Firefox is a great alternative to Google Chrome

  • mox@lemmy.sdf.org
    91·
    10 days ago
    1. Browser diversity weakens Google’s grip on web development, and their position as a gatekeeper of the web.
  • perishthethought@lemm.eeEnglish
    62·
    10 days ago

    I hate to say it but they’re preaching to the choir, as we say. The people who need to switch won’t read this great article.

    • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip
      18·
      10 days ago

      I’m pretty sure the number of Lemmy users who like Chrone is very small. It feels like most people here already use Firefox or some related browser.

  • zephorah@lemm.ee
    5·
    8 days ago

    I guess I just assumed everyone was using Firefox, except the business side of things, but then this isn’t my area. Why wouldn’t you use Firefox at home?

    • kahnclusions@programming.dev
      7·
      8 days ago

      Look at the real statistics. Everyone is using Chrome. Even among developers.

      We are outliers. On Linux devices I use FF derivatives (Floorp, LibreWolf), and on macOS I’m using Orion RC.

    • i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      8 days ago

      I occasionally have to use Chrome because sometimes the sites I need to use won’t work with Firefox. This includes bill pay for some of my utilities. (At least usually by the next month, the utility company fixes their site again so I can use Firefox…)

  • umbrella@lemmy.ml
    5·
    10 days ago

    what i want to understand beyond just “did you know chrome bad” is why laymen are so insistent on it.

    so we can break it.

    • desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      1·
      9 days ago

      (primarily firefox user here) the Google account being able to be used as a universal login is sorta convenient (at the expense of privacy) Snapchat web (at least previously) requiring it to work (or at least it’s user agent) and an all in all slightly cleaner (more samey) experience.

      • umbrella@lemmy.ml
        2·
        9 days ago

        i mean if you login with google on any google site on firefox, it will also log you in to everything…

        and being cleaner is a matter of habit tbh, they look very similar

  • Azdalen@beehaw.orgEnglish
    4·
    9 days ago

    I can name a couple other reasons why FF is better:

    1. I get way more lower-level control via about:config over internals than chrome’s about:flags (i.e., adjust caches, buffers, networking strategies, GC thresholds, etc.)
    2. I can fully disable newer ad delivery mechanisms like Service Workers and WASM at a core level (NOTE: while these were initially touted as ways to speed up the internet, they unfortunately are used mostly as ad-blocking and tracking circumvention measures now; its also easy enough to re-enable them temporarily if a site uses one for legitimate reasons).
    3. Actual, no-kidding, site cannot override, auto-play blocking (via some about:config tweaks).

    With the newer FF versions they landed some very nice speedups, but with some of the tweaks i’ve made, basically FF be zoom’n now 😅

      • renard_roux@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2·
        9 days ago

        Exactly! Seems like a very “Yo Dawg!”-moment to me.

        The less Microsoft I need, the better, and recently switched from VS Code to VS Codium, which, I believe, puts me at 100% free of Microsoft 😍

        (Barring some M$ code in other software I use that I don’t know about)

  • Engywuck@lemm.ee
    2·
    10 days ago

    1 reason I wont’ use Firefox or any gecko-based fork and I’ll keep using a Chromium fork, instead: I don’t want to support Mozilla.

    Enough.

  • eleitl@lemm.ee
    2·
    8 days ago

    I use Firefox everywhere but lately I’ve been also using Vanadium on GrapheneOS.

  • kenjen@sopuli.xyz日本語
    1·
    7 days ago

    This article is crap. There are so many reasons to choose Chrome from a UX perspective. Firefox is only superior to Chrome from an ideological perspective.