Firefox on Android supports extensions, which means adblockers. No more annoying YT ads while I am out to lunch and watching a video on my phone. _________________________ Edit: A lot of people are pointing out other browsers and apps block ads. I am well aware, but those arent the *ONLY* extensions I use. It was just an example.
@@finkelmana Have tried it in the past, but I felt very unsatisfied. The kiwi browser is a decent alternative with support for extensions based on Chromium that is as stable as any other browser
I've been on Firefox main for as long as Firefox exists. But we actually need more people on Firefox, because we NEED more browser engines in the market, we can't have this monoculture, that's really bad from a security and web standards perspective.
@@autohmae Personally, I'd like to see the existing web technology trio, HTML/CSS/JS, get wiped out and replaced. Unfortunately, every website operator would need to switch to whatever alternative was provided and because the monoculture is easier and with Chrome having such significant market share, it'll never have a hope of ever happening. This is the only reason I still promote Firefox, because every browser sucks now, but breaking the monopoly could go a long way towards fixing things.
In my case, I use Firefox Dev mainly, but don't know why the devtools are very slow when selecting HTML elements. Edge dev tools are faster in that case
@@diegoxl59 because Google didn’t update dev tools for 10 years and it’s the worst piece of software in the world. Every time I open devtools I think like how they managed to make it so bad, ux is just uhhh, they just don’t care!
Not wanting to use Chromium is still valid in my eyes since more variety/competition is a good thing. However Firefox is much more than just "an alternative to Chromium-based browsers" and it's nice that he paints a bigger picture.
I use Firefox at home, for dev work, at work, and encourage my users to switch to Firefox, Mozilla totally doesn't have a sign held up in front of me to type this
@@nikkehtine Congrats to you and the people that unironically liked your reply on proving my point for me. Thank you. If the only reason you use FF is because it's not Chrome or Chromium based then congrats, you literally have no reason to use it. Competition isn't good unto itself any more than choosing to use something because it's not something else is a valid reason. If FF has even 1 feature you think makes it superior to any chromium based browser then you actually have a reason to use, but if the only reason you use FF is because you want there to be competition for Chrome then congrats, you literally have no idea how markets and competition works. You are artificially propping up Firefox. And you are surprised people move away from it? FF at one time had 34% of the global market. Now they have 3%. Competition is good if it results in better goods and services. It's not the end goal unto itself any more than it's good unto itself. It's the end results of competition that make it so desirable. What you just wrote is dogmatic nonsense that can only result in worse products and services for the sake of "competition". Talking about FF on the internet brings all the people that either failed or should have failed econ 101 out of the woodwork. How lacking must your understanding of economy be for you to actually write that BS? There's a reason why competition is good and you clearly have no idea what it is. I really hope this comment enlightens you.
I use firefox because I've always used firefox. Since way back when I realised Internet Explorer was garbage, I have used firefox. There is nothing about chrome that has ever enticed me. If I were to have to switch to a chromium based browser for resource reasons, I would probably just use Edge. Firefox has better adblocking capability and I see absolutely no reason to stop using what I am comfortable with just so I can go over to a browser that is fundamentally controlled by a corporation like google of all things, not a company I really wish to support or feed all my data to. If that's a problem for you then k my a. That being said I have been wary of where mozilla has been going and am keeping librewolf open as an alternative. It's not a dogma, it's a browser.
I noticed a small mistake: Gecko is the browser Engine. Quantum was a big update, that improved among other things the Firefox engine using parts of the Servo project.
They can rename 'chrome' 2 whatever but it's not gecko or whatever else. It's Chrome, including all it's flaws. They even removed the 'compatibility app' 2 pretend it's not, but it is. They do this because they make their money from Joogle paying them 2 B the default serach engine, not 4 'browser performance'. Google paid them 2 destroy their own product, & they don't care = they get paid 2 burn their own house down, so Y should they? LOL
Firefox is $hit compared 2 Supremium, on XP, & even worse compared 2 Thorium on everything after. The only advantage is a few 'Firefox Only' type addons, which iWill experiment with 'transation' addons 2 get working on Supremium =) iMainly run XP because overall everything after is absolute krap, & Linux is even worse =P
I have been using Firefox (vanilla) for 10+ years and its still my go to browser. While you mentioned it did offer alot of customization on the surface, it offers even more deep down and you can basically make the browser look and act however you want it
I would use librewolf but some websites don't work properly with it (twitch) and I don't feel like installing two browsers :/ It's a shame because I really like librewolf's privacy features and the overall direction of the project
@@Scorpwind There are dozens of us! @BunnyRabbit. None really, privacy is the point, it's just more convenient to have all the best privacy options done for you rather than doing it manually to firefox.
These are the real killer features for me. Simple Tab Groups and Multi Account Containers are priceless. Another thing for me personally is just how customizable it is, using CSS you can really make Firefox into anything.
while I agree about the multi-account implementation being better than chromium's "profile" system, tab-groups are a native feature in chromium. They even recently added the option to "save tab groups" which means you can close the tab group and restore it at any time. (they, annoyingly, call this "hiding" the tab group) However, this is unfortunately incompatible with existing tab-suspension extensions such as TMS, and it's not a direct replacement either. I wish things like Treestyletab (which already completely overhaul how tabs are tracked and displayed anyway) were able to implement transparent tab-suspension somehow, so that no matter how many tabs you had "open" they wouldn't actually load unless you were using them. Even on chrome browsers once you start getting hundreds or thousands of tabs, suspended or not, opening the browser will make things CRAWL. (if not crash) We really need a browser that has a decent way of *_actually_* suspending tabs, as in, "just save them to disk, and restore them seamlessly whenever I actually need them". Most tabs take, max, a few megabytes to store completely with something like the single-file extension. That means you could store literally thousands of tabs in a few gigabytes of space. (far less if you used compression since, let's be real, HTML and javscript repeat themselves, a lot.) If it were possible for something like Treestyletab to suspend and restore tabs on it's own then you could open as many tabs at once as you want, and none of them would actually draw any resources because they aren't actually loaded. Just lie to the user that the tab is there, and when they click on it, *_THEN_* load it into memory from disk.
