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[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Just so that I can keep track of the score, I actually moved from Firefox to DuckDuckGo, because Firefox was considered not respecting privacy. This was not so many years ago.

Are we now saying today that the tables are turned? Or just that both are bad, but one is less bad?

[–] darcy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

ff forks like librewolf are based

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

ff forks like librewolf are based

Heard good things about Librewolf.

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[–] mvpts@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] WashedOver@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've moved back to Firefox but damn it keeps mangling my streaming audio in some cases and there doesn't seem to be a fix despite spending most of last night going through the limited solutions. Seems like this is a common problem for many Firefox users so Chrome will stay in play for some of these uses.

Previously Chrome did it all...

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[–] cqws@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Please firefox just add the goddamn custom key bindings

[–] aliyss@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm working on this...

https://github.com/aliyss/dotfiles/blob/master/flake/home-manager/apps/firefox/config/config.js

https://github.com/aliyss/dotfiles

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[–] hark@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Been using Firefox on desktop since it was called Firebird. I've jumped to different browsers on mobile, but Firefox on mobile has gotten a lot better since the last time I've tried it years ago, so I switched back to it recently.

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[–] lemmyworld2023@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Librewolf is pretty decent too

[–] proflovski@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Firefox is fine rn

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For a reason I'm not yet sure about, the official website for provincial parks in my province refuse to establish a secure connection with Firefox. I've switched to FF a few months ago now and aside from that specific website not working correctly, the rest is fine to me.

[–] darcy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

have you tried spoofing your user agent with the useragent switcher extension?

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