Firefox is a great alternative to Google Chrome

Firefox is a great alternative to Google Chrome

  • mox@lemmy.sdf.org
    76·
    10 days ago
    1. Browser diversity weakens Google’s grip on web development, and their position as a gatekeeper of the web.
  • perishthethought@lemm.eeEnglish
    46·
    10 days ago

    I hate to say it but they’re preaching to the choir, as we say. The people who need to switch won’t read this great article.

    • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip
      15·
      10 days ago

      I’m pretty sure the number of Lemmy users who like Chrone is very small. It feels like most people here already use Firefox or some related browser.

  • Boomkop3@reddthat.com
    16·
    10 days ago
    1. It’s literally the only other decent option that is not a fork of the it or it’s one competitor.

    Unfortunately, both are funded by google. Yes, officially it’s just payments to keep the home page in firefox set to Google. But… without that Mozilla would collapse. Google’s got them by the low level components.

  • Boomkop3@reddthat.com
    3·
    10 days ago

    The privacy bit is just as much absent as using chrome. You’d want a fork for either of the two for that.

    • unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de
      12·
      9 days ago

      Sorry but your argument is absolutely false. Even if Firefox is not the most private browser ever, it’s waaaay more private than Chrome. And you can even make it better with a couple of toggles.

      • Boomkop3@reddthat.com
        1·
        9 days ago

        It definitely used to be different. But since the eu’s “cookie laws” as they’re called, google and mozilla worked together on a new approach.

  • Engywuck@lemm.ee
    2·
    10 days ago

    1 reason I wont’ use Firefox or any gecko-based fork and I’ll keep using a Chromium fork, instead: I don’t want to support Mozilla.

    Enough.

    • megopie@beehaw.org
      28·
      10 days ago

      But supporting Google is fine? Because if using any gecko fork is supporting Mozilla, then using any chrome fork is supporting Google.

      How is it different? Or how is Mozilla worse than Google?Or are you using safari or other webkit based browsers?

  • kenjen@sopuli.xyz日本語
    1·
    7 days ago

    This article is crap. There are so many reasons to choose Chrome from a UX perspective. Firefox is only superior to Chrome from an ideological perspective.

  • zephorah@lemm.ee
    1·
    8 days ago

    I guess I just assumed everyone was using Firefox, except the business side of things, but then this isn’t my area. Why wouldn’t you use Firefox at home?

    • kahnclusions@programming.dev
      1·
      8 days ago

      Look at the real statistics. Everyone is using Chrome. Even among developers.

      We are outliers. On Linux devices I use FF derivatives (Floorp, LibreWolf), and on macOS I’m using Orion RC.