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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I usualy love it, but for some reason Firefox fails to retrieve web pages about 75% of the time when on the internet connection at my parent's house, and I don't know why.

It acts like a DNS failure, but the DNS settings are the same in Firefox, Chrome, and the router.

Meanwhile Chrome and Edge work great.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Probably secure DNS? Try disabling that in the privacy settings page.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Maybe not the best image to use. Sheep bleating on about Firefox.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

That kid is superior

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Always gonna note too that Google Chrome (and chromium + derivatives to a lesser extent) kneecaps adblock plugins so that up to 50% fewer ad domains are blocked, blocklists are out of date, many in-page ads can't be caught, it's slower, and invisible trackers can bypass it.

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

Mfw when plebs are still using GUI browsers while I use Lynx.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

w3m with framebuffer image support, my man.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Same as the flavors of Ubuntu are superior to Ubuntu it's self, the forks of Firefox are better than Firefox it self.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This might be known already, but I bet that Microsoft decided to switch Edge to Chromium instead of forking Gecko/Firefox because Google either bribed them or threatened to lower Microsoft sites' ranks in search results.

Otherwise why would MS use a web browser controlled by one of their very few competitors?

Edit: maybe they were enthralled by the promise of using Proton/Chromium based "desktop applications" (which just contain an entire Chromium browser in their install directory) to cheaply create apps that people are forced to use in their jobs, like Teams. Which is still awful even after they made it a full UWP desktop app. Like Skype already was.

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