I used to use Firefox until I moved to another country. I could not speak the language, at the time, so website translation functionality was a must. Translation functionality was just better in to Chrome (even better in Edge). Having recently moving my gaming PC to Linux I have noticed that Firefox implemented a beta translation tool that is now just as good as the others. So now I am back to Firefox. On my Mac however Safari is still king for Spacial Audio and my AirPods ;)
@@DrewnioQ The built in tool is done on the system the TWP extension connects to another service (google or yandex) which might not bother most people but is very desirable to some.
@@dirty-moto pretty sure most people switched FROM it to Chrome around 2012. I definitely used Firefox during the XP and early Win 7 era until Chrome's selections of extensions became superior. only recently with Google increasingly going spyware and adware that people are coming back to Firefox.
I am using the Firefox since its release. It had bad times. But at the end of the day (I mean currently) the Firefox is, for me, better than any browser.
KDE plasma will enable middle click "AutoScrolling" in Plasma 6.2. apparently it's a feature in LibInput but nobody has implemented it into the GUI yet, and for wayland that means you don't get auto-scrolling at all.
Honestly it makes sense firefox support linux very well After all linux distros are the only OS which come with firefox preinstalled. And probably a big part of firefox usage is on linux. So unlike chrome or edge which both have their own prioritary OS (android, windows) and linux is irrelevant to them, mozilla probably cannot just ignore linux
PWA support is a bit of a deal clincher for me. I would always opt for a PWA over a full app where I can, it means less footprint on my computer, and it's a small thing but I jump between phones and tablets both iOS and Android, to be able to install and use the app in question without having to go through the stores is like a gift
Been a Firefox user since 2004. One thing I also love about the Firefox is how Firefox handles the profiles. It's very easy to migrate from Windows to macOS to Linux just by copy and pasting the profile and it just works and everything is stored locally with no need for online accounts. The profile system also allows launching multiple windows with different user profiles in them easily: this feature out of the box is really life saver in development. (Also I generally like the development tools in Firefox compared to Chrome)
I am a Vivaldi user, it has a built in ad blocker, custom CSS support like Firefox, more customization than Firefox, tiling windows (i can’t live without it), and it is just straight up better than Firefox, IMO, and I used to be a multi year Firefox fan, going all the way back to its original Quantum update. Now, wasn’t exclusively Firefox, did use Brave on the side as well for some niche reasons, but now, Vivaldi does everything that I need, and more
@ashleyrose. It's interesting to hear this view. Would you recommend Vivaldi over Fire Fox as well as Brave? Can you please let me know what are the top 5 reasons that you decided to use Vivaldi as your primary browser?
@@electrology I use Vivaldi for its massive feature set, including page tiling up to four pages, tab stacking (both of which Vivaldi had first), infinite customization, not only with the settings, but it also has CSS support, I love its side panel, because it’s not too big, and can hold web pages, so you can have up to 5 web pages shown at once in one window, built in tracker and ad blocker, with support for custom filter lists. It also has an email client, calendar, and RCS feed built in. This is just barely scratching the surface of what Vivaldi can do, and they are always adding more features, too
@@Lila_UrarakaYT I still prefer Firefox as my daily driver, but I love many of the features that Vivaldi has, and it's my secondary browser for a number of sites that don't work completely perfectly on Firefox. So yes, I highly recommend Vivaldi for anyone who hasn't tried it out.
Wow I didn't know about the screenshot tool in Firefox, that's pretty useful. I agree with the wayland support, Firefox is much more pleasant to use, I'm a laptop touchpad user so I rely a lot on the two finger swipe to go back a page and it doesn't work on Chrome since it's X11 by default, yes I can change chrome to use wayland and make it work but then Chrome does not respect my font scaling settings and just looks awful. Nonetheless I keep chrome on the side as a backup and I mainly also got it to try PWAs when I first learned about them.
here's an advice - don't use wayland like me it's a massive massive downgrade in terms of functionality, even without any bugs, just to gain a little bit of performance - totally not worth it and completely overhyped devs have been wasting their time on it - it has no future
@@ent2220 I disagree, wayland has been all positive for me and I cannot go back to X11 now, especially touchpad gestures and gnome feels smoother here in wayland. I'm looking forward for the future.
@@ravener83 you're a casual then basically. Wayland treats windows as simple rectangles and has no access to what's in them is all you need to know. In X11 it has full access to absolutely everything, so there's a lot you can do with that. Wayland would have to changed from the ground up to support this because this is its base functionality. In other words a brand new display server would need to be made.
@@ent2220 It works for me, no idea why you are suddenly spreading Wayland hate on my comment, if you prefer X11 then good for you but I'm satisfied here.
The cool thing of Firefox is that you can actually harden it so it gives off as little privacy compromising things as possible so yeah Firefox my not be the Browser King, but it definitely is the Privacy king if hardened
you can edit the user.js file to easily customize firefox to your liking, and also there are UI themes that change the look completely of Firefox, my whole browser UI fits in chrome's title bar.
I love the "Simple Tab Groups" extension. I've switched from Vivaldi to Firefox just cause, but now I won't switch back because I just prefer STG's implementation of tab grouping over what every other browser does. Also, fun fact, you can move extension buttons anywhere on the toolbar. I placed STG on the far left for example, for convenient access.
Also did you know that you can do multiple selections at once? You can for example select a paragraph scroll to another hold down control and select a different one while the previous one is also selected. So you can copy and paste multiple parts of a text with a single copy and pasting.
Been an OG Firefox user back when Opera charged to use their browser and IE was really crappy. Good thing there were alternatives back then and IE was no longer the monopoly.
