Why you SHOULD be using Firefox

Something will have been wrong with your profile in FF then as it's never been slow or incompatible generally speaking on Amazon. Amazon is one of the biggest sites online, being that way for most on FF would have been huge news.
 
Unless something like a recent thread where bundled motherboard control centre software can affect internet connectivity adversely like cFosSpeed, Dragon Network, etc.
 
I moved back to Firefox after a brief fling with Floorp and Zen. Zen was just too restrictive for customisation. I'll probably check Floorp out again when they release 12.
 
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Mozilla Announce Leadership Changes, Plans to 'Diversify' - OMG! Ubuntu

Mozilla Corporation's president, Mark Surman, today announced plans to tackle what he says are 'major headwinds' facing the company's ability to grow,
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Mozilla Corporation’s president, Mark Surman, today announced plans to tackle what he says are ‘major headwinds’ facing the company’s ability to grow, make money, and remain relevant.

“Mozilla’s impact and survival depend on us simultaneously strengthening Firefox AND finding new sources of revenue AND manifesting our mission in fresh ways,” says Surman.

To do this, Mozilla plans—no groaning—to ‘diversify’ its efforts.

How? It will continue to invest in privacy-respecting advertising; fund, develop and push open-source AI features1 in order to retain ‘product relevance’; and will go all-out on novel new fundraising initiatives to er, get us all to chip in and pay for it!
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Sigh! , more crap we don't need.
 
What web browsers do they use across EU/European government organisations? Seems like an easy win to go all in with support for Firefox or even Vivaldi for a homegrown Blink browser.

I'm a committed Firefox user across all my devices, have been for more than a decade now but I may look at Vivaldi as an EU based alternative. I've recently started using Quant for search, Filen for cloud storage, used GMX for email for ages, HERE for maps. I use Linux on my home laptop - not my gaming PC yet as too much doesn't support it still but it's getting there. Forced to use Edge at work unfortunately, but it's miles better than Chrome once you disable all the annoying MS-tripe.

We just need more of these companies to switch away from Azure/AWS on the backend as well - I'm sure their stacks are full of US stuff still but small steps.
 
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Firefox recently made a change to their tracker system, that could potentially cause issues on sites, I prefer to turn it off, I dont mean the dont track me tick box replacement but the actual tracking protection, I suggest turning it off and using ublock origin instead.
 
The last few versions of FF haven't been good releases.

They had a confirmed bug (which they said they fixed) where on some sites the browser would freeze for a few secs then unfreeze.

With the recent release I've seen it still happening and they said they fixed it...

It is probably this bug.

But it is still present for me in the latest version.
 
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Amazon? Firefox has always worked on Amazon.
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Always worked for me until last night when it tried to autoplay something after Reacher S3 and it said my browser didn't support high-def content streaming!

Still stick firefox on all my pcs I build though. Combined with ublock it's been great for years!
 
Could be a random Amazon issue then as I just played some stuff and everything was all good
 
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Mozilla is Introducing 'Terms of Use' to Firefox

Hot off the back of its recent leadership rejig, Mozilla has announced users of Firefox will soon be subject to a 'Terms of Use' policy — a first for the
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Mozilla is Introducing ‘Terms of Use’ to Firefox
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You give Mozilla all rights necessary to operate Firefox, including processing data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice, as well as acting on your behalf to help you navigate the internet.

When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.

Excerpt from Firefox’s new ‘Terms of Use’
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That was a WTF! moment until i read further down.

An, as ever, the upshot is that despite the new policies, and despite the default configuration favouring Mozilla, the browser provides plenty of opt-out settings so users can control what happens to their data, how they want.
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I saw many people giving recommendations for Librewolf, so gave it an install. Had been having very strange stutters in video playback with normal Firefox. Thought my Windows install was goosed, but with Librewolf it's back to how it should be.

Uninstalled Firefox after saving the bookmarks. The browser-space just seems like an absolute mess just now.
 
I guess I'm going back to Chromium or Safari after this announcement from Mozilla:

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Information about the New Terms of Use and Updated Privacy Notice for Firefox

For the first time, we’re introducing a Terms of Use for Firefox, alongside an updated Privacy Notice. Earlier today, we published a blog post explaining why we’re making this change and what it means for you. Now, we want to hear from you. We’re committed to engaging with our community and...
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and a clarification:

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An Update on our Terms of Use

On Wednesday we shared that we’re introducing a new Terms of Use (TOU) and Privacy Notice for Firefox. Since then, we’ve been listening to some of our community’s concerns with parts of the TOU, specifically about licensing. Our intent was just to be as clear as possible about how we make...
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Cromulent said:
I guess I'm going back to Chromium or Safari after this announcement from Mozilla:

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Information about the New Terms of Use and Updated Privacy Notice for Firefox

For the first time, we’re introducing a Terms of Use for Firefox, alongside an updated Privacy Notice. Earlier today, we published a blog post explaining why we’re making this change and what it means for you. Now, we want to hear from you. We’re committed to engaging with our community and...
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and a clarification:

connect.mozilla.org

An Update on our Terms of Use

On Wednesday we shared that we’re introducing a new Terms of Use (TOU) and Privacy Notice for Firefox. Since then, we’ve been listening to some of our community’s concerns with parts of the TOU, specifically about licensing. Our intent was just to be as clear as possible about how we make...
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Is this not just a storm in a tea cup?

Have they actually changed behind the scenes their processes such that a change in the privacy policy seems suspicious?

It could just be some law somewhere has necessitated the need to update the privacy policy and the use of our data has not actually changed.
 
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