Anyone out here stuck with Firefox as your primary browser on your Mac? Or even iOS? I am concerned about their long term survival in light of the Google Anti-Trust Deal but in light of all the hot new AI Browsers Firefox continues to remain old reliable for me. I just wish their management wasn’t absolutely incompetent.
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I’ve got a friend already mourning the death of Firefox, too. Let’s wait for the ruling to see what happens! It would be hard for Judge Mehta to argue that doing that much harm for Firefox is good for the browser market.
I could see equitable relief given to Firefox so that Google could still give a search deal to them. An indie browser is very different then the browser of the other OS in the Smartphone duopoly.
One of the draws of the “other side” of Android was to have real Firefox as my default browser.
I hope Firefox survives. I need uBlock origin and don’t want to lose it.
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You could use uBlockOrigin on all the other browsers. I’m using it on Microsoft Edge and Brave, and it’s fully functional. I’m talking about the full version of uBlockOrigin, not the lite version.
Interestingly enough, I’ve been seeing a lot of a set of new features coming out of Firefox lately, like vertical tabs and tab grouping, and a bunch of other quality of life improvements. I still don’t fully use it because it lacks a lot of automation support, like the Chromium browsers do support.
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I choose to stick with Firefox. Primarily because of all the ad-blocking addons I have installed.
I’ve moved almost entirely to Firefox. Seems snappier and easier to handle than Safari. Only 1 bank has an issue.
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Why do you fell you’re stuck with Firefox?
I’m all in with Firefox’s address bar, extensions, tags, and bookmarks manager.
I did my annual test of other browsers earlier this year, and decided that Firefox is the best option. I discovered new address bar feature such as “+tag” to filter by tags, and “*search text” to restrict searches to bookmarks.
A slightly hidden feature is the bookmark description field that lets you jot down notes about a bookmark. akaik, it’s only visible inside the bookmark manager window. Almost like the dev team didn’t want to commit to it by exposing it everywhere you can access bookmarks.
Don’t jump ship until the bridge is underwater.
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I’m just now researching Firefox containers, which is a feature completely foreign to me but may replace profiles. Though, one use I have for profiles is to access some of my online accounts over vpn while other accounts with the same service ( think google for personal and google for work use) not use a vpn.
stuck as in “stuck with them through think and thin” not “im stuck and I cant leave”
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Firefox has long been my primary browser. Switched to Arc for a while for the vertical tabs but returned after vertical tabs became available on Firefox.
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I bounce between Firefox and Brave (currently using Firefox) and have been worried about what might happen to Firefox if the Google deal goes away.
Well Public Broadcasting got my “non-charity” donation dollars unfortunately.
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Thanks for this. I’ve been playing with Firefox forks, Zen and Floorp, but seeing your post made me say to myself, “Why don’t I just try Firefox?” And I have and I like it.
What extensions do you use?
As macOS is the only OS where Chromium is allowed but is not the default. (Edge on Windows is Chromium, Chrome on Android etc…) I think Google puts the macOS app as its lowest priority. Meanwhile Firefox actually tries on the mac.
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Hop over to this thread …
Yep. I’m using Firefox on iPad and iPhone. On GNU/Linux I’m using two privacy/security focused Firefox forks, ABrowser (only available on Trisquel GNU/Linux) and LibreWolf which only offers an intel Mac version. There are several other excellent forks that might be worth trying. Zen is one of the best I think.
I don’t add any extensions to my browser.
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