• @tryagain@lemmy.ml
      3•2 years ago

      Amen, fellow Lemming. It feels good to pull away from an enshittified corporate staple and adopt something that isn’t trying to consume your soul.

  • Responsabilidade
    84•2 years ago

    Not chromium based. I think it’s important to have alternatives to chromium-based browsers and Google’s monopoly.

    If Firefox vanishes, I’ll use Epiphany instead.

  • bringleborper
    52•2 years ago

    A lot of false equivocating has been made regarding Mozilla and actual surveillance capitalism firms like Google and Microsoft. Mozilla remains, in my mind, the least of all evils with an organization capable of supporting a modern web browser as well as other projects.

  • @rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
    46•2 years ago

    Because it’s not controlled by the same company that also controls my smartphone OS, my internet search engine, the videos I watch …

    And it works pretty alright.

  • @RebootRebootReboot@programming.devEnglish
    35•2 years ago

    I use Firefox because I can use the full version of UBlock Origin, and UBlock Origin also works on the mobile browser.

    I also make heavy use of the extension Multi-Account Containers for signing in with different accounts for the same service at once.

    Lastly, I prefer the UI for Firefox over anything else.

  • @Artopal@lemmy.ml
    33•2 years ago

    Because it’s better.

    Because it’s open source.

    Because it’s not based on Chromium and competition is good.

    And also because TabStash.

    • Ramin Honary
      2•2 years ago

      Because it isn’t WebKit.

      This is exactly the reason I use Firefox too.

  • Fonzie!
    18•2 years ago

    1. Because of FoxyGestures, I can’t find a good replacement for this on Chromium based browsers.

    2. Because of uBlock Origin, Firefox has the full version, on mobile too.

    3. Because Google Chrome can scan my files system for “malware” and improving their ad data, in other words their spying goes too far.

    4. Because of the customisability of the UI.

    5. Because I can tweak every variable (visit about:config)

    6. Because if you turn telemetry off, it’s actually off, Google lies about that.

    7. Because Google’s market share is so big, that they have the guts to try and DRM the entire Internet for their browser, no company should have that much power.

  • @wim@lemmy.sdf.org
    15•2 years ago

    It’s the only truly free choice for a browser.

    I’ve been using it for 20-ish years and there’s never been a major reason to switch, and all the alternatives seem worse.

    Also, it’s all that stands between Google and the free web at this point.