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10 Reasons You Should Switch From Chrome to Firefox. (www.howtogeek.com)
submitted 9 months ago by L4s to c/technology
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10 Reasons You Should Switch From Chrome to Firefox.::The best browser sync out there.

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[–] Aermis 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Hi. I'm on lemmy. I haven't switched. Why? Because there an insane amount of incorporation into Google. Email, my phone communicating to pc, passwords, auto fill, saved cookies, credit cards.

I want to switch. I want to get off chrome from what I've been reading regarding it's practices. But I'm so engraved and the undertaking of switching is not something I've committed to yet. Or might never. I already have a Google Home in my kitchen. I feel like privacy isn't something I have a privilege of anymore.

They've got me.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/switching-chrome-firefox

Firefox makes it easy to import all that stuff

[–] Aermis 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Huh. Wow. And it has mobile to pc incorporation?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

If you mean it syncs to mobile, yes

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Honestly for me it has much better synching. It took a little work to move everything over, but far less than I anticipated.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My Firefox experience is seamless between my work station, laptop and Android phone. Syncing happens immediately when I open my session on either of them. I don't use the Google ecosystem much though (I mean Google pay, etc) so transitioning may be harder than I imagine from where I sit

[–] Aermis 1 points 9 months ago

Man I don't really use anything Google except my Gmail when logging into misc accounts

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You store your passwords on Chome?

[–] Aermis 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes 😢

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh man! Download KeePassXC, put your passwords on there, install the browser extension to use it in your browsers. You can back it up any way you want, including using Google Drive because the file is encrypted.