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With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

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[–] emptyother@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

And if you miss PWAs, Firefox got an extension for it now. Check out PWAsForFirefox. And unless Edge and Chrome, you can edit the name before pinning the site.

A few bugs and drawbacks though. It uses its own profile, so you will probably want Firefox Sync to transfer your password vault and extensions to it.

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[–] rick@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] randon31415@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I switched back when I was in college - which is strange because it came out one year after I left. I also remember having to take a class on how to use Google in my first year of college - which gives you a hint how long ago it was.

[–] HRDS_654@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Jokes on you. I've never used Chrome (outside of work limitations). I always liked the way Firefox looked over Chrome so never really got into it. I do use Edge Chromium every so often since some pages work better, but not sure if this would apply or not.

Also, does anyone know about the Duckduckgo beta browser, specifically what engine it uses? I tried it on a couple pages, but it seems pretty buggy right now.

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wasn't there a whole anti-trust issue with duckduckgo a while ago, with duckduckgo exempting Microsoft trackers from its ad block? Link

They admitted that by contractual obligation, in exchange for using bing as the underlying search engine they have to let in some trackers from microsoft, though they do mention in their response that this is not applicable to their search engine (?).

As for the beta program for duckduckgo on windows, I think most issues might be ironed out in time.

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[–] nvm@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Opera cons notwithstanding, Opera One is really nice as a browser.

Firefox itself has some UI quirks that can cause a bit of friction.

Chrome always feels like it just works, but I rely on Google's ecosystem frequently.

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[–] anlumo@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (10 children)

If only Firefox weren’t such a crap dev experience compared to Chrome.

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[–] Smacks@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

If you need a Chrome-like or Chromium based browser you can always try the various other versions of Chrome out there. Just about every browser that isn't FF is based on Chromium now.

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