With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

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The best time to switch to Firefox was 5 years ago. The second best is today.

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Oops, I switched 15 years ago,

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I switch when it was Phoenix, then switch again when it was Firebird, and finally switch when it become Firefox

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you win Firefox!

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I went straight from Mozilla Navigator to Firefox 1.0.

Tabs were such a crazy new thing back then. You would show tabbed browsing to someone (rather than opening new windows) and they thought you were a wizard. IE5 didn’t have tabs, so nerds moved to Mozilla/Firefox. Then IE6 came out but still didn’t have tabs. By the time IE7 came out, I’d had tabbed browsing for 5+ years.

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Google has a web-browser?

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I use Firefox since it’s release. It was never bad. I don’t get all the Chrome users.

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My dual core Celeron laptop tells me you should go fuck yourself and your slow browser

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I have always despised Chrome, with Firefox being my preferred web browser. However, I still keep Vivaldi installed on my Linux system in case something requires Chromium for compatibility reasons.

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And why not Brave 👀 Way better than Mozart, or whatever 😅

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What’s the point they make in the video? Can’t watch it right now.

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Mainly that Firefox has telemetry enabled by default and you have to go into the settings to disable it.

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Thank you even more!

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tl;dw: All browsers have the same “privacy-ruining” features.

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Thank you!

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If only Firefox weren’t such a crap dev experience compared to Chrome.

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You talking about the dev tools or it’s support for new web technologies? Dev tools seem to have improved by a lot since the last time I used it, but I do wish they were quicker with support for other things, like can we get working Web Speech API support?

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The dev tools specifically. They’re also pretty behind on web tech, but that’s another topic. For example, they still don’t have WebGPU support.

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Ah I see, I haven’t run into any issues with it in development, but I am curious what specific issues you see with the Firefox dev tools?

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have you tried it recently?

I was of the same opinion for a long time, used to dev in chrome, now I use exclusively firefox, I think it’s better or at least, there is nothing I miss from chrome.

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I use it all the time to debug fun special behavior of Firefox.

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what special behavior? I only had issues with Safari lately (with IE dead)

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