Because Firefox honestly used to be shit, especially in the early Phoenix/Firebird days, but now it isn’t anymore, and they just haven’t bothered to check it out again. The “killing all the existing extensions” thing really didn’t help matters either.
I agree it was a heavy blow when they announced that, I didn’t update for a few months, but man was it a nice fresh start, and I’m grateful that all the addons I had before have now made it over to the new system.
I admittedly didn’t use FF before it was FF, I think I got into it around probably 2006 or so, but it’s been great in my opinion ever since then.
I was really sour about the Mr Robot prank where they modified pages without informing the user. But weighing a prank gone wrong against the active goal of dicking over the internet I’ll take the well meaning pranksters.
I have one thing missing from Firefox that keeps me from permanently switching: vertical tabs. I know there’s ways of hacking it into FF, but nothing sustainable. I know it seems minor, but in Brave/Edge, it just works so damn well.
I keep seeing people with devout hatred for my beloved Firefox, but none of you say why.
Because Firefox honestly used to be shit, especially in the early Phoenix/Firebird days, but now it isn’t anymore, and they just haven’t bothered to check it out again. The “killing all the existing extensions” thing really didn’t help matters either.
Firefox in the Phoenix/Firebird days was amazing compared to ie6, Opera, and SeaMonkey/Mozilla suite
I agree it was a heavy blow when they announced that, I didn’t update for a few months, but man was it a nice fresh start, and I’m grateful that all the addons I had before have now made it over to the new system.
I admittedly didn’t use FF before it was FF, I think I got into it around probably 2006 or so, but it’s been great in my opinion ever since then.
I was really sour about the Mr Robot prank where they modified pages without informing the user. But weighing a prank gone wrong against the active goal of dicking over the internet I’ll take the well meaning pranksters.
??? I literally never said anything about hating Firefox, I was merely asking a simple question…
I used to use Firefox all the time, then they killed all the extensions. That doesn’t mean I somehow “hate it” LOL
But like, y’know, anyone that doesn’t agree with you is literally Satan, right? 🙄
Some that I have heard (some are outdated and/or mostly irrelevant):
That said, I’m still using Librewolf.
I know you didn’t say these were your opinions, but I’ll still see if I can comment on them:
It’s not. It’s actually faster.
Ehhhhhhhhh. Source?
Everything has telemetry, but Firefox shows you right where to turn it off, unlike the rest.
??? Which browser has no ads?
Fair.
Adblock? This a joke?
Source?
Source?
Relevance?
Also, Librewolf is just a fork of FF, you can make main FF exactly like Libre but get same day updates and security patches.
I have one thing missing from Firefox that keeps me from permanently switching: vertical tabs. I know there’s ways of hacking it into FF, but nothing sustainable. I know it seems minor, but in Brave/Edge, it just works so damn well.
There are multiple extensions that do this in FF.
sideberry
Thanks, I’ll give it a shot.
I prefer Tab Center Reborn with CSS edits, but Sideberry absolutely gets the job done, and well.
Vertical tabs can be done by CSS, it doesn’t even require an extension.