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  • 7u5k3n@lemmy.worldEnglish
    581·
    2 years ago

    To abuse a saying…

    Best time to be on Firefox? Yesterday.

    Second best? Today.

    • protput@lemmy.worldEnglish
      29·
      2 years ago

      I just can’t get used to Firefox. Last time I tried it (earlier this year), I tried for 2 months. Can’t remember all the reasons, but using the adresbar as calculator and see the results without pressing enter is so ingrained in my way of working. Just alt+d, 2+2 shows the result. Give me something better than that and I’ll give Firefox an other shot.

      Edit: lol at my downvotes. That’s what I get for asking a genuine question I guess. People really looove their Firefox here. (me too, but I’m missing some features)

    • Akinzekeel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      311·
      2 years ago

      Because bold fonts look weird in Firefox and I have not found a way to change that

      • Corhen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        91·
        2 years ago

        Weird do you have a screen shot you can share? they look fine to me.

        Could it be something withyour windows installation?

        • Akinzekeel@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          Here is a picture that demonstrates the problem. On the left is Firefox and on the right Thorium (Chromium). I’ve had this problem on Windows before but now I’m using Linux and it’s the same unfortunately.

            • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              2 years ago

              Using DuckDuckGo (Android), which is chromium-based, it has the same problem, all text weights are bolded at the maximum values.

              It looks like Firefox is trying to be more respectful of the text weights, when deciding how to bold text.

          • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            Here is a picture that demonstrates the problem. On the left is Firefox and on the right Thorium (Chromium).

            If I’m understanding that screenshot correctly, it looks like Thorium (Chromium) is ignoring the text values and bolding any of them at the max bolding value, where Firefox respects the text values and bolts off of that just slightly.

      • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        It’s been forever since I last looked, but can’t you actually change what fonts are used from within Firefox directly?

  • TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    24·
    2 years ago

    People keep saying (and corpos keep believing) that normies will just “get used to the ads or pay a premium”

    But everybody has a breaking point. People who already dislike it have left chrome or are in the rush to leave. Once people reach this point, they will start asking their more tech savvy friends or the Internet for a better way.

    I honestly hope Google will not change its trajectory because sooner or later, people will get fed up with their bullshit.

    • vxx@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      I paid for YouTube premium for quite a while but cancelled because it wouldn’t stop recommending the same video I’ve “not interested” for too many times, and also for pushing far right propaganda and pseudo science when all I watch is gaming related content and some space and engineering content.

      Browsing the Internet without add blockers literally breaks the pages and makes one vulnerable to malware.

      • Corhen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Would you like to rewatch this video you already watched? i even removed the fact it has been previously played?

        No? How about now? Or now?

        Sometimes youtube’s recommendations are excellent, serving interesting woodworking or tech videos, other time it just shovels me the same drivel over and over.

        • vxx@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 years ago

          My current feed is 4 videos that I’ve already watched completely and the red bar is still full, but I get a lot of already watched videos where the bar resets as well. Then it’s a bunch of videos from 14 years ago. These old videos started appearing earlier this year and I get a lot of them since, besides clicking ‘No Interest’

          Then there’s one or two videos that have been there for months in my feed that I’m afraid to dismiss because I like the general topic just don’t have interest in these particular videos.

          And then from time to time it it shines for a day or two and I get interesting stuff that disappears as quick as it came.

          One thing it’s getting better at recently is showing me long videos that are over an hour instead of the under 15 minute ones.

  • Cyberflunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    214·
    2 years ago

    Never thought this would be the thing that drove me to degoogled myself, but here we are. I put myself back in an apple silo purely out of spite. Converted all my gmails to other services, like hey.com and tutanota, I PAY a search engine now Kagi.com.

    They really burned my soul. Fuck Google.

    • K3zi4@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I use Chrome, but Firefox on my android phone. I have had ublock origin installed since the beginning. I only really use it because I manage my YouTube and Google accounts through it, and its handy for sending tabs between my macbook and PC, as well as the various other workflow features I’ve come to rely on over the last decade or so.

      Though I recently heard this was a feature on Firefox now. I used to use Firefox prior to chrome, about 15 or so years ago. I’ve been intending to switch back recently but haven’t got round to it yet.

    • andz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Does Vivaldi count? In that case, daily. I did install Firefox recently to try it out again, though.