10 Reasons You Should Switch From Chrome to Firefox.::The best browser sync out there.

    • Aermis@lemmy.worldEnglish
      53·
      7 months ago

      Hi. I’m on lemmy. I haven’t switched. Why? Because there an insane amount of incorporation into Google. Email, my phone communicating to pc, passwords, auto fill, saved cookies, credit cards.

      I want to switch. I want to get off chrome from what I’ve been reading regarding it’s practices. But I’m so engraved and the undertaking of switching is not something I’ve committed to yet. Or might never. I already have a Google Home in my kitchen. I feel like privacy isn’t something I have a privilege of anymore.

      They’ve got me.

  • ensignrolaren@lemmy.worldEnglish
    384·
    7 months ago

    There’s like… no downside: all upside.

    Edit: I exaggerated, of course. Below this are some downsides that individuals have experienced. But personally, my experience using Firefox on desktop for Mac has been all upside. If everybody who can just tries it out, you might be surprised at how friction-free the change is.

    • SapphironZA@lemmings.worldEnglish
      364·
      7 months ago

      Not strictly true. Firefox gets inferior support from cloud services, like Microsoft. Newer versions of their Web apps are not available on Firefox.

      But there should be no downside. It’s all artificial.

      • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldEnglish
        19·
        7 months ago

        The big services purposely degrade their sites when users connect with Firefox. It’s well documented.

        Unfortunately nothing is being done about it so far.

    • sonovebitch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      111·
      7 months ago

      One thing I miss in Firefox is tab grouping. Yes there are 3rd party extensions that do that. But Chromium based browsers support that natively.

          • candyman337@lemmy.worldEnglish
            6·
            7 months ago

            Agreed, and it seems like Firefox has recently made an effort to accommodate the extension more, as it seems to run even better than it used to and is now a recommended extension

        • CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          41·
          7 months ago

          You haven’t tried Vivaldi then. It has the best tab management features of any browser by leaps and bounds, it saddens me they chose Chromium over Gecko given that manifest v3 is coming.

        • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
          2·
          7 months ago

          Oh hell yeah… Thank you friend. I immediately downloaded it, and it took me all of 30 seconds to realize this is it

          This is what I’ve been looking for, for years now. I even took a crack at it myself several years ago, but then I realized it wasn’t possible without doing an extension (rather than a plug-in) if I wanted to do it right

          You have mitigated one of most inconvenient recurring problems in my life. I’m working on a lemmy app right now, and I’m so grateful I’m going to move up the “mark user as friend” feature.

          How would you like me to guild your username so I might recognize you in the future? Lit up border? Tiny crown on your avatar? A little lemmy gold symbol next to the score? I’m open to suggestion

        • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          7 months ago

          It gives me anxiety, it’s way too overcrowded and cluttered. I use Tree Style Tab. It does one thing, it does it well, it doesn’t overcomplicate it, it works with me.

          • candyman337@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            7 months ago

            I will say it took me some time to get used to it, but it also is a lot easier to use than it used to, they made a lot of things better in the last update

            I think it’s one of those things that you have to sit down and test out and really figure out. Tree style tabs are also good though. I definitely think it’s where sideberry got their inspiration

    • aluminium@lemmy.worldEnglish
      63·
      7 months ago

      No, in my experience especially the Android version of Firefox is less smooth when playing animations or scrolling on older or lower end devices.

      I really hope with the new Focus on Firefox mobile, that they will iron that out.

    • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
      44·
      7 months ago

      I have to use Chrome for…

      1. Logging into PSN, since something in Firefox hard locks when I try it. I think it’s to do with Firefox’s password manager.

      2. VR porn.

      3. Some videos. Firefox doesn’t support certain video types (namely HEVC/H.265) due to patent issues.

  • Kedly@lemm.eeEnglish
    202·
    7 months ago

    I feel like anyone on Lemmy who isnt yet using Firefox is the kind of person who isnt going switch now because an article told them they should

    edit: it seems I had a stroke (not seriously) while writing this message, and have since edited it so it makes sense

    • viking@infosec.pubEnglish
      31·
      7 months ago

      I prefer Fennec, Mull is too restrictive. I get the appeal, but I want some of the comforts.