It gotten so bad, The FBI had warnings to use a different browser because IE was so insecure. This was at the time when IE was still dominate and most sites were designed with propiretary crap from IE.
Firefox is the best browser experience on Debian/Ubuntu. I use popOS and Firefox is extremely fast, smooth, clean, and looks good. I will say though, I tried Firefox on my Fedora40 laptop the other day, and it was SUPER buggy. I think that must have something to do with Fedora being "bleeding-edge" though.
@@SnowDaemon weird about the Fedora thing, I'm running Fedora Kinoite (immutable Fedora with KDE) on a laptop and Firefox is just fine there 😅 Also *woohoo* Pop!_OS
Weird, I've had zero problems with Firefox on my Fedora 40 KDE install. Or really, on any of my Linux systems for that matter, since I also use that on my laptop running Linux Mint 22. And of course, my main PC running Windows 11 also has Firefox as my default browser.
I switched to a lesser known fork called Floorp a while back, primarily for the native vertical tabs support and easier profile switching (Arguably Firefox's most powerful feature which just doesn't get talked about because of the non-existant GUI for it) Incidentally, it also readded PWA support which runs far better than any extension can perform :p
I've started to use Firefox again also because of a way better Wayland support (including touchpad gestures)! Chrome still doesn't allow scale UI elements in Wayland session however in X11 it can.
Floorp is what modern Firefox should be in 2024. Tried it on a whim a couple months ago, along with other browsers. And find myself not only still using it, but I dare say its my favorite one of all. Ram usage can get a little high if you have a ton of tabs open, compared to Brave, but enable the sleeping tabs option will mostly alleviate that. Worst part of it is the name.
I've been using firefox for so long, over 12 years already. It's so good I've never looked back. The only thing I would ask for is tab tiling like vivaldi has...
my biggest reason for sticking to Firefox on linux is native hardware acceleration support out of the box. Sure, I can get it working on Chrome/brave/etc, but half of the time it ends up breaking after an update. great video!
20 years ago I asked my friends about the cute icon with the orange fox. They told me it was a web browser. Haven't used anything else as my main browser since that day.
@@rishirajsaikia1323 Only a braindead person would comment that. One not able to realize that any form of critic can be considered hate speech depending on if that would be beneficial to the other entity. And that is easy to manipulate. So it's either free speech or no speech. Nothing in between is viable.
Chromium 126 just updated on my Linux distro, and man it is really messing up. Tons of freezes on pages and all kinds of 'Oh Snap!' error messages. I am back on Firefox.
I shifted to Firefox recently - from Edge - but the thing I missed most was the vertical tabs. I know its scheduled to arrive but who knows when. However, I then tried Floorp and it has the vertical tabs, as well as even more configuration options than Firefox. I love it and it's now my default on all of my devices
I haven't used Chromium based browsers in years so I don't really know if they have an alternative, but I really love that you can customize your Firefox Browser using just a css file. I really like having a one-line design without having to install some weird software alternative, just using a css file.
Clean wallpaper. So I use Firefox for basic use at home as well as my freelance dev work (is it as good as the google dev tools ehh), at work i tend to use it cause most of our services support firefox out of the box. At home theres only one or two services for utilities that works better on believe it or not Edge over FF and Chrome
Regarding the method to enable the Home button in Firefox I agree it’s nice, but I honestly wonder who the heck decided it was a good idea to start removing the home button from browsers by default. Sure, you often just type in the address bar to search for something but there’s a lot of people that customize their Home to have some of those custom pages with a lot of useful infos, links to websites and so on…just leave it on by default. Also, specific to Firefox which has always been my main browser, it’s even crazier to think that by default you don’t have Home but you have those useless left and right spacers around the address bar and the Pocket icon, which is something most users don’t care about anyway.
Firefox also has a major advantage for laptop users: its hardware accelerated video decode support is light years better than Chromium-based browsers have which greatly improves battery life when e.g. watching videos on UA-cam.
I love the way Firefox is explained in this video since so many videos are just about the privacy and how to make it more private, or the forks that are better. Plus with most people they just use the browser their computer comes with and just want it to work, so if more people move to Linux not all of them are going to be customizing everything in their browser day one. I believe Firefox does support PWA’s just not doesn’t have an easy tool to make them out of the box. Linux Mint has a third party extension that makes it easier from the start if I’m remembering correctly.
Firefox dropped PWA support entirely because according to them not many used it. There is an extension however. Current plans are to re implement it natively, or at least it was discussed a while back
I like everyone used to use Chrome (cause Firefox on Android was not at all good for years). But even when they have PC and Android version, the syncing between the 2 was just not good and effective. So when Microsoft launched that BingAI I finally shifted to Edge and it solved 1 problem which was syncing between devices. I have Samsung Phone, so other ecosystem stuff worked great. But then, came Firefox Android with sync as well as extension support. and honestly, their syncing feels like it is FIRST PARTY browser made by Google and Microsoft cause it works so well. And on top of that Full Fledged Extension support means it just nailed every other browser into the ground (atleast for me). edit: and ofc the other benefits of not being based on Chromium.
I've been using Firefox for 20 years. I've tried testing out other browsers but they just lack core features that Firefox has natively that I can never commit to a switch. Two big features that I honestly cannot live without that Firefox has are: 1. Customizable toolbar 2. Suppressed play in new tabs. The 2nd one I'm pretty sure is a Firefox feature, but it isn't really talked about a lot. I've tried it in other browsers and it doesn't seem to be a thing. Basically if you're on UA-cam, for instance, you can middle-click a video to open it in a new tab. But the video will not play automatically. You have to manually switch to the tab and click play. I cannot express enough how much I love this feature.
You switched to a browser that with latest release send your data to advertising companies. How convenient. FF 128 comes with privacy-preserving ad measurement enabled by default. Choose Floorp, Libre Wolf or Pale Moon instead.
