Posted by mikece 4 days ago
Mozilla (despite its issues) is nowhere near as evil as Google and a browser monopoly is good for nobody.
Manifest v2 will stay supported on FF - uBlock will keep working properly.
It's time to switch. If you would rather have a UI like Arc, give Zen a shot! (It's what I use!)
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
[2] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/tab-groups-community/
[3] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/vertical-tabs-and-the-fi...
Does librewolf do anything that you can't do via user.js?
I left because they kept stripping features out that I was used to whether it was my RSS toolbar feeds or something else. I forgot which feature removal was the final straw, or if it was a bug or two that irked me. While I was never a Chrome user, I found Edge was an alternative that I was happy with. I also see a lot of benefit to native browsers. Ironically, that I learned about from Mozilla's own devblogs.
Supporting V2 like this is the exact opposite of what drove me away. I'm cruising so happily on Edge that I'm unsure if I'm willing to do another shift, but I am going to reconsider my life choices.
Or maybe I am wrong about the facts? I never used Edge.
Truthfully, it is good for somebody. For example, it is good for Google.
By extension, it is also good for Mozilla because Mozilla sends FF user data, e.g., default search query data, to Google in exchange for money.
If Google's search business declines due to loss of monopoly (aka competition) and as a result Google decides to stop funding Mozilla, then that's bad for somebody.
Perhaps the reader can figure out who that somebody might be.
re: "nowhere near as evil"
Why would I want to use the lesser of two evils when I can generally avoid popular modern browsers altogether. Zero evil.
Not that it matters, but I am using a 935-character Bourne shell script
No Bash, no cURL
WWW users are free to choose whatever software they like
What browser are you using?
I will say mobile is a bit different. I prefer mobile browser to apps when possible so I can have ad-blocking, but some websites run like complete garbage on mobile browser. They're so slow it's almost unusable. I'm almost 100% certain that's not on the browser itself though.
I wish there were something that could thwart the “Chromium by default” assumption at large amongst devs, because it’s making the web worse than it needs to be.
I noticed this exact thing. While a lot of sites worked perfectly fine when I was informing them I was using Firefox, when I started lying, they ran faster. Drove me nuts.
Frontend Devs: If your code reads the user-agent string for any reason but logging/spying, you're doing it wrong.
If you do it the right way, if/when another browser implements the feature you used, suddenly you support that browser, with no code changes. If you check UAs, then you need to keep tabs on browser updates and manually update your website when features get added to browsers, and you need to check what version people are using because maybe it's out of date, it's a whole thing.
What drives me nuts is that the right way is the easy way.
On the flip side... if you're running something bespoke relying on an older JS engine, it's becoming harder to find pure polyfills/shims that aren't a tangled mess relying on DOM specific features.
While there are some newer features I don't mind seeing early, I've mostly just avoided touching some of the more recent features for now, only to avoid the mess that are the current state of fills.
I don't think that is possible. It used to be that lazy devs assumed people were on IE, these days lazy devs assume people are on Chrome. In the future if there is a new browser with a majority of the market, lazy devs will assume people use that browser. The problem isn't any one browser, it's that some people are lazy and seek out shortcuts rather than doing things the correct way.
and invariable it's under a google domain
I don't think this is an issue anymore, but it shows that a few things have completely performance in different browsers.
There is some really bloated crap out there, and you can create every bit as much bloat on the server as in the client.
Pleasantly it also has working adblock and using it helps prevent browser monoculture. So that’s nice too.