Ask Lemmy
A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions
Rules: (interactive)
1) Be nice and; have fun
Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them
2) All posts must end with a '?'
This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?
3) No spam
Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.
4) NSFW is okay, within reason
Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com.
NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].
5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions.
If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.
6) No US Politics.
Please don't post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world or !askusa@discuss.online
Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.
Partnered Communities:
Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu
view the rest of the comments
except that you don't need to tinker. firefox is simply just not doing anything risky, anything that could easily break websites.
you want ublock? install that 1 addon. that's not any more tinkering than setting a dark theme, or the language.
that's funny because that's not how I know. as I know, firefox is more up to spec than chrome, but chrome often has its odd nonstandard behaviours which web devs take as standards simply because that's the most popular browser, and developing for its quirks is easier than developing for standards and also supporting its quirk at the same time
Tinkering - I remember when the ad blocking addons stopped working due to a Google change. Everyone hopped on the webs to see what to do next. Edits and tricks to make Firefox look like Google to the web page, which was needed to make it work again. I was just over here with Brave carrying on like nothing happened.
Firefox compatibility- Even users in this post say they have a backup browser when Firefox doesn't work.
Look, I'm not here evangelizing an imperfect browser. I'm also not sitting here arguing anyone's choice in browsers. I use what works for me. I just wanted to clarify some statements made that weren't correct. The Firefox vs anything else debate is as loaded as Linux vs anything else. Everyone argues and claims their software package is the end all be all when it just doesn't fit 100% of use cases. I use what works for me. When a better alternative comes along, I will gladly look at it.
once again, and I wont repeat this anymore: this did not affect firefox. only the google controlled chrome.
I don't understand what you mean here. there is no need to make firefox look like "google"
yes, because certain corporate software's developers not only fail to test with anything but chrome, but they use non-standard web APIs that only chrome has implemented, and nothing else.
and before I need to repeat this point of mine too: this is not firefox being not web compatible, but chrome being not web compatible.
that I see, you are instead here to speak false statements with such certainty as an LLM does
One tweak I was talking about is changing the user agent, which is absolutely something Firefox users on here and many platforms talked about doing to rectify changes that broke some functionality.
At the end of the day, the focus of my post was that Firefox (and most browsers) need addons to block ads and options to increase privacy. That's not a good/bad thing, just a different thing.
Brave is an out of the box turn key solution that requires no additional anything to do it. Again, not a good/bad thing, just a different thing.
Neither of those last 2 statements are false. Use Brave, use Firefox, hell, use Edge if you like it, and it works for you. I know what works for me.
I don't know when did I do that last time, but it was years ago. there are some snowflake services like ms teams that need this, unfortunately, but again, that's because teams is not developed to web standards, it is developed for chrome.
that's fair. but above, you were spouting false statements en masse, possibly discouraging people from firefox. despite not risking to have ad blockers by default, I can confidently say that firefox allows more comprehensive filtering without tweaks, and with stability.