Firefox on Android supports extensions, which means adblockers. No more annoying YT ads while I am out to lunch and watching a video on my phone. _________________________ Edit: A lot of people are pointing out other browsers and apps block ads. I am well aware, but those arent the *ONLY* extensions I use. It was just an example.
@@finkelmana Have tried it in the past, but I felt very unsatisfied. The kiwi browser is a decent alternative with support for extensions based on Chromium that is as stable as any other browser
I've been on Firefox main for as long as Firefox exists. But we actually need more people on Firefox, because we NEED more browser engines in the market, we can't have this monoculture, that's really bad from a security and web standards perspective.
@@autohmae Personally, I'd like to see the existing web technology trio, HTML/CSS/JS, get wiped out and replaced. Unfortunately, every website operator would need to switch to whatever alternative was provided and because the monoculture is easier and with Chrome having such significant market share, it'll never have a hope of ever happening. This is the only reason I still promote Firefox, because every browser sucks now, but breaking the monopoly could go a long way towards fixing things.
Not wanting to use Chromium is still valid in my eyes since more variety/competition is a good thing. However Firefox is much more than just "an alternative to Chromium-based browsers" and it's nice that he paints a bigger picture.
I use Firefox at home, for dev work, at work, and encourage my users to switch to Firefox, Mozilla totally doesn't have a sign held up in front of me to type this
@@nikkehtine Congrats to you and the people that unironically liked your reply on proving my point for me. Thank you. If the only reason you use FF is because it's not Chrome or Chromium based then congrats, you literally have no reason to use it. Competition isn't good unto itself any more than choosing to use something because it's not something else is a valid reason. If FF has even 1 feature you think makes it superior to any chromium based browser then you actually have a reason to use, but if the only reason you use FF is because you want there to be competition for Chrome then congrats, you literally have no idea how markets and competition works. You are artificially propping up Firefox. And you are surprised people move away from it? FF at one time had 34% of the global market. Now they have 3%. Competition is good if it results in better goods and services. It's not the end goal unto itself any more than it's good unto itself. It's the end results of competition that make it so desirable. What you just wrote is dogmatic nonsense that can only result in worse products and services for the sake of "competition". Talking about FF on the internet brings all the people that either failed or should have failed econ 101 out of the woodwork. How lacking must your understanding of economy be for you to actually write that BS? There's a reason why competition is good and you clearly have no idea what it is. I really hope this comment enlightens you.
I use firefox because I've always used firefox. Since way back when I realised Internet Explorer was garbage, I have used firefox. There is nothing about chrome that has ever enticed me. If I were to have to switch to a chromium based browser for resource reasons, I would probably just use Edge. Firefox has better adblocking capability and I see absolutely no reason to stop using what I am comfortable with just so I can go over to a browser that is fundamentally controlled by a corporation like google of all things, not a company I really wish to support or feed all my data to. If that's a problem for you then k my a. That being said I have been wary of where mozilla has been going and am keeping librewolf open as an alternative. It's not a dogma, it's a browser.
I noticed a small mistake: Gecko is the browser Engine. Quantum was a big update, that improved among other things the Firefox engine using parts of the Servo project.
They can rename 'chrome' 2 whatever but it's not gecko or whatever else. It's Chrome, including all it's flaws. They even removed the 'compatibility app' 2 pretend it's not, but it is. They do this because they make their money from Joogle paying them 2 B the default serach engine, not 4 'browser performance'. Google paid them 2 destroy their own product, & they don't care = they get paid 2 burn their own house down, so Y should they? LOL
Firefox is $hit compared 2 Supremium, on XP, & even worse compared 2 Thorium on everything after. The only advantage is a few 'Firefox Only' type addons, which iWill experiment with 'transation' addons 2 get working on Supremium =) iMainly run XP because overall everything after is absolute krap, & Linux is even worse =P
I have been using Firefox (vanilla) for 10+ years and its still my go to browser. While you mentioned it did offer alot of customization on the surface, it offers even more deep down and you can basically make the browser look and act however you want it
@@dirty-moto pretty sure most people switched FROM it to Chrome around 2012. I definitely used Firefox during the XP and early Win 7 era until Chrome's selections of extensions became superior. only recently with Google increasingly going spyware and adware that people are coming back to Firefox.
