Awesome! Thanks.

Losing snap is an upgrade.

Yeah, did that already on my office computer, still gotta do that at home. However, just to ensure they'd screw over the users, they made sure that upon installing Firefox, snap would be installed again unless i sacrifice a goat.

I so wish Ubuntu would just fuck off with snap, its awful

ah, then yeah I just have "restore previous tabs" selected and restart the app, no biggie

But also for normal users it's annoying as if you're in the middle of something like filling out a form, clicking onto the next page will tell you you need to restart your browser, and you lose your progress. So yeah, I'm happy about this change.

I do this, but now I have 10k+ bookmarks, fairly organized, but the bookmark manager is trash. It is slow and getting slower. Also, searching history feels like '90's web search: hopeless if you don't remember exact keywords.

call me out why don't ya?

FF in my experience respects settings too. MS straight up ignores or resets them silently, and Google goes full dark patterns and/or creates new settings to nickel and dime you on data

Facebook no experience, dumped that shit in like 09

You probably missed the news. But Firefox is becoming a data seller too.

Recently they updated their policies, since they are on GitHub you can see the exact changes.

One of them was the elimination of a phrase like "we won't sell your data, and that's a promise". So promise broken I guess.

They do, but just like anything dealing with security or privacy, there are degrees of inconvenience and "breaking" that are not suited for every situation.

Firefox is a good default, but if you want more privacy, LibreWolf is an option. LibreWolf configures more settings by default to protect your privacy— but these come at a cost. The cost being that more websites are likely to break and/or need "fixing". Look at the list of features that LibreWolf may break here [0]. This is not a browser for your general family or someone who just wants things to "work".

Interestingly, LibreWolf disable Google Safe Browsing, which they actually recommend you enable as Firefox has implemented it in a privacy preserving way. The devs disable it by default in LibrewWolf for a semi-technical reason [1]. Without Google Safe Browsing you will not get warned about dangerous sites known for phishing, malware, or unwanted software. Technically inclined people may not want this, but I would never disable this feature for friends/family as that would put them at risk.

Lastly, if your friends/family ran into website that doesn't work, they will not be troubleshooting the problem or trying to find a workaround. They will uninstall the browser and go running back to Chrome- this is the fine line that Firefox needs to navigate to ensure they protect user privacy, but don't inconvenience those who don't have the technical chops or patience.

[0] https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/#what-are-the-most-common-downsides-of-rfp-resist-fingerprinting

[1] https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/#why-do-you-disable-google-safe-browsing