Because I'm lazy and sometimes want to play battlefield

To be fair, some sites/things don’t work with Firefox, and keeping up with Chromium derivatives is a difficult task.

Hence most default to Brave. They got the SEO. They got the marketing money and socials hype.

You have to dig deep into the internet to find Helium, Vivaldi, Cromite, Ungoogled Chromium, or whatever the fork de jure is. And that’s if you miss all the scamware.

3.62 billion users as of March

They install it on my work laptop without my saying so. I uninstall it every time, and until they explicitly ask me to use it, I’m sticking with Firefox.

About 68% of the world according to this.

Tech savy people are ignorant as well. My colleagues are all into Meta, Google and stuff like that

How many Lemmy users are on chrome.

Any admins have stats?

It's the most popular browser by user base. It's today's Internet Explorer.

Unfortunately I am. I really really don't want to be but somehow Firefox has turned into a buggy mess. Maybe it's just me but I have so many issues with it.

Dragging into a browser window doesn't work half the time. Trying to drag a tab nearly always bugs out the window resulting in no mouse clicks for tabs or address bar. Something screws up sometimes causing browser to flip to a random tab every time I switch back to a window, somehow related to pressing CTRL+ something. Sometimes the mouse cursor in a textbox/textarea screws up where it's not positioned where I'm typing, and I've even seen it go backwards while I type.

I have experienced these things often, albeit most of them only after having multiple windows open with many tabs. And they're not isolated to just one installation on one computer.

I'm just baffled how there can be so many consistent issues though. So much so that I can't justify using it over Chromium any longer, even with all of the issues with Chromium.

I've been using Firefox since the beginning, and I'm an adamant supporter of them. I really hope they get these things sorted out.

People who are forced to use it because web developers have abandoned non chrome based browsers in their testing and validation.

The people who are slightly less braindead than edge users lol

Screaming that on lemmy is like running into a church and screaming about the "Wiles of satan"

You are literally preaching to the choir

I love Steam's built in browser(its useful) and Gmod's built in browser though :(
actually lets narrow down the problem with Non-Chromium, Almost all of them arent designed for embedding into apps or isnt ready for production/does not have all web features.

What's wrong with chromium based browsers? Just curious. What about Vivaldi?

Oddly enough, Firefox never clicked for me but librewolf is dope.

The only browser I use for Lemmy

Still got firefox, mainly for making sense of youtube's garbage UI with my tangled cable of extensions whenever I happen to boot that shit up lol

most people are not aware of google’s shenanigans, and even less are aware that there are better alternatives

why not help people discover these alternatives instead of being an asshole?

People use the tools they have to get their tasks done. Not everyone wants to have the same weird hobbies we do.

...they can have ̶t̶̶h̶̶e̶̶ ̶̶4̶̶ ̶ the whole enchilada everything I know as mexican food."

Why Linux + graphene instead of Linux + GNU?

Reminds me of when my brother was setting up anti-virus for a friend, I don't remember if it was the program or one of the folders to virus.bad

That's as many as four 10s!

Waterfox and Librewolf are good alternatives

Helium.

Comes with full (not lite) UBlock, but Chromium based. It’s excellent.

I stay away from sites and services that don't work well on Firefox. Firefox complies with open web standards, if a site doesn't run well on Firefox it implies that the operator is doing something fucky that you'd probably not be OK with.

Vivaldi is a productivity dream. Unfortunately it's built on chromium so it's not a complete break but it absolutely leaves every other browser in the dust in terms of how good it is. One of its best features is the ability to limit how much ram and CPU the browser as a whole uses or just certain sites. The amount of features it has is insane. Page tiling is my favourite one

You can report sites that are broken on Firefox: https://webcompat.com/issues/new

Firefox has been fine. I've thought about switching to one of the cooler forks but I haven't gotten off my ass yet.

Just use Zen Browser or LibreWolf and call it a day :D

Zen is sus