I hope others consider doing the same

me and mozilla go way back, to the days of netscape navigator. we're old friends.. even through the worst of times (aol ownership), i've stood by my best bud.

I remember back then when people stop using FF because it used more PC resources than the OS itself and all started using Chrome because it was fast and lightweight.

Always has been.

As someone using Firefox for basically ever, Chrome has always seemed like bloated garbage to me. Deleted it a while back and never looked back.

I had my first website tell me today that I can't access their domain on FF. It was Adobe. Fuck em

I’m not a fan of the inability to drag a tab into a snapping position, I have to drag it out, then drag the new window to the snap location.

And apparently this has been a documented issue for 15 years, and there’s been little to no progress in all that time.

They went from Chromium based, to just Based.

I really want to switch back but... honestly: Chromium Edge, despite a few annoying features being shoved in your face, is actually a really nice browser IMO. It's definitely going to take some time to get used to FF again.

I'm so used to things like vertical tabs, icon only bookmarks, etc... I know I can change a lot in FF myself, but having to add custom css and whatnot on every device I use FF on is just annoying.

you can pry the vivaldi tab management out of my cold dead hands

Switched last night and damn, Firefox has gotten so much better. Used to be the first browser I manually installed around 2004, until Chrome released around 2008 or something. I love that it has extensions on mobile and bookmark/history sync now.

Should show edge and brave in the corners

Firefox is King 👑

So actually, Salman is the other guy

Switched from Brave to LibreWolf few weeks ago and I love it.

Just so that I can keep track of the score, I actually moved from Firefox to DuckDuckGo, because Firefox was considered not respecting privacy. This was not so many years ago.

Are we now saying today that the tables are turned? Or just that both are bad, but one is less bad?

I love this meme! Haha

I've moved back to Firefox but damn it keeps mangling my streaming audio in some cases and there doesn't seem to be a fix despite spending most of last night going through the limited solutions. Seems like this is a common problem for many Firefox users so Chrome will stay in play for some of these uses.

Previously Chrome did it all...

Librewolf is pretty decent too

Been using Firefox on desktop since it was called Firebird. I've jumped to different browsers on mobile, but Firefox on mobile has gotten a lot better since the last time I've tried it years ago, so I switched back to it recently.

Please firefox just add the goddamn custom key bindings

Firefox is fine rn

For a reason I'm not yet sure about, the official website for provincial parks in my province refuse to establish a secure connection with Firefox. I've switched to FF a few months ago now and aside from that specific website not working correctly, the rest is fine to me.

Am I out of the loop on what the issue with chromium is? Currently I mainly use ungoogled chromium on my desktop.

I only keep edge around so I can Chromecast to my TV from my PC. Otherwise Firefox all the way.

I actually uninstalled Firefox a few months ago on my mobile devices because certain websites for my work were not displaying well now thankfully they have been fixed. Installed the Iceraven fork which is amazing.

I did it on my phone and work PC. I'm still running Brave on this little linux laptop by my TV. Not sure if I have to change that.

What about internet explorer?

riyal

I wish Firefox had native tab grouping. That's the only thing I miss from chrome.

On my phone Firefox is terrible. It closes the app when I try to watch video full screen. When I reopen Firefox after the video crash all but 1/4 of the screen is black, and it doesn't respond to clicks on the tabs button to close or open new tabs.

So if it's a YouTube video, I try to view it in the YouTube app. Firefox will open YouTube to the home page but leaves me to find the video again within the YouTube app.

Click the navigate with GPS button inside the browser, and it opens Google maps to the last destination instead of the address you were looking at in Firefox. That made me late to 2 appointments before I figured out what was happening.

The auto fill is terrible or non-existent. The password management feature got stuck in a loop the other day and I had to force close.

Fuck Firefox. Maybe it's better on a new phone, but my experience with Firefox has been absolutely dog shit.

Only thing that sucks is needing an account to sync your stuff around. Brave does this through a "sync chain" using a QR code/some big passcode, all without an email account. Not to mention the built-in adblocker, so less extensions are needed.

If Firefox had this, I'd come back.

I use Firefox as a Main Browser and Thorium(Chromium) as Second for PWM feature.

Friendship ended with firefox ladybug web browser is now my friend

Firefox webdev tools are worthless. My heart belongs to Vivaldi. Nothing else comes closer.

Then I hope you enjoy spyware.

Well… If you're okay with a unique browser ID for each installation or using a browser that contacts a 3rd party analytics company no matter your settings then Firefox is for you. Just fire Wireshark and see for yourself how much snitching Firefox does.

Also Mozilla isn't what people paint it to be, they've shady finances and are now hosting code at Github. Mozilla allegedly stands for a bunch of stuff that is be definition incompatible with hosting code on GitHub as it is

If you're serious about having a decent browser pick Ungoggled Chromium or LibreWolf.

In my younger days I used Firefox as me default browser on Windows. It was fun to tinker with. The add-ons were especially interesting. Things like greasemonkey let you lay over a custom script over the websites you visited. But when I started to concern myself about the security of all this tinkering, I stopped with running script that a very sympathetic Russian kid had created. So at that time I switched to Google Chrome and now I'm using Edge Chromium.

Permanently Deleted

is that one xed out picture iron? because irons not bad.

I probably won't ever switch over to Firefox. Google Chrome has password saving which is a really great feature and I never heard anything about Firefox or any other web browser having that same capability like Google does

I used to use firefox but switched back after I read Madaidan's article on the security of web browsers

I use both for different personal uses.

Chrome for my convenient daily living life.

Firefox for things like anonymous accounts as well as email masking and for things like Spotify manipulation with xManager or ReVanced.

you don't seem to be friend with graphic design neither. :)

I tried, nearly every system I tested it on (Physical and virtual, 16 GB RAM to 64, Windows, MacOS and Linux (Ubuntu and Arch)) it bogs down and crashes after 60-100 tabs. FF has performance issues and can't keep up with me, chrome might eat a lot of ram to do it, but at least it'll keep up at 300, 400, 600+ tabs.

Unfortunately, I can't switch until these performance problems have been fixed :(

Edit: lol at the downvotes for bringing up a legit potential issue

Edit2: lmao, c/Firefox: come over to Firefox and our community we're welcoming. (As long as you only talk about how perfect and infallible FF is)

At this point, there's no real clear winner. All browser companies have some sort of shit to them. It's really a matter of which bowl of shit you're willing to tolerate.