Thanks for the video! Obviously security and privacy are not the same, I'll stay using blink(ungoogled) cause gecko has more privacy but it's less secure than blink imho.
I found having hardware acceleration on in any browser would bring down my entire machine at random while in the browser doing anything. It was totally random, but I started to notice it always happened, while I was watching a video, typing a comment in a webbrowser, or scrolling a webbrowser window. I put two and two together... eventually. So I disabled it under Firefox, Chromium, and Chrome. Opera doesn't seem to have hardware acceleration or enabled by default, so I never experienced it in Opera.
I use Chrome for work and school, Firefox for entertainment and news, and Edge for a default browser with everything disabled, so anything that wants to launch to a webpage automatically and non-transparently can have a browser without any support or history.
I've been using Firefox daily since I built my first pc back in March of 2023, after previously having exclusively used Chrome on the school computers since it came out. I have absolutely no regrets! I am very happy with Firefox and love how much control, customization, ease of use, and support it has! Not to mention, it doesn't eat up my ram and runs very smoothly. I also very much appreciate that Firefox continues to support Manifest v2!
I had FF as my main for a long long time until i found out FF is behind with some features, like synced workspaces and tab groups. I switched to vivaldi since. FF needs more developement into new features.
I used Firefox for years (longer than Ubuntu 8.04). Then I switched to Brave. Few years later, I switched to Edge. Now, I'm still on Edge. I still use Firefox occasionally since some of my webaps for work only works in Firefox.
I'm using Firefox for many years. I've started with Netscape, continued with Mozilla suite and then switched to FF. For some reason, I newer liked Chrome. I have to use it from time to time, as I'm developing small web apps and I need to test Chrome related issues, but I still prefer FF.
In my opinion, you should use three or four browsers for different tasks. For example, use one only for serious stuff and another one for everyday use, games, etc. I have one browser dedicated only to Facebook (I need some help groups there). I think it's best if browser caches don't mix.
Firefox on Android supports extensions, which means adblockers. No more annoying YT ads while I am out to lunch and watching a video on my phone.
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Edit: A lot of people are pointing out other browsers and apps block ads. I am well aware, but those arent the *ONLY* extensions I use. It was just an example.
Yup
Although youtube it's buggy on firefox
If you want true adblocking, I reccomend using revanced as firefox mobile is laggy and buggy
@@no_name4796 It has some bugs on Firefox Nightly but almost all Yt bugs are fixed on Firefox release version.
You should give UA-cam Revanced a try.
@@finkelmana Have tried it in the past, but I felt very unsatisfied. The kiwi browser is a decent alternative with support for extensions based on Chromium that is as stable as any other browser
I've been on Firefox main for as long as Firefox exists.
But we actually need more people on Firefox, because we NEED more browser engines in the market, we can't have this monoculture, that's really bad from a security and web standards perspective.
bro need to check librewolf
Other Firefox based browsers like waterfox should be promoted also.
@@pvtack I can not, as far as I know Waterfox doesn't get regular security updates. Anything you connect to the Internet needs security updates
@@autohmae Personally, I'd like to see the existing web technology trio, HTML/CSS/JS, get wiped out and replaced. Unfortunately, every website operator would need to switch to whatever alternative was provided and because the monoculture is easier and with Chrome having such significant market share, it'll never have a hope of ever happening. This is the only reason I still promote Firefox, because every browser sucks now, but breaking the monopoly could go a long way towards fixing things.
We have to pray for Ladybird
I prefer Firefox dev tools to chrome's dev tools especially on Firefox dev edition
I'll second that!
My go to browser at work. Wouldn't do animations nor improve accessibility with any other browser.
Can’t say it has any advantages especially if we compare to Edge s devtools (those who ever used it love it)
In my case, I use Firefox Dev mainly, but don't know why the devtools are very slow when selecting HTML elements. Edge dev tools are faster in that case
@@diegoxl59 because Google didn’t update dev tools for 10 years and it’s the worst piece of software in the world. Every time I open devtools I think like how they managed to make it so bad, ux is just uhhh, they just don’t care!
I wish more firefox users were like you as opposed to "I use FF because it's not chromium".
Not wanting to use Chromium is still valid in my eyes since more variety/competition is a good thing. However Firefox is much more than just "an alternative to Chromium-based browsers" and it's nice that he paints a bigger picture.
I use Firefox at home, for dev work, at work, and encourage my users to switch to Firefox, Mozilla totally doesn't have a sign held up in front of me to type this
@@nikkehtine Congrats to you and the people that unironically liked your reply on proving my point for me. Thank you.
If the only reason you use FF is because it's not Chrome or Chromium based then congrats, you literally have no reason to use it. Competition isn't good unto itself any more than choosing to use something because it's not something else is a valid reason. If FF has even 1 feature you think makes it superior to any chromium based browser then you actually have a reason to use, but if the only reason you use FF is because you want there to be competition for Chrome then congrats, you literally have no idea how markets and competition works.
You are artificially propping up Firefox. And you are surprised people move away from it? FF at one time had 34% of the global market. Now they have 3%. Competition is good if it results in better goods and services. It's not the end goal unto itself any more than it's good unto itself. It's the end results of competition that make it so desirable. What you just wrote is dogmatic nonsense that can only result in worse products and services for the sake of "competition".
Talking about FF on the internet brings all the people that either failed or should have failed econ 101 out of the woodwork. How lacking must your understanding of economy be for you to actually write that BS? There's a reason why competition is good and you clearly have no idea what it is. I really hope this comment enlightens you.
I'm a Firefox user first but I use ungoogled chromium when firefox doesn't work. Even Ungoogled Chrome makes me feel dirty
I use firefox because I've always used firefox. Since way back when I realised Internet Explorer was garbage, I have used firefox. There is nothing about chrome that has ever enticed me. If I were to have to switch to a chromium based browser for resource reasons, I would probably just use Edge. Firefox has better adblocking capability and I see absolutely no reason to stop using what I am comfortable with just so I can go over to a browser that is fundamentally controlled by a corporation like google of all things, not a company I really wish to support or feed all my data to. If that's a problem for you then k my a.
