Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions

Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by babuskov on Thursday October 07, 2021 @07:21AM (#28784821)

> Do I have any serious alternative?

Vivaldi?

I'm using Firefox myself and have been using it almost exclusively since it was named Firebird back in the day, but I have considered Vivaldi as an alternative at one point.

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Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by adar on Thursday October 07, 2021 @07:29AM (#28784885)

I like Vivaldi but the issue is that you're still locking yourself into Chromium's Blink rendering engine which just serves to strengthen Google's push to be the de-facto standards enforcer of the web.

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Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by knob on Thursday October 07, 2021 @08:56AM (#28785598)

Exactly. Thanks for writing it out.

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Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by jimbob21 on Thursday October 07, 2021 @09:56AM (#28786293)

Anything wrong with Opera or Opera GX?

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Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by finder83 on Thursday October 07, 2021 @03:16PM (#28790880)

Also owned now by a China-based company and closed source

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Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by pseudalopex on Thursday October 07, 2021 @10:41AM (#28786893)

Same engine.

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Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday October 07, 2021 @10:37AM (#28786829)

Personally, a proprietary browser really rubs me the wrong way

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