Firefox is a great alternative to Google Chrome

  • mox
    94•7 months ago
    1. Browser diversity weakens Google’s grip on web development, and their position as a gatekeeper of the web.
  • @perishthethought@lemm.eeEnglish
    62•7 months ago

    I hate to say it but they’re preaching to the choir, as we say. The people who need to switch won’t read this great article.

    • @TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip
      19•7 months ago

      I’m pretty sure the number of Lemmy users who like Chrone is very small. It feels like most people here already use Firefox or some related browser.

    • @limerod@reddthat.com
      2•7 months ago

      Well, you don’t need to switch. But, you can help your friends and family switch by setting up Firefox with Ublock-Origin.

      If they see the benefits. They will stick

  • Boomkop3
    30•7 months ago
    1. It’s literally the only other decent option that is not a fork of the it or it’s one competitor.

    Unfortunately, both are funded by google. Yes, officially it’s just payments to keep the home page in firefox set to Google. But… without that Mozilla would collapse. Google’s got them by the low level components.

  • @zephorah@lemm.ee
    5•7 months ago

    I guess I just assumed everyone was using Firefox, except the business side of things, but then this isn’t my area. Why wouldn’t you use Firefox at home?

    • @kahnclusions@programming.dev
      7•7 months ago

      Look at the real statistics. Everyone is using Chrome. Even among developers.

      We are outliers. On Linux devices I use FF derivatives (Floorp, LibreWolf), and on macOS I’m using Orion RC.

    • @i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2•7 months ago

      I occasionally have to use Chrome because sometimes the sites I need to use won’t work with Firefox. This includes bill pay for some of my utilities. (At least usually by the next month, the utility company fixes their site again so I can use Firefox…)

    • desktop_user [they/them]
      1•7 months ago

      (primarily firefox user here) the Google account being able to be used as a universal login is sorta convenient (at the expense of privacy) Snapchat web (at least previously) requiring it to work (or at least it’s user agent) and an all in all slightly cleaner (more samey) experience.

  • Boomkop3
    3•7 months ago

    The privacy bit is just as much absent as using chrome. You’d want a fork for either of the two for that.

    • @unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de
      27•7 months ago

      Sorry but your argument is absolutely false. Even if Firefox is not the most private browser ever, it’s waaaay more private than Chrome. And you can even make it better with a couple of toggles.

      • Boomkop3
        1•7 months ago

        It definitely used to be different. But since the eu’s “cookie laws” as they’re called, google and mozilla worked together on a new approach.

    • moonlight
      16•7 months ago

      Ah yes, let me add some Microsoft spyware to my Google spyware

      • @renard_roux@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2•7 months ago

        Exactly! Seems like a very “Yo Dawg!”-moment to me.

        The less Microsoft I need, the better, and recently switched from VS Code to VS Codium, which, I believe, puts me at 100% free of Microsoft 😍

        (Barring some M$ code in other software I use that I don’t know about)

  • @eleitl@lemm.ee
    2•7 months ago

    I use Firefox everywhere but lately I’ve been also using Vanadium on GrapheneOS.

  • Engywook
    2•7 months ago

    1 reason I wont’ use Firefox or any gecko-based fork and I’ll keep using a Chromium fork, instead: I don’t want to support Mozilla.

    Enough.

  • @kenjen@sopuli.xyz日本語
    1•7 months ago

    This article is crap. There are so many reasons to choose Chrome from a UX perspective. Firefox is only superior to Chrome from an ideological perspective.

  • Toes♀
    1•7 months ago

    Are there any practical options outside of chromium apps and Firefox forks?