That being said I have been wary of where mozilla has been going and am keeping librewolf open as an alternative. It's not a dogma, it's a browser.
I noticed a small mistake: Gecko is the browser Engine. Quantum was a big update, that improved among other things the Firefox engine using parts of the Servo project.
They can rename 'chrome' 2 whatever but it's not gecko or whatever else. It's Chrome, including all it's flaws. They even removed the 'compatibility app' 2 pretend it's not, but it is. They do this because they make their money from Joogle paying them 2 B the default serach engine, not 4 'browser performance'. Google paid them 2 destroy their own product, & they don't care = they get paid 2 burn their own house down, so Y should they? LOL
12 years of using Firefox and still going strong. It's 'your' browser even if you don't dig into about:config.
Firefox is $hit compared 2 Supremium, on XP, & even worse compared 2 Thorium on everything after. The only advantage is a few 'Firefox Only' type addons, which iWill experiment with 'transation' addons 2 get working on Supremium =) iMainly run XP because overall everything after is absolute krap, & Linux is even worse =P
I have been using Firefox (vanilla) for 10+ years and its still my go to browser. While you mentioned it did offer alot of customization on the surface, it offers even more deep down and you can basically make the browser look and act however you want it
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I like firefox. I love librewolf
Ayo, a fellow LibreWolf user.
What other benefits are there in librewolf compared to Firefox except for privacy?
I would use librewolf but some websites don't work properly with it (twitch) and I don't feel like installing two browsers :/ It's a shame because I really like librewolf's privacy features and the overall direction of the project
@@Scorpwind There are dozens of us!
@BunnyRabbit. None really, privacy is the point, it's just more convenient to have all the best privacy options done for you rather than doing it manually to firefox.
@@BunnyRabbit. clear everything so my ADHD brain doesn't keep a thousand tabs open lol
I also like the multi account containers and simple tabgroups extensions.
These are the real killer features for me. Simple Tab Groups and Multi Account Containers are priceless.
Another thing for me personally is just how customizable it is, using CSS you can really make Firefox into anything.
@@Lewdiculous Yeah. And then there is also Facebook container which redirects all facebook content to there. So Facebook can't spy on you.
while I agree about the multi-account implementation being better than chromium's "profile" system, tab-groups are a native feature in chromium. They even recently added the option to "save tab groups" which means you can close the tab group and restore it at any time. (they, annoyingly, call this "hiding" the tab group) However, this is unfortunately incompatible with existing tab-suspension extensions such as TMS, and it's not a direct replacement either.
I wish things like Treestyletab (which already completely overhaul how tabs are tracked and displayed anyway) were able to implement transparent tab-suspension somehow, so that no matter how many tabs you had "open" they wouldn't actually load unless you were using them. Even on chrome browsers once you start getting hundreds or thousands of tabs, suspended or not, opening the browser will make things CRAWL. (if not crash) We really need a browser that has a decent way of *_actually_* suspending tabs, as in, "just save them to disk, and restore them seamlessly whenever I actually need them". Most tabs take, max, a few megabytes to store completely with something like the single-file extension. That means you could store literally thousands of tabs in a few gigabytes of space. (far less if you used compression since, let's be real, HTML and javscript repeat themselves, a lot.)
If it were possible for something like Treestyletab to suspend and restore tabs on it's own then you could open as many tabs at once as you want, and none of them would actually draw any resources because they aren't actually loaded. Just lie to the user that the tab is there, and when they click on it, *_THEN_* load it into memory from disk.
this feature is goated, along with the sideberry extension.
Mozilla is apparently working on tab grouping, but we'll see how long its gonna take. (and if its any good)
Yo dude, just wanted to say your editing has gotten much more clean! Very nice animations. Very fitting for the content you make, too.
Thanks
Maybe he outsourced it....
From 2005 Firefox is my main browser, I use other browsers just for that sites aren't compatible with it.
Autoscrolling is something I didn't even know I missed about Windows. Thanks for the tip!
I used to use Firefox until I moved to another country. I could not speak the language, at the time, so website translation functionality was a must. Translation functionality was just better in to Chrome (even better in Edge).
Having recently moving my gaming PC to Linux I have noticed that Firefox implemented a beta translation tool that is now just as good as the others. So now I am back to Firefox.
On my Mac however Safari is still king for Spacial Audio and my AirPods ;)
Just use TWP extension
@@lussor1 +1, TWP is even better and faster at translating than native Firefox tool
@@DrewnioQ The built in tool is done on the system the TWP extension connects to another service (google or yandex) which might not bother most people but is very desirable to some.
Using firefox a daily divers over a year now
using firefox as my daily driver since forever.
I think most users switched to it around 2005? I'm not sure what is taking people so long!
@@dirty-moto pretty sure most people switched FROM it to Chrome around 2012. I definitely used Firefox during the XP and early Win 7 era until Chrome's selections of extensions became superior. only recently with Google increasingly going spyware and adware that people are coming back to Firefox.
I don't expect a non-technical user to do this, but many "incompatible" sites work just fine if you lie to them with the user agent string.
I am using the Firefox since its release. It had bad times. But at the end of the day (I mean currently) the Firefox is, for me, better than any browser.
There's so few crashes now days for me at least. There was some rough periods definitely.
KDE plasma will enable middle click "AutoScrolling" in Plasma 6.2. apparently it's a feature in LibInput but nobody has implemented it into the GUI yet, and for wayland that means you don't get auto-scrolling at all.
Niceee that's super good to hear
All in all this Plasma release is shaping up to be a UI game changer.
Good stuff. Clear, to the point & you didn't wander off track too much. Keep up the good work.
