Or even better, a fork of Firefox which disable all that telemetry crap and bundle with uBlock Origin : LibreWolf.

Stumbled over that last week. There is a company where I buy nearly all my computer stuff from, and I'm a customer for more than 20 years.

I wanted to order parts for a high-end PC, but simply could not add the motherboard to the shopping cart. Everything else was already in there. I called them, and they asked me if I used Firefox. And they told me in no uncertain terms that Firefox was dead and would no longer be supported for "safety and security reasons", I should use Chrome or Edge instead.

If their site is too stupid to cope with Firefox, why the heck does it not tell me about this upfront, e.g. when I try to enter an item into the shopping cart?

Firefox rules, people need to smarten up. Hell, Firefox on Android has an Adblock extension. Firefox is what's up.

Privacy is like the least important reason I use Firefox. With Microsoft Edge and Opera being based on Chromium now there are just so many of them. With Chromium essentially becoming the de facto standard because everyone uses it that means Google can ignore web standards and just do whatever they want.

websites not supporting firefox is the site's fault, not the browser's. firefox is not some niche browser. almost every website i have used is fine on firefox, and when it rarely doesnt work (usually bc i have a configured librewolf), i just open brave or whatever.

Im really confused by this sentiment. Ive been using Firefox since like 2007 and I was just a teenager who didn't know any better.

Its been working fine for 16 years now.

Wait, people hate Firefox? Why??

"Firefox is bad because I got a virus one time and Firefox was my default browser therefore Firefox gave my computer a virus"- my brother

Perhaps I'm missing something but I've been a Firefox user for years- at work and home. I have yet to find a website that misbehaves or under-performs. Mayyybe a few sites here and there a fractions of a second slower or have slightly less acceleration or something that I'm just not noticing?

Without Firefox and its ??forks?? like LibreWolf, the internet would be a total Chromium monopoly at this point, wouldn't it? That would be bad..

Chromium could be spying on you, as it communicates with google servers. You should use ungoogled-chromium, and hope they did a good job...

If it really has to be a Chromium browser, Vivaldi will do the trick.

And if you REALLY take security seriously, LibreWolf is based on Firefox but without the annoying stuff from Mozilla attached to it.

Librewolf*

God, I wish there was less monopolies in the world, I hate when there is no alternative other than a product developed and maintained by evil corporation that profits off of selling my data.
Anyway, the only browser that everyone should use is Chrome, if you don't use Chrome you're dead to me.

I use firefox for obvious privacy reasons but also because I can customize the UI. Chromium's interface is oversized, ugly, and locked down while on firefox I can change any aspect of it using my own CSS.

Vanadium on my phone.

It's Internet Explorer - Google edition.

I just prefer the UI of Firefox

After the quantum update i switched to firefox, as now in performance it is almost on par with chrome or sometimes better.

I think a lot of people turned away from Firefox after that Mr Robot promotional 'stunt' they pulled.