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Much more flexibility in the way of custom themesz extensions and i think its called custom js or something its been a while but arkenfox is an example of one and I love all the different forks which while I'm not gonna use I'm happy that exists. Hate it on android like though I use cromite (bromite fork)
Tried to download a bank statement the other day and Chrome marked it as malware. Also happened with my Internet bill. I'm done with Chrome
Because Brave didn't allow add-ons when I tried it. This was years ago so no idea what it's like now
I somehow just always followed since Netscape Navigator.
It's by far the best mobile browser that let's you run tampermonkey and uBlock on Android and it's not close. I haven't found an add-on that let's me run video/audio in the background, so until then Brave stays installed so that running YouTube with no ads and the phone locked is an option.
Aside from that, Firefox gives fantastic customization options, runs well, and is less vulnerable to attacks specifically because it has a smaller market share and it makes more sense to target Chromium based browsers.
Because Microsoft and google are abysmal companies.I don't trust either of them (he typed, on an android phone - at least its been ROMmed)
people on the internet told me to
Because it's good
Because Edge broke JSON files - I couldn't search through an open JSON file anymore, because Edge decided to only partially load the file.
That's nice and all, but stop fucking with my plain text. If I want to fuck with it, I can use my extensions, WHICH THEY DISABLED/BLOCKED...
So yeah, back to Firefox, and it's been fine.
Because old habits die hard.
I don't actually remember when I started using it. I remember using Netscape and then Firefox, but there had to be another browser in there. Maybe it was IE. I don't remember it sucking too bad back in the day.
I switched when they added tabs in version 1.5 (I think) and it's pretty much the only browser I've seriously used since.
Absolutely. I only use chrome for d&d stuff because some specific formatting gets screwed up on Firefox.
Because sometimes I need to use Not Safari, and the alternatives are too awful to consider.
Because Lemmy told me to
bottom navigation is a godsend these days as phone screens are 7". Also adblocker.
Because Chrome stuffed up my task bar icons one time too many. (eg two Gmail icons, once for each account - randomly start working as bookmarks instead of their own window.) Fixing that takes many attempts
Firefox can't do this at all, but an extension fixed that.
I used to for many years and recently moved to Arc. Itβs a totally different experience of browsing the internet and workspace management, however Iβd like to go back to Firefox if itβs possible to tweak it as much as possible to Arc.