uBlock Origin is present for Chrome as well.
Anyway, I have recently switched to Firefox from Chrome and so far, so good.
I am using these extensions:
Hummm, this argument somehow is not valid for browsers, since they are all free. What browser are you investing in that in exchange prevents websites from getting your data?
I think that this is a foundational principle: if you want to get the information fast, you have to express that wish over a web site, adding to your profile in the process. I agree that there are more and less intrusive models for dealing with that, but that’s rather depending on the websites and search engines we choose to use. While browsers are enablers, they are a rather small cog in the process.
Adding to your facebook profile from the most encrypted and expensive browser will not prevent anything that facebook then does with your data.
Well this is annoying.
If you click a link in Safari, it opens Apple News. If you click a link in Chrome, it stays in Chrome. If you click a link in some other app like Slack, it opens in Apple News — even if your default browser is Chrome.
And this is sad news for Firefox.
The Canvas bugs are terrible. Our Univeristy gives all students iPads and I have to note to students that our Canvas site will not work with Safari. I recommend they use Chrome.
Indeed (Firefox is my primary browser, on my PC).
Firefox is in an especially bad situation because it’s reported that it derives roughly 90% of it income from Google’s payment to make itself the primary search engine. But the contract expires later this year, there’s no renewal (yet), and Google has much less reason to pay, or pay nearly as much, now that Chrome has become many times more popular than Firefox over the years.
Google paid enough for Firefox to employ 1000 full-time workers… and they just shed 25% of their workforce as they try this pivot, apparently in anticipation of losing their Google contract or its diminishing dramatically in amount.
They’ve tried expanding their business with their purchase of Pocket (I use and love the Premium service but I don’t see a lot of people signing up for $45/yr) and they just launched a white-label VPN that’s a reseller-version of the well-regarded Mullvad VPN, with Firefox’s name on it, for the same $4.99/month. (MalwareBytes also is another Mullvad reseller charging the same rate.) Given their privacy-focused brand, and the Mullvad name being unknown among the general public, Mozilla might have a nice revenue stream from being a VPN reseller.
When Apple, Google and Microsoft not only give away their browsers but these days (necessarily) integrate their technology into their respective OSes it’s going to be harder than ever for 3rd-party browsers to keep afloat. Mozilla has the additional burden compared to Chromium browsers of having to do it all themselves, while Brave/Epic/Vivaldi et al don’t have to focus on the open-source guts updated by Google.
I switched to Firefox about a year ago. Invested in a password manager (Bitwarden) to be more cross platform as my time is spent almost equally between Mac, Windows, and iOS. Especially true now that my wife works from home and uses the MBP 3 days a week. Bitwarden didn’t work quite as well on Safari at the time, and I like Firefox’s open source and privacy focus.
I am starting to feel like FF is slowing down. I just tried a browser refresh, hopefully that helps. I really wish Safari for Windows continued developement, so I can sync browsing history. I use Edge for Mac too, since I need a Chromium browser for best Jitsi performance for work. It seems pretty snappy.
Might just be either the perceived slowing of FF or snappiness of Edge, that I’m feeling it might be time for a change.
I didn’t get Microsoft Windows for free. 
And to expand on this: Linux should be the worst, privacy-wise…
With Linux, it’s more like “if you’re not a contributor, you’re an annoyance”.
Technically the way I would qualify it is that @tomalmy’s comment only really applies to companies / organizations that are trying to pay a staff / developers.
ooh… I had not seen that. Not good.
Apart from lack of client side automation, I’ve been recommending it.
I use Pocket, but it also lacks in automation – compared to Pinboard, which I also use.
I thought that developing Firefox as a way to get more Pocket and VPN customers made sense.