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Because it’s one of the only remaining browsers (the other one being Safari) that doesn’t run on Chromium. We must protect FireFox and Safari with our lives because if they die out then Google has a monopoly on the browser space. Not something anyone wants… I mean look at their Manifest V3, and web DRM controversies. They are trying to ruin the web. Don’t let them people!
Plus, I just like the ability to customize the toolbar, and FireFox Sync is just brilliant for syncing between mobile and desktop!
firefox sync works way way better and more logically than any of the competitors
I wish it had an offline option without sign-ups in the style of KDE Connect.
Hmm, I bet most of the functionality could be replicated using a browser extension. Pretty much the only thing I think you wouldn’t be able to access would be saved passwords and credit cards. Networking might be an issue as well if you were trying to set up an ad-hoc system like KDE connect uses.
Can’t have Google kill Firefox, if Firefox does it first. Every few years they (IMO) fuck something up that makes me want to move away, but there’s no real alternative :/
Like what?
Google has too much power over the web, also I just like Firefox.
Mobile adblock
I don’t use it because of mobile adblock only. There are multiple private chromium browsers which have mobile adblock, and also one supporting extensions : kiwi browser.
I use Firefox because it’s a competing engine to chromium, and it looks good.
I also have all the synced bookmarks from my PC Firefox, which I use for the same reason, and because I got used to it.
I normally don’t jump on bandwagons, but this is the way. After using ublock on firefox on my phone, it was an easy decision to switch from chrome to firefox (librewolf) on my computer too (so everything would sync lol)
It’s FOSS, respects my privacy, doesn’t try to kill my adblock and it’s the only option that doesn’t support a big evil monopoly
Because it’s the only browser not based on Google’s Chromium rendering engine (Webview, WebKit? whatever). Using any other browser supports Google’s monopoly over how we browse the internet and what we are allowed to see. No, fuck Google.
Edit: spelling
Thank you, I used to know the rendering engines fairly well a few years ago, but I’m out of the loop now.
What about WebView? It’s the rendering engine used in Android, closely related to Blink I assume.
I honestly wasn’t super familiar with WebView until you asked!
It looks like WebView is a stripped-down browser, more than anything else. It can leverage different rendering engines depending on the platform, and on Android it looks like it leverages Blink just like Chrome.
This.
I just don’t want to support the monopoly.
Also Firefox has been so tempting since the new engine written in Rust came out. It has a wide range of supporting add-ons.
Is that quantum or is there another rewrite I don’t know about?
I’m talking about quantum. I switched to Firefox since quantum came out.
It has extensions support on mobile. I can’t live without uBlock Origin. I installed Firefox on PC because of synching between Firefox on PC and Firerox and Android. I now stopped using this feature, but I kept using Firefox. I only use Chrome when pages don’t open correctly on Firefox.
You can try vivaldi for that occasional chromium websites, its quite nice
Been using it for 15 years or so. It was good back then, it’s still good now. Chrome has never been an alternative for anyone who knows what Google is.
so what is it?
The Eye of Sauron
An alternative for people who don’t know what Google is… obviously
Doesn’t wake up one day and decide to DRM the Web or kill the adblcker.
When Opera 12 died. Fuck chromium. Fuck Vivaldi. Firefox is the only legit non-chromium browser.
Vivaldi is a great browser but it sucks that it uses Chromium as a base
I usually use Firefox but still use Vivaldi some
See and my whole thing when Opera died was if I wanted to use chromium I’d use chromium. I get their decisions but at the same time they completely pissed on why many of us felt that Opera was the best browser.
What was even more amazing was it was two products! Not only did Opera shit the bed pivoting to chromium. Those who left and started Vivaldi also doubled down on chromium. So not just one company pissing on their users but two! Amazing!
Yup, same here. Tried many browsers back then. Always came back to FF. Now its Librewolf on Desktop and Fennec on Mobile. Both firefox-based.
Why vivaldi specifically?
Chromium as well.
Cause fuck Google
I was going to say that lol
We can say it together!
Fuck Google.
Because google sucks now.
Now? They always have…
it’s the best mobile browser with bottom address bar
And adblock extensions.
Works well
Extendable
Open source
Not chrome based
Even without the politics of it all (which are good), Firefox is flexible and customizable. Chromium is an ugly, inflexible piece of shit from 2006 that relies on the same bloated list menus and doesn’t really let you do anything with it. Come at me, Chrome fanboys.
