Firefox works great.
download firefox
look inside
80% of mozilla revenue is from google
You can’t escape
Even if the Mozilla foundation went bankrupt tomorrow, Firefox would persist. It might not be as quick to update, but it’s an open source project that people will keep working on, regardless of the money.
I’ve always been curious how many lines of code in Chromium and Firefox are from salaried software engineers, and how many are from community contributions
git shortlog -ns
Who cares where the revenue comes from? There’s no google spyware in there, and it’s competition, that’s what really matters.
I just don’t like that we’re relying on the goodwill (or need for token “competition” to try to avoid antitrust) of Google for Mozilla to stick around, an ad company shouldn’t be de facto controlling almost every single browser
Download Firefox
Change default search engine
Problem solved 😁
Changing your search engine doesn’t stop Google from controlling 80% of Mozilla’s revenue or almost the entirety of the rest of the browser space
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I’m afraid to say that there are no such thing as “gratis” software. I guess as firefox user we have to pay a significant amount of money, but I guess that’s a dream in open source software community, and the most obvious consecuense is that they are going to find a sponsor
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Nah
There are two browsers, chrome and FF.
Three if you count Webkit/Safari
I don’t think I can install it on my android phone, so I don’t count it
Though the engine is still being actively worked on to provide android support https://blogs.igalia.com/jani/bringing-webkit-back-to-android/
IIRC the Steam browser also uses WebKit tho
Me doing my online banking using the Steam browser in Big Picture mode
Not since 2014, where they switched to blink (chromium)
Who said you can only have Android phones?
Pfft. I’m going back to the og Netscape Navigator 😎
Isn’t that just what Firefox was before it was Firefox?
Me too, but I’m just waiting for this jpeg to finish loading
picks up the phone
DE-DURRRR-DE-DEDA-EEEEEEEEKK
It feels very weird to say but
I think maybe
the world was better when Trident existed??
SILENCE THIS HERETIC!
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> downloads desktop app
> looks inside
> it’s a webpage with a dedicated browser
(Web 2.0 and it’s consequences…)
Why I dislike web apps. They make the devs lazy enough to not bother making a native app
I switched to Firefox because of Googlea plans to stop adblockers.
I still prefer FF or Vivaldi over Google Chrome. Yes Vivaldi is Open Source Chromium, but at least it doesn’t have the Chrome crap in it.
Vivaldi contains Chromium, but it isn’t itself open-source, by the way.
They say of themselves that “for all practical purposes the Vivaldi source code is available for audit”. I would not fully agree with that either, but I guess, at that point the open-source purists have already lost interest anyways.
https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/privacy/is-vivaldi-open-source/
It’s still the same rendering engine. There are two browsers.
3 if you count Safari
That’s like saying there’s only 5 games because they use the same game engine
You can’t compare games to browsers tho
I’m not comparing them, it’s an analogy
I didn’t know that each browser accesses different content on a different internet. I’ll have to check that out. /s
I tried Vivaldi, it’s a good browser but I prefer Brave because it has build it Tor. In my country most torrent sites are blocked so a built-in Tor is useful to me, it can open those sites without VPN.
Brave is also a shifty shady browser that has problems with inserting affiliate links without telling you and selling off user data. They’re really not better or remotely trustworthy TBH, you might as well use the actual TOR browser built on Firefox if you need that capability.
Yeah, I don’t understand how Brave became acceptable all of the sudden.
Did they do some big marketing campaign in the US or something?
They definitely did some marketing, because it came out of nowhere. When I first installed it, it was all over the internet, from YouTube to webpages. A similar thing you can notice with the Arc Browser. I couldn’t find any exceptional features on the Arc Browser but the hype is encouraging people to try it.
Yup, work in a call center and it was a huge ramp up all of a sudden with elderly clients on brave and asking why our site stopped working…
“guys ios is bad try android”
looks inside android: its literally bad
“guys try this fork of android”
looks inside: it’s better, i guess.
technology fucking sucks, remember when you could just buy software and that shit worked? Yeah me neither i use linux shits free over here.
Firefox and Forks, or perish.
thorium/vivaldi and firefox are cool
Vivaldi is chromium
Yep
I haven’t checked out Vivaldi in a long time due to the distaste of what happened to Opera and I did not see any of Opera in Vivaldi. Has Vivaldi captured the magic that was Opera 12.04 yet?
vivaldi is nice feature packed and pretty fast
Ugh just looked. It’s still chromium
proprietary, btw
Then mercury same dev as throium but it uses Firefox 123 (did not personally try it tho)
I don’t know what are you looking for but it is stylish.
