FireFox and all of the forks breaks within 2 months
Sounds like a skill issue to me, guy
Yeah, I can’t remember the last time I had to do anything to “fix” Firefox.
My only issue with Firefox is some extensions get a little fussy in-between updates, but it seems to be a Linux issue more than a Firefox one.
And my problem is most definitely a skill issue.
It’s also objectively less secure than Chromium, which is hard to admit.
On what objective measures?
The big one is task (thread) isolation. Let me dig up some sources and get back to you,
Legends say you are still out for milk.
I forgor. This is the post I was referring to. It’s well-researched and quite fascinating, actually.
I was running into a blue screen ONLY when using Firefox.
A month later, I decided to make sure one of my memory sticks was fully seated. Issue resolved.
Yeah, Firefox works fine for me, problem is a good number of websites on the modern web just actually do not work correctly on Firefox because theyre designed by lazy morons.
Sometimes this can be fixed by just spoofing it and presenting as chrome, other times not.
In Opera’s defense, I have considered installing it for its game recommendation thingy alone and not actually using it as a browser, simply because modern online game stores basically recommend either massively marketed stuff or seemingly completely random 5 dollar trash, or stupid meme game that is extremely popular right now that is basically also trash and is forgotten about when Twitch moves on to the next thing.
In the past I remember Opera’s game thingy actually being decent. Any current users that can attest to this?
I have been using firefox for close to ten years and somehow I never encountered a website that didn’t work at all.
It depends on what websites you frequent. The vast majority work fine (though they are still heavily optimized for Chrome and not much else), but there are some exceptions like publishers of educational material or other websites with overzealous ideas of web based DRM. I’ve seen some banners that straight up tell you “You need to upgrade to a proper browser” and then link to the Chrome installer…
Government websites also seem to like locking into either Chrome or Edge
Yeah, its not that the entire website won’t work, it’ll be some vital part of it.
Various Federal and State and Local government websites will have a captcha that just doesn’t load, or have a search map or filter system that bugs out and doesn’t work.
Happens with a good number of slapdash apartment websites too, and some smaller businesses.
Theres a few things I have to regularly use that just do not actually work on Firefox so I have to keep Chrome around… =(
Again though, sometimes you can get them to work by just using a browser spoofing addon to tell the website that you are actually Chrome. Which is insane because… basically that means theyre just intentionally making Firefox not work even though it does.
Only crappy websites cause problems, and unless it’s something you really need, why bother?
Apple Business Manager and JAMF both will refuse to work in Firefox for me. GoDaddy frequently complains too.
Dude is smoking crack. I’ve been using firefox for, shit, I don’t even know how long, but it’s gotta be creeping on at least fifteen years. Feels like forever any way.
Never had any kind of problem like he’s yakking about. Not once.
I’ve been using Firefox since it was Mozilla Navigator and I can’t say I’ve ever had “Piece of shit always broken” with it unless you count websites these days building with Chrome in mind, in which case I don’t blame Mozilla.
That’s my experience as well. Maybe it has more trouble on Windows though. I haven’t had much experience with it there.
I’ve been using it regularly since (I think) one of the 0.9 Betas that came on the CD bundled with a magazine I got from my local library.
Literally never had to deal with issues OP is dealing with
Only time I’ve had an issue with Firefox requiring >5 minutes of diagnosis was when a shared library was deleted during a freeware uninstall. What an odd piece of criticism.
Also, brave’s president is right wing, and I dislike that. Like “pls no step on snek” right wing.
I have no issue with Firefox.
Brave is literally chromium you half baked onion
That has to be a British insult. It’s just too perfect.
I aspire to that but unfortunately I’m a lowly yank
Why am I not surprised they’re a Brave fan.
Brave, for crypto enthusiasts who like to talk about privacy and security but don’t actually have those things or know what they are.
Does it still have advertisements?
Anon has left their chambers.
I’ve been using Firefox for like 15-17 years now, I honestly can’t even remember when I started, but its never let me down.
I’m no power user with it or anything, but its always done exactly what I needed it to.
Yeah I don’t get what they mean by needing a refresher every few days or whatever. I’ve used it all my life and only crappy websites had me needing to switch to another browser.
I completely forgot about having to use a different browser for bad websites. It’s been a few years now, but I think something to do with the SHiFT code rewards between Borderlands 2 & 3 was the last time I had to use a different browser.
Yup, and aside from Firefox for Android, I don’t remember the last time I needed to “refresh” Firefox, and even on Android, I only need to do it like once/year.
It’s really a non-issue.
Firefox actually doesn’t break. And it’s also not Chrome with a layer of paint. So that’s the obvious solution. Degoogled Chromium is the other.
It 100% can break due to updates. I’ve had compatibility get broken out of nowhere before, it’s rare but it does happen. Typically it’s due to some config change or something with security settings that was changed. Idk. But it does happen and it can be very annoying to fix.
I say this as a loyal Firefox user ever since I got fed up with Vivaldi. I appreciate Firefox for being what I consider the only decent browser currently available but even then I’m disillusioned to it’s issues.
The only issues I’ve had with Firefox is when some websites, like Teams, doesn’t “support” it. Even though if you change the browser’s identifier (there’s an extension for that) then it works fine, they just don’t “officially support” it.
I’m also like 90% sure that “we don’t support it” is artificial, been meaning to test it.
My Firefox install at the office works fine with Teams but will refuse to load at home. I think it might be a version issue, but I’ll try to establish parity to make sure it’s not Microsoft being fucky thinking they can shaft anyone using Firefox/Linux outside of the office.
One workaround has been to spoof your Firefox user agent so Teams believes it’s Chrome, and would you believe it the feature worked. I don’t know if this trick is still relevant.
This does not work with the message I was encountering, which is what originally made me suspect fuckery may be afoot…
Been using Firefox for what I think is 2 years now, haven’t had any major problems as far as I recall.
Yah I don’t know what anon is doing to his PC when no one is looking but it can’t be good. Firefox for at least 13 years here and never had an issue I didn’t cause myself.
ah that is because this is an echochamber and all unliked submissions and comments get deleted. so, you remember weave?
Brave is basically all of the above. I genuinely don’t get how anyone is braindead enough to fall for their “privacy” advertising.
The intro-to-programming instructor at the school I work at loves it. But he also has a GME To The Moon sticker on his PC. Seems to be a beloved instructor
IDK, their ad blocker seems to work, so that puts it away ahead of the rest of the Chromium browsers.
But uBlock Origin on Firefox is even better, so I only use Brave to test apps in Chromium.
Could you fill me in as to why Brave is only advertiaed as secure? I understand the ads/crypto thing, but if you arent opted into that and just block the ads, is there anythimg else? I also understand its a Chromium browser, but that doesnt mean google has their hooks in it (necessarily).
Firefox and all its forks break every two months requiring a refresh every two months
Meanwhile me here with the same Firefox profile since 2017
Brave and apple are big astroturfers on 4chan. Always running ad campaigns in the form of ‘organic comments’.
Soo, chromium again… just with a few plugins and crypto shit. Or has brave stopped using those?
