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[+] -52 points 1 year ago* (25 children)

The only problem is it isn't based on Chromium tho. That just doesn't suffice anymore.

I was an avid Firefox user for years and librewolf user for a year after that, but unfortunately, FF hasn't been able to keep up in terms of web standards.

More and more I kept having pages just not work. I ended up having to install a backup Chromium-based browser bc critical websites like my banking and loan sites only worked on Chromium-based browsers. Eventually, I caved. If I had to have a second,Chromium-based browser anyway, I might as well just use that for everything.

I wanted to not use Chromium, but FF has lost the war. Chromium runs the show now. No more fighting back. Google owns the internet.

So now I'm on Brave, and honestly it's way better than Librewolf these days. I would recommend any librewolf user switch over to that.

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  • [+] 40 points 1 year ago (6 children)
  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    I do the same. Some websites will not work claiming Firefox is not supported, but do some user agent spoofing and suddenly it works just fine. Just goes to show it is not actually the web engine that's the problem.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    What does Brave have to do with palantir? Have i missed something?

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Interesting, I use FF for everything, on android, Linux & windows, no problems.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's weird how i still haven't run into any of those sites after years of using firefox. For me it not being chromium is a positive, especially with this recent adblock nonsense that google is pulling.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This is all kinds of wrong. Fuck Brave and fuck Chromium.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Well it really depends on your use case because as a daily driver I never see any buggy page. Not even the enhanced protection thing is blocking pages

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  • Yeah it was good for a while. But now a few important websites for me just don't work anymore, like a page for paying my loan. It only worked in chromium browsers. I know that chromium will work everywhere because they're the first to implement the newest standards and are the most supported by developers due to it having a huge market share. I can't rely on knowing firefox will work anymore. I've lost faith in it as a product.

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  • [+] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago*

    Yes they are. They are agreed upon standards set for future development from a host of different companies. Chrome is just always the first to implement them. It's not that firefox will never have them, they just develop slow.

    And I won't switch from brave bc it's the one browser that just works and has good adblock

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Why would you choose the crypto bro ad company browser out of all the chrome spinoffs?

    Why not use any of the others?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago*

    One of the few chromies that has adblock still as well as decent privacy-by-default settings. I just disable the AI stuff. It doesn't have crypto stuff anymore (at least not in your face; I'm sure you can still re-enable it). It's the best chromium browser by far.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I believed the same things... in around 2014. By internet standards, that's an absolutely ancient perspective, and absolutely untrue these days. My main browser is Floorp, a Firefox fork, and I've found a total of one website that actually doesn't work, which was just a huge directory listing.

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