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  • 1984@lemmy.today
    10·
    10 hours ago

    You are so late to the party but better late than never.

    Try out Reader Mode too, it’s nice.

  • VOIDPTR@lemmy.ml
    6·
    10 hours ago

    Waterfox is a slightly altered fork. Firefox account still works on it. It is what I use on desktop and mobile.

  • sexy_peach@feddit.org
    39·
    16 hours ago

    The very obvious most important difference between chrome and ff is that with ff you can install the add-on uBlock origin. Long after that there might be other worthwhile differences but the browsing experience with ff + uBlock origin is unbeaten.

      • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        8 hours ago

        more and more sites/services are starting to require it and i’m already ruing the day that i’m forced to move off firefox because of it.

        i also think it’s a sign of the time that microsoft was slapped down by the gov’t when they did something similar with ie and office; but this time around the gov’t is not getting involved at all.

        • jacksilver@lemmy.world
          2·
          8 hours ago

          The Biden administration had been gearing up/starting the process to separate chrome from Google, but when trump took over all of that was stopped.

          • FrChazzz@lemmus.orgEnglish
            2·
            7 hours ago

            Biden-era tech regulations and their proposals played a huge role in all the Big Tech CEOs jumping over to the GOP. Turns out that they only ever cared about making as much unrestricted money as possible.

          • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
            2·
            7 hours ago

            exactly, all it took to get the american gov’t to care was court case from mozilla, corel, ati, etc., but now there are court cases like before and nothing happens as result and efforts driven at the top – like this one – are quietly suppressed.

  • Zak@lemmy.world
    22·
    15 hours ago

    It takes half a dozen extensions, settings tweaks, and hidden flags to make Chrome do what browsers like Firefox already do out of the box.

    The fact that I can have half a dozen extensions is the main reason I use Firefox for Android.

  • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
    131·
    15 hours ago

    I just switched from Firefox for Android to Fennec, which is the exact same browser bundled by the Mozilla Foundation, with slightly fewer proprietary bits and bops than normal Firefox and available on F-droid. My Mozilla account still syncs and it all works perfectly.

    https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/

    Firefox for Android is still great, but it’s nice to see some love for those of us who prefer to stick with open source projects all the way.

      • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
        81·
        12 hours ago

        It’s not in the official F-droid repository, which runs thorough code review and I quite trust, and I also do not know who the developers are. I’m sure it’s a fine project, but my main concern personally was to move away from Aurora towards F-droid as much as possible. I have given up on getting away from Mozilla before Servo is ready, and until then I’m much happier to use something packaged by the Foundation than the Corporation.