Mozilla firefox

Microsoft Edge is Chrome engine, same thing. I use Firefox with Chrome only for a backup if I run into problems on a page. I use Chrome for ancient systems as its faster than firefox.

dr_st wrote on 2020-09-20, 17:37:

Procyon wrote on 2020-09-20, 14:10:

At home I use Firefox because it has addblock and I use a nice visual theme.
At work I use Chrome and I hate it because of all the adds.

You are not aware that the same ad-blocking extensions are available for Chrome as are for Firefox?

Addblock plus had adds in YouTube when I last tried it.

Dillo.

Just kidding!

I use Firefox on Android and Chromium on Raspbian.
When I still had a main "PC" (x86), I used Mozilla Firefox.
Even after my whole family switched to Chrome
(I warned them about its Google heritage, but no vail, they didn't care).

Procyon wrote on 2020-09-21, 07:03:

Addblock plus had adds in YouTube when I last tried it.

Try uBlock Origin. I've switched over to it in all my browsers a few years back.

Cyberdyne wrote on 2020-09-18, 08:47:

My work also has that same situation, well IT boys like Chrome i guess 😁

And yes Windows 10 in our work computer have both old IE and that Edge monstrossoty.

Still holding on to my Windows 7 main home PC. But for how long can i hold on, time will tell.

nah us IT boys like less work 😉
We only started rolling out Chrome when more and more sites dropped IE compatibility
We'll keep IE for the sites that refuse to move off IE compatibility
Old Edge was part of the OS so whatever, no one used it anyway 😜

Chrome also gets the benefit of most apps state chrome in the supported browsers list. It's not uncommon it'll be the only one listed. It'll work on other browsers just no ones bothered to test.
Plus (and this is a big one) it's the one most average people use. I know if we rolled out Firefox we would have people complain "Chrome is better" based on 0 facts. Generally users of other browsers are savvy enough to do what they need in Chrome or can have Firefox or whatever installed without generation more work for the IT Dept.

Personally I use Chrome at work and Firefox at home. I hope the new Edge is a sucess though as having the browser as part of the OS just makes life sooo much easier ...see 1st point 😉

Edit
Whats uBlock Origin got over Ad block?
The amount off crappy advertising scripts makes some kind of blocker a necessity these days but always open to alternatives

chinny22 wrote on 2020-09-21, 09:39:

Whats uBlock Origin got over Ad block?

for one it doesn't try to push ads on you ^^

I block all and every script in general, I haven used the internet without whitelisting since years and years... and I don't see any other way how to not immediately get enraged when browsing ^^

I use Chrome, because I'm a web developer and the included inspection and debugging tools are so much better than on Firefox.

Mozilla lost me when they started to change the interface heavily and tried to include weird extension bloat like Pocket or that video conference thing no one needed...

Now that Edge Legacy and IE are finally cancelled, Safari holds the title for being the worst browser. Two down, only one to go!

chinny22 wrote on 2020-09-21, 09:39:

Cyberdyne wrote on 2020-09-18, 08:47:

My work also has that same situation, well IT boys like Chrome i guess 😁

And yes Windows 10 in our work computer have both old IE and that Edge monstrossoty.

Still holding on to my Windows 7 main home PC. But for how long can i hold on, time will tell.

nah us IT boys like less work 😉

It's partially that simple, rolling out Firefox is work, but another reason is that Firefox has been slow in allowing the browser to be managed via group policy. There is support now, but it's relatively new and IT departments move slowly.

Why does Opera now ask for a firewall exception? That's shady behavior.

My browsers

MacOS: Safari (Primary browser), Edge (Secondary). While Firefox, Chrome and Opera are installed just for debugging reasons at work. I do all my debugging on Safari.
PPC OS X Leopard: TenFourFox.
Ubuntu or Debian Linux: Firefox. If Microsoft does release a linux version of Edge Chromium, I'll do the change.
Windows 10: Edge (Primary), Firefox (Secondary). I do not have other browsers for the debugging reasons, but if required I'll get them... so far they weren't.
Windows XP: SeaMonkey
Windows 98: Netscape 9.0.0.6 + Roytam1's NSS patches
Windows 3.11: Internet Explorer 5.5

I used to use Firefox but abandoned it for Chrome after they refused to fix the 'save images in random locations' bug/feature. I still run it as a secondary browser and am amazed that this behavior is still present. Who on earth finds this useful?

Pale Moon (+ NoScript + Adblock Latitude) for general usage.
FF for the rare site that doesn't work with PM, plus the other usual suspects for web dev/testing.