I would use librewolf but some websites don't work properly with it (twitch) and I don't feel like installing two browsers :/ It's a shame because I really like librewolf's privacy features and the overall direction of the project
@@Scorpwind There are dozens of us! @BunnyRabbit. None really, privacy is the point, it's just more convenient to have all the best privacy options done for you rather than doing it manually to firefox.
In my case, I use Firefox Dev mainly, but don't know why the devtools are very slow when selecting HTML elements. Edge dev tools are faster in that case
@@diegoxl59 because Google didn’t update dev tools for 10 years and it’s the worst piece of software in the world. Every time I open devtools I think like how they managed to make it so bad, ux is just uhhh, they just don’t care!
These are the real killer features for me. Simple Tab Groups and Multi Account Containers are priceless. Another thing for me personally is just how customizable it is, using CSS you can really make Firefox into anything.
while I agree about the multi-account implementation being better than chromium's "profile" system, tab-groups are a native feature in chromium. They even recently added the option to "save tab groups" which means you can close the tab group and restore it at any time. (they, annoyingly, call this "hiding" the tab group) However, this is unfortunately incompatible with existing tab-suspension extensions such as TMS, and it's not a direct replacement either. I wish things like Treestyletab (which already completely overhaul how tabs are tracked and displayed anyway) were able to implement transparent tab-suspension somehow, so that no matter how many tabs you had "open" they wouldn't actually load unless you were using them. Even on chrome browsers once you start getting hundreds or thousands of tabs, suspended or not, opening the browser will make things CRAWL. (if not crash) We really need a browser that has a decent way of *_actually_* suspending tabs, as in, "just save them to disk, and restore them seamlessly whenever I actually need them". Most tabs take, max, a few megabytes to store completely with something like the single-file extension. That means you could store literally thousands of tabs in a few gigabytes of space. (far less if you used compression since, let's be real, HTML and javscript repeat themselves, a lot.) If it were possible for something like Treestyletab to suspend and restore tabs on it's own then you could open as many tabs at once as you want, and none of them would actually draw any resources because they aren't actually loaded. Just lie to the user that the tab is there, and when they click on it, *_THEN_* load it into memory from disk.
I used to use Firefox until I moved to another country. I could not speak the language, at the time, so website translation functionality was a must. Translation functionality was just better in to Chrome (even better in Edge). Having recently moving my gaming PC to Linux I have noticed that Firefox implemented a beta translation tool that is now just as good as the others. So now I am back to Firefox. On my Mac however Safari is still king for Spacial Audio and my AirPods ;)
@@DrewnioQ The built in tool is done on the system the TWP extension connects to another service (google or yandex) which might not bother most people but is very desirable to some.
KDE plasma will enable middle click "AutoScrolling" in Plasma 6.2. apparently it's a feature in LibInput but nobody has implemented it into the GUI yet, and for wayland that means you don't get auto-scrolling at all.
I am a Vivaldi user, it has a built in ad blocker, custom CSS support like Firefox, more customization than Firefox, tiling windows (i can’t live without it), and it is just straight up better than Firefox, IMO, and I used to be a multi year Firefox fan, going all the way back to its original Quantum update. Now, wasn’t exclusively Firefox, did use Brave on the side as well for some niche reasons, but now, Vivaldi does everything that I need, and more
@ashleyrose. It's interesting to hear this view. Would you recommend Vivaldi over Fire Fox as well as Brave? Can you please let me know what are the top 5 reasons that you decided to use Vivaldi as your primary browser?
