• Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    Sell your soul to Microsoft!

    YES, please

    not now

    Linux and Firefox gang rise up.

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      9 months ago

      I only use it in a VM and only for Visual Studio which is only for one class. It does nothing outside of that class

      My main OS is Linux Mint

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        9 months ago

        There is a net effect in browsers and in rendering engines especially.

        The more people use chrome engine (that is pretty much everyone except Firefox) the more web developers support only Chrome because… Cost/layoffs.

        For this reason i make a point in using only FF (except for websites that already don’t work with Geko).

        Monopolies are not good for anyone (especially with current Google attitude)

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          Google chrome ads have been getting really obnoxious lately even though I only see them when visiting friends who don’t have an adblocker. Needless to say I use Firefox exclusively and only fire up chromium for work once in a while to see how stuff behaves in different browsers.

          Edit: makes me wonder why chrome is marketing so aggressively even while their userbase is by far the biggest.

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          9 months ago

          Saying “everyone except Firefox” is not accurate. Iceweasel, Pale Moon, Librewolf, etc, they all use the Gecko rendering engine. Are they a fraction of a blip in the ecosystem? Unfortunately, yes.

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              9 months ago

              I think I did once many years ago, and it looked like pretty much Firefox with a different theme. I’m assuming today it looks more like its own thing.

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          9 months ago

          Because it has all the features I actually want and none of the ones I don’t need. Firefox also isn’t anywhere near as privacy respecting as people think. And lacks features that even ungoogled chromium has (like websql). I’m kind of surprised about the downvotes tbh. Hive mind much?

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            9 months ago

            Because it has all the features I actually want and none of the ones I don’t need.

            Can you elaborate more on those features? I can’t see see how ungoogled chromium is better than Firefox since it removes basic features such as sync.

            As for engine-specific features such websql, I don’t think it’s matter at this point unless you need to use websites that only works on chrome on regular basis. For day-to-day browsing, those chrome-only apis only serves as another data point for analytics providers to do fingerprinting.

            My opinion on using chrome-only apis is it’s harmful for the web because each website that only works on chromium engine bring the web closer and closer to browser monoculture, just like back then when ie6 dominated the web.

            If you worry about Mozilla’s stance on privacy, there are also plenty of forks that provide “unmozilla’d” Firefox.

            I’m kind of surprised about the downvotes tbh. Hive mind much?

            I didn’t downvote you btw

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              I don’t need more than the basics, things like hardware acceleration and extension support, although websql and the likes are occasionally useful. I don’t sync, I don’t need pocket or a vpn, and mozilla telemetry has caused my laptop to almost be rate limited by my pihole before. Ungoogled chromium does exactly what I need it to do while feeling faster than firefox. Idk if it actually is, but sometimes feelings are enough. And with the market share of chromiums engine, I don’t think the potential fingerprinting of its features is statistically relevant.