LMAO welcome to Firefox, the objectively better Browser. Might also use a custom search engine or DDG while at it.
this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2024
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Google is not killing uBlock Origin. It's changing how Chrome works. uBlock Origin will continue to work in my Firefox and other browsers.
This is a shit take. Manifest v3 is like activex. As of right now, it shuts down extensions they don’t want. Going forward, it sets up a system for extensions that are publisher-approved. When internet explorer took over the market I could still use Netscape until I couldn’t. I’m hoping Firefox doesn’t reach the same end
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Fuck Google.
Who is the Lemmy user not aware of this? Show yourself!
Anyone know how/if this affects Opera GX? I've been curious about it for a while but with MV3 it makes me curious if they will do anything at all. Or honestly if Opera GX even could block ad's and such, I never checked
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I switched to Firefox about a month ago for personal use. It's nearly impossible for me to quit using Chrome, though, due to work.
I don't hate Firefox, but it does absolutely do some stupid shit that I don't like.
I'm in almost exactly the same boat, I also switched to FF a month ago but need Chrome for some things. It's a nice irony that your name is echo :-)
Agree completely with what you're saying.
What kind of stuff?
As someone who uses Vivaldi, which has a significant number of power user and customization features, the fact this is no longer a thing is fucking bonkers to me
I can turn on an unsupported flag to make the UI a little cleaner for me
To me, it’s wild that the browser for the user decided to deprecate an option like that. Since they dropped XUL support I have very few options on customizing my browser outside of a theme or just writing my own CSS
From there, I’d just point to:
Firefox pulls in like 500 million dollars a year from Google. Barely any of those features exist in Firefox
I started with Firefox. I used it from day one, when it was an experiment coming out of the Mozilla suite.
I want to use it day to day so bad
But it’s become “how do we chase chrome”
And occasionally they get wins like this. And it no longer feels like
“How can we be best?”
You can customize the Firefox UI with CSS, if you're looking for really advanced customization capabilities.
I've made a one-line theme as my 'compact' mode of choice, where URL bar and tabs are all on one row, but you can find lots of pre-made themes out there.
See [email protected] for more info and help.
And well, you shouldn't compare Firefox and Vivaldi from a monetary side.
Mozilla develops their own browser engine, which is really important for the web, whereas Vivaldi only really develops that customizable UI. If Google stops publishing the source code of Chromium, Vivaldi is dead in a few months.
Have I got a pleasant surprise for you: Zen Browser is to Firefox what Vivaldi is to Chromium: a feature-rich powerhouse.
- It's not super simple to setup multiple, completely separate profiles like it is in Chrome
- I never, ever visit google.com while I do visit gmail.com at least daily. Yet, when I type 'g' the suggestion is always google.com
- I visit m.fark.com on my phone quite frequently. Firefox on my phone randomly decides I want to do a google search for 'm.fark.com' instead of visit the site
- I don't want the recently closed tabs to be tracked and listed, yet there is no way to turn that off
- If the menu bar is displayed the the first browser tab is left aligned. If the menu bar is turned off then the first browser tab is indented for no obvious reason.
- I don't think I can clear my history without it closing all of my Firefox instances and making me reopen everything.
There's no one thing that is a show-stopper... just little annoyances.
It's not firefox's fault, but I still use music.youtube.com and google hangouts and there's no option to treat them like standalone apps like there is with chrome.
You have way more requirements than me!
For profiles, from memory it's --profile-manager
about:profiles
I don't think I can clear my history without it closing all of my Firefox instances and making me reopen everything.
That's not true - are you using always private mode?
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Vivaldi (and Brave I think) are safe until July 2025.
Any chromium browser is with a flag enabled.
Just switch to Firefox or a derivative already guys.
LibreWolf or mullvad browser both FF based.
Gonna stick with Vivaldi until its last breath, love this browser
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Happy pfSense + pfBlockerNG user here. It even blocks ads on some of my streaming services.