@@electrology I use Vivaldi for its massive feature set, including page tiling up to four pages, tab stacking (both of which Vivaldi had first), infinite customization, not only with the settings, but it also has CSS support, I love its side panel, because it’s not too big, and can hold web pages, so you can have up to 5 web pages shown at once in one window, built in tracker and ad blocker, with support for custom filter lists. It also has an email client, calendar, and RCS feed built in. This is just barely scratching the surface of what Vivaldi can do, and they are always adding more features, too
Honestly it makes sense firefox support linux very well After all linux distros are the only OS which come with firefox preinstalled. And probably a big part of firefox usage is on linux. So unlike chrome or edge which both have their own prioritary OS (android, windows) and linux is irrelevant to them, mozilla probably cannot just ignore linux
Been a Firefox user since 2004. One thing I also love about the Firefox is how Firefox handles the profiles. It's very easy to migrate from Windows to macOS to Linux just by copy and pasting the profile and it just works and everything is stored locally with no need for online accounts. The profile system also allows launching multiple windows with different user profiles in them easily: this feature out of the box is really life saver in development. (Also I generally like the development tools in Firefox compared to Chrome)
Why is it so damn hard to make a good web browser with PWA support not based on Chromium!? Edit: It seems Firefox is looking to add back PWA support! They're (as of July 2024) looking to see how it could be added back and are actually taking user suggestions! This is huge, because that was what was keeping me on Chromium for a LONG time! Currently, the only Firefox fork that has this feature is the source available (similar to Vivaldi) Floorp. If this gets put back into Firefox proper, I would FINALLY be able to switch to Firefox again!
PWA support is a bit of a deal clincher for me. I would always opt for a PWA over a full app where I can, it means less footprint on my computer, and it's a small thing but I jump between phones and tablets both iOS and Android, to be able to install and use the app in question without having to go through the stores is like a gift
@@rishirajsaikia1323 Only a braindead person would comment that. One not able to realize that any form of critic can be considered hate speech depending on if that would be beneficial to the other entity. And that is easy to manipulate. So it's either free speech or no speech. Nothing in between is viable.
Firefox is the best browser experience on Debian/Ubuntu. I use popOS and Firefox is extremely fast, smooth, clean, and looks good. I will say though, I tried Firefox on my Fedora40 laptop the other day, and it was SUPER buggy. I think that must have something to do with Fedora being "bleeding-edge" though.
@@SnowDaemon weird about the Fedora thing, I'm running Fedora Kinoite (immutable Fedora with KDE) on a laptop and Firefox is just fine there 😅 Also *woohoo* Pop!_OS
Wow I didn't know about the screenshot tool in Firefox, that's pretty useful. I agree with the wayland support, Firefox is much more pleasant to use, I'm a laptop touchpad user so I rely a lot on the two finger swipe to go back a page and it doesn't work on Chrome since it's X11 by default, yes I can change chrome to use wayland and make it work but then Chrome does not respect my font scaling settings and just looks awful. Nonetheless I keep chrome on the side as a backup and I mainly also got it to try PWAs when I first learned about them.
here's an advice - don't use wayland like me it's a massive massive downgrade in terms of functionality, even without any bugs, just to gain a little bit of performance - totally not worth it and completely overhyped devs have been wasting their time on it - it has no future
@@ent2220 I disagree, wayland has been all positive for me and I cannot go back to X11 now, especially touchpad gestures and gnome feels smoother here in wayland. I'm looking forward for the future.
@@ravener83 you're a casual then basically. Wayland treats windows as simple rectangles and has no access to what's in them is all you need to know. In X11 it has full access to absolutely everything, so there's a lot you can do with that. Wayland would have to changed from the ground up to support this because this is its base functionality. In other words a brand new display server would need to be made.
@@ent2220 It works for me, no idea why you are suddenly spreading Wayland hate on my comment, if you prefer X11 then good for you but I'm satisfied here.
I personally use brave, because it has a built in adblocker, and it's able to sync across all my devices, windows pc, android phone, and ipad. If there was a firefox fork that has better privacy than base firefox, was on all my devices, and has sync, then I might switch.
you can edit the user.js file to easily customize firefox to your liking, and also there are UI themes that change the look completely of Firefox, my whole browser UI fits in chrome's title bar.
We often hear, "Firefox gives you more privacy while sacrificing a little performance." This was true a few years ago, but now Firefox offers the same performance and speed as Chromium browsers.
