FF buddies got each other's backs, don't worry
Floorp gang!
I'd rather use firefox on desktop. On mobile I recently switched to bromite as default browser and firefox for everything else.
Edit: Looks like bromite is not active anymore. I am once again in search for a chromium browser.
Maybe check outCromite, a bromite fork that's updated still.
I use mull for regular browsing, but anything important, and by default, I use Vanadium (grapheneos only). At least until firefox gets site isolation on mobile
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*Slaps roof
This baby can run so many ads at full 4k, and leave you with just enough resources and bandwidth for 480p video.
This meme is so relatable. I got sick of Chrome and made the switch to Firefox this week, and haven't looked back.
Do you feel a speed/reactivity difference on Google websites (gmail, YouTube, ...) if you use any?
Not who you asked but just switched too and haven't noticed any difference with Gmail, YouTube, docs or sheets.
Not really. The only thing I noticed was that is consumes less CPU.
Welcome!!
Happy to be here!
Firefox is underrated. The only issue I have is sites that are only optimized for Chromium, and especially edge. A lot of businesses and medical websites only develop for and test for 1 browser, and it used to be Internet Explorer, but now it's Edge.
Then there's Microsoft Websites too. I don't know if it's like that anymore, but I always had to use Edge instead of Firefox to subscribe to or cancel Xbox Game Pass in the past.
Yup. Quick books and our government website both require chrome. It's like.... The stuff I do that I most care about not giving to Google, I have to give to Google. Drag.
For me, the only website that creates issues with Firefox is Teams, but it does run on Chromium.
firefox and google chrome nowadays use very similar amounts of resources. However, firefox is (for now) less cringe than google chrome.
Firefox seems to use more ram for me for some reason compared to Chrome.
shrug
personal data
So why do you still use the Google search engine?
I don't. I chatGPT these days
Is there an actual better alternative?
Pls no say DDG.
Yep, Kagi
Start page is pretty good. From my understanding it uses Google Search Results, just without user-specific results obviously
Finally made the switch today.
Firefox is so shit on mobile that it reloads every time I switch to other apps. I once tried to fill up a very long form, and when I tried to look up some information on my notepad app, I switched back to ff it reloaded and all my progress was erased.
It's a bug that has existed for years, and they never bother to fix it.
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/12731
So I switched to chrome + adblocking DNS on my phone and pc and I never looked back.
edit: Lemmy is becoming circlejerky like Reddit who would have thought. Facts downvoted have you guys even visited the link above it's a widespread issue. My phone is 8gb sd855+ with battery optimization disabled for FF mobile app. This is why I rarely engage.
It was the same for me until I changed phone Now the issue disappeared
It happened to me when I still used and old Moto g7 play with only 200mb free of ram so the phone needed to kill it it in order to load the other app, making Firefox "refresh" itself.
But that's the only time it happened to me.
I have both chrome and firefox installed. Uses firefox more along with ublock origin addon.
Yeah chrome is sorta bad, but I had a Firefox that was running for a few weeks or so that was using over 30 gigs of ram. No exaggeration.
Tbf that's your fault. This would never happen to a pro like me. (My machine has only 8GB RAM.)
I like Edge
It's basically chrome but not bloated
When you open edge on new device you have to click ~6 times to close all popups and you say it's not bloated?
Same. I use it on my Mac and pc and it’s great.
