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[–] sic_1@feddit.de 68 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I see no reason to use any other browser than Firefox and maybe Librewolf.

[–] Amilo159@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Firefox on desktop is awesome. Firefox on mobile is painful.

[–] Darth_Vader__@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Android firefox is ok now. Moreover now it supports add ons too and there are some good add ons there.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's a very small number of add-ons, but one of them is uBlock Origin, and that's all I really want.

[–] Darth_Vader__@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

If firefox gets more popular then maybe more add ons can appear..

at least they support add ons like CHROME

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can just change the list of supported add-ons to whatever you like.

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only if you tie your browser with an account at Mozilla. No way to do it without an account.

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Only if you need your list. Otherwise you can just switch the list I'd to one including your extensions

[–] Fissionami@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Where can I change this list?

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In the settings under "custom add-on list". You might need to enter dev mode, which you do by tapping the Firefox logo in the about menu 5 times (you get a toast with your progress).

After that you enter the userID ND the collection name in the popup and confirm.

Details:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/extended-add-support

And a reddit comment with a list you can use:

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/j1ta1s/comment/g720d72/

[–] Amilo159@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

User interface is poor. Cannot customise the gui at all so I feel like it's a downgrade over Samsung browser that also supports ad blocks.

[–] Voyajer@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

It works pretty well for me, but I use Firefox nightly.

[–] Obstagoon@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] astropenguin5@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah top 4 browser are Firefox, librewolf, tor, and mull for sure.

[–] mcz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

mull and mullvad are at least two different things

[–] CapnAssHolo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Autocorrect so strong it turns your browser into a VPN

[–] mrsgreenpotato@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I am using Brave on iOS mainly because of its superb YouTube support - It has a built in ad block, can download videos offline and play minimized. Is there any way I can achieve this with any other browser? I would switch immediately.

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I am forced to use Chromium on my work laptop because MS Teams doesn't work (all the features) on Firefox.

Edit: I should elaborate this a bit. There are 2 reasons why I use Chromium on my machine.

  1. If I face a problem, company tech team only knows Chrome and they start crying when I open Firefox.
  2. On Linux, the official way to use Teams is through a web-app and Firefox doesn't support PWAs.

All other MS services function fine on Firefox.

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Which features I've never had an issue

[–] rambaroo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

The custom background effects don't work on Firefox

[–] vettnerk@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Same. I use furefox for everything* at work, despite everything being heavily integrated with teams, sharepoint, et.al.

*: The only thing that doesn't work with firefox is this inhouse web service that hasn't been updated since 2017. It's about to be replaced anyway, so nobody bothered to fix/update it.

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Simple one-to-one calling is disabled saying it's only available on Chrome. I'm pretty sure it's recent since I had calls a few months back on Firefox. I'm also sure that it's not some group policy since I'm on Ubuntu without any sort of ActiveDirectory so it's a pure browser issue. Also, they force the old UI in Firefox due to some reason. Typical BS from Microsoft.

[–] dan@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

I use Firefox as my primary browser and run the teams app.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

they start crying when I open Firefox.

Good. Use it anyway, and bathe in their tears!