I switched to Firefox the morning they disabled uBlock Origin.
this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2025
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Meanwhile ublock origin works fine in Fennec/Firefox Android.
Chrome? A browser that's easily replaceable with any other browser? Huh... Didn't see that one coming.
/S
I'm saying this as a 2 year convert Firefox user: mostly easily replaceable. Sure, I can browse pretty much every page that I can on chrome. However, a few sites don't work the same way - sometimes because of the site's conscious decision, sometimes because of Firefox.
Take Facebook, for example. On desktop, I can't make voice calls anymore from the desktop site. For a while it was possible with non encrypted chats, but now pretty much all of them are encrypted, and FF is not compatible with that. I also can't watch h265 videos in my chats anymore. I'm still sticking with FF, but I just can't easily say that FF is just as good for everything (I'm still not going back to chrome).
Yeah I'm a 20-some year FF user and when it started you had to have IE as a backup because not everything was compatible. In the late 2000s through late 2010s everything worked everywhere, then with chromes dominance places have stopped testing or supporting certain things in FF and it feels like history is repeating itself. Unfortunately you need a chromium-based backup realistically for certain sites, but 99.5% of things work totally fine in FF.
A lot of websites are broken on Firefox which is a shame. I can’t even scroll down on some news sites. What a shame…
If you're still using Chrome, do yourself a favour and install Firefox.
Let's be honest: Everything that might be "worse" or "annoying" in Firefox for someone is not relevant in comparison to "no working adblocker available". A browser without adblock is unusable
True, but if an adblocker no longer works on a specific browser, change your browser! I started using Netscape back in '94, and lost count on how many browsers I've tested and used in the past... Holy shit, 30+ years!!
30+ years!
.....fuck off, '94 wasn't 30.... counts on fingers several times
.....Shit.....
It doesn’t sound right but it is. I think in ‘94 I was using Juno for email and internet. Shortly after that it was time to actually use one of the many AOL trial discs for service instead of a mini frisbee/ninja star.
Modem sounds, chat rooms, you’ve got mail. What a time to live!
I know... Jurassic Park is 33 years this year. It would be like watching a movie from the 60' when it was released.
We're old, friend.
I've never hated my life more than right now...
I use Palemoon for the nostalgia but also because of the best theme around, Moonscape
Netscape will forever be my number one.
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What issues do people even have with firefox? Its a browser, it seems fast enough. Isn't that all most people need from a browser
Security and sandboxing are important, weak points on the android implementation.
would Vivaldi on android be better? I really like having extensions on my browser and that's the only other android one I know of that has them.
Edit: I was wrong apparently Vivaldi does not support extensions on mobile which is a bummer.
Mainly that Google intentionally makes its sites (like YouTube or Google Docs) slower and less useable when they detect you're using Firefox, and/or ad blockers (which you need Firefox to use, so same difference).
It's mostly fixable with add-ons and userscripts (and eventually, one hopes, with an antitrust lawsuit), but it's still a hassle.
Unfortunately, with the FTC rolling back net neutrality protections, I don’t see an antitrust lawsuit happening, or succeeding, anytime soon
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No horizontal tab grouping. Tab groups on Chrome are perfect, and the Firefox tab extensions all suck in comparison.
That said, I'm still using Firefox today because the internet is unusable without a good ad blocker.
I still use the full screen tab groups feature that they removed from the core. I don't like scrolling tabs, so I can just hit a button and click on the exact tab I want. I do probably have too many tabs open tbh.
Tab groups and vertical tabs are at least on Nightly now; you can enable them in settings.
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What is everyone's thoughts on duckduckgo browser? I'm on grapheme os and have always used Firefox on my desktop
Why not use Firefox for android too?
duckduckgo browser is based on Chromium (as nearly every other "alternative" browser is) and therefore will use Manifest v3 and neuter uBlock.
Firefox-based https://zen-browser.app/ if you want to get fancy
I've liked this one lately.
Thanks for this!! I became spoiled with Arc’s UI, but it’s a Chrome based browser. This looks like it’s the same experience without the bs.
Yeah. Zen is a bit newer and I’d say not quite as slick an experience yet, but it has come a long way in the last couple months and is getting very good
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