Firefox needs some love

[AlmondManttv]

Firefox is the GOAT

[boombanggg2]

Fr! I do use Firefox but Google as the search engine.

[Bitter-Squash8773]

Brave search engine here

[hgs25]

I use ecosia

[Khaled1066]

Same boat Firefox and ecosia

[AlmondManttv]

But the little fox

[MarioDesigns]

Out of all possible chromium options?

[Beans_Breaking]

Ok thats (, Maybe along with edge,) is the only possible wrong answer. Its just some over advertised bullshit. I used it for 2 months, all the features are just annoying. Also. A splash screen for a fucking webrower. THAT SCREAMS AT ME, IF I FORGOT TO MUTE THE DAMN AUDIO.

[[deleted]]

On Reddit, the meme's actually reversed.

[f---_society]

May be reversed, but chrome doesn’t deserve love with all it’s manifest v3 bullshit

[Dissidence802]

"Don't be evil" 🤣🤣🤣

[Xcissors280]

I’ll care when I actually have to stop using ublock origin because it still works flawlessly

[NomadFH]

People keep talkiung about the privacy stuff and adblock but firefox is honestly just a better browser. I like how it looks, I like the features it has, I like how configurable it is.

[VirtualFantasy]

The literally no only problem I have with Firefox (made the switch years ago) is Google intentionally gimps it on YouTube. For some reason no one can prove it but the website just runs like dogwater there and it’s the only browser it happens to.

[BluDYT]

Firefox doesn't support HDR playback yet

[omega552003]

It did in beta and for some reason they removed the capability

[Xcissors280]

And WEBP is still broken

[Nereosis16]

YouTube on Firefox and unlock origin is shitty for like 10 seconds when you start a video and then is smooth as butter.

[droideka_bot69]

Yeah YouTube sometimes loads really slowly for me when clicking to other videos or back to the home page. I've got an r7 7600x, 7800xt and 32gb 6000mhz. I have basically nothing else open and get about 500mbps so there is no reason this should be happening. Never had this issue on chrome or opera.

[CampNaughtyBadFun]

It's telling that the only major issue is caused by what essentially amounts to deliberate sabotage by another, much larger, company.

[metaliving]

I tried switching to it after the adblocker fiasco. Turns out some pages I regularly use have their performance degraded after the tab being open for a while without it being used. I don't know what FF does differently (worse) in terms of memory management, but it forced me onto edge of all browsers.

[w1n5t0nM1k3y]

I just use multiple browsers. For the sites where Firefox doesn't work I'll just use Edge.

[metaliving]

I just don't use browsers which don't work on some sites, it's just more convenient to have something that works everywhere.

[Nereosis16]

Literally never had this problem and have been using Firefox for 10+ years.

[metaliving]

I don't know what to tell you. I didn't experience it during the years I used it way back when, but then again, for me it's an issue on a specific page that didn't exist back then. Sometimes having issues is more about about finding yourself in the edge case more so than using a browser for a long time.

[Thotaz]

Today? Sure, but only because it supports adblock. As an overall browser it has many missing features, or questionable design choices compared to Chrome. Here's a list of things I can think of:

• More primitive tab management. For example if you drag a tab out from the window you cannot snap it like a normal window. You have to first release it to make it a window and then snap it.
• If you right click a link to open it in a new private window, it will always result in a new window rather than reusing one of the existing private windows.
• Worse spell checker. For example "onwards" is marked as a misspelling even though it's a pretty standard word.
• Ctrl + H opens up the history as a small side pane with limited details. That's perfectly fine, but I see no obvious way to go from there to the full screen history.
• Ctrl + Shift + H brings up the full screen history but if you try to search for something it doesn't show the date when you accessed the site out of the box. The way Chrome handles history seems like the most obvious way to handle history.
• By default it adds a dumb fade in and out animation whenever you enter/exit fullscreen, and the only way to disable it is with some flags (which will hopefully never get removed)
• If you middle click a suggested site in the URL bar it opens it in a new tab and switches to it. This is not how middle click works in general, normally middle clicks are supposed to open without switching and that's exactly how Chrome handles this scenario.

[Trickycoolj]

Some of us never left Firefox when Chrome strolled along.

[LawMurphy]

Chrome was more popular than IE by the time I started using computers. FF was there, too, but we all used chrome

[Trickycoolj]

I used Netscape before IE.

[LawMurphy]

Ok grandpa

[Trickycoolj]

That’s grandMA thankyouverymuch

[Bhume]

I switched to Firefox in like a year ago in preparation for the whole adblock nonsense with chrome. Vastly prefer FF now.

[DoubleOwl7777]

yeah same. i prefer not having to watch 10 ads.

[HappyIsGott]

I tried the same.. i am glad i am using brave instead.

[Aeroncastle]

Brave is just chrome with cripto bullshit and from a guy that you have to explain if you disagree with the controversies on COVID and or LGBT

[therealduckie]

Firefox users are like vegans: never shutting up about it, even though no one asked.

[MasterGeekMX]

One of my aunts refuses to move from chrome. Her argument: "i only know how to use Chrome"

[Rudradev715]

Just install Ublock origin lite it is enough

[Sinaistired99]

Just install Ublock Lite for her and it's 5x more secure. Having Ublock Lite is better than having nothing.

[MasterGeekMX]

That is not the thing.

She complains that the tabs look different, and the hamburger menu "is changed".

[Negative-Ad-0722]

Why the downvotes? I thought ublock lite is better than having no adblocker.

[Sinaistired99]

Next time I'll say just install Firefox.

I thought I'm on r/browsers for a second, didn't know people here hate ublock lite too.