Honestly it makes sense firefox support linux very well
After all linux distros are the only OS which come with firefox preinstalled. And probably a big part of firefox usage is on linux.
So unlike chrome or edge which both have their own prioritary OS (android, windows) and linux is irrelevant to them, mozilla probably cannot just ignore linux
This wasn't always the case. Search for "Form Elements in Firefox 12 February 2004" for example.
You can add css files for themes. They also have a color palette extension. You can also move favorites and extension to the top bar to save pace.
PWA support is a bit of a deal clincher for me. I would always opt for a PWA over a full app where I can, it means less footprint on my computer, and it's a small thing but I jump between phones and tablets both iOS and Android, to be able to install and use the app in question without having to go through the stores is like a gift
Been a Firefox user since 2004. One thing I also love about the Firefox is how Firefox handles the profiles. It's very easy to migrate from Windows to macOS to Linux just by copy and pasting the profile and it just works and everything is stored locally with no need for online accounts.
The profile system also allows launching multiple windows with different user profiles in them easily: this feature out of the box is really life saver in development. (Also I generally like the development tools in Firefox compared to Chrome)
Have you ever tried Brave?
It was nice to see your chat on Tech Over Tea! Thanks.
Firefox is the descendant of Netscape, this alone is enough for me to use it.
Why?
Really? Is it going that far back?
@@BlogingLP yes
oh the nostalgia... Netscape, those were the days
@@fiverZ
Interesting if true
I am a Vivaldi user, it has a built in ad blocker, custom CSS support like Firefox, more customization than Firefox, tiling windows (i can’t live without it), and it is just straight up better than Firefox, IMO, and I used to be a multi year Firefox fan, going all the way back to its original Quantum update. Now, wasn’t exclusively Firefox, did use Brave on the side as well for some niche reasons, but now, Vivaldi does everything that I need, and more
@ashleyrose. It's interesting to hear this view. Would you recommend Vivaldi over Fire Fox as well as Brave? Can you please let me know what are the top 5 reasons that you decided to use Vivaldi as your primary browser?
@@electrology I use Vivaldi for its massive feature set, including page tiling up to four pages, tab stacking (both of which Vivaldi had first), infinite customization, not only with the settings, but it also has CSS support, I love its side panel, because it’s not too big, and can hold web pages, so you can have up to 5 web pages shown at once in one window, built in tracker and ad blocker, with support for custom filter lists. It also has an email client, calendar, and RCS feed built in. This is just barely scratching the surface of what Vivaldi can do, and they are always adding more features, too
@@Lila_UrarakaYT I still prefer Firefox as my daily driver, but I love many of the features that Vivaldi has, and it's my secondary browser for a number of sites that don't work completely perfectly on Firefox. So yes, I highly recommend Vivaldi for anyone who hasn't tried it out.
The new update enables advertising data collection stuff. Always check your settings after updates!
Wow I didn't know about the screenshot tool in Firefox, that's pretty useful. I agree with the wayland support, Firefox is much more pleasant to use, I'm a laptop touchpad user so I rely a lot on the two finger swipe to go back a page and it doesn't work on Chrome since it's X11 by default, yes I can change chrome to use wayland and make it work but then Chrome does not respect my font scaling settings and just looks awful. Nonetheless I keep chrome on the side as a backup and I mainly also got it to try PWAs when I first learned about them.
here's an advice - don't use wayland like me
it's a massive massive downgrade in terms of functionality, even without any bugs, just to gain a little bit of performance - totally not worth it and completely overhyped
devs have been wasting their time on it - it has no future
@@ent2220 I disagree, wayland has been all positive for me and I cannot go back to X11 now, especially touchpad gestures and gnome feels smoother here in wayland. I'm looking forward for the future.
@@ravener83 you're a casual then basically. Wayland treats windows as simple rectangles and has no access to what's in them is all you need to know. In X11 it has full access to absolutely everything, so there's a lot you can do with that. Wayland would have to changed from the ground up to support this because this is its base functionality. In other words a brand new display server would need to be made.
@@ent2220 It works for me, no idea why you are suddenly spreading Wayland hate on my comment, if you prefer X11 then good for you but I'm satisfied here.
That's the reason. I was experiencing the drag and drop problem but I didn't know why. Thanks.
Using Firefox since they started the UA-cam ads stuff.
same. really missed tab groups but now its partially implemented atleast
what? Plenty of chromium derivatives like Brave still have complete support for blockers and such.
@arnabbiswasalsodeep I use panorama tabs and sidebery, pretty much all you could ever need for tabs.
Ublocks fix it too
I've used Firefox for over 5 years and have also tried basically almost every other browser, Firefox is hands down the best.
The cool thing of Firefox is that you can actually harden it so it gives off as little privacy compromising things as possible so yeah Firefox my not be the Browser King, but it definitely is the Privacy king if hardened
you can edit the user.js file to easily customize firefox to your liking, and also there are UI themes that change the look completely of Firefox, my whole browser UI fits in chrome's title bar.
I have used Firefox back when I get my first laptop and No plans to stop
Long time Netscape user, I switched to Firefox and have not looked back. Tree style tab is the killer extension
I love the "Simple Tab Groups" extension.
I've switched from Vivaldi to Firefox just cause, but now I won't switch back because I just prefer STG's implementation of tab grouping over what every other browser does.
Also, fun fact, you can move extension buttons anywhere on the toolbar. I placed STG on the far left for example, for convenient access.
Thank you for your insight Michael.
Autoscrolling with middle click is so nice. I hope chromium apps will ad it on Linux.
For Chromium browsers add --enable-blink-features=MiddleClickAutoscroll in the menu entry for opening the browser.
@@Cyco_Nix Thanks for sharing this. We need it cause it's so usefull
Didn't know about the toolbar customization thanks for that
You just got yourself a new subscriber brother :D
Also did you know that you can do multiple selections at once? You can for example select a paragraph scroll to another hold down control and select a different one while the previous one is also selected. So you can copy and paste multiple parts of a text with a single copy and pasting.