People will argue "oh but there's still a difference in benchmarks". Yeah, there is, a tiny difference that amounts to nothing percievable in actual normal use.
I am using the Firefox since its release. It had bad times. But at the end of the day (I mean currently) the Firefox is, for me, better than any browser.
The cool thing of Firefox is that you can actually harden it so it gives off as little privacy compromising things as possible so yeah Firefox my not be the Browser King, but it definitely is the Privacy king if hardened
I've started to use Firefox again also because of a way better Wayland support (including touchpad gestures)! Chrome still doesn't allow scale UI elements in Wayland session however in X11 it can.
Wow, I had no idea about the layout editor (adding Home button, spacers, etc.). Between that and the difference you demonstrated in cookie behavior, I'm definitely wanting to try a Firefox only period sometime this year on Linux.
Also did you know that you can do multiple selections at once? You can for example select a paragraph scroll to another hold down control and select a different one while the previous one is also selected. So you can copy and paste multiple parts of a text with a single copy and pasting.
Been an OG Firefox user back when Opera charged to use their browser and IE was really crappy. Good thing there were alternatives back then and IE was no longer the monopoly.
It gotten so bad, The FBI had warnings to use a different browser because IE was so insecure. This was at the time when IE was still dominate and most sites were designed with propiretary crap from IE.
20 years ago I asked my friends about the cute icon with the orange fox. They told me it was a web browser. Haven't used anything else as my main browser since that day.
Floorp is what modern Firefox should be in 2024. Tried it on a whim a couple months ago, along with other browsers. And find myself not only still using it, but I dare say its my favorite one of all. Ram usage can get a little high if you have a ton of tabs open, compared to Brave, but enable the sleeping tabs option will mostly alleviate that. Worst part of it is the name.
I switched to a lesser known fork called Floorp a while back, primarily for the native vertical tabs support and easier profile switching (Arguably Firefox's most powerful feature which just doesn't get talked about because of the non-existant GUI for it) Incidentally, it also readded PWA support which runs far better than any extension can perform :p
You literally didn't scratch the surface, you didn't talk about the BEST by far grouping system and the BEST bookmark system, I was using brave before and after I went with Waterfox, and now I'm with Firefox, I hope someday someone make Earthfox ;)
What do you mean about the bookmarks ? Am I missing something ? I do use bookmarks, both in the menu and in the toolbar and it's nice and good, but I can't see what makes it BEST. And it drives me insane that you cannot edit or tell it to refresh the icon of the bookmark, it just gets it automatically ... but sometimes doesn't. And some tools that run on localhost don't have a favicon so the ability to add one for the bookmark would also be nice. That's so missing in Firefox. Hopefully one day they'll add that.
@@Winnetou17 I'm not talking about the menu or toolbar bookmarks because that is not really different from chrome, but I'm talking about how you can make shortcuts to any website and how you can search any website it's amazing; I have shortcuts to search RU-vid to open my mail etc. it's cool! :D
I like everyone used to use Chrome (cause Firefox on Android was not at all good for years). But even when they have PC and Android version, the syncing between the 2 was just not good and effective. So when Microsoft launched that BingAI I finally shifted to Edge and it solved 1 problem which was syncing between devices. I have Samsung Phone, so other ecosystem stuff worked great. But then, came Firefox Android with sync as well as extension support. and honestly, their syncing feels like it is FIRST PARTY browser made by Google and Microsoft cause it works so well. And on top of that Full Fledged Extension support means it just nailed every other browser into the ground (atleast for me). edit: and ofc the other benefits of not being based on Chromium.
Chromium 126 just updated on my Linux distro, and man it is really messing up. Tons of freezes on pages and all kinds of 'Oh Snap!' error messages. I am back on Firefox.
I love the "Simple Tab Groups" extension. I've switched from Vivaldi to Firefox just cause, but now I won't switch back because I just prefer STG's implementation of tab grouping over what every other browser does. Also, fun fact, you can move extension buttons anywhere on the toolbar. I placed STG on the far left for example, for convenient access.
