Posted on 08/19/2020 4:20:43 AM PDT by ShadowAce
Tech Ping
I’ve mostly switched to Brave after using Firefox for years.
All downhill since Mozilla forced Brendan Eich out. I droped FireFox about then and now use Brendon’s “Brave” browser.
Interesting read. Besides Chrome, who are the other emerging competitors? Is Microsoft’s Edge browser actually in the race? I’ve been using FF for over a decade and have it set just the way I like it. Not sure I like the idea of a web without them.
I’m still using Firefox and don’t plan to switch. Of course I’m also using Windows 7 and don’t plan to switch. Resistance maybe futile but screw Google.
“All downhill since Mozilla forced Brendan Eich out.”
Absolutely no mention of this in the article at all, but it’s true. I’m waiting for Brave to get up to speed.
Get woke, go broke.
Edge Chromium is rapidly catching Chrome due to being more secure and faster.
CCleaner has it’s own browser. No Ads. I’m using it more and more.
Actually, I do like Opera, but given they were sold to the Chinese makes me leery about using it full-time. I do use Opera on occasion when Firefox will bark about a webpage and not display it. I'm not talking about security warnings. Firefox just comes up with a blank webpage or section of a webpage.
I use Thunderbird email from Mozilla. I like Thunderbird features like filtering, folder set-up, rules for email distribution to folders, and its cost - $0. Are there other email managers available comparable to Thunderbird?
Edge is now based on Chrome. MS is dropping support for legacy Edge and Internet Explorer sometime soon.
Same here. I was a Firefox user for years and thought it was much superior to IE, then they started to issue new builds for what seemed like every fifteen minutes and it killed my Internet sessions, so I switched over to Brave and haven’t looked back. Chrome, fuggetaboutit.
For later
I started looking at other browsers at that point, too.
I sort of settled on Brave fairly early, even in its first general releases.
I still use FF for some stuff.
I've recently been looking at Iridium, too.
Once the favorite add-on functionality from FF hits the Chrome-based browsers, the FF decline will really be steep.
Yeah, the parts of FF I missed most was an HTML plugin I used for FR, and the bookmarks organization methods were superior. I have since tweaked my Safari & Brave to my liking.
I could have written your post, as we’re in exactly the same tech boat.
So sad. Penalize free speech of a company executive and then people walk away.
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8/17/21 is the drop dead for IE11 and legacy Edge
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