My government sites don't work with Firefox (no add-ons), have to use chrome, they recommend and only support chrome.
this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2024
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May I ask which country you're from? That sounds dystopian.
Few years ago(maybe 10) it was still recommended or even necessary to use IE for a lot of goverment Internet Services here in Germany. The online Zoll handling for example. I think a lot of goverments are not really into accesibility optimization.
Before the new year, I donated 25€ for Firefox, my long-time companion to #degoogle Grapheneos and Linux. Although Google is introducing DRM, I don't think anything is so important in this life that I have to use Chrome or IE, I will adapt to the situation and instead of worrying about DRM (of course, for the public Internet, this seems like a total violation of users' rights, for safety 🤣🤣🤣, really?) I will try to be more social, but not in the sense of social networks, but hanging out with friends or listening to music or running or a good book... I definitely don't want this big corporation near me, which we are more and more they control... (google,ms,apple,amazon...) Firefox probably missed by not insisting on FirefoxOS (phones), but it has a great agenda - privacy and simplicity. I look forward to many years of using FF!!
The problem is, you can't donate to firefox. Only to the mozilla foundation which spends it on other stuff.
theres a difference between the mozilla foundation - the non profit - and the mozilla corporation - the for profit.
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Is this copy pasta
Firefox has been irrelevant for about a decade now. Most webdevs don't even test for firefox anymore. Major websides actively ignore it and most users evidently either don't know and/or use it.
Yes, firefox is relevant as an alternative to Chromium-based browsers, but that's about it. Mozilla has done a stellar job at keeping it irrelevant to keep bagging that sweet google money.
Honestly, I hope firefox and mozilla die, to be reborn again by another entity, but Mitchell Baker probably will do their best to keep getting that sweet, sweet, Google money.
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I guess Firefox market share will be closely related to Linux desktop market share
The day Firefox gets native mouse gestures is the day I swap. Until then will continue to be a very happy Vivaldi user.
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Only thing I miss in Firefox is PWA, but I still mainly use it.
There's an extension which allows PWAs.
What a ridiculous title, article and post.
I only use FF in Linux, I tried on Android but it's somewhat bad 😔
Working just fine for me...
I've found the reason it's not great on mobile is because even if you tell your android phone to use Firefox as default it simply ignores it and uses chrome anyways
Edit: I was able to get it to work properly as my default browser but I had to disable chrome in the app settings. Now it's great
You can disable chrome in it's app settings!
Disable chrome. Problem solved.
What phone do you use that you experience this?
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