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If you value privacy, ditch Chrome and switch to Firefox now (www.fastcompany.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Frostwolf@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

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[–] Slopz@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I prefer Vivaldi over Firefox. More features, better customizability.

But the again I might be the only one...

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[–] Teknikal@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I switched to mull which I think is basically a fork of Firefox when bromite seemed to be dead.

No complaints it works great.

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[–] Lobo6780@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I'm using it from a long time and I'm happy with it. But I'm also pissed at google what is actively blocking firefox on their services, e.g. GDrive always shows that when loading a page encountered an error or when linking discord to YouTube it shows Something went wrong but of course working on chromium. But having FF and WebKit is an really good for competition to do not let google rule whole internet.

[–] Mostly_Harmless@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I just went back to Edge from Firefox. I've been a long-time user, but it seems like too many of the sites I use don't work properly and some not at all. It sucks because I've always preferred FF, but I gotta get sh*t done.

[–] JuliusSeizure 6 points 2 years ago (7 children)

TOR browser is built off of Firefox and is even more private.

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[–] Drye@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Would be awesome if my company allowed to run anything but edge....

[–] Frostwolf@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Any browser really. I missed the browser wars of old where everyone is free to use and defend their browsers.

[–] plutolink@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Thankfully, I've been about Firefox since 2006. People can use what they like, but it does ache me inside seeing someone use Chrome, logged in with the yellow "Update" icon at the top right, an unholy trinity.

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[–] Gamey@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I use Firefox because I always did and because I don't want to support the Blink (Chromium web engine) monopoly that even Apples Webkit can barely keep up with but please don't think Mozilla (Firefox owners) are accaptable by any means, they just aren't as bad in my mind!

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[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Sigh. I really don't want to put in an official bug report for it but the #1 reason I don't exclusively use Firefox is a bug involving some porn sites I occasionally visit. No clue why, but Chrome (and its variants) load the sites in a second or two and Firefox will take 3+ mins to load them. Haven't seen that behavior anywhere else but those sites.

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