• Matharl
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    2 years ago

    Or even better, a fork of Firefox which disable all that telemetry crap and bundle with uBlock Origin : LibreWolf.

    • @Lukecis@lemmy.world
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      12 years ago

      Fr, people need to stop the lies that firefox itself is a privacy respecting browser, which it isnt- not since it was bought out years back.

      LibreWolf and Mullvad are great examples of Firefox Forks that are ACTUALLY privacy focused browsers.

      • Matharl
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        12 years ago

        No tinkering required, technically you could achieve the same result with regular Firefox + tinkering.

        It’s as simple out of the box but with a greater focus on privacy with telemetry off and the pocket integration disabled.

    • @HughJanus@lemmy.ml
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      -12 years ago

      The new Mullvad browser is even better, and regularly maintained. But a little bit further down on the privacy end of the Spectrum and further from the useability end. Watch out for timezones, that one always gets me!

      • runningromeo
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        12 years ago

        Mullvad has a browser now? Sweet! I’ve been a fan of their no nonsense approach to VPN for a while now.

        • @HughJanus@lemmy.ml
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          Yeah it’s basically TOR browser without the TOR network. Created in direct collaboration with TOR.

  • @Skkorm@lemmy.world
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    52 years ago

    Firefox rules, people need to smarten up. Hell, Firefox on Android has an Adblock extension. Firefox is what’s up.

        • @Delusion6903@discuss.online
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          12 years ago

          No work around is needed. You can install a very limited number of extensions on Firefox mobile and they are the ones you want the most. This includes uBlock Origen.

          • @Zak@lemmy.world
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            12 years ago

            hey are the ones **you **want the most

            You don’t know which extensions I want most. I want:

            • uBlock Origin ✅
            • Consent-o-Matic ❌ - but the sort of thing they might eventually add to the blessed list with enough begging
            • Bypass Paywalls ⛔ - Mozilla will never recommend this or even distribute it on its addons site

            3-4 years ago, I could install any extension I wanted. I reject their stated reasons for barring me from doing so (security, stability - those are on me once I start installing unsupported add-ons) and use Kiwi Browser instead.

  • @Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    52 years ago

    Stumbled over that last week. There is a company where I buy nearly all my computer stuff from, and I’m a customer for more than 20 years.

    I wanted to order parts for a high-end PC, but simply could not add the motherboard to the shopping cart. Everything else was already in there. I called them, and they asked me if I used Firefox. And they told me in no uncertain terms that Firefox was dead and would no longer be supported for “safety and security reasons”, I should use Chrome or Edge instead.

    If their site is too stupid to cope with Firefox, why the heck does it not tell me about this upfront, e.g. when I try to enter an item into the shopping cart?

    • @JshKlsn@lemmy.ml
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      32 years ago

      I’ve had a few websites tell me to view their website in Chrome. I just leave, because no way am I putting any kind of personal data into a website run by such incompetent people.

      I used to be a web developer. Back 8 years ago, you used to have to do a lot of special tricks to make your website look and function the same in all the browsers. Now, you really don’t. Unless you’re using some really obscure closed source codec or something, websites literally render and function properly without needing any browser specific code fixes.

      There’s no excuse, unless you’re blocking older versions of every browser for security reasons, which is fine, because browsers update automatically these days, and it’s very rare for someone to be running a really old version.

      • Programmer Belch
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        12 years ago

        Usually the thing about the webpage not working is just codeword for “we have not tested it and we won’t”. If you really need to access it, there are some extensions that can change your user agent so the page thinks you are in chromium.

        This is the one I use.

    • ProfezzorDarke
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      12 years ago

      LOL I work in IT for a rather large company and we are supposed to use FF because it’s actually more secure and is more reliable than chromium browsers.

  • @PeterPoopshit@lemmynsfw.com
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    2 years ago

    “Firefox is bad because I got a virus one time and Firefox was my default browser therefore Firefox gave my computer a virus”- my brother

  • JackbyDev
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    Privacy is like the least important reason I use Firefox. With Microsoft Edge and Opera being based on Chromium now there are just so many of them. With Chromium essentially becoming the de facto standard because everyone uses it that means Google can ignore web standards and just do whatever they want.

      • @Aldrond@lemmy.world
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        12 years ago

        That it allows Google to destroy the open internet by changing the standards until non-Chromium browsers can’t engage with the web.

        • @Willer@lemmy.world
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          That it allows Google to destroy the open internet by changing the standards until non-Chromium browsers can’t engage with the web.

          Im glad the websites have a saying in this. If google also owns these all then we are TRULY fucked.

          • @Aldrond@lemmy.world
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            12 years ago

            Unfortunately, no, they don’t. As Chromium gets more and more wide spread, Google is gaining the power to change the browser standards. Websites will have to comply. If your website suddenly “Breaks” because Google won’t allow Chromium load any pages without tracking tags, users will complain to you and not google.

  • @vreraan@sh.itjust.works
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    12 years ago

    After the quantum update i switched to firefox, as now in performance it is almost on par with chrome or sometimes better.

  • @Hazdaz@lemmy.world
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    12 years ago

    What is the aversion to FF? It is memory hungry, but not that much different than Chrome.

    • @glad_cat@lemmy.sdf.org
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      12 years ago

      For daily usage, and as long as you use uBlock Origin, Firefox has been perfect for me for the past 10 years. I don’t understand those who complain about it.

  • topnomi
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    11 year ago

    I’ve tried a bunch of time but I feel going back to Chrome.

    I’m currently trying or Oprah for the first time.

  • @hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works
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    Appearently brave is the most privacy focused browser. At least according to this paper from 3y ago.

    https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf

    Edit: guys I know that Brave is not the best browser and I wouldn’t recommend it, but I haven’t seen studies or in depth articles about technical details of privacy concerns.

    And I’m not being sarcastic, I wanna see them so I can make a more informed opinion.