There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
I’m mainly using Firefox on my devices and have zero regrets.
I also enjoyed Vivaldi over the other chromium browsers. Still sticking with FF for now. The only issues I’ve had are Ms teams not loading, though km assuming that’s related to 3rd party cookies ( even though o365 outlook works fine ).
MSteams is a dumpster fire in and of itself though. Even on my Windows pc it crashes when sharing my screen.
I switched mostly too. Cannot say that I have zero regrets, but FF is mostly up to what I need it to be. And where it isn’t, there’s Vivaldi.
Yeah Firefox on Android sometimes refuses to load tabs and I have to quit and reopen it, it also still feels slow to load search results as well. Even with those flaws, I’m not switching back to Chromium browsers
Agree compleatly. Been using firefox since it was called mosaic
Yeah it went Mosaic, Netscape, Firefox iirc.
Edit: And I think Netscape was a full rewrite as mosaic was owned by the university it was originally coded in, again iirc. That was a LONG time ago.
Netscape was Firefox? Somehow I never learned that. I fuckin loved the little space animation when a page was loading.
It wasn’t, this guy hasn’t a clue… Its original name was Firebird and they changed it to Firefox at version 3’s release. You could argue that it is somehow related to the Mozilla browser since it came from a related team but the Mozilla Foundation was also responsible for SeaMonkey as well.
Mosaic was completely unrelated, same with netscape.
I had heard Netscape being mentioned as it’s predecessor a number of times but never actually bothered to verify it. Looking them up on wikipedia would lead me to believe that they aren’t entirely unrelated with some absolute shit show of derivatives of licenced code from whichever browser I couldn’t tell for sure, which it also mentioned internet explorer being a result of. Looking as the articles for each browser and company is confusing as fuck and my pea brain can’t keep track of who each organization is and which is their browser. It sounds like a bunch of stuff that would never happen in current times.
I switched back to Firefox a few months ago due to the incoming Manifest v3 debacle and I’m glad I did, it’s an excellent browser.
It’s really come a long way in the past few years. It used to be so slow when Chrome came in to take over
I switched back to Firefox maybe 9 or 10 months ago after using opera gx for a while. Firefox had been great, and I love that they keep fighting the good fight, so to speak.
Any Alternative to Brave? I have FF as primary browser but for some websites which tends to break on FF, I would like to use something non-Chrome/Brave on Windows.
I use edge for the edge case when websites don’t work after changing the user agent
I keep chromium as a secondary if something breaks on Firefox. It’s the foundation of chrome without all the silly Google shit.
I think you want ungoogled-chromium
Librewolf sounds like Brave, but built on top of Firefox. It also doesn’t spam you with stupid ads like Brave does.
Librewolf is better I think. It’s pretty much a privacy hardened Firefox with the telemetry taken out. No odd crypto scheme like Brave either.
Which sites? I haven’t had that in years.
(And you can report them to Mozilla and they will fix it by either fixing a bug or creating a workaround for that site)
