• Captain Howdy@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I will never understand why people dont just use firefox and its derrivatives…

    • darkkite@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      rendering engines. I use multiple browsers depending on context

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        1 year ago

        It works with Google Cloud’s dashboard lol, I swear they broke it in Firefox on purpose.

        But seriously it’s like the IE days, some sites are designed with one target in mind and that target is now Chrome instead of IE, partly because the Chromium engine is now the de facto one to embed and rebrand. So sometimes you just have to use Chrome.

        However I use Firefox 99% of the time myself and only use Chrome when needed (mostly when managing my Google compute engine VMs, sigh)

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        1 year ago

        Google integration. That’s all. Anything else is anecdotal, is ill-informed hubris or is a combination of both.

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        1 year ago

        I’ve been using Brave for a few years now on my desktop and after reading the threads lately about it, I’d like to switch. I don’t seem to have the issues other users have, but I don’t want to use it based on the CEO’s views on some things.

        I’ve always had Firefox installed with uBlock Origin and I use it occasionally. One of the things Chromium based browsers have is built-in tab grouping. I know there are extensions and I’ve only tried Simple Tab Groups but it didn’t behave how I was expecting it to behave, which is like how Chromium handles it.

        So far that’s the only thing I’ve noticed.

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      1 year ago

      I had to use a chrome based browser on Android for a couple of weeks since Firefox had a problem. It was like a nightmare. It is common in IT history that worse quality product wins.

      Think about MS-DOS. Microsoft also sold Xenix,a UNIX system that time.

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      1 year ago

      Convenience and performance.

      I’m a dual user of Firefox and Brave on different computers. In order to separate work and personal stuff and shopping, I use different profiles. Easy on brave, needs extension with separate app on Firefox, that doesn’t work on librewolf. And too often I have to stop my browsing because this Firefox setup is less stable and crashes once in a while causing annoyance.

      Plus Chromecast. I like the ability to search for a video on the laptop and cast it to the TV.

      It’s always a balance of convenience and privacy plus ethics, can’t have both.

    • Galluf@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      For me it’s because Firefox is (or at least was) noticeably slower. Didn’t support all the extensions I use. And didn’t allow YouTube playback with audio beyond 4x play speed.

      All of those items led to me to choose brave over Firefox since I encountered every one of them on a daily basis.

      Also I hated the default font (or perhaps it was some other quiirk of the layout) of Firefox. I couldn’t figure out how to fix it.

    • noodle@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      I use FF but Chrome is objectively better in side by side comparison. It’s faster, more web pages load correctly, its UX is much nicer. For most people, you just install it and go. Most people don’t have the time or inclination to faff on with a browser, much less for something as poorly understood as privacy. It has features Firefox doesn’t, such as tab groups which Mozilla stupidly decided to remove and no addon does the same job as well.

      Mozilla just sucks, to be frank. They can’t seem to have any coherent idea about what Firefox should be. The big redesign alienated a lot of the people who used it for its customisation. Adding in unwanted features like Pocket integration made people doubt the credibility of Mozilla’s claims of privacy. And cockups like everyones’ addons stopping working, despite being warned by the community it would happen, leave a bitter taste in peoples’ mouths.