So now that Ublock is dead, what do?

[jaybee]

It's always hard looking back and remembering timelines accurately but in the early days of Chrome coming on the scene, it did deliver significant improvements over Firefox of the time - the UI was much slicker and wasted significantly less screen space, it ran and loaded pages measurably faster (it would open twice as fast and load pages twice as fast), RAM management was better in Chrome, it was (afaik) first of the two to split tabs into separate processes, in the late 2000s and early 2010s Firefox was often more prone to breaking extensions during updates, Chrome updated more frequently and more routinely delivering security improvements, etc. etc.

Firefox has absolutely caught back up but there was definitely a period around 2010-2012 where they really fell behind quite significantly, Chrome gathered momentum and Firefox was never really able to reverse that shift in momentum.

Yeah it was the speed that sold it. Even the download and install process was part of the whole gig being super fast and easy. A few clicks.

 

[mattyfez]

I've got no skin in this game... Use chrome if you want, just don't complain about it when there are better alternatives.

 

[Diddums]

I've started Firefoxing. I'm amazed at how easily it just imports everything from Chrome.

I'm also amazed that part of the import process is downloading my passwords from Chrome, which just download in a plaintext excel file.

Makes importing easy I guess. Shredded it pronto obvs, don't want the russians getting hold of my Onlyfans passwords.

 

[Minusorange]

Go into about:addons and make sure you get a cool theme to take browsing from 10 to 11

 

[mrk]

As a Netscape user from the OG days, it is criminal to not be using Firefox IMO.

 

[Blackjack Davy]

Meh. Just the fact that Chrome is willing to do that, forcefully disable extensions it doesn't like, is a massive red flag for potentially worse shenanigans in the future. Switching to Firefox is the way to go if you want to keep your customisation IMO

YouTube has a been actively fighting adblockers for a long time now not sure why people are surprised its parent google wouldn't do the same with Chrome. They dropped their "don't be evil" motto a long time ago...

 

[Nigel Kingdon]

No one using DuckDuckGo?

Switched due to too many 'legitimate' leaks, even tho' I always disagree to any ads (with one exception). It's not often I add a new long term site, so it's obvious who the leakers are.

Have they outlawed cold calling on mobiles yet?

 

[mattyfez]

No one using DuckDuckGo?

Switched due to too many 'legitimate' leaks, even tho' I always disagree to any ads (with one exception). It's not often I add a new long term site, so it's obvious who the leakers are.

Have they outlawed cold calling on mobiles yet?

I use it as default search engine on mobile (opera browser).
And despite the shitification of Google search results with AI slop and sponsored links, duck duck search results can be lacking sometimes so I switch between the two.

I don't use chrome browser through.. It's like a 'Tomy my first web browser' aimed at 5 year olds lol

 

[Nigel Kingdon]

Yeah, that's the only deficiency I've found (particularly maps, but they usually get google link), but then Bing is worse.

 

[mattyfez]

Yeah, that's the only deficiency I've found (particularly maps, but they usually get google link), but then Bing is worse.

Google make google maps slower to load on non-chrome browsers, probably other google services too. it's not a browser issue.

 

[V_R]

As a Netscape user from the OG days, it is criminal to not be using Firefox IMO.

How did you get more than 4 rows?

 

[Sho]

Firefox all the way. Been using Firefox since day one pretty much. Yes there was a period where it did lack a little.
But looking back glad I didn’t jump ship.

 

[Firestar_3x]

Been trying Firefox but can't get on with it, moved back to Chrome and got PiHole running on two Pi5's.

 

[grudas]

Firefox. Took a bit of getting used to but I did that move when they initially announced it. Has been fine.

 

[deviation]

don't want the russians getting hold of my Onlyfans passwords.

When are you going to put new content up? I'm tempted to cancel my subscription, otherwise.

 

[Diddums]

When are you going to put new content up? I'm tempted to cancel my subscription, otherwise.

Did a scene with your mum last night, it'll be up tomoz hun xxx

 

[Throrik]

Been Firefox for so long now. Prior to that I dabbled with Opera when it was a paid for project and had Presto and tabs before anyone. Gutted when they moved. Big fan of Qutebrowser too, but quite niche.

Wouldn't touch Brave with a bargepole after all their cryto-scumbaggery, link-hijacking and being run by one of the biggest scumbags around. Always surprised me that people advocating for privacy jump on it when it pushed out separate VPN applicaiton/capabilities without even asking like it's the 90s and you're getting Ask Jeeves toolbar in IE. No thanks.

 

[deviation]

Did a scene with your mum last night, it'll be up tomoz hun xxx

She did say you were into pegging

 

[T1Cybernetic]

I’ve been using Chrome for a long time now, mainly because it is so well integrated with my mobile, PC, and tablet. However, I used to be a Firefox user, but with all the recent changes and issues related to ad blocking, I’ve decided to give Firefox another shot. It has always been a great browser in the past, and it’s been quite a while since I installed and used it extensively.

Add-ons and extensions have always worked well on Firefox and Chrome, so fingers crossed, they won't cause me any trouble.

 

[rypt]

I was an early adopter of Chrome ... I think it's time to go back to Firefox or look for other alternatives