Why you SHOULD be using Firefox

[loftie]

Can finally select a VPN location, so Imgur works for me. Hopefully they'll roll out the ability to turn on the VPN for certain website, instead of what we have now where we can turn it off for specific sites.

 

[Mesai]

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 its peaks and troughs in my opinion.

I can see that; the CEO is definitely the type to push profit over user experience but I do think it’s been a healthy shake up. I’m fine if they’re making money but the core principles remain.

My main goal is to de-Microsoft and I’ve hopped on the Proton Unlimited plan to help with that too.

 

[Purgatory]

Google publishes exploit code threatening millions of Chromium users

Google publishes exploit code before patch, reported 29 months earlier, is fixed.

arstechnica.com

Again proving why firefox is the safer browser. Google....

 

[Mesai]

Google publishes exploit code threatening millions of Chromium users

Google publishes exploit code before patch, reported 29 months earlier, is fixed.

arstechnica.com

Again proving why firefox is the safer browser. Google....

Watching Google IO was enough to reenforce my decision to leave their ecosystem.

 

[loftie]

I've found more recently that FF seems to be downloading updates in the background, which is fine, but then I'll open a new tab and I'll be unable to do anything, except use existing tabs, because I need to restart FF. Which is thoroughly annoying because it needs to shut all windows. I don't recall FF doing this before, IIRC it used to download the update and then apply it when you closed all windows, which would be my preferred way it handled updates.

 

[TheSwede]

I've found more recently that FF seems to be downloading updates in the background, which is fine, but then I'll open a new tab and I'll be unable to do anything, except use existing tabs, because I need to restart FF. Which is thoroughly annoying because it needs to shut all windows. I don't recall FF doing this before, IIRC it used to download the update and then apply it when you closed all windows, which would be my preferred way it handled updates.

Your Firefox settings don't happen to be set to Automatically install updates, is it ? There is a box under it which makes it just download them but not installing them when firefox is running. I have the option below ticked, Check for updates but let you choose to install them. Then it downloads them when I clock to download, but they don't get installed until I restart the browser, which normally is the day after when I booting the PC back on.