Been an OG Firefox user back when Opera charged to use their browser and IE was really crappy. Good thing there were alternatives back then and IE was no longer the monopoly.
It gotten so bad, The FBI had warnings to use a different browser because IE was so insecure. This was at the time when IE was still dominate and most sites were designed with propiretary crap from IE.
Firefox is the best browser experience on Debian/Ubuntu.
I use popOS and Firefox is extremely fast, smooth, clean, and looks good.
I will say though, I tried Firefox on my Fedora40 laptop the other day, and it was SUPER buggy. I think that must have something to do with Fedora being "bleeding-edge" though.
Nah. Firefox works great on Arch (btw). It's probably just a Fedora thing
@@garrettrinquest1605 Arch isn't bleeding edge like Fedora
@@SnowDaemon weird about the Fedora thing, I'm running Fedora Kinoite (immutable Fedora with KDE) on a laptop and Firefox is just fine there 😅
Also *woohoo* Pop!_OS
Weird, I've had zero problems with Firefox on my Fedora 40 KDE install. Or really, on any of my Linux systems for that matter, since I also use that on my laptop running Linux Mint 22. And of course, my main PC running Windows 11 also has Firefox as my default browser.
I switched to a lesser known fork called Floorp a while back, primarily for the native vertical tabs support and easier profile switching (Arguably Firefox's most powerful feature which just doesn't get talked about because of the non-existant GUI for it)
Incidentally, it also readded PWA support which runs far better than any extension can perform :p
To bad floorp doesn't have android support.
I've started to use Firefox again also because of a way better Wayland support (including touchpad gestures)! Chrome still doesn't allow scale UI elements in Wayland session however in X11 it can.
Floorp is what modern Firefox should be in 2024. Tried it on a whim a couple months ago, along with other browsers. And find myself not only still using it, but I dare say its my favorite one of all. Ram usage can get a little high if you have a ton of tabs open, compared to Brave, but enable the sleeping tabs option will mostly alleviate that. Worst part of it is the name.
I've been using firefox for so long, over 12 years already. It's so good I've never looked back. The only thing I would ask for is tab tiling like vivaldi has...
my biggest reason for sticking to Firefox on linux is native hardware acceleration support out of the box. Sure, I can get it working on Chrome/brave/etc, but half of the time it ends up breaking after an update.
great video!
I just switch from chrome to firefox and is kinda good
Firefox has an excellent pdf viewer. I use it in preference to any other Linux pdf viewer to read interactive pdf forms.
One big thing you missed is user chrome css. It lets you customize the ui. It's very powerful since it uses normal css.
As a loyal Firefox user since 2004. I'm so happy to see new users. Gettings from Brazil.
I like FireFox devtools and it's a big reason why I ue it outside of other points made already.
I love the mouseover tab reveal in fullscreen mode in Firefox
20 years ago I asked my friends about the cute icon with the orange fox.
They told me it was a web browser.
Haven't used anything else as my main browser since that day.
I downloaded firefox around 2007 when I was in middle school just because I liked the fox icon/logo. It's been my main browser since.
Welcome to the superior browser
Nope.
Mozilla wants to suppress voices.
It is the inferior browser.
@@FenrirTheGray oh no, not one of them. lol
@@SnowDaemon Parrot in the nick.
Fitting.
Firefox is right to stop misinformation and hate speech. Plus 1 point for them.
@@rishirajsaikia1323 Only a braindead person would comment that. One not able to realize that any form of critic can be considered hate speech depending on if that would be beneficial to the other entity.
And that is easy to manipulate.
So it's either free speech or no speech. Nothing in between is viable.
You sound really good. It seems like English isn't your first language, but you've learned it really well.
Zen has turned out to be a really good experience. I hope they do an Android version soon.
Firefox also has better theming. You can change the entire layout and appearance via CSS.
Switched from Firefox to Edge a few years ago. Never looked back.
I use both Firefox and Edge especially for the PWAs, and for my Microsoft account on Linux
Chromium 126 just updated on my Linux distro, and man it is really messing up. Tons of freezes on pages and all kinds of 'Oh Snap!' error messages. I am back on Firefox.
I was also getting them more frequently. Interesting
Faced same issue. crashes unexpectedly. Trying firefox since few days, going good.
Been rocking for for more than 10 years :)))
I shifted to Firefox recently - from Edge - but the thing I missed most was the vertical tabs. I know its scheduled to arrive but who knows when. However, I then tried Floorp and it has the vertical tabs, as well as even more configuration options than Firefox. I love it and it's now my default on all of my devices
I used firefox back in version 1.x days . Switched back from brave about a year ago. Its good to be back.
I haven't used Chromium based browsers in years so I don't really know if they have an alternative, but I really love that you can customize your Firefox Browser using just a css file.
I really like having a one-line design without having to install some weird software alternative, just using a css file.
Clean wallpaper. So I use Firefox for basic use at home as well as my freelance dev work (is it as good as the google dev tools ehh), at work i tend to use it cause most of our services support firefox out of the box. At home theres only one or two services for utilities that works better on believe it or not Edge over FF and Chrome
I using it for over 20 years now, when it was even Netscape😢, on windows or linux, and I am so happy.
Regarding the method to enable the Home button in Firefox I agree it’s nice, but I honestly wonder who the heck decided it was a good idea to start removing the home button from browsers by default.
Sure, you often just type in the address bar to search for something but there’s a lot of people that customize their Home to have some of those custom pages with a lot of useful infos, links to websites and so on…just leave it on by default.
Also, specific to Firefox which has always been my main browser, it’s even crazier to think that by default you don’t have Home but you have those useless left and right spacers around the address bar and the Pocket icon, which is something most users don’t care about anyway.
