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Firefox has a lot of issues, but maybe we don't have any other option. (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled

Google Chrome is now encouraging uBlock Origin users who have updated to the latest version to switch to other ad blockers before Manifest v2 extensions are disabled.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (3 children)

When Chrome came out it was heavily promoted by everyone I knew (apart from my best friend) I tried it, didn't like the UI (still don't) and didn't see the point of it.

People talked abour how fast it was, and I felt that Firefox was fast enough, and Firefox just worked as I wanted it to, why change?

I kept stedfast with Firefox, apart from when the horrible Australis UI was launched, then I switched to a fork called Pale Moon, which I used for several years untill the current UI was launched.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

it actually WAS really good when it first came out and for a few years, it was also back during the days where google still kind of follows the "don't be evil" principle.

[–] Carighan 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah there's a good reason we all started to use it, unlike Firefox it was far far quicker to boot up and load pages. And used significantly less resources, so there was really little upside to using Firefox apart from a few addons not being available for a while.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yup, I used it for a year or two, then I found Opera, which was about as fast and also had an independent rendering engine. Around that time, the independence of the rendering engine really mattered to me, so when Opera switched to a Chromium base, I switched back to Firefox. Firefox has since caught up in perf and is the best non-Chromium browser for me (well, I use Mull on Android because FF isn't on F-Droid and has some defaults I prefer to Fennec).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I have very strong doubts about the security of Palemoon

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Today I am not certain I would use it, but at the time I wasn't concerned.

[–] laughterlaughter 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It is based on a old version of Firefox but I don't see evidence of them back porting security fixes

[–] laughterlaughter 1 points 4 months ago

Ah man, shucks.

[–] laughterlaughter 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Chrome was so lightweight and fast when it was launched. And it had a blazing fast Javascript engine. No other engine came close to it.

It was a pretty awesome browser back then during the "do no evil" era of Google.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sure, I get what you are saying, but I never had an issue with Firefox and Javascript.

[–] laughterlaughter 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh, I understand. I'm just saying that the reasons were enough for a lot of people to give it a go, me included. You probably had a beefed up machine back then in 2008. I didn't, and launching a browser took several seconds, whereas Chrome launched like in one second or so.

Of course, Chrome started to suck and I came back to Firefox, especially when they caught up with Javascript.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think it had more to do with the webites I visited, and being used to slower connections

[–] laughterlaughter 1 points 4 months ago

Got it.