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      10 months ago

      Firefox lacks a ton of features and its default settings have terrible fingerprinting protection to start.

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        10 months ago

        Then customize it. Honestly they aren’t all that bad and by using Firefox you ate not supporting google.

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          10 months ago

          I have done that, and it a horrible, it takes more work to make a useChrone.css on firefox than to setup a wm on linux lol

          You can also use any of the forks of chromium and not support google, what you said is like telling people not use grapheneos because it is a fork of android.

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            If we had a working alternative to Android as a whole, we would surely use it. But Linux on mobile works only in few devices and not flawlessly at all. But for the Chromium monopoly we have an actual alternative that works.

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              Linux on phones already work, just that phonecalls might not work sometimes, but if you are into privacy you might as well not use that anyway lol.

              So yeah, time to drop graphene and start using linux on phones, if you managed to get firefox to work you can use linux phones, sure some websites might not work on firefox (that is not fault of firefox, same way not all apps might work on linux) and you may need to do some coding to get some things to your liking (using custom.css files is like settings up a bunch of configs and scripts on linux) and you might need to add a bunch extensions to get basic features (like adding extensions to gnome lol).

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        Yeah, Firefox lacks features like built-in pop-up ads, full screen homepage ads (those ones are enabled by default), and a VPN you probably didn’t even purchase.

        Truly, the features I wanted to clog up my hard drive whether I use them or not

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          FIrefox lacks vertical tabs, can’t change the default new tab page background color without having to use a custom .css file.

          Having to use a userContent.css for something so basic is insane. That is orders of magnitude more work than disabling the crypto ads in brave which you don’t even have to go in the settings to disable, it is right on the homepage menu.

          Also firefox lacks configurable keybinds and when I used librewolf I had to add two extensions for something that basic.

          One was to change the default keybinds to changing tabs from alt+123 to control+123 because for some reason they changed it on linux to that which is retarded (opening a new tab is still control+t so you can’t just say that it is all the control options that got moved to alt lol).

          The other extension was to deattach the tab which firefox has no keybind set for it.

          And one of the best features that firefox has, which is the userChrome.css has only gotten worse over time with it breaking with new updates and also now having it disabled by default and hidden inside the about:config menu.

          The default vpn on brave is terrible, although that only affected windows. And firefox is only slightly better on this because and pardon me if I’m mistaken (I don’t wanna install firefox to check lol) didn’t they change the default settings to send all dns over https to cloudflare? On librewolf they got rid of the default one and you have to provide one instead.

          Edit: Look no further, you even have to install ublock origin on firefox to get rid of ads and also configure its filter list if you want to get rid of cookie prompts, something that brave does by default already.

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            10 months ago

            These are all UI things you can add with extensions or some modding. Firefox needs forks for that.

            Not to speak of actual features like sandboxing on android, user namespace sandboxing on Linux, and more.

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              10 months ago

              Yeah no biggy, just some 7 extensions and some css and you will get somewhat usable experience on Firefox…

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                  That is horrible that you have to install a bunch of extensions for basic features, and one of those extensions to fix something that mozilla went out of their way to break on linux and not that they havent add.

                  And there is also things like syncing the user sessions and settings without an email which brave can do while firefox and forks can’t

                  edit: And you ignored half of my comment, doing css to get firefox to work IS NOT EASY lmao.