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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I usualy love it, but for some reason Firefox fails to retrieve web pages about 75% of the time when on the internet connection at my parent's house, and I don't know why.

It acts like a DNS failure, but the DNS settings are the same in Firefox, Chrome, and the router.

Meanwhile Chrome and Edge work great.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Probably secure DNS? Try disabling that in the privacy settings page.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

That kid is superior

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

One thing I've been annoyed with after switching to Firefox is the iffy password manager performance. It's so common for it not to remember a password that it should, or, weirdly, for it to only remember the password once I've typed the whole username in and hit tab.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Functionality wise, chrome is better than Firefox but it's bad when it comes to privacy and ads

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

What is literally one thing Chrome can do that Firefox cannot? Cause I can tell you right now, after tomorrow, only one can block ads.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Always gonna note too that Google Chrome (and chromium + derivatives to a lesser extent) kneecaps adblock plugins so that up to 50% fewer ad domains are blocked, blocklists are out of date, many in-page ads can't be caught, it's slower, and invisible trackers can bypass it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (5 children)

does anyone recommend any Firefox alternatives? I genuinely hate Firefox's UI and keybinds and the scrolling tabs

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This might be known already, but I bet that Microsoft decided to switch Edge to Chromium instead of forking Gecko/Firefox because Google either bribed them or threatened to lower Microsoft sites' ranks in search results.

Otherwise why would MS use a web browser controlled by one of their very few competitors?

Edit: maybe they were enthralled by the promise of using Proton/Chromium based "desktop applications" (which just contain an entire Chromium browser in their install directory) to cheaply create apps that people are forced to use in their jobs, like Teams. Which is still awful even after they made it a full UWP desktop app. Like Skype already was.

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