Re:Firefox 96
by cycomanic on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @09:48AM
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Not being run by google is already a _very_ good thing. That said in my experience Firefox is much faster than chrome both on Linux and Android, on top of that I find the extensions available for Firefox much better as well.
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Having uBlock Origin and NoScript in a mobile browser is amazing.
Not just for getting rid of the annoyance, but uBlock Origin also makes the browser perform way better too. And it's especially noticeable on mobile.
Re:Firefox 96
by causality0 on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @01:01PM
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It was better having all the extensions in a mobile browser. Like a damn user agent switcher. Firefox is not worse than Chrome by any means, it's just a pathetic shadow of the powerful tool it used to be.
The main financial contributor to Mozilla is Google. So in a way, Firefox is run by Google. Some say it's convenient for Firefox to exist to avoid anti-trust lawsuits.
Re:Firefox 96
by fartcannon on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @10:42AM
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That's more or less what Microsoft did with Apple for I believe the same basic reason. They invested 150 million in 1997 to keep Apple afloat. Now Apple is worth 3 trillion. It can be turned around.