Exactly this. Firefox is still the most customizable, personalized browser, with the best extensions for privacy and isolation that are supported by the browser's architecture.
Site containment, with tab isolation - as developed for FaceBook in FireFox - is a great example. The isolation of elements on pages of third parties, such as login and comment buttons, to API hooks are all disabled, and permitted pages and elements are sandboxed from other tabs, without access to history, cookies, location, etc.
This spawned an ecosystem of tab-isolators for Twitter, Google, Amazon, YouTube and others, based on the same source.
This is one of nearly a dozen examples where FireFox has no real comparison. The Mozilla Foundation isn't perfect, but it is not fully warped by the economics of major corporations like Google, Microsoft and Apple, towards the compromise or capture of the user's electronic identity and behavior.
If you're on Android, I highly recommend the Samsung browser. It's based on Chromium and has support for adblocking extensions (adguard is pretty good). The dark mode is also the best one I've ever seen on a mobile browser.
I like the Samsung browser too. I got sick of all the clutter and just pitched the other browsers off my phonr=e (pera, Brave, etc.), and disabled Chrome.
I'm not using any mobile browser which can't sync (passwords, history, bookmarks) with my desktop browser. Firefox serves that purpose well and can block ads.
I just switched to Firefox at home because Chrome crashes constantly on my Linux Mint desktop. At work, I'm usually developing for Chrome, so I use Chrome.
It's also my primary browser, but it's a badly worded poll. Maybe they wanted another browser war?
However I actually use most of them for various purposes. Except for Vivaldi. First time I've heard of that one.
I do avoid Edge like a plague. Should be renamed Plague 2.0. (But I may still have one of those black Midnight Madness t-shirts from when Microsoft released Plague 1.0.)
Firefox here (Score:4, Interesting)
With some plugins to filter out the worst.
I'm not expecting it to catch everything and it's a challenge. But at least I can completely ignore Facebook.
More and more sites are today designed with JavaScript and that's just to punch holes in the privacy filtering - not to make pages/sites more useful.
Re:Firefox here (Score:5, Interesting)
Exactly this.
Firefox is still the most customizable, personalized browser, with the best extensions for privacy and isolation that are supported by the browser's architecture.
Site containment, with tab isolation - as developed for FaceBook in FireFox - is a great example. The isolation of elements on pages of third parties, such as login and comment buttons, to API hooks are all disabled, and permitted pages and elements are sandboxed from other tabs, without access to history, cookies, location, etc.
This spawned an ecosystem of tab-isolators for Twitter, Google, Amazon, YouTube and others, based on the same source.
This is one of nearly a dozen examples where FireFox has no real comparison. The Mozilla Foundation isn't perfect, but it is not fully warped by the economics of major corporations like Google, Microsoft and Apple, towards the compromise or capture of the user's electronic identity and behavior.
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As soon as they fix Firefox for Android on the Pixel phones I'll switch to it on desktop as well. Until then I'm stuck on Chrome.
Re: Firefox here (Score:2)
What's wrong with Firefox on Android? I'm using it and not complaining, not on a pixel though.
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Font inflation is messed up, so it ends up with many websites (including Slashdot) being unreadable.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/s... [mozilla.org]
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I never noticed. Even reading slashdot. Must not be that bad.
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No about:config and only a couple of extensions allowed. Other than that it's OK.
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It has support for ad blocker (unlike chrome), so that's good enough for me.
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If you're on Android, I highly recommend the Samsung browser. It's based on Chromium and has support for adblocking extensions (adguard is pretty good).
The dark mode is also the best one I've ever seen on a mobile browser.
Re: Firefox here (Score:1)
I like the Samsung browser too. I got sick of all the clutter and just pitched the other browsers off my phonr=e (pera, Brave, etc.), and disabled Chrome.
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I'm not using any mobile browser which can't sync (passwords, history, bookmarks) with my desktop browser. Firefox serves that purpose well and can block ads.
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I'd need a very good reason to use a browser which is only available on devices from a single vendor anyways.
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It's not tied to a single vendor's phone ecosystem. It's on Google Play. I'm on a OnePlus and can get it fine.
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Strange; I exclusively use Firefox on a Pixel and have never noticed such a flaw. (Or any flaw, really.)
Though your link (below) refers to a Pixel 5.
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I can confirm that the same bug affects by Pixel XL. Maybe it's only the XL due to the screen size/resolution combo?
Re: Firefox here (Score:2)
Is Adblock Browser, based on Chrome, any good?
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It looks dodgy. AdBlock as a whole is a bit dodgy, stick to Firefox and uBlock I think.
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I just switched to Firefox at home because Chrome crashes constantly on my Linux Mint desktop. At work, I'm usually developing for Chrome, so I use Chrome.
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Whenever I develop I develop for W3C standard and test on the most common browsers. (Firefox, Edge, Chrome, Opera)
Apple no longer do Safari for Windows, which means that it's out of scope for testing for Safari.
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Anything Apple for Windows is a joke anyway.
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It's also my primary browser, but it's a badly worded poll. Maybe they wanted another browser war?
However I actually use most of them for various purposes. Except for Vivaldi. First time I've heard of that one.
I do avoid Edge like a plague. Should be renamed Plague 2.0. (But I may still have one of those black Midnight Madness t-shirts from when Microsoft released Plague 1.0.)
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Firefox fan here.
I like the "Send tab to device" feature ... very handy for flicking something from my phone to my desktop.