Firefox

Onion sites get DDOS attacks constantly. That's why Dread has so many backup links.

afaik, cloudflare has an option to disallow tor traffic. so the website owner decided they don't want tor

Not only tor. Any user agent string that has no valid info is marked as not trusted/bot/gtfo

My wife was recently in school. Almost all the services she used decline to render unless you're using Chrome.

I 100% expect websites to soon start breaking their interface on Firefox. With Chromium blocking the best adblockers, they will be incentivized to nudge people to Chromium browsers.

Didn’t we already see Youtube sneaking in a 5 second delay for Firefox users?

But I did have issues with some Web SDRs on http://www.websdr.org/ when using Chromium-based browsers

And I wasn't the only one, looking at F.A.Q.:

Q: I'm using Chrome and don't hear audio (on some sites)!

A: Since version 71, Chrome does not allow every website to start playing audio, in order to stop annoying advertisements. Chrome tries to guess whether you want audio or not, but doesn't always get it right. On some WebSDR sites, you'll get an "audio start" button, on some you don't.

If you don't get audio, try the following:

• At the top right, click the 4 vertical dots, and then Settings.
• At the bottom, click Advanced.
• Under "Privacy and security," click Site settings.
• Select "Sound"
• Select "Add" and enter "http://*"

^(thanks^ ^to^ ^K9GL^ ^for^ ^these^ ^instructions)^

Note that the above effectively disables Chrome's "autoplay" policy for all http sites.

^Although^ ^stopping^ ^automatic^ ^sound^ ^from^ ^advertisements^ ^is^ ^a^ ^noble^ ^idea,^ ^I^ ^think^ ^Chrome's^ ^autoplay^ ^policy^ ^is^ ^fundamentally^ ^wrong.^ ^Instead^ ^of^ ^trying^ ^to^ ^guess^ ^what^ ^the^ ^user^ ^wants,^ ^the^ ^browser^ ^should^ ^simply^ ^ask^ ^the^ ^user^ ^whether^ ^he/she^ ^wants^ ^to^ ^allow^ ^the^ ^page^ ^to^ ^play^ ^sound^ ^(and^ ^remember^ ^that^ ^for^ ^later^ ^visits,^ ^of^ ^course).^

The only think I can't do in FF is flash an esp32. It's the only reason I have chrome installed.

Because the tech gigacorporations have literally spent the last three decades brainwashing us into accepting shit like that and even convincing us that it's better this way.

I remember using Netscape (my Google keyboard didn't know that word) before Firefox and SeaMonkey. I mostly used SeaMonkey to edit HTML and Firefox for my casual browsing.

Those of us who had to develop websites and make them even vaguely functional in IE6 haven't forgotten.

Dark times, those were.

Now that's a name I haven't heard in ages.

My company has basically forced us to use Chrome. It’s mentioned repeatedly throughout our training period.

I haven’t tried Firefox at work yet though but I’m sure it’ll work just fine.

Thank you! Also "how it looks" and "what it looks like". I see people messing those up all the time

Librewolf

As the other two said, Librewolf. It's basically a very privacy-focused fork of Firefox, where just about all privacy settings are on by default.

@bobo @SoccerGod

Now that is driving me crazy, it looks so familiar, but I just can't place it.👿

Found it!

It's Librewolf, a Firefox fork.

https://librewolf.net

Youtube

Pornhub

Their browser on Android relies on Chromium, on Windows it uses Edge's webview thingy and on macOS Safari afaik

YouTube intentionally slows down on non-chrome browsers

There's no problem with Firefox. The problem is with managers of websites. Because Chromium-based browsers combined account for something like over 90% of global browser market share currently (source: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share), many sites decide to just throw any non-Chromium browser users overboard. The whole thing is quite ridiculous. It makes no sense that Firefox has such a low market share either.

it's too privacy focused, independent, and earnest at the moment