Asklemmy

My wife says: we use firefox

And i cant think of a reason not to.. so of course ive installed Librewolf

I switched from Netscape Navigator to Firefox and have used it since. Have tried other browsers but they can't compete.

Not Chromium, has custom CSS for the GUI, is open source software and it has a nice extension library

Also it's also a pretty good browser (right now I'm technically not using Firefox, but rather Librewolf, but still based on Firefox)

Container tabs and built in tracking protection by default. Mozilla is not Google, unfortunately they depend on their money to survive. Fuck Google.

I am slowly switching back to Firefox since Google are nerfing ad blockers in Chromium. I'm switching to DuckDuckGo since their search results have become almost unusably bad recently. Unfortunately though, there it's no usuable replacements for the rest of the Google ecosystem as far as my use case is concerned. I'd even ditch Android if there were a reasonable alternative.

I used Edge, because it's genuinely an extremely feature packed browser, but when Google announced the manifest v3, I jumped to Firefox.

Unpopular Lemmy opinion, but I hate it. Firefox always freezes on desktop, especially on YouTube. Firefox on Android feels like it was developed for Android 8.0 and never updated. And the worst part is there's a bug on the desktop version in the print preview window when it comes to printing shipping labels, so I have not been able to use Firefox for my company for over 8 months now.

I've reported the bug every time Firefox updates and the bug persists, but Mozilla doesn't give a shit. It's so frustrating.

Because Chrome kept crashing my GPU driver, and Firefox doesn't.

And I used Chrome in the first place because Firefox let malware onto my Windows XP PC. Chrome updated add-ons automatically at that time, and Firefox didn't (not extensions, we're talking things like Macromedia Flash, Shockwave and Java Applets that are long dead now).

Because best

Desktop: Google done fucked up. I didnt use FF cause of one of my extensions but I opted out when they started talking about the DRM for webpages.
Mobile: Its just better with Adblock.

1. It's FOSS
2. Manifest v3
3. AdBlocking extensions for my mobile too!!!
4. They created Rust my all time favourite programming language.

It was the only real place for NoScript for a while and I haven't found a better whitelist add-on. A lot of it is inertia at this point. I avoid Google as much as possible anyway, so Chrome isn't an option.

Its good enough now and mobile addons exist, plus fuck chrome

I think foxes are cool :)

I started out with using it on the mobile, due to the add-ons being suported, but then Google starten messing around with chrome, announcing changes to the plugin api that would neuter Adblockers and now, the DRM for the web thingy, and I thought enough is enough.

Firefox still has its issues and Chrome does feel more polished, but I'm going with the good guys on this one.

Tree style tabs in what made me switch to Firefox.

I like that it's not Chrome, and that it's so modifiable.

Also, Edge was using over 2 GB of RAM on my work computer with only one tab open.

I use firefox because Lemmy told me to.

It is the only one that can hold my hundreds of tabs. It's also ooensource, but that's a bonus. Recently addblocker is a very good feature too.

I like that LibreWolf automatically clears history upon closing.

Because at the time I started using it, it was still Mozilla and the other alternative was Internet Explorer, the browser from Microsoft - the Evil Empire of that time - which was riddled with security holes (the whole ActiveX stuff, especially, was a complete total mess).

Later Chrome became more fashionable but to me it was already obvious that Google's "Do No Evil" slogal was complete total bollocks (plus it came out in the Snowden revelations how Google was used for civil society surveillance, plus by then they had become mainly an Ad Company with a search engine, hence anti-privacy) and I wasn't about to trust what already back then looked like the up and coming New Evil Empire with access to my computer and browsing habits.

Mind you, I did use Chrome on my Android devices, but that was because I expected the OS itself to be rigged like crazy for privacy intrusion and worse so avoiding Chrome there did very little to reduce my privacy exposure in there, though eventually I moved to Firefox there too.

It has a cool logo

Because I need a browser.

Works good at browser

Because it works, because I can use ublock on mobile (and a few other cool extensions), and most importantly, because I feel good about using it.

I have Vivaldi installed in case i need a chromium browser but I rarely ever need it.

I don't like Chromium, on mobile it has extension support.

good privacy

I used to use it way back when it first came out and I was a huge fan, but about the time Chrome was becoming a mainstream alternative I started to have a lot of difficulty with adblockers not working and webpages that refused to load on anything other than Internet Explorer or Chrome, so I switched.

Heard about some of the shady shit going down recently in the Googlesphere and decided it was time to switch back and I'm happy to report that everything runs smoothly again.

The tree-style tabs extension

It's the best

I like the old icon, and Google shot itself in the foot with the anti-adblock stuff.

Because I can.

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

Because I need to browse the web.

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.

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.