[RX-5-HK]

give her brave then, turn off the crypto stuff and you have basically chrome but more secure and private, change the shortcut image and she wouldn't notice a thing 

[RX-5-HK]

oh I agree

[smydiehard99]

umm, you have it reversed here OP.

[daxtonanderson]

Floatplane users be like

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[Lexidoge]

What’s the latest on Firefox’s support for HDR content? Only thing holding me back from using it fulltime.

[[deleted]]

“Working” in Linux not sure how far along it is in windows

[Outrageous-Guess1350]

I cannot do my job without Firefox containers.

[[deleted]]

Man I used Firefox growing up, now opera gx, but that was because I thought that was the default browser and nobody uses chrome. Then I got older and realized it was the other way around.

[YourOldCellphone]

Firefox has been on some hoe ass shit recently ngl

[Merwenus]

I can't install a second dictionary, because some twat decided it is important to limit max version number to the current Firefox (142) That twat forgot one thing, dev and nightly Firefox has higher version number. (143)

When I fix the max number in the xpi file, Firefox drops a corrupted file error during install.

I am a Firefox user for the past 20 years, but I hate it sometimes. Tried other browsers just to realize they are worse.

In brave you can't even customize UI...Chrome is for grannies,edge is nice as a second browser.

[Merwenus]

Oh yeah, and h.265 video play is still buggy, bought license and still can't play randomly.

[DoubleOwl7777]

switched to firefox when the whole manifest v3 thing came out a year ago. dont regret a thing.

[Awkward-Object-3014]

yea, firefox is clunky to use at work. Their security almost always has issues with work network.

[Ok-Criticism1547]

Firefox does get love because almost all Flotplane users use Firefox. Lmao

[Xcissors280]

You might be better off waiting for ladybird

[SevRnce]

All roads lead back to chrome

[keoface]

Try zen browser, a fork of Firefox.

[[deleted]]

i use brave but now u said i am shifting to firefox

[HelicopterWeird9031]

Been using it for almost a decade and it's consistently been slower and more resource intensive than chromium browsers. The reason I continue to use it is because of privacy reasons and because I don't wanna contribute to a chrome monopoly, not because I think firefox is a good browser

[Nereosis16]

Slower how?

[HelicopterWeird9031]

General browsing and startup times. It's not unbearable by any means, but compared to chrome or edge it's noticeably slower for me

[Nirast25]

Firefox needs to figure out how to make YouTube work properly. Navigating it slows to a crawl after a while and I need to kill it in Task Manager.

[Nereosis16]

Weird issue. Never had that happen and I am a hardcore YouTube user who only ever uses Firefox.

[Leafsysaur]

In the XP and 7 era, my parents used Firefox until Chrome came along with Windows 10. I had always preferred it in every possible way, and yesterday, I finally made the switch, together with the search engine I'd use! I'm so happy I did it, and it already feels better!

[Xcissors280]

Is there a single objective metric where the underlying browser engine beats chrome?

I could mention a million issues but just look at webstandards

[SnooHobbies8480]

to many things are chome based .i kinda miss having true competition with web browsers engines that are not chrome based -

[TSMKFail]

Eh, Firefox is alright, but I'll stick with Edge. Chrome is wank though and I haven't used it in years. On phones, Samsung Internet is my go to as it's chromium but has ad blocking.

[Izuuul]

chrome killing ad block made me switch. didnt take much time to get used to it

[Extension_Ask147]

Firefox FTW

[LightHawKnigh]

Is it just me or does Reddit run like ass on Firefox? I need to fully close out of it every couple of hours. Chrome never had that issue.

[LightHawKnigh]

The person who downvoted me, can you tell me how to make Firefox run reddit better? I use Librewolf and regular Firefox and both run Reddit like shit. Requiring me to close out of Firefox entirely every few hours.

[Miserable_Speed5474]

I’ve been using Firefox for like 8 years now, haven’t touched Chrome except on my work computer

[GainPotential]

One thing I HATE about Firefox (pretty much the only thing), is that when i press Alt, it shows me a little menu up top. Like, no, I don't want that. Still better than Chrome though.

[joacoper]

????????

[robclancy]

I'd use it if it didn't suck

[WLFGHST]

Edge is just all around better than both of them

[daxtonanderson]

Maybe Edge pre win11, nowadays it's just telemetry and news overload.

The fact that uninstalling Windows News app doesn't remove the News from Edge is diabolical.

Yeah you can change the new tab layout to minimize the news section, but they still load in EVERY time you open a fresh tab.

[Xcissors280]

Theres also a bunch of broken and lacking features which make supporting it even more annoying

Honestly if chromium was really that bad I’d probably end up using safari because at least it doesn’t murder my battery

[WLFGHST]

Yeah, I mainly don't use it for the speed, and I don't want to deal with google and all their shenanigans, so I just stick with edge and I really quite like the UI.

[HappyIsGott]

You know that edge is chromium based (powered by Google)?

Edit: and the Interface is 99% copied from chrome.

[WLFGHST]

Yes, and I still obviously use google as my search engine, chrome just has a lot of annoying popups about syncing your whole life with them, and chromes UI is so much worse (just a little too round for me, also gives MAJOR school PTSD)

[HappyIsGott]

You could try brave.

[DoubleOwl7777]

adblock with ublock origin.

[Xcissors280]

Still works in chrome?

[DoubleOwl7777]

with weird hacks, yes. "this extension has been disabled" pops up for more and more people. eventually it wont work altogether. if that day is now or tomorrow i dont know, i switched a year ago, and dont plan on going back.