Nobody here using Brave?

Seamonkey, but I have to have a chain of the usual extensions plus a User Agent switcher for some sites that artificially break on browser detection. And when that doesn't work, Waterfox (with the usual extensions)

Waterfox is partially based on the newer Firefox and adopts usability issues with it, like forcing a black font in the options dialogs assuming default black-on-white color schemes - bad for my white-on-darkblue color scheme...

(also because i'm old i have to try and set up all the buttons back restoring more familiar Navigator 3 layouts, sometimes needing an extension to do this. All this 'streamlining' of removing buttons, statusaddon bars, gratuitously sponsored search engine integration, etc. feels less trustworthy, claustrophobically power-less as more of the so-called "more power to the user!" is shuffled under the carpet)

Just to add, I refuse to use Chrome because of Google and because the browser is a RAM eater of all sorts. My default search engine is DuckDuckGo.

Vintage Boxes = Links
Modern Boxes = Firefox
iMac = Safari
Phone = Chrome (it is a Google Pixel 3 after all)

I'm actually almost able to use LInks as a normal browser on my old machines. I use Firefox for the Adblock and Noscript additions. I'm aware Chrome and Edge have similar stuff for them, but I only really use Chrome for BandLab, and I only use BandLab on a PC when I'm arranging parts (too much lag to record and the looper/MIDI setup on BandLab is way too different from my phone). I use Safari on the iMac because it's something different, and Chrome on my phone because I'm just too lazy to set it up as anything else and don't use it even as heavily as I do links on my retro-PCs.

I am using Firefox for the last 12 years I think.

chinny22 wrote on 2020-09-21, 09:39:

nah us IT boys like less work ;) We only started rolling out Chrome when more and more sites dropped IE compatibility We'll keep […]
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Cyberdyne wrote on 2020-09-18, 08:47:

My work also has that same situation, well IT boys like Chrome i guess 😁

And yes Windows 10 in our work computer have both old IE and that Edge monstrossoty.

Still holding on to my Windows 7 main home PC. But for how long can i hold on, time will tell.

nah us IT boys like less work 😉
We only started rolling out Chrome when more and more sites dropped IE compatibility
We'll keep IE for the sites that refuse to move off IE compatibility
Old Edge was part of the OS so whatever, no one used it anyway 😜

Chrome also gets the benefit of most apps state chrome in the supported browsers list. It's not uncommon it'll be the only one listed. It'll work on other browsers just no ones bothered to test.
Plus (and this is a big one) it's the one most average people use. I know if we rolled out Firefox we would have people complain "Chrome is better" based on 0 facts. Generally users of other browsers are savvy enough to do what they need in Chrome or can have Firefox or whatever installed without generation more work for the IT Dept.

Personally I use Chrome at work and Firefox at home. I hope the new Edge is a sucess though as having the browser as part of the OS just makes life sooo much easier ...see 1st point 😉

Edit
Whats uBlock Origin got over Ad block?
The amount off crappy advertising scripts makes some kind of blocker a necessity these days but always open to alternatives

I'm an I.T. Guy by day, but I work in the medical field and have to use IE for certain older applications that we use that utilize ancient web tech, then there's Chrome for most modern Cloud-based things, and then Firefox for anything else (which only really I use on the regs from what I can tell).

Honestly, at work, I don't give a crap what it is when it comes to me as long as it works and I can get things done in a timely fashion. My #1 complaint about browsers in the workplace is when people insist on using the wrong browser with the wrong application and won't listen to us IT people about it.

I probably spend 90% of my day in Internet Explorer as the most problematic web-apps we use require it. The rest is in Chrome, and firefox is just for background stuff or when I can't get either to work, or need to do some google-fu to find a solution to something and don't want scripts and ads buggering up my system (adblock and noscript).

Firefox

Been using Firefox since 1.0 was released. Unfortunately, Mozilla continues down a path that will eventually force me to abandon Firefox for one of its forks. What's the version number up to this week - v573.0?

Miphee wrote on 2020-09-18, 12:04:

URL bar autocomplete. When I type 'g' in Chrome it immediately completes it to gmail.com.
In Firefox it works for a while then it suddenly stops working and nobody ever gave me or anyone else a solution for this.

You could create a bookmark for gmail.com and in the properties set the keyword as 'g'. Just type 'g' in the address bar and hit enter.

I feel like bookmarks fell by the wayside when Google positioned itself as the portal of the web.