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Ep1cFac3pa1m ,
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Firefox FTW!

rtxn ,

Yes, but only begrudgingly.

TheTechnician27 ,
@TheTechnician27@lemmy.world avatar

Nah, Firefox is way better.

original_reader ,

I wish this blanket statement were true. Firefox is better in some respects, but surely not all. Tab and session management - just to name two examples - are just handled better by the Chromium crowd, as much as it pains me to say that.

That said, I still use Firefox in most cases.

atocci ,

I just wish Firefox updates weren’t so intrusive. Having it hit me with “Firefox updated in the background, restart to continue using Firefox” while I’m trying to use QuickBooks for my job is so disruptive when QuickBooks doesn’t save automatically and never opens back up to where I left it off. I won’t go back to Chrome, but I never had it pull that sort of forced restart on me.

altima_neo ,
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

You can disable that. I have mine set to notify me when updates are available

atocci ,

Amazing, I’ll give that a shot

pennomi ,

I’m happy that they give an option but goddamn would it kill them to have the safe option as the default for once?

Barbarian ,
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There are lots of people who will never update if asked to update at their leisure. I think it’s far better for user security to have updates be forced by default, with the option to schedule them yourself.

TheTechnician27 ,
@TheTechnician27@lemmy.world avatar

Ah. I guess I don’t notice that since I’m on Linux and just update Firefox whenever I want.

If you go to Hamburger menu > Settings > General > Check for updates but let you choose to install them, you won’t auto update anymore. I agree that would be annoying.

atocci ,

Thanks! I had no idea this setting existed and it will make Firefox so much more practical for me to use.

Ephera ,

From what I understand, Chrome doesn’t need to do this, because when you close it, it keeps running in the background and does its upgrades then, which is also pretty intrusive.

If you’re updating Firefox via the built-in auto-updater, you can tell it in the settings that it should only install updates when you tell it to do so.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble ,

Restart Firefox to let it finish updating. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a screen that says you HAVE to restart right now at this very moment.

atocci ,

When it happens, it doesn’t let me do anything other than stay on the already loaded webpage without restarting.

Open a new tab > “Restart to continue…”
Click a link > “Restart to continue…”
Type a URL > “Restart to continue…”
and etc

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble ,

What OS? I almost never close out of Firefox on my Macs at home and I’ve never seen that message there. FF on Windows seems to be the same. It’s been ages though since I’ve left FF open for months on end on Linux though.

atocci ,

Windows 10

rudyharrelson ,

I’ve had this same experience on Linux Mint. I’ll run apt update & apt upgrade and, occasionally, if Firefox is one of the things being updated, new tabs and new pages won’t load and will tell me I need to do a system restart to continue browsing.

I always update manually, so it never happens without me initiating the update first. But sometimes I’m like, “Dangit, didn’t realize this update would require a restart to keep using Firefox.”

curbstickle ,

Different profiles on Firefox are nowhere near Chrome.

I’m still going to use FF, but there are areas it lags behind Chrome. That’s the only big one for me.

Daxtron2 ,

Naturally, the browser that receives way less funding has less Dev work available.

A_Union_of_Kobolds ,

Same… I know it’s better and worth supporting, I just don’t like using it for some reason.

Empricorn ,

Back in the day, Firefox was literally not as good as Chrome. I personally think that has reversed and it’s now much better than Chrome. Leagues better, now that Chrome is banning UBlock Origin. I do wish we had more competition than just Chrome, Safari, and Firefox though…

casmael ,

Yeah any other alternatives? There’s arc, but I think that’s just chromium underneath (see above, meme)

CosmicTurtle0 ,

I’m an advocate for Firefox, but it is slowly, slowly entering enshittification.

The addition of AI, dark patterns to enable “sponsored bookmarks” upon reinstall, ads (albeit subtle) when using the address bar for search…

All of these can be disabled, some easily, some with feature flags.

Sure the enshittification isn’t anywhere near the pace as Chrome but it’s happening. And again, this is coming from a maybe 10 year financial donor to Mozilla.

Firefox is better than Chrome, no question but there is an opportunity for a new browser to challenge the field.

ours ,

You make good points but some people are knew jerking on Firefox’s AI. One of them is client side translation which is really neat as I don’t need to send the content to some Google ad data vacuum.

Another AI model helps differently abled people to have websites described to them using, again, a local model.

There is also Libtefox which uses the same rendering engine without the other stuff if you don’t want it.

I consider it an important act to use non Chromium browsers as not to completely hand over the power of rendering web content to Google.

EherNicht ,

LibreWolf

Ep1cFac3pa1m ,
@Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world avatar

Is there anything better about LibreWolf that can’t be achieved by altering Firefox settings?

EherNicht ,

It ships preconfigured without invading your privacy (like Firefox does). Just look up a comparison online.

xavier666 ,

Can anyone explain how much control Google has over the Chromium project?

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