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I just got firefox yesterday, cause I noticed youtube started baking unskippable ads into their site.
Use brave. I never get ads on it.
It should be bannable to recommend that trojan here
Avoid chromium browsers
yup I recently switched from Vivaldi to librewolf which is a shame cause I really liked vivaldi and it's customization and embedded email but since it's chromium I knew it was just a matter of time before I had to switch.
In case it matters https://vivaldi.com/blog/manifest-v3-update-vivaldi-is-future-proofed-with-its-built-in-functionality/
Tell us more of the Floorp. (as long as its not based on chrome)
it's firefox based. Japanese browser that has the same customization as vivaldi (which is why I really liked vivaldi) so I can have my address bar and navigation bar at the bottom, my tabs up top, and all my other stuff on the side of the window.
Any issues with not being set up in Japanese?
nope, runs great I really dig it. set it as my default.
Neat, thanks for letting us know. Will have to try it.
Floorp is an excellent browser. I mainly use it for the first class vertical tab support, but it's ability to pin websites to open in a sidebar is great. I use it for stuff like Proton mail and drive.
I will say in case anyone here saw it in the past, it had a bit of drama around the author making part of it closed source, but that was fortunately resolved before it was ever released with any proprietary code.
Vivaldi does have it's own built in adblocker. You can add sources. It's not as robust at uBO, but than nothing
Link is borked, add another ) at the end
Works fine for me and has the ), what are you using to look at it?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#Browsers_based_on_Chromium
This link works for me but the previous has the same broken link. I'm using the Sync android client. ¯\(°_o)/¯
The 1st opens a link to the wiki page: Chromium (web browser
Missing the ending ) for me
I don’t like or use brave for multiple reasons but why is the fact that it's built on chromium a problem?
Because every browser is becoming 3 chromes in a trench coat.
Long term this will be an issue.
LONG LIVE GECKO
They are doing what Apple has done to browsers on iPhones. It’s all safari all the way down… lol
Ironically, Apple forcing Safari on iPhones is the single greatest thing standing between Chromium and total market domination.
Not that it's a good thing for Apple users, but it's the one remaining reason not to slap a "Not on Chromium? Don't bother visiting" sign on every website. Us Firefox users don't matter, statistically speaking
Fuck. I hadn’t even thought of that perspective. You are totally right.
Ah yes, the browser that monetizers based on activity tracking. The one based on chromium, handing Google further control over web standards. The browser with a a mysterious nearly unlimited budget for advertising before they even had a handful of users. That browser.
you will soon though.
i use brave on my phone since its harder to adblock on phones for me
Firefox mobile has ublock origin
I switched my phone browser the Firefox Mobile and have installed ublock and I am quite satisfied so far.
ooh ty i'll try it :)
If any site doesn't work you can try this official addon Chrome Mask. If it works with it on you can report it Mozilla.
I"m going to try that extension to see if it helps with a couple of websites. So thanks for the recommendation!
Thanks for sharing the extension! I just got some passkeys and they just weren't working on several websites for Firefox (looking at you Azure) but that solved the issue immediately!
Be sure to report a bug to Mozilla regarding those pages!
I've been using LibreWolf on Desktop and Mull on Android. Basically more securely configured versions of Firefox with the proprietary telemetry and some other stuff removed. Takes some tweaking to get certain websites to work that need more access than they should or use Certificate Authorities that don't have working OSCP servers.