• 🦊 OneRedFox 🦊@beehaw.orgEnglish
    31·
    1 year 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@programming.dev
    271·
    1 year ago

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

  • apprehentice@lemmy.enchanted.socialEnglish
    26·
    1 year 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.

  • lichtmetzger@feddit.de
    16·
    1 year 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).

  • limerod@reddthat.com
    13·
    1 year 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@beehaw.org
    12·
    1 year 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@beehaw.org
    12·
    1 year 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.

    • algorithmae@lemmy.one
      1·
      1 year 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@lemmy.nz
        2·
        1 year 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.

  • Beej Jorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org
    10·
    1 year 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.

  • fsniper@kbin.social
    9·
    1 year ago

    I have been with Firefox, since it’s inception. Never left it. And it never let me down.