Firefox is dead to me • The Register
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Firefox is dead to me • The Register
No notes. All good points. I'm still not going to a Chrome based browser. Not yet.
I hear Opera is nice if that day ever comes.Main points:
- Shitty removal of promise to never sell your data from the FAQ.
- Hard pivot to AI that nobody wants.
- Killing programs people actually like and use.
- Losing on performance (again).
- Mass layoffs.
As is pointed out in the article, most of the crap comes directly from Mozilla and management, not the people doing development.
It could be righted with a massive leadership change that isn't going to happen.I've switched to IronFox on my phone and LibreWolf on my laptops. I'll keep doing that as long as it's feasible.
I have to use Edge and Firefox at work because they are "approved" (along with Chrome) and centrally managed.
Edit: fixed a typo.
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Firefox is dead to me • The Register
No notes. All good points. I'm still not going to a Chrome based browser. Not yet.
I hear Opera is nice if that day ever comes.Main points:
- Shitty removal of promise to never sell your data from the FAQ.
- Hard pivot to AI that nobody wants.
- Killing programs people actually like and use.
- Losing on performance (again).
- Mass layoffs.
As is pointed out in the article, most of the crap comes directly from Mozilla and management, not the people doing development.
It could be righted with a massive leadership change that isn't going to happen.I've switched to IronFox on my phone and LibreWolf on my laptops. I'll keep doing that as long as it's feasible.
I have to use Edge and Firefox at work because they are "approved" (along with Chrome) and centrally managed.
Edit: fixed a typo.
@jrdepriest honestly I usually do stray away from chrome based browsers but I highly suggest Vivaldi, it’s my daily driver: http://vivaldi.com
it’s European, they employ some ex-opera devs from before they got bought out, and they even run their own fediverse instance! http://social.vivaldi.net
compared to other chromium browsers, it is very performant in my experience and it even supports mv2 extensions still (like ublock origin)!
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@jrdepriest honestly I usually do stray away from chrome based browsers but I highly suggest Vivaldi, it’s my daily driver: http://vivaldi.com
it’s European, they employ some ex-opera devs from before they got bought out, and they even run their own fediverse instance! http://social.vivaldi.net
compared to other chromium browsers, it is very performant in my experience and it even supports mv2 extensions still (like ublock origin)!
@jrdepriest mind you they’re not perfect, but they’re much better than any other offering on the market I know of, and they seem to be quite willing to learn from their mistakes (and other browsers’) and improve
