With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.
They aren’t “concerned about privacy”, they are “concerned about privacy for the same price”. And they are real cheapskates.
Note: for those who lack the knowledge, the “price” of a free product comes as an overall bugs / features ratio, where “bugs” and “features” are respectively defined as any undesirable / desirable behavior in the use case for the software.
I deem Firefox a bit buggy, but that’s because I use it on platforms that get very little use, And I ain’t got time to hunt bugs down. I barely have the time to report them.
But it’s not people like you and me I’m talking about. It’s people who discovered internet after 2000, who think Firefox doesn’t have enough features, and is “being unreasonable”, because essentially every. single. browser is now chrome or chromium, with the exception of Firefox (and safari?); and because of companies like adobe blaming Firefox for “not playing nice with others” simply because it isn’t chrome/chromium…
Edit: to those who downvoted, which I can only assume is because of my comment on bugs, please install NetBSD 9.3, ctwm, set pkgin up against 2023Q1, and install Firefox 110.0.1 with noscript, umatrix and ublock origin. Now witness how all your menus disappear immediatey as you mouseover upon them. Now please explain to me how this isn’t a bug…
Edit 2: instead of attempting to “backseat debug” without any information on the actual problem, or even without trying to reproduce the bug (I gave all the info I would start with), please accept that Firefox can have bugs, and that people online can know what they are talking about. Thanks.
It works fine with my Cinnamon window manager. So the bug could be in Firefox, in your WM, in both, or more likely in the integration of two, as a side effect, which why I’ve said “on the edge”. It’s nearly impossible to test your software with every combination of a system. So the solution here to file an issue both for WM and Firefox and hope someone from either communities will solve it. Or just get another browser or WM.
Seriously, not to take anything away from what is does good, but Firefox is littered with bugs. And most websites seem to be optimised for Chrome these days which makes the Firefox experience a bit less nice.
Links or it didn’t happen. Seriously, I have used FF and only FF for the last 15 years and have had zero showstoppers.
Link me some links that work in chrome and not firefox, I wanna see!
I’ve had some instances of wondering why a website doesn’t load or does it’s function properly, usually government websites or application forms, and the issue gets resolved once I do it on Chrome or Edge. It’s not a big deal for me, I daily drive Firefox and have Edge installed for those instances.
They aren’t “concerned about privacy”, they are “concerned about privacy for the same price”. And they are real cheapskates.
Note: for those who lack the knowledge, the “price” of a free product comes as an overall bugs / features ratio, where “bugs” and “features” are respectively defined as any undesirable / desirable behavior in the use case for the software.
I wonder if you deem Firefox buggy or having not enough features?
Using Firefox since it came out and never experienced any troubles.
I deem Firefox a bit buggy, but that’s because I use it on platforms that get very little use, And I ain’t got time to hunt bugs down. I barely have the time to report them.
But it’s not people like you and me I’m talking about. It’s people who discovered internet after 2000, who think Firefox doesn’t have enough features, and is “being unreasonable”, because essentially every. single. browser is now chrome or chromium, with the exception of Firefox (and safari?); and because of companies like adobe blaming Firefox for “not playing nice with others” simply because it isn’t chrome/chromium…
Edit: to those who downvoted, which I can only assume is because of my comment on bugs, please install NetBSD 9.3, ctwm, set pkgin up against 2023Q1, and install Firefox 110.0.1 with noscript, umatrix and ublock origin. Now witness how all your menus disappear immediatey as you
mouseoverupon them. Now please explain to me how this isn’t a bug…Edit 2: instead of attempting to “backseat debug” without any information on the actual problem, or even without trying to reproduce the bug (I gave all the info I would start with), please accept that Firefox can have bugs, and that people online can know what they are talking about. Thanks.
Look like a bug on the edge of WM/App
Yeah well, Firefox is the only GUI software that shows this behavior, and it wasn’t present with 102. The only thing that changed was Firefox.
It works fine with my Cinnamon window manager. So the bug could be in Firefox, in your WM, in both, or more likely in the integration of two, as a side effect, which why I’ve said “on the edge”. It’s nearly impossible to test your software with every combination of a system. So the solution here to file an issue both for WM and Firefox and hope someone from either communities will solve it. Or just get another browser or WM.
Never? Are you only browsing Lemmy and Wikipedia?
Seriously, not to take anything away from what is does good, but Firefox is littered with bugs. And most websites seem to be optimised for Chrome these days which makes the Firefox experience a bit less nice.
Links or it didn’t happen. Seriously, I have used FF and only FF for the last 15 years and have had zero showstoppers.
Link me some links that work in chrome and not firefox, I wanna see!
I’ve had some instances of wondering why a website doesn’t load or does it’s function properly, usually government websites or application forms, and the issue gets resolved once I do it on Chrome or Edge. It’s not a big deal for me, I daily drive Firefox and have Edge installed for those instances.
Firefox is free. And respects your privacy.
You should look up what mozilla did with the mr robot extension.