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Why do you use firefox? (upload.wikimedia.org)
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[-] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It has a cool logo

[-] RalphFurley@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I like Lynx

[-] Rootiest@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use WaterFox.

It has less tracking and more built-in privacy features than Firefox but is built on the same base

I use Fennec on mobile.

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[-] god@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Containers addon. And it has bookmarks decades old. Remove both and I wouldn't care much. I'm also more familiar with it. It feels more natural due to this. I feel more comfortable on it. More at home, less scared.

[-] tiny@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

Container tabs, it respects my privacy, and brave started randomly not painting pages

It’s the default browser on my computer, and it doesn’t suck, so I’m not motivated to seek an alternative.

[-] LeylaLove@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Best non-chromium browser. More customisable.

[-] M68040@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because internet explorer 6 sucked and it has the best ad blocker selection

[-] monobot@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

There are no other options.

I hope ladybird will become usable in few years.

[-] darcy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

against google/chromium monopoly.

[-] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Because I like it the best

[-] massive_bereavement@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Who's asking?

[-] naitro@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I've been using FF for years now, probably since the quantum update. Tbh, the thing that prevented me to switch to any other browser since is the ctrl+tab functionality. I HATE cycling through tabs in any other order than by most recent tab. I didn't find a setting to change it on chrome when I was forced to use it for work, but in FF it's easily found in the settings and probably was on by default at some point as I don't recall ever changing it.

In recent years the privacy aspect and the fact that it isn't made by google have also played a role in why I've stuck with firefox. Also extension support on android, although the browser is still a bit slower than chrome on mobile.

[-] ItsMeForRealNow@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

The developer tools are top notch. Chrome is slower and sucks.

[-] PixelOfLife@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Primarily because I've been using it for much longer than Chrome has been a thing so I'm used to it. But Google's shenanigans are also a factor.

[-] Mio@feddit.nu 4 points 1 year ago

I dont like Chrome have so big market share. Also it is making less dumb desions for me, you can actually disable stuff I dont like.

[-] Skimmer@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not Chromium, Extremely customizable and configurable, and add-on support on mobile, to name a few reasons.

[-] nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use it to protest Google's bullshit, but I still acknowledge all problems Firefox has and that all in all, Chromium is superior in many ways

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[-] PoetSII@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I think foxes are cool :)

[-] Anamana@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's a good compromise of everything I care about regarding a digital product.

[-] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because Google is more profit and ad-focused than Mozilla (though both force ads down my throat), and they are the only viable choices for browsing the web.

I long for an actual non-profit backed, open-source browser to use, but until then, lesser of two evils.

[-] Keeper2000@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Tree Style Tab

And lack of (what I would consider) a good alternatives.

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

To be honest, because it was pre-installed in Linux Mint. I got a first laptop, and I didn't know differences between Windows and GNU+Linux. Hell, I was searching for "pure Linux". I didn't know that's just kernel, neither what kernel is anyway. And I just decided for Mint. At the time, I considered Windows "just another distribution or whatever".

I did get to briefly use school computers before that. There I preferred internet explorer over both Chrome and Firefox. Yeah. Chrome kept crashing, Firefox didn't load many pages (it was probably well outdated) but IE just worked, much faster than Chrome, somehow.

[-] doink@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It works great with Wayland and I switched to Firefox mobile as well.

[-] Lorindol@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Back in the days when Netscape Navigator went down, I switched to then-new Firefox.

I have had no reason to not use it. With mods Firefox even allows me to keep the UI looking exactly the same as it did with version 3.x, where everything is just where I want it to be.

Change just for the sake of change is pointless.

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  • Privacy, security, speed.
  • Google has enough of my data and I want to diversify.
  • Chrome and Edge are pigs full of feature bloat.
[-] EntropyPure@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

On top of what everyone else said: I REALLY hate the UI design of Chrome. We just don’t get along. Firefox always worked well for me.

[-] thequickben@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I switched to chrome for a few years but went back to Firefox about 3 years ago. Google can piss off as far as I’m concerned.

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Before Google started being openly evil and Firefox was pretty slow by comparison, I kept using Firefox for 2 reasons: mobile add-ons and the "Container Tabs" addon which doesn't (or at least didn't) have a chome analog. Now I've degoogled and also it seems faster in those occasions when I have to use chrome at work.

[-] Vince@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

I was using Mozilla in order to not use Internet Explorer and at some point I switched to their new browser when it was still called Firebird.

Nowadays I stick to it just so Google doesn't get a browser monopoly.

[-] Caboose12000@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I just don't like monopolies, and right now everything else is chrome

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