• !deleted183961@kbin.melroy.org
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    6 months ago

    Not using Chrome is so easy. I mean, Firefox is right there and is a better browser to boot. I genuinely have no idea why people still use Chrome for everything.

    • rizoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 months ago

      I keep going back and forth with Firefox and Vivaldi. The chrome based browsers just tend to run better. I love firefox on mobile but on desktop it’s tougher for me to stick with. Also Mozilla seems to have a different goal for the future with all the other products and ai weirdness they recently announced.

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      6 months ago

      I work at a small company - absolutely everything from work macros, accounts and shortcuts are all intertwined in Chrome, they’ve been using it like that for ten years - it’d be faster for me to find a new job then to unclog that mess from the entire office. I still installed firefox for personal use though.

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        6 months ago

        in my previous job we were allowed to install some old version of firefox through the companys own portal. but we couldn’t access internet with it because “firefox is vulnerable”. they use google suite so chrome was the default browser, but edge worked too and even IE…

    • Live_Let_Live@lemmy.worldOP
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      6 months ago

      some small problems i face is that

      while i use youtube it runs slower.

      and the quick image search feature using google lens is not present.

      and telegram voice call does not work.

      • DePietPiraat@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        You can use a different frontend for YouTube. You’ve got Freetube for pc, Yattee for MacOS and iOS and piped on any platform. These solutions also protect your privacy and block ads.

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          My problem with these is that the quality is always bad. Usually 720p max and only H.264 instead of VP9. YouTube quality is already bad enough as it is and nerfing it even more feels awful.

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    6 months ago

    what are the other options

    firefox is still not there in terms of language support and translating like chrome has etcetera

    not bashing firefox or chrome honestly asking what else is there?

    epiphany browser is even further behind

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    6 months ago

    Well of course. Now all your traffic goes through proxies to Google’s servers for analytics.

    100℅ data harvesting.

    Genius move by Google. Even calls it a security/privacy measure!

    They will succeed too. Most of the human race are Neanderthals anyway. Couldn’t care less.

  • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    still waiting for anything that isnt mozilla or google based.

    Thorium, oh good another chrome browser librewolf, oh good another firefox browser

    PLEASE I BEG OF YOU, GIVE ME SOMETHING THAT ISN’T TAINTED.

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    6 months ago

    Seems to me that Lemmy is nothing but a Firefox promo platform these days. For weeks this is the one and only trending topic.

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    6 months ago

    So my gut instinct is to go to Firefox (again), but how can it compete? It’s down to like 2% market share, there’s a serious portion of the web that Firefox just can’t render anymore, and there’s all this press about the CEO getting this monsterous golden parachute.

    So realistically what can anyone do but continue to use the only browser people ever really test sites for anymore, or swear allegiance to either Microsoft or Apple?