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Maybe you are already a Firefox user, we are part of a minority on the web today, and think that this text is not for you. You’re probably right, but I’d like to make a few points here and ask for your help in taking the web back before it’s too late. And if you don’t use Firefox, you’ve been using some version of Chromium (Chrome, Edge, Opera, Brave or Vivaldi) a few years ago this wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing, but today it’s bad for the health and freedom of an web that respect privacy and is not controlled by capitalist corporations, the so-called Big Techs.

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

Is there more to this post? Not seeing any points outside of an opening statement. Using Memmy right now, so I may be missing a big chunk of this post!

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

The article should link to https://pauloroger.dev/post/take-back-the-web/ -- if it doesn't, it might be an issue with the client.

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

Awesome, thanks for taking the time to link again!

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

Reading it in my browser and nope that seems to be all there is.

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

I see that the "Take Back the Web" text is linked to the link I mentioned on the UI at https://lemmy.world/post/1116208.

[–] jflorez 5 points 1 year ago

I use Firefox for 99% of my work and 100% of my private browsing. It is amazing to me that people I work with blindly go for Chrome because that is "the internet" in the saw way IE was "the internet" 20 years ago. I find it hard to get people to switch but I've had a couple of successes

[–] agentshags 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why is this post staying at the top of all, but nothing else

[–] agentshags 2 points 1 year ago

It's reminding me of a sponsored link

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

The only thing that I do not use Firefox for is when I download stuffs from mega.nz, as somehow using Firefox to do this always resulted in huge amount of RAM being consumed, so I have to use Vivaldi for this exact kind of task. Everything else, Firefox all the way.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I used to use Firefox until several years ago when it became super slow and full of memory leaks that caused me to close it and restart all the time.

Chrome is so much faster.

Is Firefox a viable alternative now? I used to love it but it became unusable.

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

Is Firefox a viable alternative now?

Why not try it and see?

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

It would take literal minutes. Who got that time?

[–] ogwillikers 1 points 1 year ago

Went from Firefox to Chrome to Firefox. It's on par for speed these days.

I like it because not only is it a solid browser, it's the underdog of a 2 rendering engine system.

[–] ScreaminOctopus 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been using firefox since ~2018 because chrome is super slow and eats all my ram 🤷