        • viking@infosec.pubEnglish
          1·
          7 months ago

          My biggest pet peeve is the system color scheme detection. Mull always runs websites in white.

          • mox@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            2·
            7 months ago

            Ah. That’s part of Resist Fingerprinting mode, which (after checking about:config) I see Mull enables by default. Desktop Firefox does the same thing in that mode. You could always turn it off if you don’t value that protection.

  • MSids@lemmy.worldEnglish
    161·
    7 months ago

    I wish the password autofill feature was more robust for Firefox on Android. Using it as my default password provider but it regularly does not pick up on password fields.

    • bcgm3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      28·
      7 months ago

      Dunno if this helps you at all, but I’ve been using BitWarden to manage my passwords since I made the switch from Chrome to Firefox (both on PC and my Android phone). It doesn’t fill passwords automatically in either case, but it’s not much extra work to invoke BitWarden to fill those fields as-needed on either device, and it works very consistently. It’s also (I’m told) much more secure. Just thought I’d share that here!

    • Hadriscus@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      I’ve had this happen with obscure government sites that look like they were made in the 90s, I manually add the login & password for these

    • DrQuickbeam@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      7 months ago

      Switched away to Vivaldi and Opera on desktop years ago due to better design and ability to swap between workspaces. Trying to migrate back to Firefox for ethical reasons. Desktop design still lags behind but privacy is great.

    • odelik@lemmy.todayEnglish
      4·
      7 months ago

      Years ago Firefox had a massive memory leak that would wind up crashing FX randomly or just crushing your system resources. The bug persisted for years. and I swirched to Chrome to get away from that poor experience. A few years back, a random community contributer, that was also fed up, dug in and fixed several issues responsible for the leaks. I remeber thinking that I should give FX a go again, but didn’t until relatively recently.

  • sherlockholmez@lemmy.mlEnglish
    162·
    7 months ago

    TAB GROUPS, FIREFOX, BRING BACK TAB GROUPS.

    And no, extensions aren’t helping, their UX is so much worse.

    That’s just a make or break feature for me.

    • jh34ghu43gu@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      So I tried to find what tab groups are but most of the results are feature request threads so apologies if this isn’t what you want.

      Waterfox will soon be adding some sort of tab grouping feature akin to what tree-style-tab extension does. Here’s the blogpost about it https://www.waterfox.net/blog/waterfox-x-treestyletab/

      Again I’m not sure if that type of grouping is what you’re looking for but if it is consider watching out for the feature release. Longtime waterfox user and haven’t had many complaints, Alex has quickly responded to the two issues I made in the github including a feature request that got added within a week (ability to unload tabs with right click).

        • limelight79@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          7 months ago

          When I right click on a tab in Firefox, I can reopen it in a container. The containers (at first glance) seem to be limited to Personal, Work, Banking, Shopping, and Facebook (which is probably there because I have Facebook container installed). In settings I can modify the container tabs available. (And turn the feature on or off, but it’s already on because of Facebook container.)

          Is that what that is? It looks a lot like the example you linked. Firefox 123.0, but it’s been there for quite a while.

          • ilinamorato@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            7 months ago

            Not really, though the functionalities are adjacent and I could see how one would make that mistake. I do indeed use container tabs, and they’re a killer feature.

            Tab groups are merely organizational, allowing you to reference, store, close, and save groups of tabs en masse; by contrast, container tabs don’t do ANY organization at all; you can’t group them all together, move them all to a new window as one, bookmark them all, close them all, etc.

            • limelight79@lemm.eeEnglish
              1·
              7 months ago

              Interesting, thanks. Seems like the containers could be expanded into the tab group functionality without too much trouble.

              • ilinamorato@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                7 months ago

                True, and I would love the ability to link them, but I think having them linked by default would be confusing to users who don’t need containerization. “Wait, I already logged in to that!”

    • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      7 months ago

      Firefox on Android is fine, except they insist upon disabling about:config on the main branch of the browser for some damn stupid reason. You have to use a nightly or beta build to be trusted with your own config that much.

      Personally, I ended up switching to the Fennec fork over this.

    • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
      9·
      7 months ago

      Yeah, it’s alright.

      You can install an ad blocker in it, so it’s automatically better than Chrome.

