Alternate headline: Firefox is now the only browser worth using.
And in any case, lumping Firefox as one browser is disingenuous. There are numerous Firefox forks, just like every other major browser is in fact a Google Chromium fork.
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Since there are only two major browsers... one of which admittedly wears many disguises.
Not entirely correct. When we look at engines there are Blink, gecko and webkit. Unless you also count Ladybird's engine I guess.
Yes Blink is a webkit fork but it has been separate for a good while.
Isn't it crazy that Safari and thereby also Chrome/Chromium are at the heart based on work by KDE for its Konqueror?
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In unrelated news, Firefox is now the dominant browser and nobody knows why.
If only that were true. To many people are addicted to google to ever give up chrome/chromium without a series of catastrophic fuckups from google.
Unfortunate how momentum like that works. I haven't managed to degoogle myself yet but switching to firefox has created zero issues in my daily usage
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Doesn't help that Mozilla leadership is incompetent and doesn't know what their core audience wants
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I tried browsing the internet without uBlock Origin. I hated it in 5 minutes. I'm not going back to there anytime again. If your browser does not support uBlock Origin, then I am not using it.
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Happy with Librewolf. I can't imagine using my browser everyday if I don't have a good adblocker on it like uBO.
If it goes... I don't know what I'll do.
Go out and touch grass probably.
Get a hobby.
Perfect my molotov recipe.
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That will totally lead to websites not supporting or even blocking Firefox. Together with uBlock capitulating against Facebook and all those age registration nonsense, I really am scared about the future of the web.
Meh if a site doesnt work on firefox I move on. I dont want all the shit that comes with visiting from chrome. If I cnt buy because of cookies or ads then I wont buy from them.
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Sometimes I think it was a mistake to let the programs we primarily use to view text and images become bloated virtual machines that execute megabytes of arbitrary code with every page load.
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All the other major browser has blocked it.
donated 20 euro right away. HEROES.
It's not ready yet but there's the ladybird project that has a lot of promise. I appreciate FF a lot but their code base is a mess, they need a modern rewrite of their browser engine. That's why we're getting all these chromium based browsers, it's just a better base to build off of.
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donated for a new cubical poster. w/e year that was. was new and better for a while.
Worst part is google could kill Firefox at anytime because they provide a very large amount of Mozilla’s funding.
No, not really. Firefox and Gecko are crucial for Google to avoid being broken up by regulators. They have to keep Firefox alive for that reason.
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