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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Firefox supremacy! Keep the non-chromiuim branch alive forevermore, no centralization please.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (10 children)

What's with all these comments saying Firefox is slow!? I've never noticed FF slowing down? I also can't find anything online particularly damning (they all are pretty close in scores. No massive performance numbers for one or the other). I thought this was just a common misconception. Can anyone explain?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

People complain about Firefox performance and site compatibility all the time and I have no idea what they are talking about. I use both it and other browsers all the time and Firefox for me is the better one.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It is a common misconception, they perform functionally identical across multiple PC's and updates. People are just slow to change their minds.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I used to to think the android mobile app was slow. It's gotten allot better though. Now that it supports uBlock I think it's the best browser for Android.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also browsing the web with the uBlock Origin installed, will signifiy improve the speed. Meanwhile protect you from various bad stuff, adds being nonexistent. :)

Check this app & also tick all the boxes within its Settings.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

first of all, this meme gets posted a lot. second, but more importantly, the format should be reversed. in this scene of the film, Peter Parker sees clearly without glasses, and blurred with glasses, coz he's been bitten and his eyesight is restored. /flies away

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This is why I use Firefox. I honestly don't think that a browser engine monopoly is good for the world. Single point of failure for everyone with no alternatives is very bad if something nasty happens.

I think the creators of WINE said something similar about one of their reasons for creating WINE. Wish more browsers would use Gecko.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I still remember version 2 of Firefox. It was an awesome feeling to install. Even today, just using Firefox still feels like I'm doing to right thing.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I think there is nothing like it. It's not perfect but it's damn good still.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

I love Firefox

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This the 97th time I am seeing this meme.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

a little more work and you can make it to 100! keep going, you can do it!

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (10 children)

“Wait, it’s all Chrome?”

“Always has been 🌏👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀🌌”

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Librewolf, icecat, qutebrowser, iceraven, surf... are not chromium-based.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Qutebrowser is chromium-based, and barely anyone uses icecat since the modern web heavily relies on JS, iceraven is a Firefox for Android fork, which could maybe have like 50 users and librewolf is unusable for daily usage because of RFP (resist fingerprinting worsens a lot of sites that rely on canvas). (This is just my opinion)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Firefox 🥰

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Edge used to be unique,but then they just copied chromium.... It had much smaller scrolling which was great on touch screens. Now I have no reason to use it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

opera also used to maintain their own browser engine if i remembered correctly, but they all just dipped

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Opera did have its own engine; it was a proprietary one named Presto.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

And it was really great and innovative for its time. Presto was pressing the envelope for so long while other browser engines were happy to do the bare minimum.

It's really a shame they just moved to making their own Chromium skin but making and maintaining a Browser engine is expensive. It really is quite impressive that Firefox has lasted this long.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Unpopular opinion, brace yourselves.

As a web developer, I would love to root for Firefox but they've made some really odd decisions regarding the implementation of web standards (which are published on the Mozilla MDN site, oddly enough), async/defer script loading order for example. Firefox is also often multiple years late with implementing new tech, being surpassed by Chromium and even Safari most of the time.

While I love the non-profit style of Mozilla and think competition in the browser space is a good thing. The reality is just that their browser lags behind the other two. Firefox is a large part of the reason polyfills are still used in this world of evergreen browsers, and requires multi-browser testing/tweaking even though I exclusively follow the standards written on the MDN website...

[–] adriaan 35 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Yeah it lags behind because Chromium is developed by Google, which is the 4th biggest company in the world. And Safari is obviously from Apple which is the largest company in the world. I don't think the fact that Mozilla lags behind should upset anyone. The fact they can compete at all is impressive I think.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see it the other way around. I have a feeling that FireFox follows the specs while Chromium kind of has its own plan and directly introduce new behavior without much care for standards.

Since Chromium based browsers have the majority of the market share, you have the feeling that FireFox is awkward/lag behind. Now look back at Opera when they still have their own engine and you will see that while they try to introduce new behaviors just like Chromium, their limited market share means that people don't feel the need to make use of these "innovations".

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Firefox is behind in some areas, but ahead in others - eg. privacy/tracking.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

exactly, and that's what matters more than anything else. modern websites are insanely bloated anyway; i care more about blocking the 50MB of ads, trackers, third-party cookies and other garbage every site shoves down your throat, than shiny new stuff that arguably is often part of that overengineered bloat.

look at this. it's fucking beautiful. as far as i'm concerned, websites like these put the modern web and web developers to shame.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love when the meme is used correctly.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

i literally saw it on discord a few seconds ago lol

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO TRUE.👍

I've switched to Firefox 2 years ago and I never missed Chrome since. Out of curiosity I've tried Opera GX a week ago only to find out that it is basically another chromium skin. Honestly I'm quite worried by the lacking of alternatives. 🦊 Be Strong Foxy✊️

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I don't know why, but even on my machine which gets 40-60 FPS in FFXIV while simultaneously encoding a movie, Firefox was always slower than chromium browsers.

I truly don't understand it.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It's web builders deliberately building their sites and webapps for chromium based browsers only, because it has over 80% market share. They only test on firefox rudimentally. The experience is subpar and people use chromium instead because of it, cementing chromium as the most used browser. Some site builders do this because they don't have the time to extensively test a browser with low market share, others, like Google, do it deliberately.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Depends on what sites you are using, google sites are slower for me, others are faster.

Also looks like chrome is better at looking faster somehow, probably starts to render page sooner.

And of course: wgich extensions do you have in firefox and how old is your profile. Try it out with new, clean profile and than you will feel it.

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