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Meh. They had plenty of time to move to Firefox but they ignored all the warnings.

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It’s not like they contracted some sort of terminal illness. Anyone can migrate whenever. It’s not hard.

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I believe that some organizations restrict what applications can be installed on work computers, so that might not necessarily be true, at least for work machines.

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One more vector of malware for these corporate systems. Sucks for them I suppose.

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13 points

if they’re restricting apps to that degree you probably can’t install extensions anyway.

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11 points

My organization has blocked all browsers other than Edge and Chrome - and has also blocked all plugins except for UBlock. For security reasons, of course.

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Everyone knows seeing a bunch of uncontrolled JavaScript-powered ads from who knows what server is good for security.

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For all the firefox fans out there it might be good to note there have consistently been more Safari users than Firefox users since 2014. Hell Safari has been the number two browser by market share since 2015.

Browsers have to get very SHITTY or a new browser has to have a killer app to unseat a dominate one.

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share#monthly-200901-202408

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32 points

I don’t think safari is even remotely comparable given that it’s a default browser on macs.

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Also, I’m pretty sure it’s not possible to install any other browser on iPhones unless you get root.

Edit: It looks like you can with iOS 15.0

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How so ? The default browser on Windows is Edge, people keep installing Chrome? Chrome is available on MacOS, yet people stick with Safari?

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Almost like being the default gives you an unfair advantage or something.

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And I mean, there’s still time now. Switching browsers isn’t that bad. Export+import some bookmarks and adjust some settings, good to go.

I think FF has been a good option for a while. But the second best time is now. I can totally get it if people didn’t want to switch until they had more of a concrete problem.

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FF still hasn’t brought back a tab group API for extensions or native tab groups. Extensions can only do so much given what they have to work with. I still use FF on the side, but it simply isn’t a practical as a primary browser for me currently.

But for casual users, many probably have never even touched their browser settings.

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6 points

Tab groups are coming but in the mean time containers work well enough for me with the added benefit that they’ll also block tracking from the sites that are within them.

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Understandable, I’m really looking forward to FF getting tab groups too. I don’t know why such a nice feature was left unimplemented for so long. 🫤

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