Maybe you are already a Firefox user, we are part of a minority on the web today, and think that this text is not for you. You’re probably right, but I’d like to make a few points here and ask for your help in taking the web back before it’s too late. And if you don’t use Firefox, you’ve been using some version of Chromium (Chrome, Edge, Opera, Brave or Vivaldi) a few years ago this wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing, but today it’s bad for the health and freedom of an web that respect privacy and is not controlled by capitalist corporations, the so-called Big Techs.

Maybe you are already a Firefox user, we are part of a minority on the web today, and think that this text is not for you. You’re probably right, but I’d like to make a few points here and ask for your help in taking the web back before it’s too late. And if you don’t use Firefox, you’ve been using some version of Chromium (Chrome, Edge, Opera, Brave or Vivaldi) a few years ago this wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing, but today it’s bad for the health and freedom of an web that respect privacy and is not controlled by capitalist corporations, the so-called Big Techs.

  • jflorez@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I use Firefox for 99% of my work and 100% of my private browsing. It is amazing to me that people I work with blindly go for Chrome because that is “the internet” in the saw way IE was “the internet” 20 years ago. I find it hard to get people to switch but I’ve had a couple of successes

  • MerliSYD
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    1 year ago

    I used to use Firefox until several years ago when it became super slow and full of memory leaks that caused me to close it and restart all the time.

    Chrome is so much faster.

    Is Firefox a viable alternative now? I used to love it but it became unusable.

    • misterawesome42@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      It’s pretty much the opposite nowadays. Chrome has become increasingly bloated as Firefox made important changes to their rendering engine a few years ago.

      Give it a try!

    • ogwillikers@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Went from Firefox to Chrome to Firefox. It’s on par for speed these days.

      I like it because not only is it a solid browser, it’s the underdog of a 2 rendering engine system.

    • Elle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Firefox had a significant rework awhile ago to improve its performance, so I suspect it may run better for you these days if the last time you used it was several years ago. It’s the browser I’m currently using & it runs smoothly for me even with a silly amount of tabs open.

    • Pergle@reddthat.com
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      1 year ago

      I’ve used it as a daily driver for a decade or so now. Seems the same speed as chrome currently. Better addon support than the competition makes it a mainstay.

    • severade@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I also found this a few years ago. I recently decided to give it a try again and I feel it’s much better now.

  • darthtyr@fedia.io
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    1 year ago

    The only thing that I do not use Firefox for is when I download stuffs from mega.nz, as somehow using Firefox to do this always resulted in huge amount of RAM being consumed, so I have to use Vivaldi for this exact kind of task. Everything else, Firefox all the way.

  • asmith1243@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Is there more to this post? Not seeing any points outside of an opening statement. Using Memmy right now, so I may be missing a big chunk of this post!