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

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[–] [email protected] 140 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Posting this on Lemmy is preaching to the choir.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (5 children)

have any instance admins ever shared the browser stats?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Imn loving floorp so far.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Just need one reason: Google.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

For Android users, there's also the Firefox-based Mull.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I prefer Fennec, Mull is too restrictive. I get the appeal, but I want some of the comforts.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

There’s like… no downside: all upside.

Edit: I exaggerated, of course. Below this are some downsides that individuals have experienced. But personally, my experience using Firefox on desktop for Mac has been all upside. If everybody who can just tries it out, you might be surprised at how friction-free the change is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No, in my experience especially the Android version of Firefox is less smooth when playing animations or scrolling on older or lower end devices.

I really hope with the new Focus on Firefox mobile, that they will iron that out.

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

Use Fennec instead, no issues on Android

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One thing I miss in Firefox is tab grouping. Yes there are 3rd party extensions that do that. But Chromium based browsers support that natively.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Sideberry is leaps and bounds better at it imo tho

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It gives me anxiety, it's way too overcrowded and cluttered. I use Tree Style Tab. It does one thing, it does it well, it doesn't overcomplicate it, it works with me.

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

I will say it took me some time to get used to it, but it also is a lot easier to use than it used to, they made a lot of things better in the last update

I think it's one of those things that you have to sit down and test out and really figure out. Tree style tabs are also good though. I definitely think it's where sideberry got their inspiration

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You haven't tried Vivaldi then. It has the best tab management features of any browser by leaps and bounds, it saddens me they chose Chromium over Gecko given that manifest v3 is coming.

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

I don’t like that Vivaldi can’t have multiple levels of grouping like you can in sideberry or tree style tabs

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

Yeah, this extension is crazy good. It works as if it was native.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Agreed, and it seems like Firefox has recently made an effort to accommodate the extension more, as it seems to run even better than it used to and is now a recommended extension

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not strictly true. Firefox gets inferior support from cloud services, like Microsoft. Newer versions of their Web apps are not available on Firefox.

But there should be no downside. It's all artificial.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

The big services purposely degrade their sites when users connect with Firefox. It's well documented.

Unfortunately nothing is being done about it so far.

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