Why do you use firefox?

OneRedFox, 9 months ago

1. Mozilla’s goals for the web line up quite nicely with my own.
2. The performance is good for what I want.
3. The extension API is more powerful than Chrome’s.
4. Outside of the Apple ecosystem, it’s the last major alternative to the Chrome skins.
5. It isn’t actively trying to cripple adblockers.

drew_belloc, 9 months ago

Is not chromium, has a good UI, supports manifest v2, is open source and have native support for autoscrolling on linux

jarfil, 9 months ago

It also supports MV3 without removing the blocking WebRequest hook.

apprehentice, 9 months ago

It’s not Chrome or Chromium derived. Google has incentives to mine me for data. Mozilla, not so much. I don’t trust Mozilla completely, but I certainly trust them more than Google to have my best interest at heart.

jarfil, 9 months ago

Mozilla is mostly funded by Google:

bloomberg.com/…/why-google-keeps-paying-mozilla-s…

lfromanini, 9 months ago

There are other reasons, but if I had to point only one word: containers.

lichtmetzger, 9 months ago

Switched to Chrome a few years back when Firefox killed XUL and bundled too much bloatware.

Now I’ve switched back to Firefox because it’s good again and Google is doing too many evil things lately (Web Integrity).

Bobo, 9 months ago

Supports extensions on mobile

limerod, 9 months ago

The mobile version has addons like ublock-origin and bottom search bar. Plus, Chrome wants you to enjoy the web, which is full of ads. I don’t, that’s why.

martinbasic, 9 months ago

1. It’s faster
2. It’s not chromium-based
3. It can protect you from trackers and block ads
4. Chrome may terminates Adblock-functionality extensions in Manifest V3 and Firefox wouldn’t, afaik

Hirom, 9 months ago

Because it has tabs. Seriously, I first used Firefox back when IE6 was the norm, and Firefox brought tabs and better standard compliance. Haven’t turned my back since.

sylverstream, 9 months ago

Container tabs. No more need for separate chrome profiles.

algorithmae, 9 months ago

Oh THAT’S how you do it? That was one feature of Chrome that I couldn’t figure out how to do with Firefox. Thanks!

sylverstream, 9 months ago

Glad I could help.

With treeview tabs it’s even more awesome. Really loving Firefox, only recently got it. Only annoying thing is on Android it reloads tabs when I switch between apps.

beejjorgensen, 9 months ago

Ad blocking on desktop and mobile is awesome.

And it’s vital to have multiple browser engines in the wild for interoperability. If we go all Chromium-based, we’re going to eventually pay for that like IE6.

And Google is kind of an untrustworthy POS of a company these days.

ripcord, 9 months ago

Because it is fucking awesome.

Plus on mobile, I likes my ublock, dark reader, etc.

bermuda, 9 months ago

Because I like having RAM to spare

nickwitha_k, 9 months ago

Because I hate ads.

mojo, 9 months ago

It’s got a cool fox logo