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Whatsapp is taking load of time to load on firefox. When I tried to view it through firefox private window (with all extensions disabled) it didn't even allow me to login, it showed me some "database error" and asked me to change browser.

WA works fine on chrome. I have not made any modifications to firefox browsers, apart from disabling all telemetry. This is not the first time I am having issues with WA on FF, I was wondering if it was something I am doing or if y'all were having the same problems. I mean, clipboard` problem is well known but anyone else facing issues with WA?

Is this a sign that major websites are moving away from FF? Also, is Google's recent behavior (adblock blocking and other s**t) pushing more users to firefox or has the downward trajectory of FF userbase continuing?

edit 1: seems like downward trajectory indeed is continuing. https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity edit 2: Not being able to open whatsapp on private browsing mode seems to be an open bug, this probably isn't a part of my problem.

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Video not necessary, no details added, but here it is anyway. https://emalm.com/?v=5w8eA

Also, just wondering, is emalm.com a good alternative to imgur? imgur won't allow me to anonymously post videos more than 1 min long, this does. I wonder how this website works though, I mean how do they make money? Also, do you guys prefer bashify.io any clue how they make money? ughh... is there a website to find out stuff like this, how websites which aren't that popular make money?

Source (The Babylon Bee)

I like audiobooks on audible and my free trial has expired, I forgot to save some files through libation, so now, where can I pirate the audiobooks on audible?

1. Audiobook bay doesn't have the books I need
2. PirateBay has the book but not the same voice (I am a sucker for this man's voice, I even said as much in the review)

I am using an FOSS app called Automation Git repo, it doesn't allow me to directly open Android Apps except if I use scripts. I don't know what scripts it's talking about, but I am trying to learn. Just like there are bash shell scripts, are there android scripts or something of the sort?

Also, Is it possible to open an Android Application (KDE Connect) using Termux cli on Android? I don't want to do pkg install kdeconnect I think it works. But, is it possible to run applications such as kde connect android, syncthing android using termux?

I want to auto start Termux and KDE Connect whenever I reboot. I basically need to launch android applications Termux and KDE connect while my Samsung phone starts and it can't do it by itself, so, I want a app like MacroDroid which is opensource.

I basically need to launch android applications Termux and KDE connect while my Samsung phone starts and it can't do it by itself, so, I want a app like MacroDroid which is opensource.

[Mention your Sex if you are comfortable, I want to see the breakdown between the sexes here]

I just tried to skim through Linux User Manual and it was really quite informative and made me think of reading it someday, but I kinda know for a fact that that someday might never come, but it's truly a shame though.

Now, you, yes you! Have you read the user manual of your Operating system!

[I am wasting a lot of time on here, so I won't be engaging or enraging y'all, but this is a good convo topic, isn't it? (try that on a girl), I just wanted to know how many or how few people read UMs]___

Yeah, I have been hearing about Youtube blocking ad blocks for a while now and I thought maybe Firefox + uBlock Origin is holding ads at bay for a while, but yeah, it happened today. uBlock origin has been unable to block some ads for me and I am thinking of leaving Youtube. I searched day and night (wink wink) for an alternative and I found odysee.com/ and it seems to be open source and less prone to censorship, I was wondering what you guys were using or thinking of switching too. I think Odysee is FOSS which is giant plus for me and I absolutely love it's looks.

What do you guys think?

Is there a thing like good extensions and bad extensions on firefox. I mean, I don't want to know about privacy and security of extensions right now, but does some extensions slow down the performance of firefox more than other extensions?

Also, how to distinguish these extensions from others? Does size of the extension matter? i.e., if the size of the extension is higher does that mean it's eating more resources or will eat more resources.

Does a good extension run on all pages or only on the pages it's needed? Is there a better way to handle extensions? Maybe disable some extensions which are not in use, idk!

I have this amazing site I like and everytime I want to enter it, it shows me this

I was running browsing the internet and I saw that some extension on firefox would get rid of this problem, it was on a meme on either lemmy or on reddit. But, yeah, is there an extension to get rid of the Cloudfare "Checking if your connection is secure" stuff? I am tired of it

Of c, I can just google or search for an extension in the extensions store, but I trust you guys will have the best solution, so here I am. Thank you!

I realize this is lazy, but I did try to wiki this and I don't know if the numbers are accurate and it's pretty complicated to read.

I want to know the numbers on both sides. I realize this might seem a little unsensitive and there is a story behind every number, but I still want to know the human cost of war. Because it does look like it's one of the worst wars in terms of human cost in recent memory. Now, how many people have died in the war and are we doing everything we can to end the war?

Edit: War Casualties Stands at 500k (Russian + Ukrainian, excluding civilians), this number is from the https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/us/politics/ukraine-russia-war-casualties.html

I doubt the Ukrainian Death count mentioned here, 70k (200k casualties), I doubt if the death toll among the Ukrainians are that low.

Just to put things into perspective 58,220 US personnel died (Fatal casualties) in Vietnam which lasted close to a decade.

Edit 2: Abandoning this thread. I got my answer and I have been using Lemmy a lot these past days (and that's not good. We all have better things to do than sit infront of a computer)

edited the heading of the question. I think most of us here are reasoning why more people are not using firefox (because it was the initial question), but none of that explains why it's actively losing marketshare.

I don't agree ideologically with Firefox management and am somewhat of a semi-conservative (and my previous posts might testify to that), I think Firefox browser is absolutely amazing! It's beautiful and it just feels good. It has awesome features like containers. It's better for privacy than any mainstream browser out there (even counting Brave here) and it has great integration between PC and Phone. It's open-source (unlike Chrome) and it supports a good chunk of extensions you would need.

This was about PC, but I believe even for Mobiles it looks great and it allows features like extensions (and I hear desktop extensions are coming to firefox android?), it's just a great ecosystem and it's available everywhere unlike most FOSS softwares.

So why is Firefox's market share dying?

I mean, I have a few ideas why it might be, maybe correct me I guess?

1. Most people don't know how to use extensions well and how to use Firefox well. (Most of my friends in their 30's still live without ad blockers, so I don't think many are educated here)
2. It's just not as fast as Chrome or Brave. I can't deny this, but despite of this, I find it's worthy.
3. It's not the default.
4. Many features which are Google specific aren't supported.
5. Many websites are just not supporting firefox anymore (looking at you snapchat), but you would be right in saying this is the effect of Firefox losing it's market share not the cause (at least for now) and you would be right.

But what else?

I might take time (a lot of it) to get back at you, thanks for understanding.

occasionally I’ll find websites that don’t work 100% because they were coded primarily for chromium based browsers. FU Google