That’ll be easy considering I’ve been using Firefox for the better part of 2 decades
I started on Lynx and remember NCSA Mosaic being the big new thing. My colon has seen better days.
I just need someone to implement dragging tags out immediately into windows, with my tiling window manager (fancyzones) I have to pull out the Firefox tab, let go so it’ll spawn the actual window, the drag it again to where I want it.
I tried getting into the weeds of the code, but there’s a lot there, it’s buried behind like 2/3 other standing issues that no one is working on…. For like 10 years
Edit: excuse me, 14 years
I used Opera until they bailed on Presto in 2013. I then switched back to Firefox and I’ve been using it since.
Just use Firefox or one of its derivatives if you care about the open web. It has real ad blocking (uBlock Origin extension), is fast, and basically all the features you’d expect from a browser. Give it a whirl, you’ll probably like it.
And Firefox/Mull (no relation to Mullvad) on Android. On iOS, Safari is fine because it’s all Safari on iOS under the hood anyway.
On Android there’s also Firefox Focus, a cutdown version that’s like “private” browsing all the time and clears your browsing history.
why are they promoting Vivaldi alongside Firefox?
Why is Vivaldi a good browser?
It’s made by a lot of the original Opera team, including the founder. They have some nifty features that either require an addon in Firefox or are unavailable. Tab tiling is the one that I miss almost daily when I’m using Firefox.
They are an innovative group that often pioneers features that eventually trickle down to other browsers. Although it’s based on chromium, it’s an excellent browser that offers better privacy than Chrome. They have done a great job building a browser that caters to power users but can also be configured to use a simplified UI similar to Chrome.
If they had container tabs like Firefox it would be my favorite browser hands down. They have profiles like Chrome that work much better than Firefox profiles, but each profile is a separate window whereas container tabs can be mixed in a single window.
As soon as Opera was acquired by the Chinese company, I told everybody to dump it ASAP.
Reddit said I was ignorant and racist because I had “no proof” that the new company was doing something wrong
I mean, yeah, just leaving it at “china bad” is still xenophobia. Tech companies in the US and other countries can be just as shady.
Yeah it’s very easy to misinterpret that as sinophobia and not a repeat behavior of chinese capitalists buying stuff out then sucking them dry. Especially when you put it next to actually sinophobic shit like what happens with discussions of Tencent and DikDok being evil spyware. It’s reddit; people are just going to assume you’re racist unless you show otherwise, because that’s usually a safe bet.
I remember back in high school, this was the browser to have on your flash drive. So many built-in tools that were normally entire separate programs. It had an email client, BitTorrent, download manager, FTP client… all sorts of tools so you didn’t have to keep them all updated and portable separately.
It was a sad day when all of that started getting stripped out just to end up like every other Chromium copy on the market.
Been on Firefox ever since they took away my grid home screen.
Goodbye, my once good friend.🫡