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Why I use Firefox (xn--ime-zza.eu)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Questions like “Which browser should I use?” regularly come up on the r/browsers subreddit. I sometimes respond to these posts, but my quick replies usually only contain one or two points. To be honest, until recently I wasn’t even sure myself why I use Firefox. Of course it’s a pretty good browser, but that doesn’t explain why I’ve stubbornly stayed loyal to Firefox for more than a decade. After giving it a bit more thought, I came up with the following reasons.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So I started using Firefox in my early teens around 2010, I didn't know/care about online privacy etc and had no idea what open source was, I just picked it because I liked the look and theming options more than Chrome at the time.

I then kept using it because it's what I knew and I can be stubborn to change sometimes. Around 2016 was when I started looking more into online privacy and FOSS stuff it kinda just reinforced my existing use of Firefox.

Recent actions by Google with their anti-adblocking campaign and Manifestv3 have just made me dig in my heels more.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Any yet Mozilla is still struggling as a company.