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Mine is that the useState hook is an actual plague on the entire React ecosystem. Regardless of your opinions of React, if you wanna use something then use it right.

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[–] kadotux@sopuli.xyz 79 points 3 days ago (5 children)
[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 50 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If a browser does not support unlock origin it is worthless. So Firefox wins by all opponents willfully exiting the race

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

This was my central argument when they tried to take away my Firefox at work.

[–] exu@feditown.com 32 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Firefox is good, Mozilla is bad

[–] sunbeam60@feddit.uk 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

You know what, I’ve been a Firefox user since the days of beta Phoenix. I’ve expressed your view for years now - Firefox was great, but held back by a commercial org that wanted fancy SF offices, fancy SF compensation etc.

But I tried out Helium a little while ago and in truth, I’m not sure Firefox is all that good these days. Helium is basically ungoogled-chromium + extension support + super lean UI.

The upside is that you no longer have to contend with sites that have given up on Firefox testing. The downside is manifest v3. But all in all, I find it a better browser. Firefox is so busy telling its story, and finding revenue, that it just seems to have left behind product market fit.

[–] firelizzard@programming.dev 14 points 3 days ago

Mozilla has totally lost their way. But using any chromium-based browser is still bowing down to Google’s near monopolistic control over web ‘standards’.

[–] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 days ago

Using the blink engine, even in a ungoogled browser, still gives google power and is immoral.

[–] digdig@piefed.social 8 points 3 days ago (4 children)

It's the only non chrome browser

[–] northernlights@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago

How about the KDE ones?

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 days ago

There's niche WebKit browsers too, like Epiphany. Also Ladybird in development, but that went full AI slop AFAIK.

[–] executivechimp@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Safari? I'm not suggesting you use it, but it does exist.

[–] embed_me@programming.dev 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

We don't acknowledge the existence of proprietary blobs here

[–] firelizzard@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago

I’d care if they had a Linux version

[–] AgentRocket@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well, there are forks of firefox like floorp, zen, waterfox, etc. but i guess they might still count as firefox, because they are forks and not built from the ground up, only using the gecko engine from firefox.

[–] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 days ago

Calling them forks is, in most cases, wildly too generous. They are derivatives of Firefox. They develop and maintain a few features, but they ar completely dependent on upstream for general progress.

[–] ducktumn@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 days ago
[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This would not cause the reaction in the picture lol.

[–] Cytobit@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

Single digit can be 0, 1 or 9,9%.
10% market share wouldnt be half bad. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(PS: I didnt read the link because I don't care enough. I use it, and am fine with it)

[–] kadotux@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah maybe not here but sometimes I feel like it

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Where? On the Chrome/Brave subreddit? :p

[–] Axolotl_cpp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 days ago

Talk to any normie that knows what a browser is, and you'll discover that many people think firefox is bad (and then some of them will also proceed to glaze brave because they never saw what uBlock origin can do...)

[–] Orygin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

No need to go to reddit, there's enough trolls here saying Firefox is trash and to use brave instead.

Y'know like, the guys saying accessibility features are trash no one wants to use because they use local AI models.