If you’re not a fan of Firefox right now, with the few odd decisions they’ve been making, try Floorp or Zen. They’re quite good forks of Firefox and don’t seem to have any of the recent Firefox oddness in them.
I shall not stoop so low as to using a browser named ““floorp””.
Chrome is a stupid name too. Edge is a stupid name.
Both of these are existing words, though
Someone mentioned Zen on the endeavor forums the other day. I’ve switched to Zen Optimized as my daily driver and I’ve been pleasantly surprised by how much I like it. I’m not a keyboard shortcuts kinda guy but you do need to learn the tab manipulation shortcuts or it’ll drain your sanity right clicking on the icons to close tabs.
why floorp??
Not even an option.
What, because of the stupid name?
the devs are fucked
Firefox/Librefix, Vivaldi, Floorp
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Basicallly, yeah. It’s unfortunate, but there are really only 2 engines left – Blink and Gecko – (WebKit exists, but it’s almost exclusively used on Apple hardware. The days are gone when everyone had an engine and you could bounce around easily. I’m personally on Firefox main, but I keep Floorp around for backup.
Well… I know it’s chromium, but I have to admit Vivaldi is easily my favorite browser. It’s got a bunch of fairly unique features that I just can’t live without. It’s got tabs within tabs, tab tiling, a whole side car for websites that you can display while working on whatever Web page you need (works great for social media, music, messaging). I don’t have a link, but maybe worth checking it out.
tabs within tabs
I use the Firefox “Tab Groups” Extension to get a similar result and I have to agree, it is so nice to keep order
I prefer the Firefox “Tab Groups” Feature actually because I feel it’s more comfortable / has a more clear separation AND:
It automatically freezes tabs and integrates with containers (kind of like browser profiles on Chromium but in the same Window)
Fair enough. I’m relatively sure that Vivaldi does the same freezing, however I haven’t seen documentation around it and I’m too lazy to look it up. I can say that tabs that haven’t been used in a while reload entirely when you switch to them.
But I do like Firefox’s privacy. Limiting cookies to only cookies from that website is a nice touch.
Haha good meme op
is there a way to force dark mode like in chromium? #enable-force-dark has been a life saver for me. I have a TBI and white screens are physically painful. I keep trying to go back to FireFox, but none of the darkmode addons seem to have this kind of always on, no exceptions kind of feature
So, you haven’t used the “Dark Reader” extension on Firefox. It has “automatic”, “scheduled”, “system default” options. Also you can disable or enable dark mode for specific websites.
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I don’t need the ability to disable I need it to be always on no matter what. This is exactly the extention I was complaining about. This one doesnt work on extentions.firefox.org
There are no addons at all that can change the look of the firefox extension page; it is protected by the browser.
That is why I can’t use firefox it is not accessible. My disability is not taken seriously by the Mozilla Foundation.
Try This one: https://github.com/ThomazPom/Moz-Ext-UltimaDark
same problem
It work for me on every website.
Dark Reader can do this, though it requires a little bit of tinkering. First you need to tick “Enable on restricted pages” in the Advanced section of Dark Readers settings (in the old design the settings can be found under “More > All Settings”). Then in about:config, all entries in
extensions.webextensions.restrictedDomainsneed to be removed andprivacy.resistFingerprinting.block_mozAddonManagerneeds to be set to “true”. If some of this doesn’t work, there’s also a GitHub Discussion with different solutions, but what I wrote here should do the trick.i have the same issue you have, bright screens are the worst (i hated visiting wikipedia). try this addon in firefox. instead of messing with the colors and the contrast of the page, it rather puts an dark overlay over the entire page, reducing the brightness and preserving the look.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dark-mode-screen/
well see now I am in a pickle. Do I go to the webpage that does not allow itself to be accessible and lose a day of my life to drugs and bed. or just keep using what I am using.
Is that how you set up chrome?
Help an overworked guy with no time to research out - where’s Safari sit in all this
Chrome branched off of Webkit, the core of Safari. Certain parts are distantly related, but the browsers are managed and developed separately. Most chrome forks are much closer to the original project and don’t do significant on the browser, just maintain some small patches and customize the branding.
I want to get more points in speedometer 3 using firefox. I’ve seen results above 20-24, but I can’t get more than 12 because js takes a long time to process. What to do? Rebuild firefox with the -0fast flag??
Any suggestions are welcome