      With that and a few cookie popup removers, it’s almost like the web is usable again.

    • Maniac@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      7 months ago

      Using use daily. Only problem I sometimes have is the inability to upload images, so I just use duckduckgo’s browser

    • Toribor@corndog.socialEnglish
      4·
      7 months ago

      Firefox on Android is great. I migrated that first before I actually migrated back to Firefox on desktop.

    • RunAroundDesertYou@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      7 months ago

      For me it is great on a smartphone but pretty underwhelming on my android tablet. It doesn’t scale websites properly on the larger screen and doesn’t support a tab list on top anymore (like Firefox on desktops).

    • Mark@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      7 months ago

      Its ok but I regularly have to swipe the app away and re open it when it displays a blano screen instead of the website.

    • laughterlaughter@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      7 months ago

      Yes. It used to suck, say, 10 years ago. My baseline was Youtube and Reddit (back then, okay?) Could I watch Youtube videos the same way as with Chrome or Android browser? No? Then, not ready. Did i.reddit.com open fine? No? Not ready.

      Then it happened. And I switched and it has been wonderful ever since.

      The only thing that I miss is the “pull down page to reload” gesture [EDIT: THANK YOU ALL! I’VE ENABLED IT - GREAT!!!]. Not sure why Firefox hasn’t implemented that yet. Patents? And also, when a video is in an iframe, it won’t respect the “block autoplay” feature. The rest is dandy.

    • Delusion6903@discuss.onlineEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      It is my default. I use ublock and Dark Background Light Text extensions. And the reader view is better than any chromium phone browser.

    • bitwolf@lemmy.oneEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      It’s great but they are two, reported, bugs that annoy me.

      First, it sometimes gets stuck half way between dark and light mode.

      Second, sometimes it gets stuck starting to load a page. The webciew gets stuck but not the chrome. If you switch tabs the same page will appear. If you enter a new page it will never load. A force close fixes it but it’s annoying.

      Using beta is imperative since it enables add-ons . However the bugs are also in stable.

    • Hucklebee@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      Works mostly great. Addons like uBlock Origin and Super Agent (auto reject all cookies) is great for your mobile experience.

      I noticed Youtube site sometimes has weird framerates. But since Google removed premium lite subscription, I refuse to use the Youtube app and just view with uBlock in browser, even with the framerate issues.

    • DrQuickbeam@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      I recently made the switch. Make sure to install whatever add-ons you need, turn on the “open links in apps” setting, and turn on the “pull to refresh” setting. Import your bookmarks and you can still use the Android password manager. It’s not 100% as smooth, but it’s pretty close.

      • DrQuickbeam@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        7 months ago

        The main problems I have with it now are sometimes there are still issues with loading between browser and apps. Like it might open multiple tabs trying to open an app, and it leaves the app redirect pages open in your tabs list. Additionally, sometimes (like 3% of the time) website scaling doesn’t always work, especially on older sites or those made with janky CMS’s, and I’ve also rarely had problems with some dynamic content like inline forms and graphs.

    • Sheldan@mander.xyzEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      I am, sometimes there is an issue with videos in Fullscreen, where the video plays just somewhere to the top and off screen, besides that it’s fine.

  • thorbot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    7 months ago

    10 reasons:

    1. I always used Firefox
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    8. I always used Firefox
    9. I always used Firefox
    10. Google can suck my saggy man tits
  • psycho_driver@lemmy.worldEnglish
    123·
    7 months ago

    Anybody else having flaky behavior with youtube videos in Firefox lately? Like, only audio resuming but video freezing after rewinding? I’m wondering if this is intentional on the part of Google.

  • phreekno@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    7 months ago

    Firefox Multiaccount Containers, the thing that can’t be beat by even the best chrome derivatives

  • Sume@reddthat.comEnglish
    7·
    7 months ago

    Firefox is king (saying this as someone who actually likes it, not as a fanboy)

    • killpunchdeluxe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      7 months ago

      Mozilla in general honestly is pretty awesome ngl

      They have this nonprofit called Privacy Not Included that rates companies/products based on how much they respect user privacy.

      Modern cars collect literally everything they can about you. Low key kinda scary yo

      Privacy Not Included