Posted on 08/19/2020 4:20:43 AM PDT by ShadowAce
I downloaded and installed Brave this morning after I posted this thread. It allows you to import all your Firefox bookmarks, and I've noticed that it also imported most of my settings and autocompletion fields.
I did have to install the couple of extensions I use--NoScript and AdBlocker, and autoscrolling is now an extension rather than built in. Overall, though, I am liking this browser a LOT more than when I tried it out a few years ago.
KancelKultur Karma!
Firefox shot itself in the head when they changed to a model of near-daily updates. Sure, they keep the bleeding edge folks happy, but for mainstream users it’s too big of a hassle having to dismiss the popup every time the browser is used.
When I open a browser, I want to use the browser. Not wait for a download and installation.
And with the benefit of an extra set of spyware built in. No one that cares about security should use Edge.
Firefox’s decline started when they started their rapid release. Then they changed their coding to ruin many add-ons/extensions.
That was around version 47 or so.
Edge is one of those ‘keeping up with the Joneses’ browsers. Microsoft essentially coded their own version of the most widely used features of Chrome and Firefox and added them into their browser. You’re correct about Chrome - it’s a spyware monster and no matter how you tweak it, it’s a resource hog. I’ve tried dozens, if not hundreds of times over the years to tame it for end users, but about the only quick-n-dirty fix any of us could conjure up was to increase the page file size and tell the user not to have 10 apps open at once. (Try telling that to an engineer. God bless and good luck.) Firefox was a fun browser until it started to eat itself, then the old legacy plug-ins that were so much fun started to mutate and go rogue when they upgraded to stay abreast of the newer Firefox builds. They need to create a Geezernet for us 50+ types who were in IT back in the Wild West days when there were still dial-up modems and BBS sysops. E-mail was straight ASCII and not HTML.
I use Firefox , I can make it look and do what I want to do . All those Google clones are boring
t in 2020, the most popular web browser is Google Chrome, with 49.3 percent of the recorded share of visits. This is a far cry from IE's once dominant share of 96 percent back in the infancy of the web,..Apple's Safari browser comes in a distant second with 31.6 percent....29.5 percent of smartphones are Apple devices, compared to 23 percent Android devices. So most of the Safari use actually comes from phones, not PCs. The big surprise is the third place winner. Internet Explorer. Despite the fact that Microsoft has been urging people to switch to Edge, IE is still the third most widely used browser, capturing 5.7 percent of the market...Edge loses out to IE, capturing only 4.2 percent of the market, and bringing up the rear is Firefox, with a mere 3.6 percent. The remaining 11.3 percent of the market share is divided up between a constellation of tiny, seldom used browsers that nonetheless have niche followings
Besides the (detrimental in many ways) massive switch from desktops to mobile devices for Internet searching, the decline of Firefox is what happens when you follow the crowd, both into political correctness and ignorance or carelessness, and thus handicap a swiss knife, utility truck browser, in seeking to imitate Chrome, which the simple masses flock due mainly mainly because if advertising, or speed, and or because they care little for customization and enhanced functions. Those who even know what TabMixPlus enabled know some of what I am speaking of.
I use about 6 browsers, each for a purpose (one mainly for forums, another for shopping, etc...) and use multiple profiles of Firefox ESR, and Waterfox and Basilisk due to the extensions that enable far more functionality than the 2nd best Firefox Quantum (portable) or the inferior Chrome (portable) etc. I would say Vivaldi is better than Chrome, Opera and others
I miss that awesome extension.
Have recently been using DuckDuckGo browser on my Android phone and IPad. Very fast and very effective at blocking ads.
Yeah, that worked out.
My wife is still using FireFox on her MacBook Pro but I switched to Safari on my iMac. Our machines are just browsing...
My browsing life: Netscape, Opera, Firefox, Slimjet, Brave.
Through all of this I have used Thunderbird for email.
Very satisfied with the Brave/T’bird combo.
I use Mozilla. And I’m debating ending it.
They put BLM banners and “don’t you want to take unconscious bias training?” on the bottom of the page every time you start it up.
Get woke, go broke.
Agreed.
I haven’t used Firefox for the same reason, Eich’s removal. I use Palemoon and SlimJet (Mozilla/Chromium) now.
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