I've been using Firefox for 20 years. I've tried testing out other browsers but they just lack core features that Firefox has natively that I can never commit to a switch. Two big features that I honestly cannot live without that Firefox has are: 1. Customizable toolbar 2. Suppressed play in new tabs. The 2nd one I'm pretty sure is a Firefox feature, but it isn't really talked about a lot. I've tried it in other browsers and it doesn't seem to be a thing. Basically if you're on RU-vid, for instance, you can middle-click a video to open it in a new tab. But the video will not play automatically. You have to manually switch to the tab and click play. I cannot express enough how much I love this feature.
my biggest reason for sticking to Firefox on linux is native hardware acceleration support out of the box. Sure, I can get it working on Chrome/brave/etc, but half of the time it ends up breaking after an update. great video!
I've been using firefox for so long, over 12 years already. It's so good I've never looked back. The only thing I would ask for is tab tiling like vivaldi has...
You switched to a browser that with latest release send your data to advertising companies. How convenient. FF 128 comes with privacy-preserving ad measurement enabled by default. Choose Floorp, Libre Wolf or Pale Moon instead.
RU-vid , Google , Alphabet whatever they actively sabotage FF. Videos are intentionally slow and there are issues with comments and some other XHR / AJAX requests are intentionally not finished by UT servers. Chromium engine based browsers have preferential treatment
@@potffin With your logic, we should not criticize government for being corrupt, because WE are not the ones running it or we are not qualified to run it so we must as well smile and be an idiot like you. Next time think before talking toddler.
@@Thorned_Rose Both Corp and Foundation sadly... I don't know enough about all of them, but I know about enough of them, they all have to have similar mindsets.
Firefox's update 128 collects your information and data and "privacy-preserves" it to Meta aka Facebook, you might want to switch to Librewolf, Brave or Vivaldi
@@xgui4-studios 1. Clearly included Librewolf which is a fork of Firefox that respects your privacy, no set-up required 2. It's not easy to disable 5 to 10 different layers of telemetry that they can also send to Meta and can't disable directly through your settings It's not misinformation, it's called actually doing research
Firefox also has a major advantage for laptop users: its hardware accelerated video decode support is light years better than Chromium-based browsers have which greatly improves battery life when e.g. watching videos on RU-vid.
Regarding the method to enable the Home button in Firefox I agree it’s nice, but I honestly wonder who the heck decided it was a good idea to start removing the home button from browsers by default. Sure, you often just type in the address bar to search for something but there’s a lot of people that customize their Home to have some of those custom pages with a lot of useful infos, links to websites and so on…just leave it on by default. Also, specific to Firefox which has always been my main browser, it’s even crazier to think that by default you don’t have Home but you have those useless left and right spacers around the address bar and the Pocket icon, which is something most users don’t care about anyway.
idk why, but about this year firefox is getting a lot better and capable on doing what chromium-based browser does at the same level... less bug, and more feature.
I’m a developer and I’ve been using Firefox as my daily browser since 2003. The things you mentioned are all reasons why I continue to use it. However, as a web developer, I must clarify that Firefox’s engine is objectively slower at some tasks and no amount of website optimizations will make those things go equal or faster than in other browsers. That is a common misconception. The browser must continue to improve as it has all these years.
I love Firefox, but I wish it had tab tiling and a clean speed dial start page interface like Vivaldi. Those are dealbreakers for me at least until adblockers stop working.
I used to use Opera as my main and had Firefox for testing as it was more accurate. Once Opera swapped to using Chromium's render engine I completely abandoned it and used only Firefox as my main and occasionally used various Chromium-based browsers for testing. The main reason I used Opera was because it was faster and lighter than everything else, especially Firefox at the time. After I switched to Firefox, I would say it was mostly because everything else was corrupted. Now, even Firefox is being corrupted. In the future I may be forced to write my own browser just to have a clean web experience. I know people will say Ladybird, but I think we need to wipe out all of the existing garbage tech, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, and replace them with something better. It's not likely that a small market share browser could do that, but I'd at least like to try, and I feel like Ladybird is just giving up in that regard.
