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10 Reasons You Should Switch From Chrome to Firefox. (www.howtogeek.com)

submitted 8 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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10 Reasons You Should Switch From Chrome to Firefox.::The best browser sync out there.

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[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 25 points 8 months ago (2 children)

At some point there were more than 1 relevant browsers using Gecko, though. Somebody at Mozilla decided to gloriously triumph over allies by killing XULRunner and not offering a replacement.

Not sure if WebKit is such a bad choice in that context.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The Tor browser is still Firefox based. Not a large niche, but being THE preferred way to browse with Tor makes it on its own imho

[–] narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Tor browser is just Firefox with a different default configuration and add-ons though.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

As it should be. But honestly unless there needs to be a change there is no reason to fork.

Most of the chromium forks are just branding and proprietary features they want built in, with brave being the only one that feels a little more aggressive in changes from the base.

[–] goldsoul@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Tbf someone else mentioned arc browser which is chromium and seems to be pretty...different from base

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Thanks for the info! Agreed that one seems to be trying to actually value add on top of its base.

[–] Delusion6903 1 points 8 months ago

Much like librewolf, my favorite desktop browser

[–] cmhe@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Well, there are also the mobile variants of Firefox, which are more of their own thing.

IMO Mozilla limited itself a bit too much on Firefox. Which results it their web engine not attracting many developers for it outside Mozilla.

Embedding gecko in your own app was much easier in the past. This is now mostly taken over by CEF and WPE for Blink and WebKit respectively.

Also stuff like B2G (Boot 2 Gecko) or FirefoxOS are dead as well.

A goal of open source should be to be hacker friendly as well, were currently Blink/WebKit is leading. There are so many more projects around those engines than Gecko, which is sad.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 months ago

Yes, I'm talking about that. I was using conkeror (Gecko-based browser with emacs-like controls, which is funny since for editing I've never learned emacs and use vi/vim) until it stopped being practical.