Why you SHOULD be using Firefox

Orcvader said:
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Firefox Has Quietly Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

Mozilla shipped it in Firefox 149 without a mention in the release notes.
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Still a work in progress but seeing it accepts uBo syntax rules is already a good positive. If they allow custom rules/filters in future and add in the element picker from uBo then I'll be willing to try it.
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Gave it a quick go knowing its a hidden feature so early days yet and found it broke the captcha screen I get when using the VPN to sign in to Facebook so I undid the changes for now and will wait to see how it matures.
 
Tonight I have found two more things that don't work in Firefox but are fine in Edge.

I was looking at a Reddit thread and noticed some of the text was overlapping.

Displayed correctly in edge.

I just tried uploading some images to copilot for it to summarise for me and it failed to upload in FF.

Works fine in Edge.

Try uploading images to copilot and see if it works...
 
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I was able to upload an image to Copilot. Perhaps something like uBlock Origin is blocking it, or one of uBo's rules, although I was able to upload the image with that enabled, as well as Firefox's Enhanced Tracking Protection being left on.
 
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darael said:
I was able to upload an image to Copilot. Perhaps something like uBlock Origin is blocking it, or one of uBo's rules, although I was able to upload the image with that enabled, as well as Firefox's Enhanced Tracking Protection being left on.
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Ok well that's strange. I don't run any add-ons so mine is basically vanilla FF.
 
I don't see any overlapping text on Reddit either. Not using any Reddit related extensions so it's also the vanilla experience, apart from uBo removing ads.
 
This is the page I was looking at with the issue.

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Ok so on a refresh of the page it is actually rendering OK now.
 
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I use Chrome and Firefox depending which sites I'm looking at, but I'm noticing a lot more sites sports / news mostly now force you to turn off ad blockers before you can see the content, so it's starting to matter less to me now.

It's also problematic if ad-blockers come baked into the browser, it's scummy but more and more sites are doing it now.
 
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ebilcake said:
I use Chrome and Firefox depending which sites I'm looking at, but I'm noticing a lot more sites sports / news mostly now force you to turn off ad blockers before you can see the content, so it's starting to matter less to me now.

It's also problematic if ad-blockers come baked into the browser, it's scummy but more and more sites are doing it now.
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Usually reporting the issue to the uBlock origin team gets it solved quickly, at least for the original uBo add-on. uBo lite I found to be more hit and miss, probably due using much more limited APIs from mv3.
 
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Firefox 151 brings New Tab design changes, PDF merging + more

The new tab page has a (ever-so-slightly) new look and a new name in Firefox 151, the newest version of Mozilla's famous open-source web browser that
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Firefox 151 Now Available With Document Picture-in-Picture API - Phoronix

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Firefox 151 release binaries are now available.
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Says it should be released today and start to rollout via auto updates, maybe its too early in the day but its still showing as a beta on the site for me and 150.0.3 is still listed as the latest version.

I will wait until auto update grabs it and will see if its any better currently the free VPN keeps breaking and I've been seeing it use 1GB of ram with just a single Facebook tab open.
 
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ebilcake said:
I use Chrome and Firefox depending which sites I'm looking at, but I'm noticing a lot more sites sports / news mostly now force you to turn off ad blockers before you can see the content, so it's starting to matter less to me now.

It's also problematic if ad-blockers come baked into the browser, it's scummy but more and more sites are doing it now.
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Yes a lot of them are also forcing you to accept the tracking cookies and some of the news sites are putting a lot of the articles behind a paywall.

They used to print and deliver local free newspapers paid for by adverts so its hard to see why they need to put things behind paywalls or why they need to track everything you do for an online version which also often have sponsored articles.


Note it only works sometimes but you can try reading mode in Chrome / reader view in Firefox.

In Chrome I've got UBlock lite and STANDS blockers installed and also use Technitium DNS to filter out some of the junk; that said Chromes AI junk recently caused a CPU spike for me and I had to disable it via the chrome://flags options.
 
NetMan said:
Says it should be released today and start to rollout via auto updates, maybe its too early in the day but its still showing as a beta on the site for me and 150.0.3 is still listed as the latest version.

I will wait until auto update grabs it and will see if its any better currently the free VPN keeps breaking and I've been seeing it use 1GB of ram with just a single Facebook tab open.
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Updates synced through for me already - haven't hit the button yet though as I'm being lazy.
 
Been a while since I last used Firefox - every time I tried to switch from Edge it felt buggy but installed it again recently and pleasantly surprised at how much better it's gotten. Already dropped Edge as my main browser.
 
ebilcake said:
I use Chrome and Firefox depending which sites I'm looking at, but I'm noticing a lot more sites sports / news mostly now force you to turn off ad blockers before you can see the content, so it's starting to matter less to me now.

It's also problematic if ad-blockers come baked into the browser, it's scummy but more and more sites are doing it now.
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Do you have any sites where this happens that you can share? Genuinely curious as I want to do some testing my end. Not experienced this yet, via Chrome/Edge/Brave
 
Mesai said:
Been a while since I last used Firefox - every time I tried to switch from Edge it felt buggy but installed it again recently and pleasantly surprised at how much better it's gotten. Already dropped Edge as my main browser.
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I’d be interested to see if you drop Edge for good. Only thing that bothers me with Edge is the occasional popup asking me to use their ‘Recommended search engine Bing’ lol
 
SpartaP said:
I’d be interested to see if you drop Edge for good. Only thing that bothers me with Edge is the occasional popup asking me to use their ‘Recommended search engine Bing’ lol
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I currently only use it for work because it’s easier to have separate browsers but maybe not the most efficient. Edge just feels bloated now compared to when it first released.

Last time I used Firefox, maybe a year or 2 ago, it felt a bit open-source but much more polished now. Wonder whether it’s because of the new CEO/funding
 
Mesai said:
Last time I used Firefox, maybe a year or 2 ago, it felt a bit open-source but much more polished now. Wonder whether it’s because of the new CEO/funding
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Ironically if you ask the various tech-forums 'echo chambers' Firefox has only gotten 'worse' and lots of criticism over CEO/Fundings et al.

I've used it for a long-time and it's never felt bad, it's had it's peaks and troughs in my opinion.
 
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