me and mozilla go way back, to the days of netscape navigator. we're old friends.. even through the worst of times (aol ownership), i've stood by my best bud.
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Lol, not me! I dropped that shit when it was the slowest, most bloated memory hog! Luckily, it's much improved now, and is easily the best browser out there...
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I remember back then when people stop using FF because it used more PC resources than the OS itself and all started using Chrome because it was fast and lightweight.
Joke's on them, I never stopped using Firefox.
Mental how it is genuinely the other way around now, but on the masses people might not even know that a computer has limited resources so that's probably a contributor to no mass exodus to FF.
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Always has been.
As someone using Firefox for basically ever, Chrome has always seemed like bloated garbage to me. Deleted it a while back and never looked back.
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I had my first website tell me today that I can't access their domain on FF. It was Adobe. Fuck em
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I really want to switch back but... honestly: Chromium Edge, despite a few annoying features being shoved in your face, is actually a really nice browser IMO. It's definitely going to take some time to get used to FF again.
I'm so used to things like vertical tabs, icon only bookmarks, etc... I know I can change a lot in FF myself, but having to add custom css and whatnot on every device I use FF on is just annoying.
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you can pry the vivaldi tab management out of my cold dead hands
I do not know Vivaldi, but I live and die by Tree-Style Tabs. It puts the tabs on the side and arranged them in trees that can be managed as groups. It's the add-on that has kept me on Firefox.
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I'm not sure if the entire functionality can really be replicated, but Firefox does have a pretty good add-on selection, maybe you can find one that suits your needs.
Because this is not the first time I've heard about Vivaldi tab management, I looked over a couple videos and it really seems impressive, props to them for doing something really cool in this department. However I know myself, and I'd use maybe half the features that are present, most likely even less. If this is also true for you, I'm almost sure a Firefox add-on could be a suitable replacement:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-manager-plus-for-firefox/
https://addons.mozilla.org/blog/too-many-open-tabs-extensions-to-the-rescue/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/
At the end of the day you obviously don't need to switch if you don't want to, I would just be really amazed if it turned out the main tab mgmt features from Vivaldi were never added to an add-on.
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Firefox is King 👑
Librewolf is pretty decent too
Been using Firefox on desktop since it was called Firebird. I've jumped to different browsers on mobile, but Firefox on mobile has gotten a lot better since the last time I've tried it years ago, so I switched back to it recently.
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So actually, Mudasir it is the other guy
I only keep edge around so I can Chromecast to my TV from my PC. Otherwise Firefox all the way.
Just so that I can keep track of the score, I actually moved from Firefox to DuckDuckGo, because Firefox was considered not respecting privacy. This was not so many years ago.
Are we now saying today that the tables are turned? Or just that both are bad, but one is less bad?
Everything > Chrome/Chromium
The reality is that to the average user all browsers are the same. A lot of technologies have sort of peaked for regular people and browsers are one of those. There was a time when you needed plugins to do basic things like view PDFs or videos, to play games (flash, java) and there would be a new major change to HTML or CSS every few months etc.
That's no longer a problem. All browsers are near equal in their ability to render pages. So people are naturally going to go with what feels familiar. We lost the battle for market share the minute Google decided to advertise Chrome on their search page.
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Should show edge and brave in the corners
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