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How much does it really matter to use firefox? (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I donate to the Mozilla foundation, and I love Firefox a ton. But I can't seem to like the UI by installing a theme, and when I change it to look better the browser slows to a crawl. Does it really matter all that much if I use Chromium?

P.S. To the people from my last post regarding something similar, Firefox was too slow, I'm sorry, but I use Vivaldi instead of Brave because Brendon Eich can suck my dick.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

FF is totally broken for me when I try to use anything Google or Cloudflare related for some reason. With cloudflare, I'm in a human verification loop and with Google I get the message "This browser or app may not be secure", in a regular window or private window. This is Ubuntu 22.04. Works fine in chrome. Only browser plug-in I use is KeePassXC, and disabling it doesn't resolve the issue. Disabling pfblocker-ng at my router also did not solve the issue.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Have you tried creating a new, clean profile? You can do so with about:profiles.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'll give that a shot when I get home.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This fixed the issue. Thanks for the suggestion!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anecdotal, and I am a Windows idiot, but I've never had a problem like this with Firefox in my life. People always talk about how slow it is and how half the internet doesn't work on it but I've personally never had a single problem. It's just worked perfectly out of the box since the very beginning.

Makes me wonder what the difference is.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Weird, they all work fine for me. Some cookies thing?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Private browser, wiped local data. I have no idea what the problem is.