I actually uninstalled Firefox a few months ago on my mobile devices because certain websites for my work were not displaying well now thankfully they have been fixed. Installed the Iceraven fork which is amazing.
this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2023
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I wish Firefox had native tab grouping. That's the only thing I miss from chrome.
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Only thing that sucks is needing an account to sync your stuff around. Brave does this through a "sync chain" using a QR code/some big passcode, all without an email account. Not to mention the built-in adblocker, so less extensions are needed.
If Firefox had this, I'd come back.
On my phone Firefox is terrible. It closes the app when I try to watch video full screen. When I reopen Firefox after the video crash all but 1/4 of the screen is black, and it doesn't respond to clicks on the tabs button to close or open new tabs.
So if it's a YouTube video, I try to view it in the YouTube app. Firefox will open YouTube to the home page but leaves me to find the video again within the YouTube app.
Click the navigate with GPS button inside the browser, and it opens Google maps to the last destination instead of the address you were looking at in Firefox. That made me late to 2 appointments before I figured out what was happening.
The auto fill is terrible or non-existent. The password management feature got stuck in a loop the other day and I had to force close.
Fuck Firefox. Maybe it's better on a new phone, but my experience with Firefox has been absolutely dog shit.
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I use Firefox as a Main Browser and Thorium(Chromium) as Second for PWM feature.
Firefox webdev tools are worthless. My heart belongs to Vivaldi. Nothing else comes closer.
Then I hope you enjoy spyware.
Well… If you're okay with a unique browser ID for each installation or using a browser that contacts a 3rd party analytics company no matter your settings then Firefox is for you. Just fire Wireshark and see for yourself how much snitching Firefox does.
Also Mozilla isn't what people paint it to be, they've shady finances and are now hosting code at Github. Mozilla allegedly stands for a bunch of stuff that is be definition incompatible with hosting code on GitHub as it is
If you're serious about having a decent browser pick Ungoggled Chromium or LibreWolf.
Tor is also nice, even though it's part Firefox.
The thing with Firefox is that while you're absolutely right on all your points, it's the only mainstream browser that at least tries to care for your privacy, much more so than the current big players, and something that has the best chance of having computer "normies" switch to. You won't get them onto LibreWolf, Ungoogled Chromium, IceCat, Mullvad Browser, not in mass. If you push everyone to one of those super privacy browsers where pages may not load correctly and they're generally more clunky, then that's just turning them further to stick with what they know, Chrome/Edge.
I don't like touting companies, but at least for the current time I still recommend Firefox for those wanting to switch, and later on if they really care about privacy then a switch to LibreWolf isn't as jarring.