Oh Firefox, I still haven't moved on from that "study" which was just a ad for a TV show. I disable studies on every machine I touch now.

I laughed at Opera. Most of these are spot on.

To be fair, Chrome is actually pretty good at some things. I noticed when building an infinite feed of Lemmy posts, Chrome required zero optimization to render hundreds of posts at once. Safari was a different story. I had to rebuild my feed of posts with some pretty complex list virtualization to get Safari to be performant.

I wish I remembered what Firefox was like at the time, but I don’t. Possible it’s also very performant. But as a developer, Chrome is way more enjoyable to build for.

This is NOT an endorsement for Chrome. I absolutely hate Google. Just wanted to provide my perspective as a developer. And maybe that also explains the high ram usage of Chrome since there’s some ✨magic✨ optimization happening that Safari lacks.

Plus the features they do focus on are stupid.

Without the browser engine, Firefox is dead.

Personal unpopular opinion: Firefox will die the day the first alpha of LadyBird is released. Every real geek will switch to the most unstable version of that new thing because Mozilla has been pissing us for a long time with their CEO bonuses.

So long and thanks for all the fish as they will all say.

Stoy for CEO!

Why don't you try messaging Mozilla with this on their forums? It's not like anyone here is a director for developing the browser and can read what you're saying to implement.

Mozilla: message received, people don't want support for manifest V2

Try LibreWolf and IronFox sometime. It's Firefox with less BS.

I do like the way base FF does vertical tabs, though. The only reason I still main that browser for longer web surfing sessions.

If I know exactly where I'm going I use LW, though.

BTW do people really keep the default functionality of LW to clear all login cookies? I know it's more secure, but kind of a pain to have to sign in to rainwave.cc or whatever every new session.

I like librawolf on Linux, but a lot of pages break

Is palemoon still around, striped down, and good?

You can disable it.

Unfortunately, the FF devs disabled the about:config on mobile even though it's available on Nightly. If you open it, you'll get a blank page.

You need to access it via this URL instead:

chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml

Then, search for browser.ml.enable and double tap it to toggle it off. On the desktop version, the setting is browser.ml.chat.enabled

I find Firefox performance on Android much better than WebView browsers (this is on GrapheneOS, so it's the hardened WebView / Vanadium, perhaps that is why)

Left to what? Where?

Yes. I also love Firefox but for reasons that are in the exact opposite direction of "AI chatbot integration that can only be fully disabled with about:config".

Edit: I should add that, at least for me, the "optional" status of the AI chat features in the sidebar depended on whether tabs were set to horizontal or vertical. For vertical tabs, the only way to disable AI chat in the sidebar was with about:config, and I would still prefer if such a specific feature wasn't bundled with the browser.