Firefox also has a major advantage for laptop users: its hardware accelerated video decode support is light years better than Chromium-based browsers have which greatly improves battery life when e.g. watching videos on UA-cam.
You can also customize your FF with css ;-)
That, for me, it is the most amazing feature.
For me the only barrier is the lack of tab groups
I use Firefox as my main browser both on Linux and Android, and Tor Browser (which is based on Firefox) when I need more privacy.
Awesome, I use Firefox, better privacy.
As someone who's been using Firefox all my life I was pleasantly surprised at just how many things seem(ed) new and/or revolutionary to you.
I love the way Firefox is explained in this video since so many videos are just about the privacy and how to make it more private, or the forks that are better.
Plus with most people they just use the browser their computer comes with and just want it to work, so if more people move to Linux not all of them are going to be customizing everything in their browser day one.
I believe Firefox does support PWA’s just not doesn’t have an easy tool to make them out of the box.
Linux Mint has a third party extension that makes it easier from the start if I’m remembering correctly.
Firefox dropped PWA support entirely because according to them not many used it. There is an extension however.
Current plans are to re implement it natively, or at least it was discussed a while back
I like everyone used to use Chrome (cause Firefox on Android was not at all good for years).
But even when they have PC and Android version, the syncing between the 2 was just not good and effective.
So when Microsoft launched that BingAI I finally shifted to Edge and it solved 1 problem which was syncing between devices.
I have Samsung Phone, so other ecosystem stuff worked great.
But then, came Firefox Android with sync as well as extension support.
and honestly, their syncing feels like it is FIRST PARTY browser made by Google and Microsoft cause it works so well.
And on top of that Full Fledged Extension support means it just nailed every other browser into the ground (atleast for me).
edit: and ofc the other benefits of not being based on Chromium.
I've been using Firefox for 20 years.
I've tried testing out other browsers but they just lack core features that Firefox has natively that I can never commit to a switch.
Two big features that I honestly cannot live without that Firefox has are:
1. Customizable toolbar
2. Suppressed play in new tabs.
The 2nd one I'm pretty sure is a Firefox feature, but it isn't really talked about a lot. I've tried it in other browsers and it doesn't seem to be a thing. Basically if you're on UA-cam, for instance, you can middle-click a video to open it in a new tab. But the video will not play automatically. You have to manually switch to the tab and click play. I cannot express enough how much I love this feature.
You switched to a browser that with latest release send your data to advertising companies. How convenient. FF 128 comes with privacy-preserving ad measurement enabled by default.
Choose Floorp, Libre Wolf or Pale Moon instead.
Floorp, a Japanese fork of firefox esr, has PWA support and other nice things.
Thanks for the video! Obviously security and privacy are not the same, I'll stay using blink(ungoogled) cause gecko has more privacy but it's less secure than blink imho.
I found having hardware acceleration on in any browser would bring down my entire machine at random while in the browser doing anything. It was totally random, but I started to notice it always happened, while I was watching a video, typing a comment in a webbrowser, or scrolling a webbrowser window. I put two and two together... eventually. So I disabled it under Firefox, Chromium, and Chrome. Opera doesn't seem to have hardware acceleration or enabled by default, so I never experienced it in Opera.
Because it's the best FAQin' browser on the planet ever since 2006!
I use Chrome for work and school, Firefox for entertainment and news, and Edge for a default browser with everything disabled, so anything that wants to launch to a webpage automatically and non-transparently can have a browser without any support or history.
That's quite an interesting setup. Why did you choose Edge in particular?
@@MichaelNROH I didn't want it for anything else, so it was the best choice.
@@enkephalin07 so you are in windows ?
@@xgui4-studios You had to ask?
I love using Firefox with the SimpleFox design, it‘s the most beautiful browser imo
I also use Firefox for my main web browser. Only exception is safari when I use apple products.
I've been using Firefox daily since I built my first pc back in March of 2023, after previously having exclusively used Chrome on the school computers since it came out. I have absolutely no regrets! I am very happy with Firefox and love how much control, customization, ease of use, and support it has! Not to mention, it doesn't eat up my ram and runs very smoothly. I also very much appreciate that Firefox continues to support Manifest v2!
You sir just got another subscriber.
Man I’m loving FireFox, I haven’t encountered any issues yet. So far no complaints. 👌🏻
I had FF as my main for a long long time until i found out FF is behind with some features, like synced workspaces and tab groups. I switched to vivaldi since. FF needs more developement into new features.
only thing that bothering me when using firefox is youtube playback (especially live DVR).
Update to 128
I used Firefox for years (longer than Ubuntu 8.04). Then I switched to Brave. Few years later, I switched to Edge. Now, I'm still on Edge. I still use Firefox occasionally since some of my webaps for work only works in Firefox.
I also moved to Firefox completely but right now I use both (mostly chrome). Because chrome seems to load web pages faster.
I'm using Firefox for many years. I've started with Netscape, continued with Mozilla suite and then switched to FF. For some reason, I newer liked Chrome. I have to use it from time to time, as I'm developing small web apps and I need to test Chrome related issues, but I still prefer FF.
Literally had that drag and drop issue with firefox until I installed the non-flatpak verson.
I switched to Zen (based on Firefox) from Edge this week. Don’t think I’m going back, next step is switching to Linux from WIndows :D
Idk why ppl dont use firefox at first place.
Convinience. Most just download Chrome because they already use Chrome
@leatherDarkhorse "I don't know why people don't use Firefox in the first place." Come on grammar isn't that hard.
I moved back to firefox a few months ago. Basically the same reasons.
In my opinion, you should use three or four browsers for different tasks. For example, use one only for serious stuff and another one for everyday use, games, etc. I have one browser dedicated only to Facebook (I need some help groups there).
I think it's best if browser caches don't mix.
On Mac/iOS I always main Safari, but on Windows, Linux or Android I always use Firefox. Anything other than Google does the job.
macos = crapple !