Remember people: Most alternative browsers are chormium under the hood! Not Firefox though :)
this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2023
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Differences please?
Building a browser is hard, and it's even harder when one of the maker of the most popular browser also operates several of the most popular websites. So most other browsers (Edge, Brave, Opera, and many more) are Chromium under the hood. This means that they often implement Google's preferred web functionality as opposed to the actual standard. If Google wants some feature going into the browser, most Chromium derivatives will follow their lead. Even though Brave has rejected many of Google's moves, I'd argue it still isn't enough since they still give Google some control over web standards.
The Internet needs to be impartial and fair in its design, this means it shouldn't be influenced by any one interest in particular. Google's indirect influence over nearly the whole browser market goes against the principle of an open web. The only way to fight effectively this is to use an independent browser, like Firefox.
While the incoming end of support for manifest v2 is definitely a reason to switch, Google Web Integrity project is way much more concerning.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web/
Oh, damn!
Not regretting my leap from Reddit to Lemmy at start of July. Firefox is my homeboy, been using it for decades.
I just swapped everything over, it feels. Lemmy for Reddit. Mastodon for Twitter. Firefox for Chrome.
I have to say, it makes me feel better after having switched. Even if it’s a very small piece of control, it’s mine. :)
How 'bout swapping Linux for Windows?
Great to hear!
Switched over to firefox a couple of days ago. The switch was actually very easy because I self-host as much as possible including bookmarks and passwords. Hardest part was finding a new speed dial extension that I liked.
Yep, just made the switch yesterday
Great!
As soon as they made the news about this I jumped ship. Switched to Firefox on everything, and FF on my phone has been better than expected. Having mobile extensions is phenomenal, especially since I like to listen to YouTube videos while at work, and can keep my phone locked or be in another app while it plays in the background now without paying for premium.
Oh and uBlock my beloved on mobile 🧡
Not sure if you saw, but Mozilla announced desktop extensions coming to mobile soon too.
Awesome!
We need to go back to NCSA Mosaic.
Meanwhile at Google... Problem: People are flocking away from Chrome Solution: Implement webpage DRM
They keep doing it again and again.
Know they want to implement browser id checks.
https://vivaldi.com/blog/googles-new-dangerous-web-environment-integrity-spec/
Hi, I'm one of them! See you in January 2024
I use Pulse btw.
Pulse
Cool, didn't know about it!
An experimental Firefox fork that enhances focus and increases work productivity due to its hyper minimalistic UI and built-in tools.